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Friday, July 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Jesse Helms dies on July 4th

Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86.
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  • Saturday, July 5, 2008 05:08 AM

    True to his word

    We will have a black President over his dead body, and one the product of "miscegenation," too.

    I voted against Helms twice. He was personally gracious, amiable, and collegial. He was politically vicious, grubby, and bigoted. I am sad that his death got "reported" on the fourth of July, because Jesse Helms the man was a nice grandfather, a pleasant old man, and having his personal (unobjectionable) death tied to national politics (where he was nasty and mean) once more plays into the theater of things like the Jesse Helms Foundation.

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