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An interesting endorsement for Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 His state of West Virginia voted for Hillary Clinton by 41, that’s 41, points.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I don’t know — when we get into constituency support of that margin\u00c2\u00a0I think I would just as well\u00c2\u00a0go along with it.\u00c2\u00a0 (Indeed, Hillary Clinton rambled on in her “Victory” speech praising Byrd to the hilt, seemingly\u00c2\u00a0grasping for his support which\u00c2\u00a0— he’s a figure of some\u00c2\u00a0weight, right?)<\/p>\n
But the real irony comes in that the man was a Klansman in his youth — as he describes it his puzzling entry into the political sphere.\u00c2\u00a0 I do suspect that as much as his stated reason\u00c2\u00a0for support regarding\u00c2\u00a0Obama’s\u00c2\u00a0stronger\u00c2\u00a0and more certain stance against the Iraq War\u00c2\u00a0the need to ameriolate his past political sins, fully aware of how his KKK past plays in the public mind.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess he is on the right side of history this time, as opposed to the obvious Obama predecessor\u00c2\u00a0for 1960.\u00c2\u00a0 (quick snippet from wikipedia<\/a>, just because I know it’ll give this general information in a concise manner):<\/p>\n In the 1960 Presidential election primaries, Byrd, a close Senate ally of <\/em>Lyndon B. Johnson<\/em>, tried and failed to derail the Democratic frontrunner and ultimately successful candidate <\/em>John F. Kennedy<\/em> in the crucial West Virginia <\/em>primary<\/em> by endorsing and vigorously campaigning for <\/em>Hubert Humphrey<\/em>.[citation needed]<\/span><\/sup> Kennedy nonetheless won the state’s primary and, eventually, the general election.<\/em><\/p>\n Though it is a little puzzling that they still need a citation for the historical fact of Byrd stumping for Humphrey as a stocking horse for Johnson — news media of the time reported as much.<\/p>\n Kennedy\u00c2\u00a0won the primary — largely bought and paid for.\u00c2\u00a0 Kennedy did carry it in the general election, probably would not have without Johnson,\u00c2\u00a0support sapped due to his Catholicism.<\/p>\n Pertaining to Robert Byrd, this is sort of yesterday’s news.\u00c2\u00a0 The voice we have for Robert Byrd today is a tearful speech regarding Senator Edward Kennedy’s condition on the Senate floor — available on youtube or on C-SPAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting endorsement for Barack Obama.\u00c2\u00a0 His state of West Virginia voted for Hillary Clinton by 41, that’s 41, points.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I don’t know — when we get into constituency support of that margin\u00c2\u00a0I think I would just as well\u00c2\u00a0go along with it.\u00c2\u00a0 (Indeed, Hillary Clinton rambled on in her “Victory” speech praising Byrd to the hilt, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}