"He was a Senate icon, he was a party leader, he was an elder statesman, and he was my friend," Obama told thousands who gathered for Byrd's funeral on the steps of the golden-domed West Virginia statehouse. "That's how I'll remember him."
Remember when Trent Lott had to resign because he said it might have been a good thing if Strom Thurmond had won when he ran for President?
The nation's first African-American president said Byrd told him when they met, "there are things I regretted in my youth, you may know that.'"
"And I said, 'none of us are absent some regrets, Senator, that's why we enjoy and seek the grace of God,'" Obama recalled.
No, it's not.
"The good men do is oft interred with their bones ... unless there's a good PR chance."
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."