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To: JohnM who wrote (136756)	4/16/2010 2:45:58 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) of 543390

I would have taken Teddy Kennedy in his later years; I like Tom Harkin and Carl Levin as well. I think your point works for folk like Robert Byrd now and Strom Thurmond in his later years. Maybe Byrd now, but he made some of the most powerful speeches on the Senate floor against the Iraq war in 2002 and against the Bush administration's continual overreaching. He was about 85 at the time. Yes, he was beginning to lose it, but institutional memory and pride are important things in the Senate, and those are the kinds of things that "elder statesmen" have. Or at least can have. On the other hand, I don't put someone like Orrin Hatch in that category--unlike Byrd, I have never seen him have any propensity for shame or to acknowledge that he was wrong on important matters in the past, despite his Christian poses.

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