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Incredibly Racist Senator Endorses Obama [Exalted Cyclops]
Wonkette » top —
... pro-tem of the U.S. Senate and a former member of the KKK, has endorsed — gasp! — the Kenyan candidate, Barack Obama! Although he hates black people, Byrd notes that he has "been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush administration's misguided war in Iraq and its saber rattling around the globe," and this shared view is Obama's appeal to him. And lest we forget, Byrd made some pretty harrowing speeches before and at the outset of the Iraq War. [Charleston Gazette]
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Byrd Endorses Obama
baldilocks —
Ahem. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) says, "yes Obama can ": "As people all across this great nation know, I have been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Bush administration's misguided war in Iraq and its saber rattling around the globe," Byrd said. He said he had "no intention of involving myself in the Democratic campaign for President in the midst of West Virginia's primary election. But the stakes this November could not be higher." Think about this: a man who in the 1940s served as the Exalted Cyclops in his local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan fighting race-mixing ( ...
Ex-Klansman + Obama: Strange Political Bedfellows
Black Voices Blogs —
Talk about a day late and a dollar short. Six days after the West Virginia primary, apologetic KKK alumni Sen. Robert Byrd has endorsed Barack Obama. ...
