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Title: Longtime American traitor Arlen Spector is Dead. Let us Rejoice!
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/longtime-gop- ... -dies-165919376--politics.html
Published: Oct 14, 2012
Author: PETER JACKSON
Post Date: 2012-10-14 14:55:46 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, died Sunday. He was 82.
Specter, who announced in late August that he was battling cancer, died at his home in Philadelphia from complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, said his son Shanin. Over the years, Arlen Specter had fought two previous bouts with Hodgkin lymphoma, overcome a brain tumor and survived cardiac arrest following bypass surgery.
Specter rose to prominence in the 1960s as an aggressive Philadelphia prosecutor and as an assistant counsel to the Warren Commission, developing the single-bullet theory that posited just one bullet struck both President Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally an assumption critical to the argument that presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The theory remains controversial and was the focus of Oliver Stone's 1991 movie "JFK."
In 1987, Specter helped thwart the Supreme Court nomination of former federal appeals Judge Robert H. Bork earning him conservative enemies who still bitterly refer to such rejections as being "borked."
But four years later, Specter was criticized by liberals for his tough questioning of Anita Hill at Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings and for accusing her of committing "flat-out perjury." The nationally televised interrogation incensed women's groups and nearly cost him his seat in 1992.
Specter was Pennsylvania's longest-serving senator when Democrats picked then-U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak over him in the 2010 primary, despite Specter's endorsements by President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders. Sestak lost Specter's seat to conservative Republican Rep. Pat Toomey by 2 percentage points.
A political moderate, Specter was swept into the Senate in the Reagan landslide of 1980.
He took credit for helping to defeat President Clinton's national health care plan the complexities of which he highlighted in a gigantic chart that hung on his office wall for years afterward and helped lead the investigation into Gulf War syndrome, the name given to a collection of symptoms experienced by veterans of the war that include fatigue, memory loss, pain and difficulty sleeping. Following the Iran-Contra scandal, he pushed legislation that created the inspectors general of the CIA.
As a senior member of the powerful Appropriations Committee, Specter pushed for increased funding for stem-cell research, breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease, and supported several labor-backed initiatives in a GOP-led Congress. He also doggedly sought federal funds for local projects in his home state.
Specter was not shy about bucking fellow Republicans.
In 1995, he launched a presidential bid, denouncing religious conservatives as the "fringe" that plays too large a role in setting the party's agenda. Specter, who was Jewish, bowed out before the first primary because of lackluster fundraising.
Despite his tireless campaigning, Specter's irascible independence caught up with him in 2004. Specter barely survived a GOP primary challenge by Toomey by 17,000 votes of more than 1.4 million cast. He went on to easily win the general election with the help of organized labor, a traditionally Democratic constituency.
Specter startled fellow senators in April 2009 when he announced he was switching to the Democratic side, saying he found himself "increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy." Earlier in the year, he had been one of only three Republicans in Congress and the only one facing re-election in 2010 who voted for President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill.
He also said he had concluded that his chance of defeating a GOP challenger in the 2010 party primary was bleak. But he said the Democrats couldn't count on him to be "an automatic 60th vote" to give the party a filibuster-proof majority.
Specter outspent Sestak, a retired Navy vice admiral, but Sestak attacked him as a political opportunist who switched parties to save his job. A memorable campaign ad used Specter's own words against him: "My change in party will enable me to be re-elected."
Specter was diagnosed in 2005 with stage IV Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. Announcing the diagnosis with his trademark doggedness, Specter said: "I have beaten a brain tumor, bypass heart surgery and many tough political opponents and I'm going to beat this, too."
"Arlen Specter was always a fighter," Obama said in a statement Sunday. "From his days stamping out corruption as a prosecutor in Philadelphia to his three decades of service in the Senate, Arlen was fiercely independent never putting party or ideology ahead of the people he was chosen to serve. He brought that same toughness and determination to his personal struggles."
He wrote of his struggle in a 2008 book, "Never Give In: Battling Cancer in the Senate," saying he wanted to let others facing similar crises "ought to know they are not alone."
Cancer handed him "a stark look at mortality" and an "added sense of humility," Specter told The Associated Press.
Intellectual and stubborn, Specter played squash nearly every day into his mid-70s and liked to unwind with a martini or two at night. He took the lead on a wide spectrum of issues and was no stranger to controversy.
Born in Wichita, Kan., on Feb. 12, 1930, Specter spent summers toiling in his father's junkyard in Russell, Kan., where he knew another future senator Bob Dole. The junkyard thrived during World War II, allowing Specter's father to send his four children to college.
Specter left Kansas for college in 1947 because the University of Kansas, where his best friends were headed, did not have Jewish fraternities. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 and Yale law school in 1956. He served in the Air Force from 1951 to 1953.
Friends say his childhood circumstances made him determined, tough and independent-minded. Specter considered his father's triumphs the embodiment of the American dream, a fulfillment that friends say drove him to a career in public life.
He entered politics as a Democrat in Philadelphia in the early 1960s, when he was an assistant district attorney who sent six Teamsters officials to jail for union corruption.
After working on the Warren Commission, he returned to Philadelphia and challenged his boss, James Crumlish, for district attorney in 1965. Specter ran as a Republican and was derided by Crumlish as "Benedict Arlen." But Crumlish lost to his protege by 36,000 votes.
It was to be the last time until 1980 that Specter would win an election to higher office, despite three attempts a 1967 bid for Philadelphia mayor, a 1976 loss to John Heinz for Senate and a 1978 defeat by Dick Thornburgh for governor.
Specter lost re-election as district attorney in 1973 and went into private practice. Among his most notorious clients as a private attorney was Ira Einhorn, a Philadelphia counterculture celebrity who killed his girlfriend in 1977.
Finally, in 1980, Specter won the Senate seat vacated by retiring Republican Richard Schweiker, defeating former Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty.
After leaving the Senate in January 2011, the University of Pennsylvania Law School announced Specter would teach a course about Congress' relationship with the Supreme Court, and Maryland Public Television launched a political-affairs show hosted by the former senator.
A funeral was scheduled for Tuesday in Penn Valley, Pa., and will be open to the public, followed by burial in Huntingdon Valley, Pa.
He is survived by his wife, Joan, and two sons, Shanin and Steve, and four granddaughters.
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#1. To: Christine (#0)
Christine I completely hosed up the title. It should read Longtime instead of Logtiome. Could you please fix it for me?
Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn't come over and break your window - unknown I WITHDRAW MY CONSENT! Centrist????????? Jew communist, boot licking liberal, leftwing dung. He NEVER represented PA. ever. Good riddance. Jethro has his buddy Grim Reaper out and about.
It's considered bad form to rejoice over the death of anyone, but this is a close as it gets. To see these puppet masters die peacefully in their beds surrounded by their loved ones after the way they've hosed the nation, trashed the Constitution, and sent men off to die on their many murderous errands just leaves a man in a black mood. It makes ya wonder: Whar's justice? "LBJ! McNamara! Kennedy! Hey, we're all in Heaven together!...this is Heaven, isn't it?"
Women’s liberation is freedom from the authority of men. Men’s liberation is the freedom from responsibility to women.
Any perceived compliance with unconstitutional “laws” or orders put forth by government employees is NOT recognition of their authority; it is simply the result of carefully calculated submission to an entity exhibiting superior firepower.
#2. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist
#3. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
#4. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
#5. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
good riddance to bad rubbish, rot in hell with your fellow senatorial douchebag Ted Kennedy
-Alex Kurtagic
#6. To: Cynicom, F.A. Hayek Fan (#2)
Wasn't he the one who cast the 'deciding' vote on Klintons' IMPEACHMENT? FELLOW FREEMASONS ALWAYS 'STAND BY EACH OTHER'.
#7. To: randge (#3)
He'll be reincarnated as a Palestinian boy maybe, forced to endure what he has helped bring about? Whar's justice?
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#8. To: Itistoolate (#6)
No memory on that. Little known fact about that SOB.... He and Bob Dole were from the same small town in Nebraska, if I recall correctly. Neither was worth one term in government, let alone a lifetime of ruining this country. Wasn't he the one who cast the 'deciding' vote on Klintons' IMPEACHMENT?
#9. To: Cynicom (#8) (Edited)
VIDEO HERE http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/120323-1 search for 'SPECTOR ON CLINTON IMPEACHMENT VOTE'
#10. To: FormerLurker (#7)
Or perhaps brought back a little lower on the chain as a cock-a-roach on a Gazan sidewalk. He'll be reincarnated as a Palestinian boy maybe, forced to endure what he has helped bring about?
#11. To: Cynicom (#2)
Which begs the question how did he remain in office so long. This partly why I have come to the conclusion that elections are not real. what I don't understand on an intellectual level is why these guys stay in office so long. Kennedy, Byrd etc all stay in office way past their expiration dates. He NEVER represented PA. ever.
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#12. To: farmfriend (#11) (Edited)
Why leave D.C. and all the free booze to drink and interns/lobbyist whores/little children to molest?? Look at the level of medical care that they get FREE. Housing allowances, office allowances, personal staff allowances, gold-plated edition senatorial health club (no existing photo's that I can find), it never ends. what I don't understand on an intellectual level is why these guys stay in office so long.
-Alex Kurtagic
#13. To: Turtle (#4)
In the case of arlen specter, the word you're seeking is Gehenna. this is Heaven, isn't it?
the quality of a man’s life is directly proportionate to
his commitment to excellence.’
#14. To: Itistoolate (#6) (Edited)
I don't know who cast the deciding vote but according to this it was Santorum who did the deep sixing. Santorum kills Impeachment proceeding against Bill Clinton- conservative purity in name only exposedWasn't he the one who cast the 'deciding' vote on Klintons' IMPEACHMENT?
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#15. To: farmfriend (#11) (Edited)
This partly why I have come to the conclusion that elections are not real. None of those serving in public office represent the John Q. Public. Never have and never will. Elections are not real. They are staged. And when they draw open the curtains they play their part to program us with illusions. Things are not what they seem to be on the surface. You really have to dig deep to get to the truth of the matter. And when you do get to the truth, you are no longer a slave to the myths fed by these government actors. You are free. He NEVER represented PA. ever.
#16. To: X-15 (#12)
Well I have to agree with the youtube listed on the side bar NWO dead on arrival it has a Satanic sexual component.
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#17. To: purplerose (#15)
This so true and why they work so hard to marginalize those trying to spread the truth. Things are not what they seem to be on the surface.
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#18. To: farmfriend, purplerose (#17)
Hey, don't miss The Big Football Game today, it's Really Important!! That's one of the tactics used to divert our attention from the ongoing criminal enterprise that masquerades as a legitimate FedGov.
-Alex Kurtagic
#19. To: farmfriend (#17)
Because government actors work in the same capacity as a Hollywood actor in that both dance to the strings their masters pull and should the actor(ess) deviate from their master's wishes, the actor becomes literally expendable. Both are mind-controlled slaves to their masters and when they attempt to run away, they die. This so true and why they work so hard to marginalize those trying to spread the truth.
#20. To: X-15 (#18)
I don't watch football. I'm too busy paying attention to what is going on in D.C.
#21. To: farmfriend (#14)
www.despatch.cth.com.au/Misc/famous_2.htm
www.biblebelievers.org.au/33rd.htm
www.theforbiddenknowledge...h/uspresidentasmasons.htm
#22. To: purplerose (#20)
That makes you, me, and other folks with the same attitude dangerous people in the eyes of FedGov, they don't like people who are fully awake paying attention to their sleight-of-hand administration of injustice.
-Alex Kurtagic
#23. To: X-15 (#22)
Well said there. The only thing that makes us "dangerous" is not our guns but our minds.
#24. To: farmfriend (#11)
Very basic reason and far too many Americans are too insulted to discuss it. Gross stupidity, not ignorance, nor lack of education, rather gross stupidity.The owners and operators of the "system" have been conning the electorate for at least a hundred years or more, doing it right in the open , and the gullible, stupid citizens are in line doing their patriotic duty. Yes, most of us were once young, gullible and very stupid but a few finally catch on to the con job called "politics". Shamefully, some go their graves as die hard party members. Which begs the question how did he remain in office so long
#25. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
Now that is an understatement, that it "remains controversial." That stupid magic bullet theory could have only been concocted by someone so bereft of any shred of common sense as to defy description. You could probably tell someone who had never heard of the Kennedy assassination about that stupid theory and watch them as they held their sides while they chortled with uncontrollable laughter. Specter rose to prominence in the 1960s as an aggressive Philadelphia prosecutor and as an assistant counsel to the Warren Commission, developing the single-bullet theory that posited just one bullet struck both President Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally — an assumption critical to the argument that presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. The theory remains controversial
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken
"..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance
Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
#26. To: X-15 (#18)
Maybe but at least football is interesting. LOL Hey, don't miss The Big Football Game today, it's Really Important!! That's one of the tactics used to divert our attention from the ongoing criminal enterprise that masquerades as a legitimate FedGov.
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#27. To: purplerose (#19)
Because government actors work in the same capacity as a Hollywood actor in that both dance to the strings their masters pull and should the actor(ess) deviate from their master's wishes, the actor becomes literally expendable. Both are mind-controlled slaves to their masters and when they attempt to run away, they die.
Does anyone honestly believe that the global elites whose wealth and power depend on manipulation of the global chess board would leave something like the Presidency up to chance?
#28. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#0)
what a freaking idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! developing the single-bullet theory that posited just one bullet struck both President Kennedy and Texas Gov. John Connally —
#29. To: christine (#28)
In regard to the idiotic magic bullet theory, a picture is worth a thousand words. If the single-bullet theory (SBT) is wrong, then more than one gunman must have been firing at President Kennedy. This was why Arlen Specter, a staff attorney for the Warren Commission (WC), formulated the theory, namely, to avoid having to conclude that more than one shooter was involved in the assassination. This is also why the theory is so controversial. The lone-gunman scenario stands or falls on the SBT. What is the SBT? In a nutshell, the theory says that a bullet, known officially as CE 399, struck Kennedy in the back, transited his neck without leaving any metal fragments whatsoever, exited his neck, hit Governor John Connally near his right armpit, tore through his chest, smashing rib bone in the process, exited his chest, struck his right wrist and shattered a tough radius bone in the wrist, exited the wrist, and then stuck itself halfway into Connally's left thigh. Yet, amazingly, after supposedly doing all this damage, CE 399 emerged with its lands and grooves intact, with no damage whatsoever to its nose, and with no more than 3-4 grains lost from its substance. The only damage to the bullet is at its base, where there is deformation that is not even visible unless viewed from certain angles. It is no wonder critics have dubbed this bullet the "magic bullet." The SBT is unlikely on its face. It is even more unlikely when one studies it more closely. Here are ten reasons I reject the SBT: 
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner." Mencken
"..if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance
Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
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