APNews Alert Tom Lantos Dead

AP ^ | 2/11/2008

[racing fan]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress, died early Monday morning, his spokeswoman said.

[Red Badger]

Man, those people at WIKI are fast!.............

[pissant]

RIP, Mr. Lantos

[joeystoy]

Yes, disagreed on just about everything.

Thoughts and prayers to his family.

He was the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the House of Representatives.

[Red Badger]

What is that?......

[basil]

Are you sure it was Craig Livingstone (by the way, who hired Craig Livingstone--LOL!)

I was thinking it was some military officer he made the comment about.

[reagan_fanatic]

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[BallyBill]

He was a very brave man. I could never even begin to understand how much I’d be different if I walked in his shoes.

[Red Badger]

The comment was in Lantos referring to the recently deceased Admiral Mike Boorda, who had committed suicide after being reported to have worn military ribbons to which he was not supposedly entitled. Lantos was implying that Admiral Boorda had taken an honorable way out and maybe Livingstone should think about it................

[horse_doc]

Odd that he should die just a few days before Kosovo blows up again.

He was a major player in helping set up that Islamic narco-terrorist state, IIRC.

[bubbacluck]

Are you sure it was Craig Livingstone (by the way, who hired Craig Livingstone--LOL!) I was thinking it was some military officer he made the comment about.

Admiral Boorda had committed suicide.

[kittymyrib]

Who did Lantos encourage to commit suicide “like Col. Borda” during a Congressional hearing? Rush did his accent perfectly as he delivered that infamous line.

[CondorFlight]

Lantos might have wallowed in self-pity and victimhood after the war ended; instead, he spent the next 60 years trying to make a contribution.

We didn’t always agree, but I considered him an honorable member of the opposition.

[forkinsocket]

Peace be upon him.

[kittymyrib]

I stand corrected. It was “Admiral Boorda.”

[Darnright]

May he find the truth and subsequently peace in the afterlife.

[basil]

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I knew it had something to do with a military officer, just couldn't quite remember what it was.

Now, correct me again if I'm wrong, but wasn't Lantos the only avowed Communist in Congress?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

RIP.

He was the one who confronted that nutty Code Pink peace activist who approached Condoleeza Rice with her “bloody” hands.

[Red Badger]

Now notice how FReepers react at the death of a Democrat whom we disagree with. Compare this with the DUmmies. If Lantos were a (R) they’d be chanting and celebrating..........

[Red Badger]

Bernie Sanders, formerly Representative, now Senator from New Hampshire........Socialist.....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

When he joined in the Patraeus smear, I lost all respect for the man. Let him be buried in ignominy.