Posted on 03/26/2011 9:12:56 AM PDT by library user
Gerry Ferraro dead at 75, per statement from her family.
This is no picnic to be sure. My mother died of this in 1985 when there was no treatment for it. She was diagnosed with it in May and died in August. Went from 160 pounds to 60 pounds at death. I had known about it for a long time and thought she was doing relatively well. As I understand it, they can treat this with Thalidomide and other meds today.
I respected her because she tried, as best I could determine, to tell the truth as she saw it. The fact she was on Fox says much about her. She fought the good fight and she is to be commended. RIP.
Damn, everybody who’s somebody seems to be dying. Pretty soon only somebodys who are nobody will be left!
She was a strong, beautiful, accomplished woman. Nothing intimidated her. She handled everything with such grace. Prayers for her family.
Check out Life In Legacy
Interesting website.
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Hello OhioWFan. Always good to see you. Geraldine had been fighting this fight for ten years.
I would echo many of the comments here. I did not agree with any of her politics, but I still extend condolences to her family.
May she rest in peace.
Yup they would be dancing in the streets buncha sickos
(ohio). Your Mom entered Heaven on Good Friday holding Jesus’ hand.
It’s been 13 months since my Mom passed....sometimes it seems like yesterday and sometimes it seems like I haven’t seen her in eons. My Mom was devoted to Jesus so I am happy for her that she is with HIM and I no longer worry about her. But, like you, it hurts...terribly. I miss her every minute of every day.
I try to remember, however, that GOD blessed us by lending us wonderful Moms.
jmacusa, my condolences to you on the loss of your Mom.
I understand and share your sentiments. There’s a saying that time heals ....that surely doesn’t hold true when we lose our Moms. Time doesn’t heal the void in your life or the hole in your heart that occurs when you lose your Mom. Prayer helps.
I really disliked her when she ran for VP, but she seemed to have mellowed in recent years.
I don't think there is any reason for people to pretend that they are really bothered by the death of someone they didn't know personally, and who only affected that persons life with their horrible politics. The fact is people only truly mourn the death of friends and family and there's nothing wrong with that. That's how we are suppose to be. If we truly mourned everyone who died we wouldn't be able to function.
Why pretend to mourn the death of someone who you only knew through her liberal politics? A lot of other people died in the last few days who you never even heard of, and many of them didn't hold ideologies, or have influence, that hurt our nation and human life. Honestly I'm not glad she is dead, but I also don't care much and that's basically what most here feel regardless of what they say. Wars are fought over politics so it's a little foolish to pretend a person was something they weren't just because they died. People suddenly seem to have gotten a better opinion of her just because died. If she was alive and we were talking about her now I have a feeling many of those same people would have some pretty harsh things to say about her. We will all die someday, and we won't be any better or worse than we were when we were alive when that time comes.
It’s not just their view on the government. I don’t compartmentalize people to just their views on specific areas.
How about her morals? How about her guiding philosophies and her worldview? this is the foundation behind how she thinks government ought to run, as well as all the rest of the things she believes.
And we’re not talking about another one of your peers. We are talking about someone seeking a rather large position of power and control over the rest of us.
I know she was a pro-abort. That right there tells me she was not a decent person. Not if you can hold that view, the view that’s killed over 50 million US babies alone the last 38 years.
Which is why I find the comments of many anti-abortion people here hypocritical in their praise of a woman who advocated the right to slaughter the most Innocent of human life. It’s just dumb to make a light hearted comment about how you disagreed with her, but she was a good person. First off these people didn’t know her personally. They might as well be saying “I didn’t agree with her when it came to slaughtering babies, or on most other matters, but she was a good woman with a good sense of humorâ€. Saying stupid stuff like that doesn’t make you a better person, and it doesn’t make you look like a better person. It makes you look like someone who thinks they are better and more moral than others while being completely ignorant of what they are actually saying.
That’s kind of why I used the word “compartmentalizing”. You have to do that if you’re a conservative that somehow believes someone like Ferraro is a good person, given her worldview.
I think by saying she’s a good person it diminishes people who really were good people. You start lumping in bad people with good people and saying there all pretty much the same.
Not good.
I couldn’t stand her at the peak of her political career in the eighties. She just followed the Dem script and repeated the talking points, adding nothing original. I heard her couple of years ago for the first time in yeats and was surprised she was repeating the latest Dem talking points. I expected to see her show up as an adiviser to 0.
I think you should be talking to someone else.
RIP.
You said share more information. I did. She was a pro-abortion person, and you called her a decent person.
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