Reply #312: frankly, I'm not a big fan of Senator Byrd

[northzax]

and if you did a search of my roughly 9500 posts on tihs board dating back to 2001, you'll be unlikely to find anything. But that's for other reasons.

Personally, I am disgusted by anyone who mourns the loss of the Soviet Union. Reagan was right about one thing (and only one thing, as far as I can tell) the USSR was an evil place. Not the people, the state. And no amount of rose coloured glasses can change that. and this is not a past questionable position, it was from 2004. that's not ancient history, that's now.

I can understand, by the way, how someone could be enraptured and sold a bill of goods on an organisation, society or country when the full story isn't avaliable. Happens all the time. It is when the light is shone, and things are revealed that the true test comes, do you change your beliefs to reflect reality, or cling to them. I would think that Senator Byrd grew out of his Klan days. If he said, in 2004, "boy, I sure miss my white robe days" I would be at the front of the line to kick him out of power. And if Galloway had said, at the age of 20 "boy, Communism is great, I love the USSR," I'd forgive him. he aligned himself with Stalin LAST YEAR.

And I don't think it's an inspiration to have a foreign minister come to the Senate and dress down the panel, I think it's embarrasing. And inspiration would be an American Citizen doing that.

and the reason I'm defending myself is that I don't really like being called Norm Coleman simply bacause I question the Party Line. Notice that all the Brits on these threads are warning us about Galloway as well? Listen to the people who know him.