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Former DC Mayor Marion Barry dies at 78
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| 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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To: TwelveOfTwenty
God may forgive, I don’t.
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posted on
11/23/2014 1:28:49 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: beandog
On the plus side for society, the degenerate can no longer personally play the race card.
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posted on
11/23/2014 1:54:31 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: TwelveOfTwenty
The difference between me and God, is that God forgives.
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posted on
11/23/2014 1:56:31 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
To: Vaquero
78? Pretty good run for a crackhead.
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posted on
11/23/2014 1:57:13 PM PST
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Lazamataz
(Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
To: sphinx
I will go out on a limb and speculate that I am the only freeper who has ever been hugged by Marion Barry.Nope. Me too.
Actually, it was I who hugged him. We were smoking crack, he got too big a hit and choked on the crack pipe, and I had to give him the Heimlich Maneuver to get him resuscitated...
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posted on
11/23/2014 2:00:23 PM PST
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Lazamataz
(Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
To: Lazamataz
Careful there. I’m prepared to believe that is true.
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posted on
11/23/2014 3:59:54 PM PST
by
sphinx
To: sphinx
Well it is true. I, in my alternate personality of Monique, am the black lady in that grainy video.
Don't judge me because I'm transgendered!
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posted on
11/23/2014 4:03:55 PM PST
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Lazamataz
(Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
To: Lazamataz
Wait a minute...Didn’t you also say that Bill Cosby drugged and raped you?
I smell a rat.
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11/23/2014 4:06:11 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Hey, can I help it if I am the Forest Gump of the Sex Scandal world?
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11/23/2014 4:11:19 PM PST
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Lazamataz
(Proudly Deciding Female Criminal Guilt By How Hot They Are Since 1999 !)
To: TwelveOfTwenty
They will be judged, yes. But he made the choices that guided his life.
I have too much respect for the Tom Sowells and the Clarence Thomases of the world to give him a pass because of the tint of his skin.
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posted on
11/23/2014 7:03:46 PM PST
by
gogeo
(If you are Tea Party, the Republican Party does not want you.)
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