Jeane Kirkpatrick

Who cares.
She was a cancer on our society.
Good riddance.

...prideful, and stubborn.
Plus she loved Reagan.

'nuff said.

She's dead. She was sincere about her job. Show some respect.

...she bought into Reagan's foreign policies.

Just like Reagan, she needs to be spit on in death and get zero respect ever.
I am speaking for the thousands of tortured souls who died a horrible death due to policies she supported (Central America for example).
Screw her and all the "Masters of War"

~snip~

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead

Dylan

not respecting.

one is yours to own.... the spitting on in death. that is about who you are. nothing to do with kirkpatric

the not respecting her. it is all her own. all about her and her action

i dont want to be who you are,..... spitting on someone. i will let her sins remain with her

until Jimmy Carter got in and started talking about human rights. Well, apparently that just turned her liberal stomach so much that she became a reppublic on the spot! Quote from Moms Mabley: "They say to never say anything but good about the dead. Well, he's dead. Good!"

She passed on. Let her rest.

Actually, what was funny today was when I told a couple people I work with who are rabid Repigs that Jean Kirkpatrick died. They both said "Huh? Who?" Both of these people think Reagan was God.

It goes to show you that they really don't pay much attention...

what have you done to serve our country?

You don't need to mourn her but why trash her? And without even specific examples of why she was "a cancer on our society?"

& one of her closest friends was Hubert Humphrey.

I think your post is disgusting. The woman has died.

Do you have any humanity?

People like you make me ashamed to be here at DU.

In 1980, though still a longtime Democrat, she became the foreign policy adviser for the Republican presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan, during his campaign. After winning the election, Reagan nominated Kirkpatrick as Ambassador to the United Nations, a position she held for four years.

She was one of the strongest open supporters of Argentina's military dictatorship following the March 1982 Argentine invasion of the United Kingdom's Falkland Islands, which triggered the Falklands War. Kirkpatrick sympathized with Argentina's President Gen. Leopoldo Galtieri, whose military regime clamped down on leftists (see Dirty War). Her support was basically muted when the administration ultimately decided to declare support for the British (see U.S. shuttle diplomacy during the Falklands War).

At the 1984 Republican National Convention, Kirkpatrick delivered the memorable "Blame America First" speech, in which she praised the foreign policy of the Reagan administration and excoriated the leadership of the "San Francisco Democrats" for the party's shift away from the policies of former Democratic presidents such as Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy to a multilateral stance that de-emphasized assertive confrontation with foreign rivals, especially the so-called evil empire.

In 1985 Kirkpatrick became a Republican and returned to teaching at Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic Jesuit university in the nation. She became a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank and a contributor to the American Freedom Journal. In 1993 she co-founded Empower America, a public-policy organization. She was also on the advisory board of the National Association of Scholars, a think tank which works against what American conservatives believe is a liberal bias in academia, multicultural education, and affirmative action policies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick#Views

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So I am disgusting?
I make you "ashamed to be a member of the DU"?
I am like a "freeper"?

Do you not understand that her type of consciousness and thought patterns are directly responsible for untold death and misery?

I guess you don't.
Before you call me names...educate yourself and "know your enemies".

That would be fitting, doncha think?

What you fail to understand or maybe, more accurately, what I have not made clear enough for you and others here that attack me is:

This is not a struggle against flesh and blood.
She may have been a fine person to hang out with on a personal level...who knows?
This struggle is against principles and principalities of the mind. Of thought. Of consciousness.

The fact that she is no longer here poisoning the thought pool by directing it towards death and misery is a good thing.

Her body and mind housed and supported terrible and destructive thoughts.
Therefore, she was a cancer.
Again, good riddance.

I think you are correct. Jean Kirkpatrick was a twisted sister... Let me explain why I have no problem speaking ill of the dead...

My Mother died when I was 14 - (I'll be 50 in January) I still can hardly find one nice thing to say about my own Mother. She was a mean woman. She was the president of the John Birch Society for the area where we lived when I was a little kid. She celebrated when both Kennedy's were murdered and had a cocktail party when Martin Luther King was gunned down. She used the N word every single day that I was around her. She campaigned for George Wallace, was against equal rights for anyone, hated unions, was a Bible thumping hypocrite and tried to make me in her own image. Because she died, I found a whole world that wasn't filled with hate. I found out that people with different skin colors really aren't dirty, they want an education and that being gay is not chosen nor is it wrong. My Mother was a pro-War Hawk (Vietnam) and would hiss out terrible things when anti war protests would be televised -- she would pray for the long-haired, hippy, radicals to die. Oh, and was an advocate for the death penalty.

How would I honor my Mother's death? By feigning sorrow of her passing or realize that everything I learned about the world, since she died, made me a better person.

Here is the nicest thing I can say about my Mother:
She was an incredible cook. In fact, everything that came out of that womans kitchen was pure heaven. She taught me how to cook and I developed a love of cooking due to her. It is a gift and I share it with the people I love... Who happen to be of all different colors, races, religions, gay and straight. My children have never heard a racist word from me or their father. I have marched in the streets to end the war. If I believed in a God, I would pray for peace. After I looked at how the death penalty is used, I realized that many innocent people have been executed and so I have decided that I am against using this barbaric system to make an attempt to correct the ills of our society.

If the dead person has done distasteful things. Something like, supporting the death squads in S. America... Well can't we be strong enough to call it like we see it? Why does speaking of death suddenly make so many people go weak in the knees? We all die. We don't all deserve a heroes wake.

Shred's point is a valid one.

Speaking ill of the dead is just tasteless. You can talk about their lives and how you might despise their legacy, but being disrespectful to their recent passing is just rude.

There are more eloquent ways to go about it. Your "tribute" to your mother is such a thing.

I heard freeptards this week joking about Pres. Carter's funeral plans (i.e., "maybe he could accelerate them") and was disgusted. I'm no less disgusted by this.

That being said, I don't disagree with you. ;)

it would be better to say we are fortunate she is no longer an active influence on foreign policy, which I'm sure everyone can agree with.