Robert Byrd is indeed a valuable link not only to the Senate's past, but also to the Democratic Party's history as the party of slavery, segregation, and opposition to equal treatment of blacks."Right this way, Sir."
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Byrd is old enough, for example, to have vowed memorably regarding the integration of the Armed Forces by President Truman that he would never fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. - Robert A. Heinlein -
Monday, April 04, 2005
"Excuse me, Senator Byrd?"
"Please accompany me to the woodshed."
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