I wasn’t sure if the actress Rue McClanahan was alive or dead so I checked a Wikipedia entry which led me to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_McClanahan
[1] In a July 2008 interview, she weighed in on the 2008 Presidential campaigns. Regarding Barack Obama, she said:
This is the damnedest election I’ve ever lived through, and Obama is the most amazing candidate I’ve ever bumped into. The man has unshakable integrity. He’s the nearest thing to Lincoln we’ve seen.
Rue McClanahan spent too many years hanging around Bea (”Maude”) Arthur, who was Ed Assner in a skirt. It addled her brain, if she ever had one.