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Jesse Helms, the controversial conservative U.S. Senator from North Carolina who regularly opposed civil rights, abortion, modern art, funding AIDS research and other issues, died of natural causes in Raleigh, N.C. He earned the nickname "Senator No" after blocking legislation and nominations--the AP recalls how, when then President Bill Clinton wanted to confirm an openly homosexual candidate for a position at HUD, "I'm not going to put a lesbian in a position like that. If you want to call me a bigot, fine." Helms said, " Helms had retired in 2003, after serving five 6-year terms, prompting President Bush to say the Senate was "losing an institution."
Former Senator Jesse Helms Dies at 86
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His tombstone should be a urinal.
I will sleep much better tonight knowing that Helms is kicking it with his imaginary friend.
He survived on pure hate.
Yes, he was a peculiar institution. Like slavery.
I wonder if his last words were, "Rev. Fred Phelps, at least, still lives..."
I relish the thought of him spending the rest of eternity having his teeth incessantly torn from their roots by the infected fingernails of a Grand Cacodemon in the Gray Waste of Hades.
I'm guessing that Obama's nomination was the final nail in the coffin? Mwah hah hah....
Dr Pigeon.
Good one. :)
someone in the NYT comments wrote that they were shocked at all the mean comments toward a heroic fighter of communism, and she expected better of liberals who spout tolerance.
i guess their intolerance is more tolerable than ours.
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Aaliyah as Helms and Lena Olin as Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pa4bKJB1qc
(Yeah, I know...if only...)
Hateful man, what a menace. rip.
Good riddance!
Newsflash:
Librals do not tolerate hate.
That does not make them intolerant.
Get that into your brains once and for all, conservatives.
We do tolerate a typos, however.
Librals = Liberals