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"Jack"
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05-03-09, 11:32 AM (EST)
 
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Rest in peace, Jack.
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05-03-09, 12:06 PM (EST)
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One of my heroes.
Jack Kemp was one of the best.
May you rest in peace.
Yup, it's an Agman creation!
"Them people had to be pretty dumb to make their camp in a riverbed." - Rudy Boesch
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05-04-09, 05:17 PM (EST)
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Arlen Specter is allowed to say whatever he wants. The problem is, he doesn't really believe any of it.If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. You mean, the research that we didn't pursue saved Arlen Specter's life, despite the fact that we didn't pursue it? How did that happen? But he was every bit as much of a blowhard when he was in the GOP. So I won't take any more shots at him now, when I didn't do so when he was on the other side. And he may be right had he stated it better -- that if we weren't so worried about the "ethical" issues of using aborted stem cells, we'd be further ahead on research now. Anyway, I liked Jack Kemp. I thought he was one of the GOP's true libertarians: socially liberal and economically conservative. I was sorry when he was reduced to playing second banana to Bob "ED" Dole, and I'm sorry that he's gone. Here was an open letter he wrote upon Obama's election:
http://www.kemppartners.com/about-jack-kemp/column/a-letter-to-my-grandchildren And here's a column written by Gregg Easterbrook about him for ESPN:http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/090502 Beneath the surface of Kemp's political heterodoxy was a lifelong love of argument over ideas. Kemp clung to many causes viewed as idiosyncratic, such as a return to the gold standard, and advanced "supply side" economic ideas that were in some ways more radical than anything coming from the left. He spent far more time with writers and intellectuals than do most nationally known politicians, and he got more excited about books than about polls. While many politicians want to shake hands with intellectuals at photo ops, Kemp wanted to argue, sometimes well into the night. His political legacy is mixed: Kemp played a role in inner-city revival and reduced the narrow-mindedness that once weighed down conservative politics, while the anti-tax sentiment he championed helped create the national-debt monster that threatens to swallow the economy. But unlike so many politicians, who leave behind little but backroom deals and self-congratulation, Kemp's legacy is one of ideas. As of last autumn, Kemp was still banging out newspaper columns in support of John McCain and in opposition to taxes. Unlike so many political figures who only preach family values, Kemp was married for more than 50 years to his college sweetheart, Joanne Main.
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05-05-09, 12:58 PM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 05-05-09 AT 12:59 PM (EST)In that spirit, let me add that I did think Jack Kemp was a respectable, honest, ultimately decent person; even when I disagreed with him politically I believed he was truly following the course he truly believed in. We need more of that sort in politics. I very much respect the honest politician over the counterfeit who will adopt whatever position suits his ambitions. The current trend of some in politics to impose litmus tests (or whatever) leaves me cold, that it will drive out those who will stand on their own beliefs and is something I find thorougly repugnant. Not that the Democratic Party is above this, but currently the Republican social conservatives seem to have gone whole-hog into, hey we don't have anymore liberals to target, let's go after the moderates. To quote a politician of times past: "I think we would lose something of importance to our political life if the conservatives were all in one party and the liberals all in the other. This would make us a nation divided into two irroconsileable camps." Author of quote in hidden text. Harry S. Truman
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