R.I.P. Senator Robert C. Byrd

The working man has lost a great champion. I hope he is looking down on us with his fiddle in hand.

YouTube - U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd Video Montage

He was one tough old Bird er...Byrd.

Rest In peace pork man.

Did you notice that he was in office over 50 years !!!!!

Say what you will about the man, but he took care of the folks back home.

he was the oldest living welfare recipient.

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Now that Sen. Byrd, who apparently never held a real job, has assumed room temperature, I hope Obama says something nice about his fellow state-critter, so that we can do a blogpost with the headline FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT EULOGIZES KLANSMAN.” Stephan Kinsella StephanKinsella.com — Austro-Anarchist Libertarian Legal Theory

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It would be hard for me to believe that someone was for the working man when they never worked themselves. He never had a real job. He never had to worry about paying his rent, he never had to stand in line at wal mart and hope that the person behind him didn't get close enough to see that he was using an EBT card. He never had to walk to the unemployment office. He never had to stand in church Sunday after Sunday and get asked "How's the job search going? ever thought about going back in the Army?" He never had to worry about his kids being picked on for getting a reduced lunch at school. He never had to worry about college loans.

This guy lived in a fantasy world where he was the king. Being in congress longer than anyone means that he took more of your money, just for his salary, than any other mobster in DC.

Good riddance I say.

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Originally Posted by AnarchoPhil

he was the oldest living welfare recipient.



It would be hard for me to believe that someone was for the working man when they never worked themselves. He never had a real job. He never had to worry about paying his rent, he never had to stand in line at wal mart and hope that the person behind him didn't get close enough to see that he was using an EBT card. He never had to walk to the unemployment office. He never had to stand in church Sunday after Sunday and get asked "How's the job search going? ever thought about going back in the Army?" He never had to worry about his kids being picked on for getting a reduced lunch at school. He never had to worry about college loans.

This guy lived in a fantasy world where he was the king. Being in congress longer than anyone means that he took more of your money, just for his salary, than any other mobster in DC.

Good riddance I say.

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Your post is rather inappropriate for this thread. You might want to start another thread on the subject.

Its a memorial thread guys, feel free to chop him to bits on another thread.

It speaks volumes that he was able to admit his mistakes with such sincerity that his constituents continued to elect him.

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Originally Posted by AnarchoPhil

It would be hard for me to believe that someone was for the working man when they never worked themselves. He never had a real job.

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I consider working as a gas station attendant, a butcher, and a shipyard welder to be real jobs.

The man learned from his mistakes and tried to correct them. I'd say that alone is pretty admirable.