Apr 14
Black leadership calls for Dodd’s resignation…
“Members of a black leadership group are asking Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT) to resign from his position in the United States Senate because of recent comments he made regarding Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV). ... ‘I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment,’ Dodd exclaimed. ... Despite the fact that Byrd was once a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Dodd even remarked that the West Virginia Democrat ‘would have been right at the founding of this country, right during the Civil War.’ Dodd concluded his controversial statement by claiming, ‘I cannot think of a single moment in this nation’s 220-plus year history where [Byrd] would not have been a valuable asset to this country.’” (04/13/04)
This bit of even-handedness comes from Rational Review.
