President Biden apparently visiting Bob Dole

[servermsh]

According to the pool report, President Biden is visiting "his close friend, Senator Bob Dole." Dole announced this week that he has stage 4 lung cancer.

Link to tweet

[doc03]

1. Didn't know Bob Dole was still alive haven't heard from him in years. Considering

the Republicans of today he was a good guy. The loser of a presidential election is never from again why can't "The Loser" just disappear?

[Hstch05]

2. Poor Bob

I was never a fan, and was glad when Clinton beat him in 96, but he is a fundamentally decent man. I think he's he last sane Republican that ran for President. He was around during the Gingrich take-over, but never seemed to be an extremist. Put him up against Trump, any of the Tea Partiers/Freedom Caucus /Q Creatures from the last 12 years and you really can see the fundamental shift in the party.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

7. I'm old enough to remember Ed Brooke

Repub from Massachusetts who co-wrote the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Don't think we'd see any current Repub do that.

[appmanga]

13. I'm old enough to remember...

...when Dole was considered an "arch-conservative", and the "hatchet man" for the more moderate presidential candidate Gerald Ford. The same Dole who was responsible for the SNAP program that keeps millions out of hunger today. Republicans used to be a different type of people.

[Oldem]

15. Republicans used to be people.

[OMGWTF]

35. The 1956 Republican platform is Bernie Sanders' wish list

The Rs didn't even have a platform at their 2020 convention other than "What Trump said."

[George II]

22. Correction: republicans used to be people. Period!

[amuse bouche]

36. Didn't Barbara Walters have an affair with Ed Brooke?

Was it a big scandal?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. Both Dole and Ford opposed WJC's impeachment.

[evolves]

27. Agree with this.

So happy to have B. Clinton instead of him, but Dole was a war hero and a more old-school (read: Eisenhower) republican.

[Rebl2]

21. He did

Political ads for now senator Marshal of Kansas during last year’s election. He also backed trump.

[SheilaAnn]

3. Our President is ever so thoughtful and considerate, love him. One of the Beautides of the RC

Church is to "visit the sick, bury the dead."

[patricia92243]

8. yes!

[Budi]

14. Thank you

Visit the sick, bury the dead

Biden's a good man & this is a very personal gesture

[AZ8theist]

33. I recall a vile piece of shit.....

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Visiting his dying brother for 30 minutes then go playing golf....

How times have changed.

Joe is such a decent human being.

[Budi]

42. Because this isn't about Dole. This is about President Joe Biden

Dole will pass on with his chosen life's work & Joe moves on with his own

[cwydro]

4. Good for President Biden.

Surprised by what some wrote about Dole the other day.

[brewens]

5. I was glad Dole lost to Clinton, but Bob is way more of a kick in the ass than you'd think.

He was pretty funny a couple times on those late night shows.

[lunatica]

10. He was a hard ass but also had a wicked good sense of humor.

Dick Army was funny too.

Neither of them was as bad as Trump though. Today’s GOP are just stupid. Mean and stupid. Ignorant, mean and stupid.

[erronis]

38. "Ignorant, mean and stupid." and venal, hypocritical, mendacious.

We could go on. But it's amazing how the whole damn party from the states to the federal seem to feel it's their duty to be dishonest, dishonorable, cheating, ...

[Roy Rolling]

11. Yes!

I remember him on SNL after losing the election and he was hilarious and earned my respect for how he handled it. He was truly funny in a situation most people could not handle.

[Tommymac]

25. Sen Dole was a prime mover for the ADA

Those ramps and rails and other handicapped related improvements are his legacy.

I didn't like his politics in the 1990's, but I always respected the man.

Those were the days when you could actually discuss issues with the other side.

[question everything]

6. Why not? Served together in the Senate and, no doubt had good relations

[Blue Owl]

9. I can see those two getting along

If you don't get along with Joe, I think the problem is all on your side of the table...

[lunatica]

12. Back then they did work with each other.

Bipartisanship was the way things got done.

Then they decided to go after Hillary. Sigh...

[Budi]

18. They sure did.

Link to tweet

Ground her good name & good reputation into the dirt & MSM & social media love, love, loved it.
Trump was The Man.

Pitiful wasn't it.

~

And here's President Biden giving a simply & personal gesture as a friend, to his friend in his last days.
An example for all, good deeds over vile words.

Thanks President Biden 🍃

[Oldem]

16. Every one of these moving, humane gestures

heals a little bit of my soul. AOC has helped, too. There's still a way to go.

[Budi]

23. Beto, the Castro brothers, Houston Judge Hidalgo & the thousands of unsung heros,

..volunteers, those who made calls, coordinated local services & directed calls for help to ready assistance.
This was a massive effort of kindness & to the many who won't be promoted by name or media reach, I applaud them the most.

Without these unnamed givers of time & generosity, this effort would not have been successful.
Thank you~

[Ilsa]

17. Dole is 97 years old.

I hope he passes peacefully.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. I missed having a real POTUS who cares about people

This was a nice thing to do

[Hekate]

40. Yes

[KY_EnviroGuy]

20. I remember when Sen. Dole seemed like the sole voice of the Republican Party.......

regularly on the nightly news - usually on Huntley-Brinkley or Walter Cronkite shows. Memories are very vague now but I still can see him talking to reporters in the Capital hallways, always well dressed and usually harrumphing about taxes being too high after a Senate session.

But always a gentleman and willing to compromise to a degree and as others have said, a great sense of humor.

I hope his passing is easy and wish his family peace.......

And, thank you Joe for being the kind, considerate gentleman you are.....

[bsiebs]

26. Dole comment years ago...

At the annual Gridiron Club dinner, an event in Washington, DC largely devoted to political humor, Senate Republican leader Bob Dole told a story about a recent event when he saw former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Richard Nixon standing together on the podium. Dole claimed that he told people to “Look! Hear no evil, see no evil, and evil (Nixon).”

[48656c6c6f20]

28. Glad President Biden is a better person than me.

[RicROC]

29. I always like bob Dole, but

would never vote for him for Prez because he would hire only Republicans and they wouldn't be as nice as he was.

[StevieM]

30. Let's not over glorify Bob Dole.

He was the one who began the policy of swift boating. The lies about Whitewater started with him.

And then he agreed to reinstitute the independent counsel statute, which he had just recently killed in a filibuster. I see know reason for that reversal other than that he knew that William Rehnquist would appoint partisan Republican judges like David Sentelle, who would then baselessly replace the independent counsel with someone like Ken Starr. He also enabled Ken Starr's criminal conduct for years by making it clear that all hell would break loose if anyone tried to stop him.

[RussellCattle]

31. All true. He was old school, Kansas hyper-partisan. He invented calling us "the democrat party".....

....instead of democratic, which still irks me. Especially when those fuckers use it when they whine about bipartisanship.

[Boomerproud]

32. Thank you. I'm surprised at the short term memories of some.

Neither gloating nor nastiness is needed at times like these. Truth is usually called for and appropriate.

[BlueNProud]

34. Bitter, nasty dude. I bet it kills Dole that Biden made it all the way and he never did.

[Hekate]

39. Biden has heart. I'm glad he's doing that. nt

[Faygo Kid]

41. I hate that some at DU can't differentiate between Dole and Trump

Happens all the time here, and I am sick and tired of it. Look at some of these posts. Bob Dole was a war hero, and a decent human being, and a respectable leader who would have no place in today's Trump GOP. President Biden thinks so, and is far more likely to lower our nation's flag to half staff for Bob Dole than (puke) Rush Limbaugh,