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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: ggould on June 28, 2010, 04:04:08 PM

Title: RIP Robert Byrd
Post by: ggould on June 28, 2010, 04:04:08 PM

This is a big one

Age 92

Title: Re: RIP Robert Byrd
Post by: Wayback on June 29, 2010, 12:53:25 PM

Quote from: ggould on June 28, 2010, 04:04:08 PM

This is a big one.  Age 92

Virginia label to reissue Senator Byrd's 1978 bluegrass album:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100629/ap_en_mu/us_music_byrd_album_reissue

Title: Re: RIP Robert Byrd
Post by: Gazoo on July 02, 2010, 06:41:46 PM

A TIME opinionist's harsh take on Byrd:

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2001187,00.html

Title: Re: RIP Robert Byrd
Post by: ggould on July 03, 2010, 11:40:10 AM

Quote from: Gazoo on July 02, 2010, 06:41:46 PM

A TIME opinionist's harsh take on Byrd:

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,2001187,00.html

not very well written.  I guess the crux of the article is to assume his changes of positions on issues were purely careerist in nature.  I'm no Byrd expert, but I think that seems a bit unfair.