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Author:  '77Cubs [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 4:44 pm ]
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CNN
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28m28 minutes ago

Former Sen. Bob Dole speaks as he's awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor bestowed by Congress http://cnn.it/2rf6nGB

Sad to see these WWII heroes barely hanging on. Old age is a bitch. Nice to see him get this medal however. A great American and a life well lived.

:salut:

Author:  newper [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:43 pm ]
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Amazing he is still among us. I saw him in the '96 Wheaton, IL 4th of July parade ( the year he was campaigning...) it was really cool to see all the Secret Service everywhere.

Author:  good dolphin [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 5:58 pm ]
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I believe his pants are now hiked up to just below his chin

Author:  pittmike [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:01 pm ]
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Politics are funny. It seems that if you can get into your nineties people will say nice things about you regardless of how they disliked you before. Sure there are a few exceptions but mostly true.

Author:  good dolphin [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:31 pm ]
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I think he had his political opponents but everyone considered him a good statesman.

Author:  DannyB [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:32 pm ]
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good dolphin wrote:
I believe his pants are now hiked up to just below his chin


Literally.

Image

Author:  Nas [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:33 pm ]
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good dolphin wrote:
I think he had his political opponents but everyone considered him a good statesman.


Agreed. Literally a dying breed.

Author:  Keyser Soze [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 6:36 pm ]
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pittmike wrote:
Politics are funny. It seems that if you can get into your nineties people will say nice things about you regardless of how they disliked you before. Sure there are a few exceptions but mostly true.

'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Author:  '77Cubs [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 7:31 pm ]
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The classic SNL Norm MacDonald impression (with Bob Dole):

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live ... ing/n10910

Author:  Hatchetman [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 7:50 pm ]
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He pandered on some issues. Can’t recall them now.

Author:  Zippy-The-Pinhead [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 7:57 pm ]
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Hatchetman wrote:
He pandered on some issues. Can’t recall them now.

Pandering as a criticism seems rather quaint these days.

Author:  Hatchetman [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:01 pm ]
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Sure but I’m not hanging his photo next to Ike’s in my upstairs hall.

Author:  Nas [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:17 pm ]
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Of course not Ike but there probably isn't a guy besides McCain in Washington that you can compare to him.

Author:  Hatchetman [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:22 pm ]
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I bet there’s some dude in SE DC that took a hit in Nam and saved some brothers and sent some kids to college and never pandered to nobody.

I mean having a better character than Bill Clinton or Donald Trump isn’t that hard to find.

Author:  beni hanna [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:47 pm ]
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Hatchetman wrote:
I bet there’s some dude in SE DC that took a hit in Nam and saved some brothers and sent some kids to college and never pandered to nobody.

I mean having a better character than Bill Clinton or Donald Trump isn’t that hard to find.

Me thinks you may want to look into this individual's history. Great stuff on him and Inouye. Pandering is a given in the political landscape that requires money to get elected. Your example certainly exists. This individual did not run for public office. The concept of running for public office (unless you are a Pritzker) requires one to humble thyself and pander like a mofo. It would be great if it was not the case, but it is.

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-20/news/mn-26660_1_elizabeth-dole
Pander what ya got as best ya can and pray for rain. Dole pandered poorly, and did come across as a rube because of it. That honestly should have been a selling point. Who wants real estate investor snake oil salesman as your president/congressman (ooops). Most money appears to have come from the wife's job. See attached, and feel free to add more if anyone locates it. Cannot recollect if there was big family money on either side. This is not BIG money. It would be for beni, thusly beni will not be running for public office soon.

Author:  tommy [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:54 pm ]
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GHW Bush had an interesting war experience as well....

Author:  Nas [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 8:56 pm ]
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HW has always been my guy. I may have voted Republican more if I had a similar choice.

Author:  beni hanna [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:03 pm ]
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Bush Sr. had more money if memory is correct, and was not a cripple. It is odd to say in today's dem vs repub political environs...both were qualified to serve as president.

Author:  Hatchetman [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:05 pm ]
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Why did we get into Iraq the first time? I forgot.

Author:  Nas [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:08 pm ]
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Hatchetman wrote:
Why did we get into Iraq the first time? I forgot.


To stop Saddam from taking over the middle east. Got in and got out and made a profit. #Leadership

Author:  Zippy-The-Pinhead [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:28 pm ]
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Nas wrote:
HW has always been my guy. I may have voted Republican more if I had a similar choice.

HW was the Rex Grossman of Presidents.

Author:  Nas [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:34 pm ]
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Zippy-The-Pinhead wrote:
Nas wrote:
HW has always been my guy. I may have voted Republican more if I had a similar choice.

HW was the Rex Grossman of Presidents.


Haters gone hate.

Author:  Hatchetman [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 9:35 pm ]
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These fucking guys looked into the eyes of Satan and didn’t blink but groveled before Ralph Reed.

Author:  Darkside [ Wed Jan 17, 2018 11:50 pm ]
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What is this some kind of tube?

Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Thu Jan 18, 2018 11:24 am ]
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Darkside wrote:
What is this some kind of tube?
Bob Dole doesn't like this.

Author:  Furious Styles [ Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:52 am ]
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Bob Dole wouldn't rat out a kid for smoking rope in an alley.

Great American.

Author:  Frank Coztansa [ Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:05 am ]
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Furious Styles wrote:
Bob Dole wouldn't rat out a kid for smoking rope in an alley.

Great American.


Would he rat him out for jumping dope?

Author:  Panther pislA [ Fri Jan 19, 2018 11:54 am ]
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DannyB wrote:
good dolphin wrote:
I believe his pants are now hiked up to just below his chin


Literally.

Image

Dude looks like he had plastic surgery to become an old Filipino man.

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