Posted on 12/17/2012 3:07:18 PM PST by Perdogg
I salute him for his military service. May his family be comforted.
RIP and thank-you for your service to the country.
If only he had been covered under Obamacare!
Have nothing against Inouye in particular, but when 88 year-old Senators are dying in office (after having won re-election 2 years earlier), what does it say about politics in Hawaii, or the USA for that matter?
Any idea of which Democrat Neil Abercrombie will appoint to serve in the US Senate for the next 50 years?
Amen to that! No matter how ill or incompetent they are, most politicians are pretty much guaranteed to stay in office for life. What about that one senator from S. Dakota who had the stroke? Has he recovered, or are other people voting for him? And, of course, there was Sen. Byrd who was obviously too ill to perform his duties, but nothing was done to remove him from office. We don’t have elected officials; we have royalty.
Medal of Honor recipient, a True American hero, not like some who are anointed by the media.
“Have nothing against Inouye in particular, but when 88 year-old Senators are dying in office (after having won re-election 2 years earlier), what does it say about politics in Hawaii, or the USA for that matter?”
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As an 80 year old I’m curious. What does it say?
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Some Jewish people were helpful to him early on in life. So later on as a Senator he slipped in some million dollar appropriations to help build some Jewish and Hasidic schools
Robert Bird
Storm Thurmond was reelected at age 95 or 96.
Geez, lots of new senators gone right after an election, DeMint, Kerry, Inouye.
Diane Feinstein will be 86 when her current term is up.
I salute him and his congressional Medal of Honor . Despite political differences he was a great servant to his country.
He was a true hero. When he had his arm blown off, he was in the process of throwing a grenade; despite the horrific injury, he picked up the grenade with his left hand and proceeded to throw it and destroyed a German bunker. This was after he was shot in the stomach.
Agreed....but who’s fault is that?? How about the idiots that send these guys back for 50 years? Thank you NJ for miserable Frank Lousyberg.
He was a WWII vet but he was a bastard during the Iran Contra hearings. The look of vitriol on his face when Brendan Sullivan interrupted his tirade comparing North, etc. to the Nazi just following orders! He didn’t like that at all!
Any idea of which Democrat Neil Abercrombie will appoint to serve in the US Senate for the next 50 years?
With our luck it will be an Indonesian immigrant.
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