Shirley Temple dies

[packman]

A ray of sunshine during the dark days of the Depression - goodbye my tap dancing child.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/shirley-temple-dies

[ladyVet]

1. She's got a permanent berth on the Good Ship Lollipop.

Good sailing, Shirley.

[gopiscrap]

2. she was a conservative republican who bought her way to

an ambassadorship under Richard Nixon and then again under Bush I she also was the chief protocol officer who was in charge of Carter's inauguration because Ford or Nixon put her in that post.

[mn9driver]

3. Her conservative republicanism was a different brand than today's.

I wouldn't have voted for her, but she wasn't repulsively crazy the way the modern GOP is.

"The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields."

That's definitely not anything a modern GOPer would be caught dead saying. RIP, Shirley.

[gopiscrap]

5. I agree but still she was an enabler

of Nixon and Bush I

[oneshooter]

7. Haters just got to hate. Don't they. n/t

[yawnmaster]

8. They will. And in a diverse society, will never be happy, imo...

"happy" here meaning looking at the good side.
Enjoying the good more than hating the bad.

[gopiscrap]

10. Just saying

don't get too teary eyed with the eulogy

[Riftaxe]

6. Buying an Ambasadorship

is the traditional way, even honored by the current administration. Hell just look at the current nominee to Argentina.

[Gothmog]

4. May she rest in peace

[The The]

9. The 21st century version of Shirley Temple