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In reply to the discussion: Is it too soon for RUDE PUNDIT's "Dead Senator"? [View all]calimary
(80,699 posts)She was a beautiful model and devoted wife who waited for him while he went to Vietnam. But during his absence she was in a traumatic car accident that messed up her beautiful body, especially her long shapely legs. When he finally came home to her, he didnt REALLY come home - to HER. He soon became enamored of a pretty young blonde from a fabulously wealthy family and threw over Wife #1, making the newer younger prettier woman Wife #2. They married a mere couple of months or so after his divorce was final.
Im certainly no angel myself, but Im bothered by that. Ive tried to leaven that with the reminders of his service. He actually DID go over to Vietnam and got his hands dirty - doing the dirty and bloody work that preening vainglorious cowards like donald trump managed to avoid. So Ill gladly give him that.
I didnt like most of the votes he cast (I tend not to like whatever it is that republi-CONS support) but occasionally he did the right thing. Like that thumbs-down on the ACA repeal. So Ill gladly give him that too.
He was a complicated man and admittedly not perfect. He was graceful in defeat, and his moment with that pathetic woman in the red shirt whose idiot opinion about Barack Obamas background he corrected - live, in public, and on camera, was towering and admirable, courageous and honest. Ill very gladly give him that, too.
I wont mourn him with eyes glazed over by the soft fog of denial or fantasy about what one WISHES were there. But I will mourn him.