Bob Dole, Senator, Presidential Candidate, War Hero Dead at 98

Damn, one more year and he could have been 99

the greatest number of all

 

Really? I swear you say some of the dumbest **** at the most inappropriate time.

 

And still too young to run for President.

 

RIP .

 

98 plus 1 is 99?
yes

RIP Bob Dole

 

Norm Macdonald did a great impersonation of him. RIP. I remember when he ran for president. Didn't really have a chance against Bill Clinton.

 

I always liked him, but that SNL skit of him on the real world was hilarious

 

RIP

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this presidential election pitted

• the son of poor farmers from Kansas against
• the son of a single mom, at times living on welfare, from Arkansas

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they were duking it out on the campaign trail; post election, they became good friends, https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96646&page=1

 

Biden orders flags be flown at half-staff through 12/9 to honor the man. His statement below.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...joe-biden-on-the-passing-of-senator-bob-dole/

A month after being sworn in as President, one of the first conversations I had with anyone outside the White House was with our dear friends, Bob and Elizabeth Dole, at their home in Washington. Bob had recently been diagnosed with lung cancer, and I was were there to offer the same support, love, and encouragement that they showed me and Jill when our son Beau battled cancer, and that the Doles have shown us over the half century we’ve been friends.

Like all true friendships, regardless of how much time has passed, we picked up right where we left off, as though it were only yesterday that we were sharing a laugh in the Senate dining room or debating the great issues of the day, often against each other, on the Senate floor. I saw in his eyes the same light, bravery, and determination I’ve seen so many times before.

In the Senate, though we often disagreed, he never hesitated to work with me or other Democrats when it mattered most. He and Ted Kennedy came together to turn Bob’s lifelong cause into the Americans with Disabilities Act — granting tens of millions of Americans lives of greater dignity. On the Social Security Commission, he led a bipartisan effort with Pat Moynihan to ensure that every American could grow old with their basic dignity intact. When he managed the bill to create a federal holiday in the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. — a bill that many in his own caucus opposed — I will never forget what he said to our colleagues: “No first-class democracy can treat people like second-class citizens.”

Another bipartisan effort, the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program, provided school meals and food for nursing mothers and young children. It saved the lives of countless young people who would otherwise have died in infancy — and brought dignity to tens of millions of families at home and abroad. This work, for Bob, was about more than passing laws. It was written on his heart.

Bob was an American statesman like few in our history. A war hero and among the greatest of the Greatest Generation. And to me, he was also a friend whom I could look to for trusted guidance, or a humorous line at just the right moment to settle frayed nerves. I will miss my friend. But I am grateful for the times we shared, and for the friendship Jill and I and our family have built with Liddy and the entire Dole family.

Bob was a man to be admired by Americans. He had an unerring sense of integrity and honor. May God bless him, and may our nation draw upon his legacy of decency, dignity, good humor, and patriotism for all time.

 

RIP Bob Dole. May you have no shortage of boner pills in heaven.

You realize @tinman is just a trope of a 90s Fox sitcom pilot?

It's sad Bob came into mind months ago when people commented how he outlasted Norm.

 

Ex President Trump opens the casket and takes a huge dump.

Compare and contrast.

 

Tobacco Dole (cont’d)
SHEILA KAPLAN

 

people are now triggered by numbers
not just Dave Chappelle jokes

99
99
99
@Os Trigonum

 

A great man, a REAL patriot. Thanks for your service to America. You will be missed.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bob-kn...ill-clinton-11638825084?mod=opinion_lead_pos7

Bob Knew How to Dole Out the Jokes
He was a tough partisan, but the senator’s humor was warmly regarded on both sides of the aisle.
By Ronald G. Shafer
Dec. 6, 2021 6:39 pm ET

Bob Dole, who died Sunday at 98, will be remembered as a decorated World War II hero, a Republican presidential candidate and a legendary U.S. Senate leader.

He also will be remembered for his biting wit.

In a speech on the federal budget, Dole quipped that America is better off when the Senate can’t assemble a quorum: “As long as there are only three to four people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It’s only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned.”

The angry-looking senator had a frosty public image. Vice President Al Gore once joked during a particularly cold Washington winter that it was so cold, people were “huddling around Bob Dole for warmth.”

But Dole was also an old-time politician who could find agreement and friendship with those he opposed. He was regarded warmly on both sides of the aisle for his honor and his humor. Unlike many politicians, his best quips were spontaneous rather than the product of joke writers.

Take the time he lost the 1980 New Hampshire primary. “I went home and slept like a baby,” Dole told reporters. “Every two hours I woke up and cried.’’

Asked about the defense secretary’s response to reports that the Pentagon had paid $600 for a toilet seat, Dole replied: “He hasn’t taken a position on that.”

He often used humor to speak truth. Asked after a White House budget summit if anybody had been courageous enough to propose a tax increase, Dole responded, “Maybe the custodian.”

Dole’s colleagues didn’t escape his barbs. “If you’re hanging around [Washington] with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate,” he said. “You’ll get the same kind of feeling and you won’t have to pay.”

Many of his self-deprecating quips involved his wife of 46 years, Elizabeth Dole, who also served as a senator. When Mrs. Dole was president of the American Red Cross, her husband remarked, “At least she’s president of something, which is more than I can say.”

When his wife was transportation secretary, Dole said it was easy for her to make a decision on air bags: “She’s married to one.”

After President Clinton took office in 1993, Minority Leader Dole—who often referred to himself in the third person—said of the new president: “The good news is he’s getting a honeymoon in Washington. The bad news is that Bob Dole is going to be his chaperone.”

In 1996 Mr. Clinton soundly defeated Dole in the presidential election. Early the next year, Mr. Clinton presented his political adversary with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dole began his response, “I, Robert J. Dole, do solemnly swear—uh, sorry, wrong speech.”

As the president and the audience broke out in laughter, Dole continued: “I had a dream that I would be here, this historic week, receiving something from the president. But I thought it would be the front door key.”

Robert J. Dole was a war hero. He was a great American. And he made us laugh.

Mr. Shafer is a former Washington political features editor at the Wall Street Journal and writer of the Washington Wire.


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Mr. Shafer should've let present Dole dole out the puns in titles.

For shame, wsj.

 

President and First Lady visit WWII memorial on 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor
and lay wreath honoring WWll hero Bob Dole

A stark contrast from Trump who, as the POTUS, had

• never visited the WWII memorial not Arlington cemetery
• while in France, cancelled a scheduled visit to US military cemetery (tWWI memorial) there
• called soldiers who die in combat "suckers"

 

RIP Bob Dole.......I miss the days when the GOP acted liked it truly cared for America, not click bait on the most outrageous things to say