Obama poll numbers continue to plummet
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow lets Obama have it
Show No. 009-2010
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Opening • Ellen on Simon leaving American Idol •
Fox gets X Factor, Cowell quits Idol • Obama health
care marks hit new low • Obama's approval rating
dips to new low • Harry Reid apologizes for racist
remarks • Oliver Stone's new Showtime miniseries •
Amtrak's 'Train from Hell' • From the editorial
advisory board, Gov. Ritter's one term • Rachel
Maddow: Obama's jive talk • NBC meets the press,
officially cancels Leno at 10pm •
Show Notes • Links • Audio/Video
• YouTube: She's a Lesbian
• TMZ: Ellen on Simon leaving American Idol• THR Feed: Fox gets X Factor, Cowell quits Idol
• CBS: Obama health care marks hit new low
• CBS: Obama's approval rating dips to new low
• YouTube: Harry Reid apologizes for racist remarks
• Weasel Zippers: Oliver Stone's new Showtime miniseries• NBC: Amtrak's 'Train from Hell'
• Daily Camera: From the editorial advisory board, Gov. Ritter's one term
• YouTube: Rachel Maddow: Obama's jive talk
• Deadline: NBC meets the press, officially cancels Leno at 10pm
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I have never been a prejudice person until; I learned the truth about our history ! The Democrat history !
Things that opened my eyes to the Dem side. and the rest is history.
The first Klan was founded in 1865 by Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army. Klan groups spread throughout the South. The Klan's purpose was to restore white supremacy in the aftermath of the American Civil War. The Klan resisted Reconstruction by assaulting, murdering and intimidating freedmen and white Republicans. In 1870 and 1871 the federal government passed the Force Acts, which were used to prosecute Klan crimes. Prosecution of Klan crimes and enforcement of the Force Acts suppressed Klan activity. In 1874 and later, however, newly organized and openly active paramilitary organizations such as the White League and the Red Shirts started a fresh round of violence aimed at suppressing Republican voting and running Republicans out of office. These contributed to white Democrats regaining political power in the Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: to destroy the Republican party's infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.
Klan violence worked to suppress black voting. As the following examples indicate, over 2,000 persons were killed, wounded and otherwise injured in Louisiana within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868. Although St. Landry Parish had a registered Republican majority of 1,071, after the murders, no Republicans voted in the fall elections. White Democrats cast the full vote of the parish for Grant's opponent. The KKK killed and wounded more than 200 black Republicans, hunting and chasing them through the woods. Thirteen captives were taken from jail and shot; a half-buried pile of 25 bodies was found in the woods. The KKK made people vote Democratic and gave them certificates of the fact.
The only known former member of the Klan to hold a federal office currently in the United States is Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who said he "deeply regrets" having joined the Klan more than half a century ago, when he was about 24 years old. Byrd joined as a young man in the 1940s, recruiting 150 friends and acquaintances from his small West Virginia town. He later said he was a Klan member for about a year, but contemporary newspapers carried stories about a letter of his recommending a friend as Klaneagle in 1946. In 2005, when he published a memoir and was asked again about his life, Byrd said, "I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened.
A lifelong Democrat, Robert Carlyle Byrd is President pro tempore of the United States Senate, a position that puts him third in the line of presidential succession, behind Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He also held this post previously from 1989 to 1995, briefly in January 2001, and from June 2001 to January 2003.[6] In this role, Sen. Byrd signs bills passed by Congress before they are sent to the president to be signed into law or vetoed.
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