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Longtime U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter dies at 82
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Sunday, October 14, 2012 | Richard Gazarik

Posted on 10/14/2012 3:05:04 PM PDT by RS_Rider

Arlen Specter, who scuttled his U.S. Senate career after switching to the Democratic party in an ill-fated battle to retain his longtime Senate seat, died Sunday in Philadelphia.

Specter, 82, who announced in late August that he was battling cancer, died at his home from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, said his son Shanin.

Specter underwent treatment for cancer three times during his senate career. He suffered from a malignant brain tumor and was treated twice for non-Hodgkins lymphoma, in 2005 and in 2008.

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TOPICS: Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: arlenspecter; arlinspecter; snarlin
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Prayers up for the Specter family.
1 posted on 10/14/2012 3:05:08 PM PDT by RS_Rider
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To: RS_Rider

Frankly, my dear.....


2 posted on 10/14/2012 3:09:17 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: RS_Rider

A lifelong living person, he abruptly switched his affiliation to dead.


3 posted on 10/14/2012 3:10:13 PM PDT by ShasheMac
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To: RS_Rider

Bless him.


4 posted on 10/14/2012 3:10:20 PM PDT by goodtomato (I'm really, really blessed!)
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To: ShasheMac

He’ll still vote Democrat, though.


5 posted on 10/14/2012 3:11:02 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: RS_Rider

Ira Einhorn outlived him,apparently.
Just sayin....


6 posted on 10/14/2012 3:12:16 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: RS_Rider

Ira Einhorn outlived him,apparently.
Just sayin....


7 posted on 10/14/2012 3:12:21 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: RS_Rider

No comment.


8 posted on 10/14/2012 3:13:28 PM PDT by henkster (With Carter, the embassy staff was still alive.)
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To: RS_Rider

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I have always despised him. So shoot me.


9 posted on 10/14/2012 3:15:53 PM PDT by sauropod (Only two of God's creatures can employ the term "we": newspaper editors and men with tapeworms-Hayes)
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To: RS_Rider

I always heard that if you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything. With that thought in mind, I will remain silent.


10 posted on 10/14/2012 3:16:57 PM PDT by sport
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To: RS_Rider

Arlen Specter was a major proponent of the Warren Commission's single bullet theory

11 posted on 10/14/2012 3:17:39 PM PDT by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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To: henkster

x2


12 posted on 10/14/2012 3:18:00 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: ShasheMac

A lifelong living person, he abruptly switched his affiliation to dead.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Oh that is funny.

(I’m sorry, Lord,...)


13 posted on 10/14/2012 3:26:35 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: RS_Rider

As my granddaddy from southern Georgia used to say, “boy, that’s just another man dead.”


14 posted on 10/14/2012 3:29:46 PM PDT by Chuck N
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To: RS_Rider

Another thread if anyone is interested in the comments thereon:

AP: Sen Arlen Specter Has died
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2944680/posts


15 posted on 10/14/2012 3:29:55 PM PDT by deport
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To: RS_Rider

Thank you for defending Clarence Thomas.


16 posted on 10/14/2012 3:30:27 PM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: RS_Rider

Condolences to his family


17 posted on 10/14/2012 3:33:44 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Hopey changey low emission unicorns and a crap sandwich)
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The voters killed him by taking his Senate seat away from him.

They had no right to do that.

18 posted on 10/14/2012 3:38:08 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: sauropod

I was about to say those exact words.
He’s always been Arlen SPHINCTER in my book.


19 posted on 10/14/2012 3:53:09 PM PDT by Senormechanico
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To: RS_Rider
You only die twice! (On FR, anyway.)

Hey, 1000 newspapers will have stories about it, why not start a thread from each and every one!

20 posted on 10/14/2012 4:02:20 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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