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Strom Thurmond stops breathing

Apparently he still plans to run for Senate again, despite the cessation of life functions.
 
Or as the inimitable Rush Limbaugh would say, "Strom has assumed room temperature."

Lurker

P.S. It is statements like the above that make me intensely dislike Rush. Well, other than him always being wrong politically speaking.
 
from CNN.com

"There's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches," Thurmond said during his 1948 Presidential campaign.

yep Strom, that would go against everything us free Americans hold as sacred.
 
"Dammit! Why couldn't he have died LAST year?!"
-- Trent Lott


"What's the big deal? He was only 5 years older than me!"
-- Buddy Ebsen
 
Zep said:
Never heard of him. Was he an anagram of something???
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Strom Thurmond was a rather colorful politician from the state of South Carolina. He was just over 100 years old, and only retired from the Senate last year. He was known for his segrationist past, but he was also the first Senator to hire a black staff member. He was a staunch states rights defender. He was quite the political chameleon, always with his finger on the pulse of the people of his state, and when the times changed, he did his best to change with them. But people always remember his racist history. He is from the Right/Conservative side of the political fence.

Strom become a Republican. In the 50s, I think.

The Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (a fellow Republican) last December at Strom's one hundredth birthday made a remark about Strom's Dixiecrat presidential bid against Harry Truman in 1948 for the Presidency. Old Strom was a hardline segrationist back then. Well Trott made the unfortunate remark that if Strom had been elected as President "we wouldn't be having all the problems we are having today," or words to that effect. This caused the Left to call for Lott's resignation. Lott did in fact resign as a result.

Toward the end, Strom began showing signs of senility, often reading from index cards and losing his train of thought. Still, the people of South Carolina re-elected him for his final term in 1996, even though his opponent really harped on Strom's lack of mental capacity for the job. But South Carolina has always been the black sheep of the American family. They seem to enjoy the title.

Strom once gave a fillibuster in the Senate that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes. He had an aide keep a bucket in a nearby cloakroom so that he could relieve himself while still keeping one foot in the Senate chamber.

Like I said. A colorful character.
 
HarryKeogh said:
from CNN.com

"There's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches," Thurmond said during his 1948 Presidential campaign.

yep Strom, that would go against everything us free Americans hold as sacred.
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Yeah, your average free american only wants movie theatres segregated but not churches, homes, or swimming pools. Strom Thurmond was definitely out of the mainstream.
 
Will Trent Lott speak at the funeral?
It'll be an interesting one no doubt. Wonder if his (rumored) black daughter will show up.
 
Luke T. said:

Strom become a Republican. In the 50s, I think.
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Strom became a republican after the segregationalists in the Old South arm of the Democratic Party (a.k.a. Dixiecrats) were unable to defeat the Voting Rights Act in 1964. His was the first of such defections that also included Trent Lott. I guess he decided it was better to switch than fight - or something like that. Strom did not resign his seat in the Senate when he switched - a fact conveninently ignored by the more vocal whiners when Jim Jeffords switched - or rather quit - from the republican party.
 
Luke T. said:


Strom Thurmond was a rather colorful politician from the state of South Carolina. He was just over 100 years old, and only retired from the Senate last year. He was known for his segrationist past, but he was also the first Senator to hire a black staff member. He was a staunch states rights defender. He was quite the political chameleon, always with his finger on the pulse of the people of his state, and when the times changed, he did his best to change with them. But people always remember his racist history. He is from the Right/Conservative side of the political fence.

Strom become a Republican. In the 50s, I think.

The Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (a fellow Republican) last December at Strom's one hundredth birthday made a remark about Strom's Dixiecrat presidential bid against Harry Truman in 1948 for the Presidency. Old Strom was a hardline segrationist back then. Well Trott made the unfortunate remark that if Strom had been elected as President "we wouldn't be having all the problems we are having today," or words to that effect. This caused the Left to call for Lott's resignation. Lott did in fact resign as a result.

Toward the end, Strom began showing signs of senility, often reading from index cards and losing his train of thought. Still, the people of South Carolina re-elected him for his final term in 1996, even though his opponent really harped on Strom's lack of mental capacity for the job. But South Carolina has always been the black sheep of the American family. They seem to enjoy the title.

Strom once gave a fillibuster in the Senate that lasted for 24 hours and 18 minutes. He had an aide keep a bucket in a nearby cloakroom so that he could relieve himself while still keeping one foot in the Senate chamber.

Like I said. A colorful character.
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Ummm, thanks Luke. More than I expected - I was only trying to be cute with his name... :D :D

Zep
 
"There's not enough troops in the Army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes and into our churches," Thurmond said during his 1948 Presidential campaign.

I never understood why that was brought up against him. Not that I agree with it, of course, but it was in 1948, when people had different attitudes about race.

The hidden assumption behind people bringing up this quote all the time is that anybody who made such a statement is a "hard-core" racist who would never change his views about the "inferiority" of black people, even in 50 years.

I disagree--at the time, MOST white southerners were for segergation, and many of them DID change their view. It could have been that Thurmond retained that attitude fifty years later; but it also could be that he changed it since 1948.
 
Apparently, Strom Thurmond was quite a horndog.

From the telegraph.co.uk

But to many of us, Strom will be fondly remembered as South Carolina's most indestructible ladies' man. In his early 90s, the wizened Republican with the fiery orange hair-plugs made an ill-advised attempt at bipartisan outreach and groped fellow Senator Patty Murray. In his late 90s, he had a little light petting session with, um, me.

This was my only close encounter with him, and a lot closer than I'd expected. It was the first day of the Clinton impeachment trial and, in a chaotic melee by the lifts, I was suddenly pushed forward and thrown between Thurmond and California Senator Barbara Boxer.

Ol' Strom had just cast an appreciative bipartisan eye over the petite brunette liberal extremist. Ms Boxer gave an involuntary shudder. I'd been squashed between the two for about five seconds when I became aware of a strange tickling sensation on my elbow. Glancing down, I was horrified to see an unusually large lizard slithering up and down my arm. On closer inspection, it proved to be Strom's hand. Presumably he'd mistaken my dainty elbow for Barbara's, but who knows? I can't speak for Patty Murray, but I found the mild electric frisson not unpleasant.

A senator is only as old as the woman he feels, and, until he started hitting on Telegraph columnists, that's one thing Strom always had a feel for. He was the only circuit court judge in South Carolina history to have had sex with 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 Judge Thurmond'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. Things had escalated from there. Strom was said to have had a soft spot for Mrs Logue, whom he'd hired as a teacher back when he was school superintendent. She didn't meet the minimum qualifications for the post, but she was said to have had unusual "vaginal muscular dexterity".

The full article is HERE.
 
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