Former Sen. Jesse Helms Dies At 86 »

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Jesse Helms, the five-term Republican Senator from North Carolina, has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 86.

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    Poulenc1 year ago

    A demagogue, a force of reaction, virulent homophobe who fought tooth-and-nail against Federal aid for AIDS research...

    ....racist par excellence, of course (recall his campaign ad launched during his 1990 reelection bid against black opponent Harvey Grant, in which white hands belonging to a job-seeker crumpled a rejection slip as the voice-over explained that the position had gone to an "unqualified member of a minority")....

    One almost hopes that hell exists just so Mr. Helms can be housed there--for a very, very long time....

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      nikkibabe1 year ago

      Good riddance. He will find his own special place in Hell.

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      Poulenc1 year ago

      That should be Harvey Gantt, in my post above.

      Sorry!

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        splitrch1 year ago

        If Jesse Helms knew of this, supported it or just turned a blind eye, he should roast in hell.

        http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06202008/prof...

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          vor1 year ago

          I knew Jesse growing up. He sometimes attended our church and his daughter taught my sister's 1st grade class. Every night, ironically before Walter Cronkite came on, we would see Jesse's editorial on WRAL in Raleigh. I knew then that I felt a certain distaste for his views. He was arrogant and condescending. Not physical imposing but more like a Southern Baptist fire and brimstone preacher shouting out his condemnation. A bully without the brawn. Hard to relate that to the quiet little man who would sometimes bring us candy at school.

          But I knew, even back then, that these would not become my views. He would rant and rave in favor of Nixon and the war and it all seemed quite backward to me. He was no compromise, like Bush and Cheney with his black/white view of the world. And he sure didn't like the black. I remember him as the first political fear monger I recall.

          I wont overly condemn him today. I don't mess with the dead (don't like the karmic implications).

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          Poulenc1 year ago

          You feel, libs, that one should be...more equivocal about the character and career of Helms?

          You feel that people should be more TEMPERATE in their assessment of the man?

          Mention his "good" points. Not neglect to note his "virtues?"

          So much so that you neg comments of those who refuse to follow the kind of evenhandedness of which you yourself set such a famous example?

          How bad does a person have to be before you come off your partisan perch and agree to see clearly for the sake of truth?

          Or is scoring points against the dreaded opposition ALWAYS more important to you than being moral and...CLEAR?

          It's YOU, libs, who are consumed by hate.

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          Poulenc1 year ago

          "America lost a great public servant and true patriot today," White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said earlier today.....

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          bill29361 year ago

          So I guess from what we see from the liberals and their comments about fromer Senator Helms,their icons are now fair game?

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          Poulenc1 year ago

          To make myself perfectly clear, I posted the Scott Stanzel quote not in support of the comment, but rather to further expose the nature of the current administration

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            Mdiar1 year ago

            I found his politics to be distasteful. Still, he would stick to his principles, as much as I disliked them. Maybe Washington could use more people who aren't afraid to inconvenience their own party for principles, as much as I may not agree with them. Overall, I must say, I would have never voted for him. I did not even truly respect him. But I think that Washington needs more people who will try to do what they say and won't mince words.

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            smeejay1 year ago

            the only good thing that i can say about this man has already been said. he's dead. good.

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              ghengisghan1 year ago

              b interesting to see what all you "caring classy libs" have to say when Sen Robert Byrd kicks the bucket.

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              lum-chate1 year ago

              You all remind me of a disk jokey in Florida who ask all Florida residents to not use their electrical appliances on the day they electrocuted Bundy so he could be deep fried. Venomous!

              Helms was a product of his roots, was elected many times by his peers & died on the same day that two other noted Americans died Jefferson and Adams. Though not a fan of Helms he'll be lamented more than anyone shredding him here.

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              aceofspades11 year ago

              Though not a fan of Helms he'll be lamented more than anyone shredding him here.

              lum-hate - lots of people3 lament Hitler too -

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              vidman041 year ago

              Not at all surprised by all the hateful posts coming from the left...they have no souls...just a black empty hole inside...I just hope someone somewhere finds a kind word to say about them when they die, but I kinda doubt it....

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              aceofspades11 year ago

              ...they have no souls

              vidman - it's the people who built their careers on hate, as did Helms who have no souls, nor humanity - because a piece of human debris dies I do not have to mourn them, but rather rejoice in one less hater to walk the earth

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              VonDau1 year ago

              Thank you Jesse for all you did to get Ronald Wilson Reagan noticed in 1976. Due to your influence Reagan went on to become our greatest President since Thomas Jefferson.

              God rest your soul. Peace be with your family. You were a good man. We will miss you.

              Jaeger VonDau

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              KazamaSmokers1 year ago

              Damn, that's two clowns in two days.

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                kedirian1 year ago

                And if, as so many of his followers would say, he enters Heaven, would he be surprised to find Jezus is gay....!

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                dandydebwhitener1 year ago

                ..........

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                  Natureboy1 year ago

                  Everybody dies, folks. Good and bad, innocent and rat-bastards, serial-killers and saints.

                  The big question, maybe the only question, is whether you and I are living in such a fashion that our passing will be mourned by many.

                  Remember, we do not choose the time of our passing, and an opportunity we miss is one we may never get back.

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                    tkyrchncs1 year ago

                    Rest in peace, old and honorable foe.

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                    Poulenc1 year ago

                    It might be a wise idea, vid, if you ditched the sentimental pieties about not talking ill of the dead--who, after all, are past caring about what you or anyone else thinks of them, past any need to defend themselves--and got real about who Helms WAS and the evil, actual evil, he did.

                    Are you so blinded by partisanship that it's impossible for you to understand that the only fitting--the only MORAL--response to a life such as Helms led, whether he be alive or dead, is denigration?

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