akhhorus
10-14-2004, 07:40 PM
A true classic, Fritz Hollings is retiring after this term, unfortunatly, because his daughter was murdered down here. There is a great article on him in the Washington Post. He is one of the last colorful politicians in this country. I've had the pleasure of meeting him several times and had dinner with him in Columbia. I recommend you give it a read.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31174-2004Oct13.html
some highlights and quotes:
" Hollings once called Walter Mondale a "lap dog." And Howard Metzenbaum "the senator from B'nai B'rith." He said Bill Clinton was "as popular as AIDS" in South Carolina. And those remarks were about his fellow Democrats. He has been even tougher on Republicans. In his last reelection campaign, in 1998, Hollings called his opponent, Bob Inglis, "a skunk" and suggested he "kiss my fanny."
Hollings once compared conference committee meetings to "feeding monkeys at the zoo." He denounced military aid to El Salvador as the "delivery of lettuce by way of a rabbit." He explained why African "potentates" attend international conferences: "Rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." "
" When Hollings denounced free trade as a threat to his state's textile industry in a 1990 television interview, reporter Sam Donaldson asked the senator where he'd bought his fancy suit.
"The same place you bought your wig, Sam," Hollings shot back. "
"Reporters: "They just look for a smart-ass remark. They already got their stories written, and they're just looking for filler to show they did a little bit of work."
" Just ask him to rate the eight presidents -- from Johnson to Bush -- he's worked with. "Well, it's easy to rate who's the most inadequate," he says. "And that's the present president. Jesus! He doesn't want to be president. He just likes the politics. He likes to get elected. He likes Air Force One. He starts out nearly every day with a fundraiser. He appears at some police station or some fortified something with policemen and firemen. You know, you gotta get the right pictures for the 7 o'clock news. "
"The folks who run Bob Jones University, the controversial Christian college in South Carolina: "Jackasses.""
" He looks up at the clock on the wall. He's been talking for well over an hour. "That's enough," he says. "You've got plenty. Good God!" "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31174-2004Oct13.html
some highlights and quotes:
" Hollings once called Walter Mondale a "lap dog." And Howard Metzenbaum "the senator from B'nai B'rith." He said Bill Clinton was "as popular as AIDS" in South Carolina. And those remarks were about his fellow Democrats. He has been even tougher on Republicans. In his last reelection campaign, in 1998, Hollings called his opponent, Bob Inglis, "a skunk" and suggested he "kiss my fanny."
Hollings once compared conference committee meetings to "feeding monkeys at the zoo." He denounced military aid to El Salvador as the "delivery of lettuce by way of a rabbit." He explained why African "potentates" attend international conferences: "Rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva." "
" When Hollings denounced free trade as a threat to his state's textile industry in a 1990 television interview, reporter Sam Donaldson asked the senator where he'd bought his fancy suit.
"The same place you bought your wig, Sam," Hollings shot back. "
"Reporters: "They just look for a smart-ass remark. They already got their stories written, and they're just looking for filler to show they did a little bit of work."
" Just ask him to rate the eight presidents -- from Johnson to Bush -- he's worked with. "Well, it's easy to rate who's the most inadequate," he says. "And that's the present president. Jesus! He doesn't want to be president. He just likes the politics. He likes to get elected. He likes Air Force One. He starts out nearly every day with a fundraiser. He appears at some police station or some fortified something with policemen and firemen. You know, you gotta get the right pictures for the 7 o'clock news. "
"The folks who run Bob Jones University, the controversial Christian college in South Carolina: "Jackasses.""
" He looks up at the clock on the wall. He's been talking for well over an hour. "That's enough," he says. "You've got plenty. Good God!" "