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2019-12-12 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-12 04:19|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Yes, it's Kurt.

Posted by Bobby 2019-12-12 07:53|| 2019-12-12 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden does sound insane. A push-up contest? Really?

Is there a single, allegedly Trump-committed crime or act of moral turpitude that these Shitshow Clowns have not themselves committed?

Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 08:39|| 2019-12-12 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 A push-up contest?

He does that a lot, actually. The challenge, I mean, not the push-ups. I’d love to see someone take him up on it, just for the amusement value.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-12 10:15|| 2019-12-12 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4
Read a biography of Strom Thurmond. There was much mention of their affinity for each other at the end of J. Strom's senate career and IIRC Biden gave a eulogy at his memorial service. For what it's worth ..Thurmond often did pushups on the campaign trail and also stood on his head and handstands.

Posted by Lemuel de Medici1613 2019-12-12 15:23|| 2019-12-12 15:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Mark Steyn on Ol' Strom Thurmond, from 2002 - excerpt:

This week he became the only 100-year-old senator in the Republic's history. He's the only American to have been elected to national office by a write-in campaign. And the only senator to have spoken for 24 hours and 18 minutes continuously, back in 1957 when he filibustered the civil rights bill and had an aide standing with a bucket in the adjoining cloakroom so he could relieve himself while keeping one foot on the Senate floor and still speaking.
And he's the only circuit court judge in South Carolina history to have made love to a condemned murderess as she was being transferred from the women's prison to Death Row.

This was Sue Logue, the only woman in the state ever to be sent to the chair, but not before she'd been sent to the back seat of Strom's car for a lively final ride. (It was a particularly bloody murder case that had begun when Mr. Logue's calf had been kicked to death by some other feller's mule.) ..

I only met the senator during the impeachment trial in 1999. On the first day, in a chaotic melee by the elevators, I was suddenly pushed forward and thrown between Thurmond and California Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Ol' Strom had just cast an appreciative bipartisan eye over the petite brunet liberal extremist. Boxer gave an involuntary shudder. I was squashed between the two for about five seconds when I became aware that my elbow was being affectionately caressed by Strom.

Presumably he'd mistaken my dainty arm for Barbara's, but who knows? But what a great country. In how many other national legislatures can a guy just wander in off the street and find himself in a tripartisan squeeze being petted by a 97-year-old senator?

Posted by Lex 2019-12-12 18:20|| 2019-12-12 18:20|| Front Page Top

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