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Dale Bumpers, Liberal Stalwart of Arkansas Politics, Dies at 90
The New York Times ^ | January 2, 2016 | Adam Clymer

Posted on 01/02/2016 4:14:56 PM PST by EveningStar

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1 posted on 01/02/2016 4:14:56 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Time to update the Body Count?


2 posted on 01/02/2016 4:15:53 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: EveningStar
"Liberal Stalwart of Arkansas Politics"

"Mr. Bumpers was part of a generation of moderate Southern Democrats, among them President Jimmy Carter"

These guys can't make up their minds.

3 posted on 01/02/2016 4:17:34 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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I know. Moderate, my ass!


4 posted on 01/02/2016 4:21:00 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Theodore R.; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; Galactic Overlord-In-Chief; BillyBoy

One of Bubba’s big enablers bought the farm.


5 posted on 01/02/2016 4:26:21 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: EveningStar

But he is remembered more for what he did in the twilight of his career.


Protecting a lying, drug-addled rapist.


6 posted on 01/02/2016 4:27:36 PM PST by OwenKellogg (CRUZ to Victory! Donate at tedcruz.org. The Trump Tsunami does not need your money.)
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To: EveningStar

No comment.


7 posted on 01/02/2016 4:29:45 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: EveningStar
He allowed that the affair was indefensible, outrageous, unforgivable, shameless, and that Mr. Clinton had not been forthcoming about it. But lying under oath about sex was not cause for impeachment, much less a conviction, he said: It was not a breach of the public trust, not a crime against society.

The hell it wasn't!

8 posted on 01/02/2016 4:31:46 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: EveningStar

Wrong Arkansas Liberal!


9 posted on 01/02/2016 4:35:48 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: EveningStar

The New York Times could not report on today’s weather without throwing in some bias.


10 posted on 01/02/2016 4:35:56 PM PST by TYVets
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To: EveningStar

NYT needs an editor:

“Mr. Bumpers was part of a generation of moderate Southern Democrats, among them President Jimmy Carter”

should read:

“Mr. Bumpers was part of a generation of leftist Southern Democrats, among them President Jimmy Carter”


11 posted on 01/02/2016 4:39:36 PM PST by PAR35
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Let’s look at this one:

“he guided his native Charleston, Ark., to become the first community of the former Confederacy to integrate its public schools.”

Per ‘Great Schools’ Charleston Ark. High School is 95% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% two or more races, and 0% Black. I expect when he did his accomplishment, there weren’t that many Hispanics. http://www.greatschools.org/arkansas/charleston/268-Charleston-High-School/

If the rest of the “former Confederacy” had been 0% Black, integration would not have been a big deal anywhere.

Typical Democrat Politician.


12 posted on 01/02/2016 4:47:41 PM PST by PAR35
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Carter ran an infamous race-baiting campaign for Governor in 1970 against ex-Gov. Carl Sanders, accusing him of the egregious crime of shaking hands with Black sports players. Bumpers had the nerve to co-opt the agenda of GOP Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller and take credit for his racial politics. Both are/were creeps and phonies.


13 posted on 01/02/2016 4:48:11 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: PAR35

Hysterical. The whole Democrat operation until the 1960s/70s was keeping the jackboot planted firmly on the neck of the Negro. When Whites abandoned the party for the GOP, they changed it to attacking Republicans as being racists while still keeping the jackboot planted firmly on the neck of Blacks. Some things never change.


14 posted on 01/02/2016 4:51:50 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: EveningStar

May he roast.


15 posted on 01/02/2016 4:51:57 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Clowns.

RIP...I guess.


16 posted on 01/02/2016 5:17:10 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

And check the byline—ADAM CLYMER . . . long time Freepers will remember the catch phrase “He’s a real Clymer” (after an open mic captured an exchange between Cheney and Dubya concerning their mutual opinion of Clymer. LOL


17 posted on 01/02/2016 5:20:04 PM PST by Charlemagne on the Fox
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To: Charlemagne on the Fox

Good catch.


18 posted on 01/02/2016 5:22:14 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: exit82
But lying under oath about sex was not cause for impeachment, much less a conviction, he said: It was not a breach of the public trust, not a crime against society.

Paula Jones' suit regarding workplace sexual harassment was a crime against society. The issue of whether Bill Clinton had and continued to engage in workplace affairs was of relevance. His lying and enabling wife denied it had ever happened in their lives.

19 posted on 01/02/2016 5:29:14 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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To: EveningStar

When my daughter graduated from the U of Arkansas, he was a guest speaker. When he walked up the isle I was tempted to put my leg out and trip him and watch him fall on his face.

Then he gave his speech. This was not long after the Columbine shootings and he gave one of the most Down speeches I ever heard.

One of the students graduating with my daughter said, about Bumpers’ speech. “Well I guess we all should just go out and kill ourselves!”


20 posted on 01/02/2016 5:29:49 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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