To the calm, Mother Earth's
Waiting breast;
Duty done, Like the sun:
Going West.
Posted on 05/23/2006 9:53:31 AM PDT by Perdogg
Former Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who as the Democrats' vice presidential nominee in 1988 famously told rival Dan Quayle he was "no Jack Kennedy," died Tuesday. He was 85.
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RIP. He was about 90 when he was a VP candidate.
Good riddance to some very bad rubbish...
He was a sorry sack of $HIT regardless. Oh yes, he was a war hero just like John Kerry.
Can you imagine being remembered for your role as second fiddle to Michael Dukakis?
I won't go as far as rejoicing the man's death, but he certainly distinguished himself as a cheap-shot artist with his comment to VP Quayle.
He looked it.
I know living people. Living people are friends of mine. Senator, you're no living person.
He'd be considered a flag waving patriot compared to the rabble called democrats in the Senate today.
Two words come to mind: Grandfather Clock.
John Kerry wasn't worthy to shine Bentsen's shoes. And Lloyd didn't go around saying "Did you know I served in WWII?". Heres a little bio on Lloyd, the guy did his duty:
When America entered World War II, he enlisted in the U.S. Army. After brief service as a private in intelligence work in Brazil, he became a pilot and in early 1944 began flying combat missions in B-24s from southern Italy with the 449th Bomb Group. At age 23 he was promoted to the rank of Major and given command of a squadron of 600 men.
In 18 months of combat, Bentsen flew 35 dangerous missions against many difficult, remote and highly defended targets such as the Ploesti oil fields in Romania, which were critical to the Nazi's war strategy. The 15th Air Force, to which the 449th was attached, is credited with destroying all of the peroleum production within its range, which equated to about half of Germany's sources of fuel on the continent. Major Bentsen's unit also flew against communications centers, aircraft factories and industrial targets in Germany, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Bentsen participated in bombing raids in support of the Anzio campaign and flew bombers against hard targets in preparation for the landing in southern France.
Bentsen was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, one of the Army Air Corps' and now the Air Force's highest commendations for valor in combat. In addition to the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bentsen was awarded the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. The Air Medal and each individual cluster represent specific campaigns for which he was decorated. Before completing his military service, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the Air Force Reserve.
We are the same people who were "astonished", "disgusted" AND "appalled" at the DemoCRAPS trashing the death of President Reagan. Yet, here we are doing the same thing. Let's not act like them. We are classier than them.
I think it would be useful to show some tact and follow the rule of "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all.
RIP Lloyd Bentsen
And he ended Texas Liberal Ralph Yarbrough's political career, for that we should all be eternally grateful.
He was in on money operations to do with that.
Lloyd Bentsen flew 50 Bombing Missions over Europe during WWII. How many did you fly in the war?
LOL! Now you know how John Edwards feels..
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