Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader, dies at 82

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    He won elections when he was predicted to lose. He had a hardscrabble upbringing, his mother was a laundress in a bordello. What will his legacy be:
     
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    Hate to hear it. And I hate to say it because it always sounds so disingenuous and routine but my condolences and well wishes to his loved ones. It's never an easy thing to have to deal with.
     
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    This, even if we believed in different paths for America to take his love for his country was unmistakable and he served with honor and dignity. May his soul rest in peace and may nothing but goodness and fortune fall upon his friends, family and loved ones.
     
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    82, hell of a good run! The one thing no one can escape, death..
    He clearly got the extended plan!
     
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    Fitting....
     
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    One of the most crooked people ever to serve in an institution of monumentally crooked people.

    And yet he got away with it his entire life.
     
  8. Egoboy

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    I see they renamed McCarron airport after Reid on 12/14 of this year, so I'm glad he got to see that. That's going to take a bit of getting used to if I ever get to fly to Vegas again..

    Since McCarron was a D and heavily involved with aviation issues, it seemed a strange thing to do, but I'm reading that even Reid considered McCarron an anti-Semite...

    He was important before I was politically aware, but it's clear he was important...
     
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    Another classic post from the right.
     
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    Classy.
     
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    Not surprising considering how the left has behaved the last few years.
     
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    We were polar opposite politically but did feel he was honorable in his intentions. May he rest in peace and sincere condolences to his friends and family.
     
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    Knock it off, you guys tore down statues of dead people, Reid is getting off easy.
     
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    Good riddance.
     
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    One of the biggest liars and more despicable in Senate history.
     
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    Facts are facts.
     
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    His shady land deals

    A series of investigative reports in the Los Angeles Times Times suggested that Reid had introduced legislation and imposed pressure on regulatory agencies to advance the business interests of his close friend Harvey Whittemore, a Nevada attorney-lobbyist who contributed heavily to Reid's campaigns and leadership fund and who employed Reid's son Leif as his personal attorney. With Reid's help, Whittemore was able to proceed with construction of a $30 billion planned golf course development, Coyote Springs, a project heavily criticized by environmental groups for reasons including its projected effects on several endangered species. Whittemore served a two-year prison sentence after being found guilty in 2013 of funneling $133,400 in illegal contributions to Reid's reelection campaign.

    A racist
    Reid apologized on January 9, 2010, for racially tinged comments he had made when Barack Obama was campaigning for president. In private conversations, Reid had remarked that Obama could win the presidency because the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama—to whom he referred as being "light-skinned" and "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.
    In August 2010, Reid spoke in front of National Council of La Raza: "I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK. Do I need to say more?"[64] The following day, Manny Alvarez and Republican Senate-candidate Marco Rubio, both of Hispanic descent, spoke out against Reid's remarks.[65]

    Then proves he is a liar

    Criticism of Mitt Romney
    During the summer of 2012, Reid said in an interview with The Huffington Post that he had received information from an unidentified investor in Bain Capital that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney did not pay any taxes for 10 years.[106] The accusation was repeated on the Senate floor by Reid on August 2, 2012.[107][108] According to CBS News, Romney stated, "Let me also say, categorically, I have paid taxes every year – and a lot of taxes. So Harry is simply wrong." PolitiFact.com's Truth-O-Meter rated the accusation as "Pants on Fire!"[109] The Washington Post's Fact Checker gave it "Four Pinnocchios".[110] CBS reported that Romney had submitted 23 years of tax returns to the John McCain campaign in 2008, when he was being vetted for the vice presidential nomination. McCain said, "[n]othing in these tax returns showed that he did not pay taxes."[111] In a 2015 interview on the subject, Reid said "Romney didn't win, did he?” The following year, Reid called the attack "one of the best things I've ever done,” while reiterating that Romney had not released his tax returns.[a][110] In 2021, Reid stated in an interview that after the 2012 election he and Mitt Romney and their wives met privately and reconciled, with Reid concluding that "I admire Mitt Romney. I think he's a very very fine human being."


     
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    LOL.... how is that racist??

    BTW, it's still a valid question 12 years later...
     
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    come on lol then why apologize for the racist comments?
     
  21. Andrew Jackson

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    Bumping a thread (that hadn't been posted in for a week) just to crap all over a Dead Guy?:bored:
    Wow.:smh:

    Anyway, I am glad that he lived long enough to see the Airport named after him.
    R.I.P. Harry.
     
  22. Egoboy

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    Perhaps you were thrown off by my BOLDING the part of your post I was referring to??

    In JAN 2010, he apologized for the racist Obama statement. In AUG 2010, he made a non-racist statement about Hispanic party affiliation, that you presented no evidence he apologized for....
     
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    he should of
     
  24. The Mello Guy

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    We should build one of him to remember our history
     
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    He should have claimed Romney was an illegal immigrant born in Kenya, then he could have been president
     
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