On Jul 5, 1:52=A0pm, Clay <clays0nl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> This is the reason why Conservatives are thought of as "not too
> bright"...
>
> "Helms was a conservative populist, and his campaigns were not above
> demagoguery. He was a protectionist, reflecting the textile interests
> in his state. He sometimes abused the Senate's advice and consent
> power against Presidential nominees =96 a habit the left has now
> adopted. His critics have a point that he sometimes exploited racial
> tensions in the post-1960s South, but Helms himself was no racist and
> his famous TV spot opposing racial preferences in employment in 1990
> barely ran in North Carolina."
>
> This is total bull****. =A0Jesse Helms was an anti-Black racist and
> there is nothing that anyone will be able to say that will change
> that.
>
> -C-
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Helms also exhibited a myopic view toward many issues and among those
was funding for AIDS research. In 1995 he stated:
http://www.heart-intl.net/HEART/Legal/Comp/HelmsashamedoverroleinAIDS.htm
"The government, he said, should spend less money on people with AIDS
because they got sick as a result of "deliberate, disgusting,
revolting conduct... We've got to have some common sense about a
disease transmitted by people deliberately engaging in unnatural
acts," Helms told The New York Times."
In making this statement, Helms revealed his naive and over simplified
attitude that the only people who get aids are homo***uals. And all
this in 1995. Amazing.
RO
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