Posted on 12/08/2016 12:26:19 PM PST by sodpoodle
Fox News just announcing.
If that wasn't the case, then the Founders would all be roundly castigated as imperial slave owners - which is actually true in certain circles.
The point being, do you believe Glen would be the Glen of his Senate voting record if he was currently serving today? Or would he have moderated his positions, given the new information and different viewpoints that have emerged since he retired?
By example, how many here @ FR were previously Bush supporters, who believed the GOP represented conservatives, who only reluctantly came to the conclusion that the uni-party was in cahoots with the MSM to control and direct the US for their own personal benefit?
10-15 years ago you'd be banned for supporting Trump. Now, he's the standard bearer. Times change, people change.
Rest in peace good sir.
RIP John Glen
RIP, COL Glenn.
Rot in the ground, Sen. Glenn.
I did not explain.
I was going for the "rule" that these deaths come in threes, in a short period.
In this case, less than a month separates.
His time in the Senate poised my goodwill for him but I still wish him well. RIP.
They look like the stars of some tough guy Hollywood movie in that picture (Richard Widmark gangster types). Ready to kick some Soviet a**!
RIP. Politics isn’t important now.
True, but irrelevant.
JOHN GLENN WAS MY SENATOR DURING THE 1980s.
I judged his political positions, supporting abortion and socialism, opposing strategic defense and ballistic missile modernization, in the 1980s by the standards of the 1980s. The 1980s are not something I read about in a history book or saw in a youtube video. I lived the 1980s. In Ohio. Which John Glenn misrepresented in the United States Senate. I voted against him. Twice. It is of no import to speculate as to how he would vote in the Senate today. How he conducted himself in the Senate in the 1980s and 1990s is a matter of public record. It happened. We have to deal with reality. His Senate voting record, in all its horror, is as much a part of his legacy as his heroic conduct in the Marine Corps and NASA. Ignore them both, or deal with them both.
I remember a joke Imus made about him in the 90’s when he went up. Something like ...How can you tell that John Glenn is the oldest man to ever orbit the the earth? Because he still has his left blinker on. Thought it was funny. RIP Sir.
RIP Sir,
Don’t give the Corporal of the Guard at the gate too much crap.
Semper Fi.
Light the candle . . .
I need to watch “The Right Stuff” again. What a GREAT movie.
John and NASA were larger than life to a boy in the midwest those many years ago . . .
Recently re read the right stuff. We’ve fallen a long way from those can do days.
I’ll revisit his former exploits to my sons but I cannot overlook his later political career. It was disappointing
John Glenn and his shot up F-86 in Korea.
At 95 years old, I’d say he had a nice ride.
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