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April 1, 2005

Barack Obama — Robert Byrd's Special Friend

Posted by Dave Blount at April 1, 2005 7:57 AM

Veteran racist Robert Byrd — the senile Senator who has spent his overlong career keeping blacks in "their place" by recruiting for the KKK, by filibustering the Civil Rights Act for 14 straight hours, by making a fool of himself by trying to block the nomination of the supremely qualified Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State, by participating in the "high-tech lynching" of Clarence Thomas as well as opposing the nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court, by publicly calling people "niggers" as recently as 2001, by declaring that he would rather "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" — has a new advocate: Barack "Osama bin Osama" Obama, a fellow Senator and, as it happens, a "race mongrel."

Needless to say, any Republican with a resume like Byrd's would be treated like a leper — especially by fellow Republicans. But the big D in "D-WV" deflects all sins from the Democratic Party's point of view. There have been Democrats morally depraved enough to refer to Byrd as the "conscience of the Senate" without smirking. Obama is evidently shameless enough to go along with it.

Visit Ace of Spades HQ to read Obama's letter to the true believers who make up MoveOn.org on behalf of the windy old ex-Kleagle's reelection campaign. Obama lays it on pretty thick, crediting the bloviating obstructionist with upholding the highest of principles by using his favorite tactic — the filibuster — to circumvent the Constitution's requirement that judges be approved by a simple majority. The original letter of course has a link where you can send money to buy Byrd a fresh set of sheets.

Meanwhile, for advocating a color-blind approach to justice, Clarence Thomas is often called an "Uncle Tom." Colin Powell is characterized as a "plantation slave" for serving in a Republican Administration.

The Republican Party, as apparently too few people know, was founded largely on the issue of opposition to slavery — and has remained true to the principle of individual liberty regardless of race to this day. Last time I checked, there weren't any ex-Kleagles on the Republican side of the aisle.