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 Post subject: DEAD: King of Pork
PostPosted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 8:07 am 
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They seriously need a retirement age in the senate. These 90 year old senators are a joke. Does anyone here seriously know anyone in their 90s who is both capable enough and aware enough of the modern world to be in a position like that?
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My grandma is 92 and pretty with-it, but she also pees her pants and didn't think white people should marry "the coloreds". I thought her head was going to explode when she was arguing with my sister about the black guy she was dating.
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They seriously need a retirement age in the senate. These 90 year old senators are a joke. Does anyone here seriously know anyone in their 90s who is both capable enough and aware enough of the modern world to be in a position like that?


My Dad at 92 was the wisest, kindest, most capable thinker I ever knew.

Robert Byrd "you call it pork, the poor people in West Virginia call it help...."

Member of the KKK yet voted progressive plenty... this kind of American doesn't exist any more, and I am not sure that's a good thing.

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I don't deny the elderly can have great wisdom to impart. However, I am very skeptical of their ability to have the energy to do it day in and day out in a position of such importance. And I think it is a very rare exception indeed that is in tune with the world as it stands instead of the world as it was.
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Better that it was the King of Pork who died, and not the Sausage King of Chicago.

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Having so many WV friends, not to mention a wife from WV, my FB and twitter feed is clogged with eulogies to the man. While he had a spotty past, the guy did do amazing things for the state. I know my university wouldn't be where it is without the massive funding he helped it get. Not to mention his aversion to mountain-top removal.


This video is incredible.

The hunt for a replacement will be interesting as well.

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harry Wrote:
nobody Wrote:
They seriously need a retirement age in the senate. These 90 year old senators are a joke. Does anyone here seriously know anyone in their 90s who is both capable enough and aware enough of the modern world to be in a position like that?


My Dad at 92 was the wisest, kindest, most capable thinker I ever knew.

Robert Byrd "you call it pork, the poor people in West Virginia call it help...."

Member of the KKK yet voted progressive plenty... this kind of American doesn't exist any more, and I am not sure that's a good thing.


Yeah, I mean, it is what it is. I think that you can look at a guy like Senator Byrd and see a pretty good distillation of a certain Southern Political Story. Such is the Duality of The Southern Thing, etc.

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The hunt for a replacement will be interesting as well.


my vote goes to:

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Senator Lou Garra Wrote:
harry Wrote:
nobody Wrote:
They seriously need a retirement age in the senate. These 90 year old senators are a joke. Does anyone here seriously know anyone in their 90s who is both capable enough and aware enough of the modern world to be in a position like that?


My Dad at 92 was the wisest, kindest, most capable thinker I ever knew.

Robert Byrd "you call it pork, the poor people in West Virginia call it help...."

Member of the KKK yet voted progressive plenty... this kind of American doesn't exist any more, and I am not sure that's a good thing.


Yeah, I mean, it is what it is. I think that you can look at a guy like Senator Byrd and see a pretty good distillation of a certain Southern Political Story. Such is the Duality of The Southern Thing, etc.


He personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act for fourteen hours so he should probably burn in hell.

Luckily, the devil's a Southerner too.

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Strangest part is that it was the Grand Dragon of the KKK that recognized his political potential and encouraged him to begin that career.

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