Reply #80: Agree....we must overlook Kerry's campaign operatives statements, because

[KoKo]

our Democratic "CAUSE" to "Defeat Bush" is greater than the sum of our parts. We on the so-called "fringe left" must forgive, overlook and hide under the rug every "mis-step" of the Kerry Campaign Managers, and therefore we must accept that Senator Byrd is a RACIST of HIGH ORDER...because this mid-80 something politician in his 20's joined the KuKluxKlan because in West Virginia when you had to squat in an outhouse, and didn't have electricity...you couldn't necessarily been smoking stash and shooting to vent during your teen years...you had to be drinkin' "White Lightnin" under a bridge, stealing "smokes" and trying to figure out where you fit in in West Virginia. West Virginia when Bobby Byrd grew up didn't have a place for "teens to go and hang out!"

Give the guy a break at 83 and figure how long you could have "walked in his shoes." :shrug: