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addressing a christian group in 1980. Please spread it around.
CurtEastPoint
(18,635 posts)In 1996, Weyrich was diagnosed with a spinal injury known as arachnoiditis, resulting from a 1996 fall on black ice. From 2001 until his death in 2008, his injury left him in a wheelchair and in chronic pain. Complications from that fall required a bilateral, below the knee amputation of his legs in July 2005.
Weyrich died on December 18, 2008, aged 66, at Inova Fair Oaks Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia. He was at the hospital for routine tests, and the cause of death was not released. In addition to his spinal injury and amputations, Weyrich also suffered from diabetes.[35] He was interred in Fairfax Memorial Park in Fairfax, Virginia on December 22, 2008.[36]
egold2604
(369 posts)While I don't want anyone to suffer the pain he suffered towards the end of his life, there is a certain Karmic retribution aspect of his demise.
CurtEastPoint
(18,635 posts)n a February 1991 article for Life magazine, Atwater wrote:
My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.[16]
This article was notable for an apology to Michael Dukakis for the "naked cruelty" of the 1988 presidential election campaign.[16][17]
Ed Rollins, however, stated in the 2008 documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, that "[Atwater] was telling this story about how a Living Bible was what was giving him faith and I said to Mary (Matalin), 'I really, sincerely hope that he found peace.' She said, 'Ed, when we were cleaning up his things afterwards, the Bible was still wrapped in the cellophane and had never been taken out of the package,' which just told you everything there was. He was spinning right to the end."[10]
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,921 posts)but the pain that his depsicable acts have created lives on through ALEC.
LuvNewcastle
(16,843 posts)If they were a majority they would be trying to get as many people to vote as they could. These Christians will lie, cheat, steal, or whatever it takes to gain power. Fascist, indeed.
olddots
(10,237 posts)n.t.