Bob Dole's Legacy

[cestpaspossible]

[signmike]

1. Poor Bob. He just can't win.

[oscar111]

2. defeated National Healthcare. thats his "legacy" of disgrace, death

many have died for the lack of dr's.
Many more still will

Dole's life saved by free dr's for his war wounds... now he denies free healthcare to the rest of us.

Pathetic brain, i would say.

[Deaniac20]

9. and led the rethugs thru the 80s

and helped Newt Gingbitch become speaker, and is the spokesman for the drug industry, and now that he was the spokesman for Viagra, we see the reward that sumbitch got for ruining national healthcare. Anyone, ever wonder why Bill Maher voted for him?

[seemslikeadream]

3. When I find out why he was walking around DC with $8000 in cash

then I'll make up my mind.
Riggs Affair Sparks 'Suspicious Activity' Alert on Dole

Thursday September 2, 11:49 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- The Riggs National Bank scandal has led to unexpected fallout, including "suspicious activity reports" on former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, Friday's Wall Street Journal reported.

As often as once a week, Mr. Dole's assistant walks around the corner from his Pennsylvania Avenue office in Washington to a branch of Riggs Bank, where she withdraws as much as $8,000 in cash. For walking-around money, Mr. Dole keeps a wad of $100 bills in the breast pocket of his shirt. "I probably use a credit card four or five times a year," Mr. Dole confesses. "I don't even have a wallet."

Mr. Dole's affinity for cash was of no concern to anyone until recently, when federal regulators pawing through the books of scandal-tarred Riggs spotted the large withdrawals and called them to the attention of management. In short order, the bank filed "suspicious activity reports" on Mr. Dole and another prominent Washington figure, Mr. Carlucci, questioning whether the two men might have violated federal laws against money laundering.

The reports are the latest strange fallout from the Riggs affair, which has reverberated through Washington in unexpected ways since the bank got into trouble with regulators this year for overlooking signs of suspicious activity by Saudi diplomats and foreign despots. The scandal has provoked a minor diplomatic crisis for the State and Treasury departments as Riggs, which has long had a lock on the diplomatic market in Washington, starts to shed all of its embassy accounts to get out from under a regulatory cloud and sell itself to PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (PNC).


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http://finance.myway.com/jsp/nw/nwdt_rt.jsp?section=news&news_id=dji-00094720040902&feed=dji&date=20040902&cat=INDUSTRY

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2308225

[longship]

4. I can't vote on these selections.

Politically, I don't like Bob Dole. But personally, he is one of the most respected and well-liked Pol around. He has been known to be tough, but has a reputation of being fair and honest. I think the world and the country would be better off is ol' Bob Dole was president, instead of W. (No, I wouldn't vote for him. Yes, I would rather have a D president, but that's not what we have now.)

I just respect honest people no matter what their political alignment.

As far as him being a corporate shill, it took some major cohones to agree to be the official spokesperson for erectile dysfunction.

[cestpaspossible]

5. LOL

so this is the guy who said John Kerry was wrong to talk about his war record, that HE never did so in his campaigns (a blatant lie) and now is going around making himself out to be some kind of a hero with an auto-hagiography about his own war experiences.

This is the hypocrite you describe as being 'fair and honest' lol.

[lenidog]

7. Maybe he should have taken his advice and we wouldn't have had

that fiasco with the Swift Boats.

[cestpaspossible]

11. advice?

[scarlett1]

8. Being from Kansas

I never liked him as our Senator, but he has mellowed, then gets mean again e.g. Agreeing with the "Swift Boat" idiots. But he and Clinton get along great now, and he is very funny. But I gave him a mean spirited vote.

[dogday]

6. Pepsi in one hand Viagra in the other....................

That's how I will remember him....

[signmike]

10. Pen in hand, is my mental image of him. He IS funny -

I wish he'd stick to comedy.

[cestpaspossible]

13. Oops, I left out 'National Laughingstock'

[wishlist]

12. I cannot forgive his partisan hypocrisy questioning Kerry's purple heart

It shocked me how Repubs got away with trashing a decorated war veteran like Kerry, but Dole deserved a special medal for meanness over his remarks about Kerry's Purple Heart.