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Former Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen Dies
Forbes ^ | 05.23.2006, 12:17 PM | WENDY BENJAMINSON ,

Posted on 05/23/2006 9:53:31 AM PDT by Perdogg

Former Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who as the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 1988 famously told rival Dan Quayle he was "no Jack Kennedy," died Tuesday. He was 85.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andyouarenolbj; deadlib; goodriddance; lloydbentsen; obituary; threepeat
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To: dfwgator

Not exactly a 3 faked Purple hearts and out kind of guy. John Kerry is no Lloyd Bensten.


21 posted on 05/23/2006 10:07:36 AM PDT by mad puppy ( The Southern border is THE issue)
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To: Perdogg

22 posted on 05/23/2006 10:13:10 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: returnofthemack
You are correct, but we are "classier than they are" is grammatically correct (not classier than "them").

If we are going to be classy, let's include correct grammar, too.

23 posted on 05/23/2006 10:16:56 AM PDT by mwl1
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To: SlowBoat407

Ironically enough, he apologized afterward to Quayle, but that part was never really reported. (I think I read that either in Quayle's book or in one conservative newspaper account. I can't really remember the source.)


24 posted on 05/23/2006 10:17:00 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Without spoilers, do you think (blabberblabber) killed (mumblemumble) or not?)
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To: Perdogg

The only thing I remember about this "person" is that he stayed Secy of Treasury just long enough to bail his son Lan Bentsen out of trouble during the S&L crisis, since the agency that Lan was working with to bail himself out was directly under the direction and supervision by Daddy.


25 posted on 05/23/2006 10:17:18 AM PDT by lilylangtree
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To: wmileo

He was a Major who flew 200 bombing runs in WW2.


26 posted on 05/23/2006 10:19:02 AM PDT by conserv13
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27 posted on 05/23/2006 10:19:09 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Meep Meep)
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To: wmileo
Oh yes, he was a war hero just like John Kerry.

No, not just like him. Bentsen actually was something of a war hero. And he didn't bring it up every five seconds. Even folks like Rep. Charles Rangel (Dipsh-NY) falls into that category for the same reason more than Kerry does. You have to give them credit and respect earned for that.

Have your differences with the other things.

TS

28 posted on 05/23/2006 10:20:02 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Without spoilers, do you think (blabberblabber) killed (mumblemumble) or not?)
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To: sionnsar

Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? ...


29 posted on 05/23/2006 10:20:30 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Perdogg

May his family find peace.

However, I find it curious that a "former Senator" warrants so much media attention.


30 posted on 05/23/2006 10:24:32 AM PDT by MortMan (Trains stop at train stations. On my desk is a workstation...)
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To: Perdogg

S.W.T.F.I.P.


31 posted on 05/23/2006 10:27:34 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Perdogg

His "I knew JFK, and you're no JFK" comment to Quayle was the height of rudeness, and I only wish Quayle had been quick enought to slap it right back at him. But he didn't see it coming because he mistakenly thought he was dealing with a gentleman. If it had been the other way around - Quayle zinging Benstsen - the press would have jumped all over Quayle.


32 posted on 05/23/2006 10:30:15 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: ErnBatavia

The lettering is uneven on the side of that police car. If you're going to rip the grammar police at least use fonts and lettering properly. /s


33 posted on 05/23/2006 10:31:31 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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To: H. Paul Pressler IV
"Lloyd Bentsen flew 50 Bombing Missions over Europe during WWII. How many did you fly in the war?"

And between then and the Quayle debate, he turned into an a**hole. You're supposed to get better with age, not worse.
34 posted on 05/23/2006 10:32:26 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Perdogg
He'll always be LORD Bensten to me.
35 posted on 05/23/2006 10:35:53 AM PDT by D-Chivas
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To: conserv13
He was a Major who flew 200 bombing runs in WW2.

Whoever could survive 200 bombing runs in WW2 should have moved to Las Vegas because that would have made him the luckiest man alive at the time!

36 posted on 05/23/2006 10:36:04 AM PDT by Smittie
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To: Buffalo Bob; Admin Moderator

No matter how much we don't like this guy, we ought never rejoice in another man's passing.

We aren't members of the death cult.


37 posted on 05/23/2006 10:38:19 AM PDT by Constantine XIII
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To: Perdogg

Like John Glenn: a big, solid soldier and a good man who shrank annually once he became a Senator.


38 posted on 05/23/2006 10:40:25 AM PDT by pogo101
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To: H. Paul Pressler IV

Ex-Senator Bentsen was a real warrior in WWII, but he was also known as "hands-out" Lloyd, in that his hands were always out to take $$$ from folks. Back in those days it was qite common for a Senator or Congressman to take cash from anyone who offered it. We are still paying for that graft and corrupton gifted to us by folks like Sen. Bentsen.As far as I'm concerned, he sold his soul for a few bucks, and now he will finally meet up with the real "Paymaster".


39 posted on 05/23/2006 10:46:54 AM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: GunnyHartman
His comment: "You're no Jack Kennedy" should have been responded to by Quale with: "You're right Senator, I never he-whored around on my wife like JFK did."

I know he was a commie, but I really liked Eugene McCarthy's comment about why he should be the democrat nominee in 1960.

"I'm more liberal than Hubert Humphrey and more Catholic than John Kennedy."

40 posted on 05/23/2006 10:52:50 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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