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Old 07-04-2008, 10:57 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Conservative icon Jesse Helms dead at 86
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Raleigh, N.C. — Jesse Helms, the firebrand U.S. senator whose outspoken, conservative views polarized North Carolina and U.S. voters for decades, died at 1:15 a.m. Friday in Raleigh, according to John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center.
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I didn't have a relationship with that guy, Mr. Ayers. Ok, he did do a lecture for Michelle when she worked at the University of Chicago, where I was a Sr. Lecturer in the Law School. And Ok, we live in the same neighborhood. (as does Louis Farrakhan) But I didn't *really* know him.

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Old 07-04-2008, 10:59 AM   #2 (permalink)
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RIP Jessie.....long live tobacco...
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Old 07-04-2008, 11:01 AM   #3 (permalink)
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He passed on the 4th of July, very befitting !
A true patriot !
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Old 07-04-2008, 11:12 AM   #4 (permalink)
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"It has always been my contention," he wrote in his memoir, "that there is no sense in being in office if you don't have the courage to do what is right, even if it is the most unpopular position in the world."

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Old 07-04-2008, 11:21 AM   #5 (permalink)
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