How… fucking ironic!!!
Esprix
Is it wrong of me to be kind of happy about this? I mean, it’s not like the guy’s life was cut tragically short or anything. He had his day, and now he’s gone away.
He’s really dead? Gee. Was he still a Senator?
As my partner said when he told me the news about Thurmond, “It’s a good day.”
Of course you know what happened. . the nurse said, "Senator Thurmond, guess what the Supreme Court just legalized!
You know, I remember his last Senate campaign, when I was living just across the border from South Carolina. His entire campaign consisted of ONE TV spot, that ran about three times total, in which a bunch of senior citizens each extolled his virtue in helping them with their Social Security problems, or their Medicare problems, or some other government benefits problem.
Whatever else the man had going for him, he had a damned efficient staff. Of course, they HAD to be. A friend who works for the Senate used to tell delightful tales of him wandering into the wrong party and giving the wrong speech to the wrong people, and then his staff chasing him down and leading him out of the room. Gaga doesn’t even begin to describe him towards the end there.
Those old Dixicrat reprobates really knew how to hang in there, though, didn’t they? I mean, between Strom and Lester, they really piled up a bunch of years.
Maybe he heard about the Court decision and that’s what finally sent him on his way?
You know something…
I’m a very liberal person, whose personal politics are very far from Thurmond’s. I met him in 1999, and interacted with him personally dozens of times from then until his retirement. While I strongly disagree with the views he held, I think it’s terribly callous and insensitive to mock the death of a flawed, but genuinely friendly person.
I swear, Gobear, I hadn’t read your post when I hit submit!
Relevant links from CNN:
“Supreme Court strikes down Texas sodomy law.”
And for good measure, “Canadian Supreme Court says laws must recognize gay partners.”
Coincidence? I think not!
And I, for one, am happy to see the gassy old bigot pass on. Good riddance.
Esprix
Shameful.
Reminds me of the time when SCOTUS ruled that flag burning was Constitutional, and Ronnie Reagan promptly fell off his horse and hit his head.
Wonder if they’ll try and press murder charges against Strom’s nurse?
These things always seem to happen in threes. Who’s next? Ronald Reagan? Jesse Helms?
Adios you stodgy old bag of gas! Sorry to see ya go, but damn glad you’re gone…
Thurmond last words, “Sodomy will be legalized over my dead body!”
I dunno: you people are being awful glib about the death of man who, though having a checkered past of bigotry, changed a lot over the years: even rethinking his position on sodomy near the end of his life.
They find the WMD’s. Wouldn’t that be great?!
crickets chirping
:rolleyes:
This thread is fucking sick.
LC
You know what else is sick?
IT IS NOT FUCKING IRONIC!!!
It would be ironic if the person who fought for the cause for many years died the next day, not the guy who was against it. That Mr. Thurmond, a man who is maligned much more than he deserves, died the next day is a coincidence. That is all.
This is your friendly neighbor hood Grammar Nazi signing off.
I’m browsing through the opinion right now, and am somewhat disturbed by the SCOTUS citing a decision by the European Court of Human Rights, even obliquely. It shouldn’t have been mentioned at all.
Here’s the text in question:
Now I would much rather have seen the decision made without reference to the values held by the public at all. What do the values held by the public have to do with rights embodied in the Constitution? Not a thing. If the Constitution provides protection for homosexual activity, then it does so whether 99% or 1% of the population approves.
Citing a European case like this could indicate an ominous future for legal reasoning, when the court looks to European culture and values to decide how far Americans’ freedom extends.
No… I’m pretty sure it’s still ironic, Maud’Dib. It doesn’t matter if he was for it or against it, the fact that he had a stake in it is enough to give it at least a faint tinge of irony. If it had been Fred Phelps, it would have been massively ironic.
To say nothing of satisfying.
Bolding mine.
His death at this time may be considerd poetic, but it is not at all ironic.