proud2BlibKansan
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:35 AM
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Helm's legacy:
*lone dissent in confirming Kissinger as Secretary of State
*16 day filibuster of MLK national holiday; called the dead MLK an "action-oriented Marxist"
*Among the more effective of his television ads was one that showed the hand of a white man crumpling a job rejection letter while an announcer intoned, "Your needed that job ... but they had to give it to a minority."
*He condemned President Nixon's historic 1972 trip to Beijing as "appeasing Red China."
*Helms said Clinton "better have a bodyguard" if he visited North Carolina.
*He called homosexuals "weak, morally sick wretches."
*In 1986, the Federal Election Commission penalized the North Carolina Congressional Club $10,000 and ordered it to reorganize, saying it had illegally subsidized Helms' 1984 campaign. Last year, a decade after the race, the FEC penalized the Helms for Senate committee $25,000 for accepting $700,000 in illegal contributions. And in 1992, the Helms campaign and the Congressional Club settled a Justice Department complaint over a pre-election mailing of postcards falsely threatening 125,000 black voters with jail if they went to the polls.
*"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING and MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior."
*When the University of North Carolina desegrated he called it "the University of Negroes and Communists."
*In 1990, Helms stayed away in protest when Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of Congress.
*And this charming quote: "To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing."
Nice legacy. RIP Jesse Helms. As they say in the south when they don't want to speak ill, "Bless his heart."http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/12789#comment-25189
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:38 AM
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:43 AM
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2. I have to admit I kinda agree with the Kissinger thingie |
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I mean, we all know Kissinger's policies and well, they weren't good ones.
Other that that :grr:
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:46 AM
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4. Yeah I wondered about that as well. |
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:45 AM
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proud2BlibKansan
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:47 AM
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6. May Jesse and his agenda rest in peace |
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:47 AM
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5. jesse: say hi to jesus for me, will you?... |
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on second thought, forget that....
i'll tell him myself if i see him...it's bound to be sooner than you will have the opportunity...
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Mon Jul-07-08 10:48 AM
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7. How long until his illegitimate mixed-race children and/or gay lovers emerge? n/t |
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