It looks as it Molly Ivins is terminal.....

[WCGreen]

One of the best things she ever said about Bush was that he was born on third base and thought he hit a triple...

As I wrote in another thread, mimicking her wonderful style, I said this about politicians like John Edwards and Bill Clinton...

They were both born in the batters box with only a bat in hand, both took mightily swings and both hit the fence...

They both earned everything they got...

It's a sad testimony that the two best examples of the Horatio Alger myth in American public life are belittled and scorned by the republican party for doing exactly what they always claim people should do; pull themselves up by their bootstraps...

And meanwhile they embrace the Bush Dynasty, heap assistance on those who need it the least and set up economic and social roadblocks for the common folk...

When someone asks me why I can find nothing of value with the Republican party of today, I recite the Molly Ivins quote about Bush and say that is what the republican party has become....

[illinoisprogressive]

1. Interesting but, what does it have to do with Molly??

[WCGreen]

2. What she said got me to thinking....

And that is the best way to pay homage to someone....

At least in my way of thinking....

[MaryBear]

3. Dupe?

This topic is already on front page. The topic being Molly Ivins.

[auntAgonist]

4. and here too ..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=62723&mesg_id=62723

[Dinger]

9. Here Too

In fact, I think this one was first.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x55052

[ellaydubya]

5. Our Dear Molly

I so hope you are wrong. Losing Molly and Ann Richards in less than a year is not fair. The women of Texas and the world will sorely miss this woman- but her opinions ands ideas will live on through her words now and forever. And we must make the most of what she leaves us and make her proud of our accomplishments from this day forward.

That is my promise to her.

LA

[Straight Shooter]

6. Didn't she also say that bush was born with a silver spoon in his nose?

Something like that, anyway. I was living in Texas at the time and thought it was hysterically funny.

Molly has lived her life and spoken her mind, and that's about as good as it gets, that people pay you for what you think and how you express yourself and love you like crazy.

One helluva woman.

[MADem]

7. Well, Ann Richards said Senior was born with a silver FOOT in his mouth....

Poor George.......(classic pause).....he can't help it......

Best convention speech ever!

[NanceGreggs]

8. Sad news, WCG ...

Your post is a fitting tribute to her wit and style.

Hang in there, Molly - we NEED you like never before!

[Clark2008]

10. I know this is a thread about Molly, bless her, but I have to

correct something.

John Edwards was solidly upper middle class. He was never poor. Please let's refrain from spreading this falsehood since HE won't correct it.

“The Edwardses were solidly middle class” when Johnny was growing up, according to a four-part profile of the North Carolina senator in his home state’s most prestigious daily, the Raleigh News and Observer. It’s true that for a few years as a young man Edwards’ father worked on the floor of a Roger Milliken textile mill. But Edwards père (a lifelong Republican, like his reactionary boss) quickly climbed upward, becoming a monitor of worker productivity as a “time-study” man — which any labor organizer in the South will tell you is a polite term for a stoolie who spies on the proletarian mill hands to get them to speed up production for the same low wages. Daddy Edwards’ grassing got him promoted to supervisor, then to plant manager — and he finally resigned to start his own business as a consultant to the textile industry. As a Boston Globe profile of Edwards put it last year, the senator never “notes that his father was part of management . . . ‘John was more middle class than most of us,’” says Bill Garner, a high school friend and college roommate.

There's nothing wrong with being middle class - even upper middle-class - but I'm really tired of folks assuming Edwards came from nothing. It's not true.

Thanks! :hi:

[applegrove]

11. Sorry to hear that.

[AtomicKitten]

12. My very best thoughts to Molly ...

her humor and dead-on commentary is sorely needed now that fellow Texan Ann Richards is gone.