Robert Byrd prepares autobiography

[davidinalameda]

http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/200501116/

Sen. Robert Byrd's autobiography will be released this summer, and West Virginia's old-school orator and senior statesman hopes his story will inspire others to consider public service.

"Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields'' chronicles the 87-year-old Democrat's life from his boyhood to his election in 2000, when he won an eighth term in the U.S. Senate.

The 700-page tome will sell for $35 in hardback when it's released June 15, said Patrick Conner, director of the West Virginia University Press.

[Maat]

1. That's goig to be an interesting one.

I'll definitely buy it. He has been a colorful character.

[cruadin]

2. It will be interesting to see how he handles his membership...

in the KKK.

[HerbieHeadhunter]

4. Or his comments against MLK....

and the Vietnam war protest. I was watching a shown on MLK on PBS last night....they showed cliips of Bird strongly criticizing MLK and the civil rights march. It was chilling to watch.

[jonnyblitz]

5. he isn't too fond of gay folks either. n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. Don't forget athiests

[nostamj]

3. while you're waiting, check out his current book

LOSING AMERICA

just scathing on the * administration. and, as a bonus, you get the full texts of a number of his key senate speeches.

IMHO, one of the absolute BEST of the bush-bashing canon!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

6. byrd has recanted his racist past

something strom thurmond never made an attempt at, contrary to what joe biden would have you believe

[LWolf]

8. That makes his story that much more powerful.

A story that chronicles a man's evolution from where he started ideologically to where thinking and education led him is a hopeful story for all of America.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. exactly

something beyond hannity's understanding when he constantly refers to him as robert "kkk" byrd

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

7. setting the stage for a retirement?

he will be pushing 90 in the '06 election and the GOP is targeting him for a negative ad blitz unprecedented in WV politics