Spurious Missives

An Associated Press article on Yahoo is alerting us that the 92 year old Senator from West Virginia is seriously ill.  There is no prognosis on if he is deathly ill, but with his age and frail health, nobody would be surprised.

One of the inviting things about news articles on Yahoo is that you have the opportunity to comment on the article.  Unfortunately, everybody else has that opportunity, too.

It is inevitable that many of the comments are saying that it is about time the old man died.  This is a reprehensible attitude, but a review of Senator Byrd’s past could lead you to give these ill-wishers a pass.

The Senator is a past member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).  At some time in the past, Byrd renounced his membership in this racist organization.  It is obvious that Senator Byrd’s conversion to racial rationality was a political, not moral, decision.

It should be remembered that one of the founders of the KKK, Nathan Bedford Forest, later renounced his membership in the organization because he felt that thugs had taken over.  Senator Byrd obviously joined the KKK in the age of thuggery.  Forest was a slave trader before the Civil War, and had no compassion for black people.  I don’t think Byrd has compassion for people of any color.

You see, when somebody joined the KKK, it was for a reason.  These reasons revolved around fear, hate, and ambition.  To be a member you had to have no compassion for black people, and this was part of Byrd’s psyche.

He is revered in the Senate because he rubber stamps Democrat programs, and can get elected time after time in West Virginia.

I wish the old man no ill will, but maybe this illness will get his worthless backside out of the Senate.

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