Byrd Endorses Obama

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 (rather that serving in the military fighting fascism) and who in 2001 used the phrase "white n*ggers" without irony--remember what I said about that phrase--endorses for president a man who is the very embodiment of what Klansmen and the like-minded fear! And this occurs right after 67% of the Democrat voters in his overwhelmingly white state pick the white candidate over the mixed-raced one.

My head won't explode because I love stuff like this. But you might want to wrap yours up in duct tape.

(Thanks to Memeorandum)

Comments

[Phelps]

I guess Ron Paul isn't going to get the Klan vote after all...

[Phelps]

I gotta get my tinfoil hat, thanks to you. I just read this in the wikipedia article:

Byrd is the longest-serving senator in history and third person in the line of presidential succession.

Combine that with Hillary as VP, and he could be second in line very quickly. I wonder if that has anything to do with it. (No, it doesn't, and I'm an evil person for suggesting it. But I gotta.)

[waltj]

Uhh, yeah, as President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Sen. Cyclops (D-WV) is third in line (after the VP and Speaker of the House). Condi is next, SecTreas Paulson after that.

[Dick Stanley]

Even West Virginians know Byrd is a buffoon. He's actually the doddering uncle that Barry only imagined Wright was. He stays because his office provides good constituent services, the key to political longevity.

[notropis]

"as President Pro Tempore of the Senate, Sen. Cyclops (D-WV) is third in line (after the VP and Speaker of the House)."

I was thinking, back during the Clinton impeachment, that if something should have befallen Gore, and with the way House Speakers were dropping like flies, we could have ended up with President Thurmond. And wouldn't Trent Lott have looked smart then? (And no one would be able to talk about McCain's age, would they?)