Jesse Helms - dead at last
By Capt. Fogg
It's truly unfair that we all have to die, but I don't feel that way about Jesse Helms. It was time for his ideas and his politics to go a long, long time ago. Helms, the patron saint of the Tobacco pushers, the enemy of nuclear test ban treaties, and a motive force in moving the American Center as far right as any Third World Generalissimo has ever done, has died and gone to hell.
Race baiter, bigot and blowhard: he stood against everything I have been proud of in America. We would have been better off had he never been born and I will fly the flag more proudly today because he is finally dead.
Cross posted from Human Voices
It's truly unfair that we all have to die, but I don't feel that way about Jesse Helms. It was time for his ideas and his politics to go a long, long time ago. Helms, the patron saint of the Tobacco pushers, the enemy of nuclear test ban treaties, and a motive force in moving the American Center as far right as any Third World Generalissimo has ever done, has died and gone to hell.
Race baiter, bigot and blowhard: he stood against everything I have been proud of in America. We would have been better off had he never been born and I will fly the flag more proudly today because he is finally dead.
Cross posted from Human Voices
Labels: Republicans
posted by Libby Spencer at 3:25 PM
5 Comments:
Damn Fogg. Stop mincing words man. Tell us how you really feel.
I'm with you on this. He seemed to live forever which backed up the old saying: Only the good die young.
Hard slog to find any love for the guy on the internets today. I haven't seen one good word, although I didn't check the rightwing blogs. But I heard the best they had to say about him is that he pissed libruls off.
Ohh, don't be so hard on ole Jesse. It's true there wasn't much that he and I would see eye to eye on, but whether you loved or hated him, he always stood by his beliefs and he never waffled. True he was a bigot and homophobe, but I'll tell you what really struck me; when China was being granted most favored nation status and Washington was falling all over the Chinese delegation, Jesse stayed home and met with Chinese exiles in Raleigh. Even though he was rather vocal about AIDs and homosexuals in a negative way, he did, in time, come to realize the true extent of the AIDs epidemic and supported our involvement in funding programs in Africa.
He was bigoted and a racist and staunchly conservative. He was a man of his time even though his time had past. I'll miss his grit and spunk and the way he aggrevated the crap out of me!
I suppose it would be possible to admire the perseverance of the devil, or of smallpox. Hitler loved dogs, they say.
Fogg, we pick our friends and aquaintances by what we have in common. We think we have made correct, logical, humane choices in our actions and ideals,etc. I'm sure Jesse did too, even if most of what he believed is in direct conflict with most of what I believe. I don't think he was right, but he was human and he had integrity; no skeletons have fallen out of his closets and don't think he didn't have detractors who were busy opening all the doors they could find! No doubt there will be those who will demonize we of like liberal minds and be glad of our passing, but I'll go to my grave blissfully ignorant of their railings against me and convinced I was correct.
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