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Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn) praised a colleague recently. He said that he would be the right man, as Senator, at any time during our history be it the founding of our country or the Civil War. There is only one problem, the man upon which Senator Dodd heaped this praise is a former Grand Kleagle of the KKK. I'm not surprised you didn't hear much about this is because Robert Byrd, who is a Senator from West Virginia, is a Democrat. We are all well aware of the media firestorm that was created by Trent Lott's address to Strom Thurmond on the occasion of his 100th birthday.

Is Chris Dodd a racist or just an idiot. You decide.

Post Script: During the late 1800's, the KKK was a militant wing of the Democrat Party. In 1871, Republican President Ulysses S. Grant (The successor to the Republican who ended slavery in the U.S., Abraham Lincoln) declared the KKK an illegal terrorist organization. He then empowered federal troops to arrest 5,000 of these thugs. Around that same time, the Republicans introduced the first civil rights act in the country (an Act that southern Democrats fought vehemently). The Republicans also supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act in much greater numbers than the Democrats. Moreover, during the long hot summers in the 1960's when government sanctioned racism ran rampant in the South, not one federally elected official there was a Republican. Now that the South is a much more tolerant place, its politics lean strongly toward the Republicans. When George Wallace stood in the school house door refusing a federal mandate to segregate the schools, he was a Democrat. Some of his fellow travelers on the left include Ernest Hollings (D-SC) who, as Governor, first raised the Confederate Flag above the South Carolina Statehouse and J. William Fullbright who is the rabid segregationist and personal hero to Bill Clinton. Clinton even bestowed a Presidential Medal of Freedom on Fullbright. Yet, Democrats still claim to be the party of minorities. Go figure!