Dodd on the KKK

Dodd on the KKK

UPDATE:

The Washington Times has a damning piece which included the following quote from Sen. Dodd commenting on the Trent Lott kerfuffle in 2002:

Mr. Dodd was among the Democrats who called for Mr. Lott to lose his leadership post and said his party would deal with such comments differently.

"If Tom Daschle or another Democratic leader were to have made similar statements, the reaction would have been very swift," he said on CNN's "Late Edition" on Dec. 15, 2002. "I don't think several hours would have gone by without there being an almost unanimous call for the leader to step aside."

Many, if not most, conservative pundits called Lott on the carpet for his statements.

Most Dems cannot seem to bring themselves to do the same to analogous comments made by Dodd.

Typical do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do Dem reaction.


Original post:

Sen. Christopher Dodd wishes that the KKK's views had held sway during the Civil War. No really. I mean he DID praise Robert "KKK" Byrd as a "man for all seasons" and one which would be appropriate in all times of our great history. Therefore he must think that Byrd would have been appropriate during the civil war.

No one REALLY thought Lott wanted the segregationist version of Strom Thurmond to make policies.

No one truly believes that Dodd wants the KKK version of Byrd to make policies.

But Lott was railroaded and no one has said hardly a WORD about Dodd.