Roberty Byrd - former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard.

I love listening to this guy. They just don't make them like this any more.

This one is close to 10 minutes.
YouTube - Robert "Is Anybody Listening" Byrd Tells Us About Security

About the middle of it he looses his place.

Is anybody listening?



Here's what he does when he's not giving one of his great speeches:
YouTube - Sen. Robert Byrd sleeping
26 seconds - give the guy a break, he's about 130 years old



Here's a minute's worth of him reading from the liberal playbook
YouTube - Senator Robert Byrd Railing Against Bush


A minute of him on the Mike Vick dog torture issue - barbaric!
YouTube - Robert Byrd Barbaric


Here's 10 minutes of him on Mike Vick and his dogs. Towards the beginning he forgets what he's doing again.

YouTube - Dogfight Part II: Michael Vick vs. Senator Robert Byrd

How is this guy a Senator? If this is the best West Virginia can come up with they should have their statehood revoked.

This one should explain it. He's Big Daddy.

YouTube - Big Daddy a.k.a Robert Byrd

That's mostly depressing.

You kidding? You can't pay to see stuff that funny. Hear me now!

For those who don't recall, this is the guy who dropped the N bomb during an interview on national TV.

Ok, that was somewhat amusing.

I believe there's already a minimum age to be eligible to hold a seat in the Senate. He should be the poster boy for a new age maximum law.

He is a very smart man, but he's too old haha.

Is anybody listening!?
Im gonna say it again, so everybody listen.

Then he takes an hour to find the start of the sentence hehe

lol, he can't even talk in mannered way any more...

He's like you'd expect him to drop dead in the very next second.

still:

When running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." During this campaign, "Byrd went on the radio to acknowledge that he belonged to the Klan from 'mid-1942 to early 1943,' according to newspaper accounts. He explained that he had joined 'because it offered excitement and because it was strongly opposed to communism.'"[4] However, as late as 1946 or 1947, when he was 29 years old, he was still at least somewhat involved in promoting the KKK, as evidenced by a letter that he wrote to a Grand Wizard stating "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the nation."[8]

In 1997, he told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics, but to "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena."[9] In his latest autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision—a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions."[10] Byrd also said, in 2005, "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."

What's scary, not funny, to me is that our system doesn't make it much harder to get reelected. We need some kind of structural change that promotes real competition for office. Byrd, Strom Thurmond, and eventually Ted Kennedy are, were and will be examples of people that just hang on to office at great expense to our system of government. Thank goodness the executive branch gets recycled more frequently.

Two words: Term. Limits.

Yes, please.