[Carry_Okie]

Absolutely nobody should be in office this long.

Jesse Helms.

[headstamp 2]

Don’t care. Let’em stand down for a few cycles and get back into the game.

[Vigilanteman]

Jesse Helms did not win office until four years after Obey. He retired in 2003. Of all the people in history who have warmed a U.S. Senate seat, Helms is the only one I can think of who actually got better with age.

He is second in line after Ronald Reagan of American elected officials we should thank from that era for preserving this nation this long.