Monday, February 18, 2008
A fabulous obituary
It speaks volumes about the late Tom Lantos that (for the most part) conservatives and liberals alike speak well of him, particularly when discussing his support of Israel and how he believed that that support was beneficial to the United States. Thomas Dine, a former executive with AIPAC, has penned a wonderful obituary for Mr. Lantos, which can be found here: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1203019393913&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull. Of particular note was a story about how Lantos ripped President Peanut Farmer a new one during a meeting which took place after the latter published his "Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid" polemic agains Israel. It's a story which I had never heard.
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That is an interesting story about Jimmy Carter, it is good he was able to hear that from a Jewish Democrat. I read an article about him in our local newspaper. It mentioned how his daughters promised to have large families since he and his wife had lost so many people. I think he only had 2 children and about 17 or 18 grandchildren, so that's a lot per person!
I also saw this quote from him: "It is only in the United States that a penniless survivor of the Holocaust and a fighter in the anti-Nazi underground could have received an education, raised a family and had the privilege of serving the last three decades of his life as a member of Congress. I will never be able to express fully my profoundly felt gratitude to this great country."
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