[smittyhere]

I may be missing something here but we are talking about a man that says making an issue of a politician raping a 17 year old girl as being overblown. Sorry the man is a scumbag and died of the AIDS scumbag disease. Anyone who make excuses for rapists is not a 'GOOD MAN', sorry.

[LibFreeOrDie]

"...a politician raping a 17 year old girl..."

Actually, the page was a he, not a she. Gerry Studds, like that other Mass. rep, Bawney Fwank, is gay.

http://www.365gay.com/lifestylechannel/intime/months/07-july/Studds.htm

[Reaganesque]

It is painfully clear that David made some seriously bad decisions in his life. Decisions that ultimately cost him his life. He himself admitted as much. His passing, then, is a tragedy and an all too familiar one. But it does not negate the good that he did in his life. He had a very positive impact on my life and on the lives of those who listened to him and in my book, that makes him great. I'm sorry you can't see that.