BS: Jesse Helms

Subject: Jesse Helms
From: kendall
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 06:56 PM

HOORAY!! he is on his way out!

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 06:57 PM

Is he dead yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: kendall
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 06:58 PM

He's been dead from the neck up for years. No, he still breathes, but, he announced that he would not seek re election when his term runs out.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 07:04 PM

At long last. A glad farewell to "Senator No"!

I always remember with a great big grin the bumper sticker Helms' campaign put out several elections back. They said, simply: "Run, Jesse, Run". So hundreds of his creative foes snapped them up...in order to plaster them across their front bumpers!

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 07:09 PM

Whoooo Haaaa!! Happy Days.......

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 07:12 PM

If Helms is not steering, can down the Hatch be far behind? (bad, i know, really bad)

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 07:25 PM

Time to batten down the Hatch, eh Sorcha?

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Peter T.
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 08:57 PM

Strom Thurmond, too. God, the U.S. Senate might actually make it into the late 1950s. I hear that colour television is on the way.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Mountain Dog
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 09:05 PM

Not if Strom has his heart's desire, Peter...He still sees things strictly in black and white, I'm sorry to say.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 09:25 PM

Strom wants to be in the Senate till he's 100....comatose or otherwise

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: DonMeixner
Date: 21 Aug 01 - 11:42 PM

In any case Jesse is gone. Now we can have some real honest and solid representation in Washington. Here comes Oliver North!

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Lee Shore
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 03:33 AM

Don't put on your party hats just yet, y'all. Those same good Christian people who kept Ol' Jesse in office all those years are still voting. And there's plenty of braindead rightwing yahoos standing in line to take his place in the senate. Oliver North is just one of many.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: GUEST,chullainn
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 08:29 AM

I've lived in NC all my life and I can tell you this much about Helms: Don't celebrate his political passing until you see the last shovelful of red clay covering his cold, blue body. I won't rejoice until the deadline for reelection is past, because in the past he has always decided that the country simply cannot survive without him and run again despite early rumblings of retirement. I don't care how OLD he is, he really believes we'll all go straight to hell without his hand on the wheel of morality. When he dies I will go straight to the store for a bottle of champagne, and I will toast his passing with a song: "Ding dong, the witch is dead, the wicked witch is dead!"

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: kendall
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 09:19 AM

People like him are the best arguement for term limits.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 02:07 PM

If Strom and Jesse are gonna be gone does that mean the Civil War is finally over?

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: DougR
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 04:03 PM

I shall not mourn the fact that Jesse is no longer in the Senate. However, my Liberal friends, I would not get my hopes up too far. Do you suppose the good people who elected and re-elected Jesse to successive terms in the U. S. Senate will likely send a man or woman to replace him that is more to your liking?

I suppose there is always hope.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 04:53 PM

Don't celebrate too quickly. A real, down home born-agin' right wing Christian is sure to run to fill the seat.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Aug 01 - 05:10 PM

...and the war drags on.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: DougR
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 12:29 AM

My Lord, L.H., I turn my back and another war starts! Where this time?

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: kendall
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 12:59 PM

The "good" people? you mean those bible pounding, anal, judgemental, right wing wackos? The ones who couldn't stand to hear the truth about Pat Robertson? I heard that O.J. Simpson is moving to North Carolina because everyone has the same DNA.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: kendall
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 03:03 PM

Jeez, did I write that?

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 03:07 PM

Does DNA in this case stand for "DamNable Attitude"? :-)

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: DougR
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 05:59 PM

Funny, Kendall.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: GUEST,guest,jack
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 06:54 PM

Isn't it great to be associated with folks like Kendall?He's so clever!!

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: kendall
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 07:32 PM

I can also be sarcastic!

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: kendall
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 07:33 PM

I can also be sarcastic!

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: DougR
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 07:33 PM

Twice!

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: kendall
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 07:34 PM

and clumsy

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: GUEST,johntm
Date: 23 Aug 01 - 08:52 PM

interesting debate in the wall street journal today between al hunt, the liberal head of the paper's washington bureau who hates helms, and an outside contributor who disagrees with most of what helms said but arguest that he made possible the acceptance of multiracial politics and acceptance of black advances in the south in the last three decades...

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Lee Shore
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 03:59 AM

By way of the same logic, I guess one could say that Adolf Hitler gets credit for the founding of the state of Israel.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: kendall
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 07:10 AM

dont you just love such convoluted logic? Remindes me of Archie Bunker.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Wolfgang
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 08:22 AM

Just in case you'd like to know how big these news are in Germany: A two column portrait including picture of Helms made page 2 in my nationally distributed newspaper. In case you can read German it is here (link only valid today).

The most often used adjectives in this context were 'erzkonservativ' (ultra-conservative) and 'uncompromising' and the usual comment was 'good for him - and good for us'.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Peter T.
Date: 24 Aug 01 - 01:58 PM

If everyone in a state has similar DNA through interbreeding, is this an argument for or against family values? Just asking....yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: DougR
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 01:02 PM

I heard that Jesse Jackson is going to establish residence in North Carolina and run for the Senate seat. Supposedly he has announced that things in Washington won't be the same without someone named Jesse in that senate seat.

Al Sharpton as president. Jesse Jackson as senator. That's quite a combination, I think.

Seriously though, for those of you who are not satisfied having Al Gore as the standard bearer for the Democratic Party in the next election, Al Sharpton does offer an alternative.

Oops. Creep.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: Gareth
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 02:54 PM

Any chance of the Republican's nominating Ian Douglas Smith for the seat ? Or is he to right wing for thier taste.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Jesse Helms
From: DougR
Date: 25 Aug 01 - 03:34 PM

The most likely Republican candidate will be Elizabeth Dole, I think.

DougR