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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
If Robert Byrd was saying the klan is the way of the Democratic party (instead of its more pernicious ways of hurting minortiy groups) would it be on teddy or one of them to say no?
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Only if Byrd held some position within the party making it reasonable to think he was speaking for others. If a Presbyterian minister says something stupid, no one thinks he's speaking for the Lutherans.
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