Bill Maher for 08?

[Hydrizzle]

He probably would never be elected.... noone would vote for a republican, former KKK frontman to be a senator.... but when they are dem's apparently its a different story....

[amsterdam]

i know.sure they can lie before congress,be a former klansman,meet with the enemy in north vietnam,kill a woman drinking and driving and you can be the leaders of political parties

[sensiskunk]

who the fuck is Rober Bird?

[amsterdam]

no suprise there.

[XTC]

i know.sure they can lie before congress,be a former klansman,meet with the enemy in north vietnam,kill a woman drinking and driving and you can be the leaders of political parties

That would so be true.

[amsterdam]

it is true.

[Hydrizzle]

Sensie, Robert bird is a southern democratic senator who used to be the head of the KKK in his local town. Yet somehow he has been a senator for... I dunno.... forever?

[bhallg2k]

can you imagine a republican senator with a history like that??????????????????????/there would be riots in the street

Republicans have elected an extremely bigoted man to the Senate before. His name was Strom Thurmond.

This was a man who ran for president in 1948 as a "Dixiecrat" on an entirely segregationist agenda. In 1957, as a Senator, he set the record for the filibuster, holding the floor by himself for over 24 hours, railing against the Civil Rights Act saying things like, "I want to tell you that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches." The people of SC sent this man to Washington until he died at age 100 in 2003.

You might remember that at one of his memorial services, Trent Lott got his ass in a lot of trouble by saying, "I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either." That comment cost him his job as Senate Majority Leader. He's still in the Senate though.

[amsterdam]

and lott deserved to be fired for being an idiot.byrd is a democrats hero.like kennedy according to boxer is the dems spiritual leader?