http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/28/obit.byrd/?hpt=Sbin

West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, the self-educated son of a coal miner who became the longest-serving member of Congress, died early Monday at age 92, the senator's office said.

I admired his articulate speeches against the Iraq war.  In his seven-decade career, Byrd went from being a Klansman to a statesman.  We don't get many politicians referring to Plato anymore!

RIP Mr Byrd.  :(

Sadly they will not be naming any buildings after the late Senator Byrd, as every public highway and building in the State of West Virginia has already been named after him.

Sadly they will not be naming any buildings after the late Senator Byrd, as every public highway and building in the State of West Virginia has already been named after him.


Hey, cut him so some slack Jack.  The dude just croaked!  He was 92.  He'd been in the senate since '53.

Of course, I did greet the news of Senator Helms' death with "Bye bye butthead," so I'm no one to talk!

There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece.

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A headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety.

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I admired his articulate speeches against the Iraq war.  In his seven-decade career, Byrd went from being a Klansman to a statesman.

"The drive for same-sex marriage, is, in effect, an effort to make a sneak attack on society by encoding this aberrant behavior in legal form before society itself has decided it should be legal...Let us defend the oldest institution, the institution of marriage between male and female as set forth in the Holy Bible."
  - Sen. Byrd, not too long ago, on the Defense of Marriage Act.

He may have gone from being a Klansman to a statesman, but it appears he only changed one form of bigotry for another.

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The only thing I'll say in his defense is that most of our opinions don't change much after around age 20-30, and bigotry's a hard drug to kick.

I was thinking of "Surfin' Byrd," that was my unofficial theme for the senator. 

Don't have to change any words!
8)

Very tragic! But at least he had lived long enough. He's a great man who will be greatly missed!  :\'(

There seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece.


A headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety.

"The drive for same-sex marriage, is, in effect, an effort to make a sneak attack on society by encoding this aberrant behavior in legal form before society itself has decided it should be legal...Let us defend the oldest institution, the institution of marriage between male and female as set forth in the Holy Bible."
  - Sen. Byrd, not too long ago, on the Defense of Marriage Act.

He may have gone from being a Klansman to a statesman, but it appears he only changed one form of bigotry for another.


The only thing I'll say in his defense is that most of our opinions don't change much after around age 20-30, and bigotry's a hard drug to kick.


I would have been stunned if Byrd hadn't supported the Defense of Marriage Act.  He grew up in Appalachia in the 1920s and 1930s.  He's from a different era.  Once he accepted Civil Rights as established law, his record became steadily more progressive.  He did support the Vietnam war, though.

I admired his articulate speeches against the Iraq war.  In his seven-decade career, Byrd went from being a Klansman to a statesman.  We don't get many politicians referring to Plato anymore!



We don't get many politicians who knew Plato!  ::)

We don't get many politicians who knew Plato!  ::)

;D

Now...who's the oldest one on Capitol Hill?

I admired his articulate speeches against the Iraq war. 


Now, now.... It is not nice to refer to politicians as "articulate".  http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/07/nono.gif

Now, now.... It is not nice to refer to politicians as "articulate".   http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/07/nono.gif


Even if you're talking about an old hillbilly who just died?
???