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Arlen Spector dies
« on: October 14, 2012, 01:24:27 PM »
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2012, 01:42:20 PM »
If he doesn't remember to I'm sure Acorn will help him out and make sure he votes correctly.
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2012, 02:39:15 PM »

That's a shame. I didn't always like him, but he was a decent person who followed his own opinions.  I think I met with him three or four times. Smart, well spoken. We had a great conversation on WW2 partisans, and actually discussed the borders on how much or little it should shape our Balkans policies. It is still something I have pondered years afterwards.

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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2012, 09:25:00 PM »
R.I.P
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2012, 12:11:27 AM »
He wasn't as bad as Ted Kennedy.
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2012, 12:17:55 AM »
Quote from: gunsmith on October 15, 2012, 12:11:27 AM
He wasn't as bad as Ted Kennedy.

Damning with faint praise there.
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2012, 01:33:27 AM »
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2012, 07:41:56 AM »
Quote from: gunsmith on October 15, 2012, 12:11:27 AM
He wasn't as bad as Ted Kennedy.

That chaps to the quiddick.

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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2012, 12:00:07 PM »
I met the man several times over the years when I was working for the newspaper.

I NEVER liked him.

Truly the "if the lips are moving, he's lying" politician.
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2012, 12:17:39 PM »
Quote from: gunsmith on October 15, 2012, 12:11:27 AM
He wasn't as bad as Ted Kennedy.
At least Teddy didn't pretend to be politically something he wasn't. 
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2012, 12:31:14 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on October 15, 2012, 12:00:07 PM
I met the man several times over the years when I was working for the newspaper.

I NEVER liked him.

Truly the "if the lips are moving, he's lying" politician.

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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2012, 01:41:16 PM »
Death doesn't change what a man is, it only concretizes it.
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #12 on: October 15, 2012, 08:03:42 PM »
A statist in the mold of Bob Dole, or Richard Lugar.  I'm sure his family will miss him.  The Republic won't.

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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #13 on: October 15, 2012, 08:13:57 PM »
Meh.

My condolences to his family though.
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #14 on: October 15, 2012, 08:17:08 PM »
Of course, but was he concerned about your family?
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #15 on: October 15, 2012, 09:09:11 PM »
Quote from: longeyes on October 15, 2012, 08:17:08 PM
Of course, but was he concerned about your family?

heh,  true,   but to say that I'm tickled that the world is free of one more ahole is considered tacky,  and I'm sure his family does mourn his passing to some extent. 
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #16 on: October 15, 2012, 10:59:15 PM »
Guess he doesn't have to fight his cancer anymore and he can relax.  RIP.
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #17 on: October 16, 2012, 01:26:35 AM »

That a sponsor of tyranny suffers at the end evokes no sympathy in me.

There are few who, in dying, balance the scales of the suffering they have caused.
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Re: Arlen Spector dies
« Reply #18 on: October 16, 2012, 11:36:56 AM »
His is another life from which we might, if we wanted, take some lessons, lessons that might be illuminating given where this country has arrived.
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