Longtime Mississippi U.S. Senator Thad Cochran dies at 81

wlbt.com ^ | May 30, 2019 | Mary Grace Eppes

[Hieronymus]

I wouldn’t mind the gurney and sheet provided that it followed a short descent through a trap door, or a quick elevation towards a high tree branch.

My previous tag line was from G.K. Chesterton:
“It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged.” - The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21

[Hieronymus]

Their is nothing respectable or honorable about our current politicians. They don’t deserve statesmen status.

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There is an old Bloom County strip with a dialogue that went more or less like this:

Q. What is a statesman?
A. A dead politician
We need more statesmen.

[Yogafist]

Lol. Excellent.

[Grampa Dave]

If Truman were still alive and someone asked him about the difference between a politician and a statesman, he would recycle the famous definition he gave in a speech on April 11, 1958:

Speaking that day to the Reciprocity Club in Washington, D.C., the then-retired president said: “A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.”

[LeonardFMason]

He “died” about 4 years ago.

[cnsmom]

I love the little town of Oxford MS.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

[married21]

I love the little town of Oxford MS.

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Oh, it’s all right. Nice bookstore on the town square. But my heart is in Starkville! Hail State!

[deport]

Thanks just posting what if found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Cochran

[cnsmom]

I get you now but MS is a great state overall. I have wonderful memories as a Northerner.

[TMN78247]

May he REST IN PEACE, with Jesus.

Yours, TMN78247

[Deplorable American1776]

Another Reason to have Term Limits...

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

I thought he was already spending a year dead for tax purposes.

[married21]

MS is a great state overall. I have wonderful memories as a Northerner

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Ever since our daughter began college there, we have had interesting and worthwhile experiences there. I’m from California. If you had told me a few years ago that MS was going to be significant for our family, and that I was really going to enjoy my visits there, I would not have believed it. But that’s how it turned out.