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DWilliamsamh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 06:37 AM
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Elizabeth Dole wants to name HIV Bill after COMPLETE Bigot: Jesse Helms.
 
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Elizabeth Dole must be going insane!

Is she trying to tell us this is just another bill named to do the opposite of what its name would indicate? Is this the same thing as the Clear Skies initiative? The No Child Left Behind Law? Or has she decided that she is going to lose her seat in congress anyway so she might as well stick BOTH her thumbs in the eyes of those she hates anyway??

Check this out. You can't make this shit up. Republican truth is WAY stranger than fiction.

DWilliamsamh
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 06:50 AM
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1. Going insane? ..... Her flight arrived 20 minutes early.
:crazy:


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ihavenobias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 06:54 AM
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2. Ridiculous...
K & R.

PS---Check out another great TYT clip from yesterday, .

Also, !
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 06:56 AM
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3. And she is my Senator ! Arrrrghhh Gross-out ! Imagine with
how little gusto and hope I make the phone-calls to her. Just held my nose to do it yesterday to rant about her support for FISA.

I hope this helps us in NC to boot her butt to the curb in November.
Liddy who? She's been mentally missing since 2002.

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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 07:24 AM
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5. As a fellow North Carolinian, I think
you would enjoy this: http://www.whereisliddy.com/
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 07:29 AM
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6. It's right on the "money" - I love it and will now proceed and send it around the state
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mmm413 Donating Member (158 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 07:28 PM
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25. Not only is she pretty damn old (72)
She's married to Bob (Viagra) Dole. Anyone think that NC could elect someone under the age of -- I don't know -- 60, 65? She took over Helms' seat. And apparently, thinks he was pretty darn great. According to Wikipedia, she hasn't lived in NC for over 30 years. Talk about a carpetbagger. Interesting tidbit here (not to be tacky) is that she serves on US Senate Select Committee on Aging. And she and Bob didn't live together for a number of years after they were married (kind of like John & Cindy McCain). I can't remember why, right now. But they didn't. And she's soooo smarmy.
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 09:58 AM
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14. I know!
My Aunt was her fund raiser when she was trying to run for Prez. (Can you imagine!)
She dropped out due to...lack of funds! Hahahahaha on both of them!

I call her the Phantom Stepford Senator. She has contributed nothing to NC or the USA. She is useless. She probably doesn't know Helms position on AIDS or gays...because she knows nothing nor cares about NC. She's "from" Kansas (she was born in NC)Send her back! But she will probably be re-elected. NC has been playing follow the leader (usually SC)since the signing of the Constitution.
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Birdiesmom Donating Member (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 07:12 AM
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4. Her excuse is his latter-day team-up with the ONE campaign...
...to help widows and orphans with AIDS in Africa. (When Helms died earlier this month, Bono of U2 left a voicemail for John Dodd, director of the Jesse Helms Center in Wingate, saying, "There are 2 million people alive in Africa today because Jesse Helms did the right thing.") However, Helms never relented in his belief that the overwhelming majority of people got AIDS due to "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct." And, apparently, these people deserved no help whatsoever.

He did his best to block programs to provide clean needles to drug users, despite the evidence of the effectiveness of these programs. And his hatred of the homosexual community is legendary.

Putting his name on this bill is a farce beyond measure.


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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 05:09 PM
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19. Welcome to DU, Birdiesmom!
:hi:
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Birdiesmom Donating Member (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-18-08 02:22 PM
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24. Thanks!
:D
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BEZERKO Donating Member (564 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 08:44 AM
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7. Amazing!
It boggles the mind. I didn't feel sad either btw
.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 08:55 AM
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8. Next we'll have the Jesse Helms Civil Rights Act
. . . and a Jesse Helms Day at the United Nations.

It's easy to see why the cover of The New Yorker raised a stink. Satire is dead.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 09:10 AM
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9. OMG, I was about to post the same exact thing
What a fucking insult to name a bill after a man who did SHIT for AIDs sufferers
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 09:20 AM
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10. Let me suggest a btter way of phrasing that
What a fucking insult to name a bill after a man who did SHIT for on AIDS sufferers.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 09:23 AM
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11. My mother always said never speak ill of the dead
and this suggestion by Libby Dole speaks ill of the millions of people who died of AIDs
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 09:29 AM
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13. My mother told me the same thing
So I waited until the day after his funeral to post this.
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DWilliamsamh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 09:27 AM
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12. EXACTLY!!
Like I said... you can't make this shit up. They live in Bizarro world....well at least now we KNOW why Liddy had her surgery done so as to make her appear as close to the Joker as possible!
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Mira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 01:18 PM
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16. Part of the Raleigh bypass is called "The Jesse Helms Freeway"
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 02:35 PM
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17. How often does somebody propose changing the name?
I'm sure no one will for for a respectable period befitting the man. But what about next month?
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waiting for hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 11:19 AM
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15. She has some real idiots
surrounding her - who, on her staff, thought this was a good idea? What buffoon agreed with Liddy that this would be well received? Unbelievable. And like any true big ass Jesse Helms lover would want the Senator's name on a HIV bill - stupidity runs rampant.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 04:53 PM
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18. She's my Senator, too.
Edited on Thu Jul-17-08 05:11 PM by gateley
The ONLY positive things I can say about her is she has the most polite staff (when I'm constantly calling and threatening my vote) and she voted for the recent GI Bill.

Other than that, she's a terror.

I don't know how in the world she felt that Jesse Helms would be the person to name this bill after - after all he's done to NOT help people with AIDS.

I'm moving.

Recommend so others see what we North Carolinians have to put up with!

EDIT to add -- How about naming it the Biden/Lugar Bill -- since they spearheaded it? :shrug:
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DWilliamsamh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 05:13 PM
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20. Nah, that would make too much sense. (N/T)
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 05:16 PM
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21. she's clearly already nuts. to think she'd insult people with AIDS by naming the bill after
a nut who wouldn't dare sit next to an AIDS patient and hold their hand, proves that! He was so divisive and she shows totally ignorance on compassion by doing what she is suggesting!
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ihavenobias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 06:40 PM
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22. Amen n/t
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CherylK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-17-08 07:19 PM
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23. K & R!
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