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Padme Amidala (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:31 PM Original message |
Progressive think tank names Robert Byrd U.S. Senator of the Year. |
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evil genius (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. what a load of crap |
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Padme Amidala (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Check out his voting record. It's the most pro-civil rights in 2004. |
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James T. Kirk (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:43 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. 1964 - filibustered civil rights |
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Padme Amidala (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. This is not 1964. That was forty years ago. He's grown up. Have you? |
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James T. Kirk (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Forgive, maybe. Never forget. |
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Padme Amidala (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:54 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. He's often stood alone to protect your rear end. |
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James T. Kirk (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 08:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. He has also stood alone as one who hated others. |
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arcos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 12:28 AM Response to Reply #23 |
38. AND... he was one of THREE democrats to vote for the FMA... |
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Pepperbelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 06:58 PM Original message |
why would you hate on the man for something that he ... |
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greenohio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 09:49 AM Response to Reply #12 |
47. Is this true? Byrd was in the KLAN? |
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evil genius (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:51 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. i suppose you feel that way about strom thurmond? |
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Padme Amidala (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:56 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. If you can't see the diffence, you need some glasses. |
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evil genius (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 08:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. i fail to detect why you like him.. |
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Padme Amidala (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 08:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Byrd has worked harder to fight racism than anyone in the Senate this year |
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greenohio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 08:53 PM Response to Reply #20 |
25. I hadn't heard that. What did he do? |
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Pepperbelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 07:03 PM Response to Reply #18 |
52. that's horseshit ... |
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James T. Kirk (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Both should not have been senators. |
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Padme Amidala (401 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 08:09 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. That's like equating Bush to Gore. Gore changed his views. Bush didn't. |
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James T. Kirk (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 08:26 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Limit our choices to the Zell Millers? Huh? |
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American Tragedy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 08:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
21. I did feel that way about Wallace |
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DemGirl7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 08:48 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. I have to agree... |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 06:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
51. Thurmond despised Byrd's politics. They are precise opposites. |
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w4rma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 06:57 PM Response to Reply #7 |
50. Inform yourself, Kirk. People learn and change. Embrace those who do. |
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evil genius (117 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. this is equivalent to being the best ice skater in guatemala. |
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dweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. got some facts to back that up? |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 06:01 AM Response to Reply #1 |
44. he's one of few who speak out against the Patriot Act |
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HysteryDiagnosis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. A lone voice crying in the wilderness is how he comes across... n/t |
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48pan (957 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
4. I Guess the PatrickHenryThinkTank and I... |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:42 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. few can hold their head as high as this man in the congress after |
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dweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
6. there's more |
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James T. Kirk (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
11. Robert K. Byrd (D-1865) |
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Lenape85 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
17. Mr. Byrd most definitely deserves it |
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Grooner Five (319 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 09:17 PM Response to Original message |
26. Maybe some of you can forgive him for this |
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goclark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 09:24 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. He could still be acting like the Bush Crooks |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 10:09 PM Response to Reply #28 |
34. Oh lol- you again |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 10:05 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Get over it. You should see what many White people today STILL |
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Lenape85 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 11:26 PM Response to Reply #26 |
36. I am one of those race mongrels |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 01:10 AM Response to Reply #36 |
41. Another one! |
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hollowdweller (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 09:24 PM Response to Original message |
27. Byrd kicks ass. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 09:28 PM Response to Original message |
29. I can't forgive Byrd's racism but I do appreciate what he has done |
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ISUGRADIA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
30. On the war Byrd has been good but he stinks on a lot of |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
31. Congratulations Senator Byrd!!!!!!! |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
32. Is It Possible To Be Right On Some Issues And Wrong On Others? |
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Albert Einstein (241 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-28-04 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
35. No one deserved it more.Great defender of the Constitution & civil rights |
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arcos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 12:29 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. is that why he voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment? n/t |
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Raiden (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
37. Senator Byrd is a very good man |
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paulk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
40. patrick henry democratic club |
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genius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 01:34 AM Response to Reply #40 |
42. They've been doing a lot of progressive groundbreaking stuff. |
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ISUGRADIA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 02:20 AM Response to Reply #40 |
43. From the looks of their webpage a bunch of amateur |
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Bridget Burke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 09:25 AM Response to Original message |
45. The minute I saw a thread about Senator Byrd, |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 09:33 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. His Past.... |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
48. I know Byrd, have voted for Byrd, and have friends in his office... |
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despairing optimist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 07:17 PM Response to Reply #48 |
53. The silence here is deafening |
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Tinoire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 07:35 PM Response to Reply #48 |
54. Yes they do but you have an entire party establishment to fight on that 1 |
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HeilChimp (56 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-29-04 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
49. Byrd is my hero!!! |
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