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Former DC Mayor Marion Barry dies at 78
AP/Yahoo ^
| 11-23-14
| BEN NUCKOLS
Posted on 11/23/2014 5:29:54 AM PST by Vaquero
WASHINGTON (AP) Divisive and flamboyant, maddening and beloved, Marion Barry outshone every politician in the 40-year history of District of Columbia self-rule. But for many, his legacy was not defined by the accomplishments and failures of his four terms as mayor and long service on the D.C. Council.
Instead, Barry will be remembered for a single night in a downtown Washington hotel room and the grainy video that showed him lighting a crack pipe in the company of a much-younger woman. When FBI agents burst in, he referred to her with an expletive. She "set me up," Barry said.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2; 2014obituaries; barry; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; democratswaronwomen; marionmbarry; nowmia; obituary; wellbye
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the typical Dhimmicrat, author of "the Byotch framed me"...has passed on to the big free base coke den in the sky.....
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:29:54 AM PST
by
Vaquero
To: Vaquero
Smoking the big crack pipe in the sky...okay, maybe not.
To: Vaquero
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:34:03 AM PST
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Spktyr
He will be missed, .... by maybe a couple of hundred “folks”.
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:38:08 AM PST
by
Lockbar
(What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
To: Vaquero
She "set me up," Barry said. To be precise he said "the b*tch set me up".
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:38:21 AM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
(Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
To: Vaquero
Sad, he was a great Democrat :-)
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:40:16 AM PST
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Vaquero
Oh, just PUKE!
What a pile of excrement. Barry was just your typical Democrat, thoroughly corrupt to the core.
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:40:39 AM PST
by
fwdude
(The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
To: Lockbar
He will be missed, .... by maybe a couple of hundred folks.
Most of them drug dealers.
To: Vaquero
Wow, talk about spin. One bad night? That was the pinnacle of his life. He worked hard at failing.
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:41:55 AM PST
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: bigbob
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:43:05 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Science wants to kill us.)
To: Vaquero
And he was re-elected, IIRC.
To: Vaquero
I wonder how the whole “B*tch set me up” thing went over with St. Pete?
To: Vaquero; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
His body will be cremated and then smoked as little rocks...
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:51:09 AM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
To: vladimir998
Can see his tombstone now... “Bitch Set Me Up”
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:51:22 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Vaquero
re: Former DC Mayor Marion Barry dies at 78
Cool. Nother one ten toes up
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:51:46 AM PST
by
Tupelo
(I am feeling more like Phillip Nolan by the day.)
To: bigbob
He tried to rid the streets of DC f crack.....one rock at a time.
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posted on
11/23/2014 5:52:11 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Vaquero
All his friends will inhale his ashes.
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posted on
11/23/2014 6:08:21 AM PST
by
alstewartfan
(A bear won't treat you so You're satisfied to know When he chews you up he still respects you! Al S.)
To: Vaquero
We here note, without remorse, the passing of a legalized thug.
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posted on
11/23/2014 6:10:16 AM PST
by
Old Sarge
(TINVOWOOT: There Is No Voting Our Way Out Of This)
To: Puppage
The guy was a bum...a racist pandering bum. Because of his wanderings he referred to him self as a “nite owl”. He also was found to often stop for hours at a woman’s house during the day and said he stopped there to “change his shirt” because it was so humid. When he got out of prison his supporters greeted him there and bus-convoyed him back to WDC in some bizarre sort of victory parade. He was then elected to councilman-at-large until his death. Many in the WDC community worshipped the ground he walked-on...except for that bitch that set him up. He was quite an arrogant, race-card-playing degenerate. Buh bye.
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posted on
11/23/2014 6:11:09 AM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: Puppage
He tried to rid the streets of DC f crack.....one rock at a time
An angry Rob Ford.
Joke was his reelection slogan was, “He'll take drugs off the street.”
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posted on
11/23/2014 6:12:50 AM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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