"Ron" <roneal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Jul 5, 1:52 pm, 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 – 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****. Jesse Helms was an anti-Black
> > racist and there is nothing that anyone will be able to
> > say that will change that.
> >
> > -C-
>
> .
> .
> 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
Conservatives with their roots in hell. Some things will never change.
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