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**nuabuncarnigo** · 06-29-2010, 06:29 AM

Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan member, later filibustered civil rights legislation, then renounced his past and championed equality. "The people of West Virginia have lost a true champion, the United States Senate has lost a venerable institution, and America has lost a voice of principle and reason with the passing of Robert C. Byrd," Obama said. This is hard to understand for a foreigner.

06-29-2010, 06:29 AM	#2
nuabuncarnigo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan member, later filibustered civil rights legislation, then renounced his past and championed equality. "The people of West Virginia have lost a true champion, the United States Senate has lost a venerable institution, and America has lost a voice of principle and reason with the passing of Robert C. Byrd," Obama said. This is hard to understand for a foreigner.
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