Former Sen. Jesse Helms Has Dementia

[TomInTib]

They just realized this?

RALEIGH, N.C. - Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, in increasingly poor health before and since he left office three years ago, has vascular dementia and has moved into a convalescent center near his home, his wife said.

"He has his good days and his bad days," Dot Helms, told The News & Observer for a story Sunday. "He still sees friends. Company is good for him. He is still signing books. But he is not able to conduct any business or make any speeches."

The 84-year-old Republican has been slowed by illnesses including a bone disorder, prostate cancer and heart problems. As his career neared its end, he made his way through the Capitol on a motorized scooter. He decided against seeking a sixth term and left Congress in January 2003.

a little more:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060402/ap_on_re_us/jesse_helms

[ikojo]

1. Of course he will be cared for by privately paid private

duty nurses rather than the poorly paid and overworked CNAs that are employed by nursing homes.

[IselaB]

2. Well, I'm glad they finally figured it out.

[CanuckAmok]

3. I wonder what they'll say caused God to punish him.

Do you think it's lesbians on TV? I bet it's lesbians on TV. It's usually them.

[lastknowngood]

4. He's always had dementia F*k the Nazi

n/t

[Clovis Sangrail]

26. Why won't Jesse Helms just hurry up and die?

Stephen Hawking does gangster rap... funny stuff
http://www.mchawking.com/multimedia.php?page_function=mp3z

.............
Why Won't Jesse Helms Just Hurry Up And Die?
Verse 1
Big fat fuck from North Carolina state,
he's a worthless piece of shit, he's a paragon of hate,
he's a redneck, fuck-face, brain-dead waste of space,
two-bit, two-timing, motherfucking pool of slime.
Against gay rights, and funding for the arts,
tried to cancel PBS and tear Big Bird apart.
cut AIDS funding, corporate welfare for the rich,
he's a shameless money grubber, he's a two dollar bitch.

Chorus
Why won't Jesse Helms just hurry up and die?
...............

[xchrom]

5. i have no sympathy for that

creature's suffering.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. I don't wish dementia on anyone

even repugnant politicians like Helms.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. having watched my dad suffer from it for thirteen years, before

he was finally 'released,' I almost agree

almost

let them all BURN IN HELL, one they've created on earth for MILLIONS, if not billions of other earthlings

[acmejack]

20. That speaks volumes about you, GC.

More eloquently than a thousand words.

edited so Gabi didn't misunderstand...

[Gormy Cuss]

29. Thanks, acmejack.

I do understand the anger of Gabi and some other posters. I just think we're all on this sphere for a limited time and some endings are just too horrible for even my enemies.

[Gabi Hayes]

32. OK...here goes, and I don't like talking about this

my dad spent the last nine or ten years in a VA hospital

care got worse and worse, not that I blamed the people there, cause the government was constantly cutting back on staffing. people stole everything he had, even his MIT ring, his glasses (several times), his slippers

I won't go into the pysical details, but the VA stuff particularly galls me as everyone here very well knows what's happening to our soldiers as they come back armless, legless, hopeless

my father had his ASS blown off in WWII, literally, fighting for an apparently lost cause, because MONSTERS like Helms and his corporate masters are able to do anything they like.

I don't want to have anybody in this country have to fight this battle again, and I have very little regard for Helms and his ilk. Peace be to his family, but I won't go any farther than that. Being no Christian, I will say this: karma is a bitch, baby

[acmejack]

34. I relate fully, I'm a disabled vet.

I understand & share your toward monsters like Helms, I get to experience on a regular basis as I am totally dependent upon it for my survival. I have to wait six months between neurologist's appointments. I'm lucky to be in a "priority" group!

Karma is indeed a bitch.

[melody]

7. Couldn't happen to a more evil guy n/t

[rpannier]

8. It's easy to make a lot of pithy one-liners on this, but...

this time I'll pass. I've known people who have had some of the similar ailments. It's very difficult to go through, both for the person suffering and their family. I will never say Jesse Helms was a good person, because I didn't know him that well and most of what I did know of him I disliked.
To me, Helms will always be the poster boy for the new Republican Party. Most of what it embodies today he was pushing thirty five years ago.
The irony of Helms for me was one of the first black university students who attended Ole Miss with the aid of the National Guard worked for Helms (The man's name escapes me) and he held most of the same beliefs that Sen Helms did.

[Gabi Hayes]

14. see post 11

I lived it

I got over it

people like him have made a hell on earth for too many people for me to go all squishy anymore

[TomInTib]

16. Wasn't that James Meredith?

Turned out to be a real wacko.

[northzax]

9. this seems to happen to a lot of wingnuts

when they age. I'm sorry for his family, of course. But I wonder, you think maybe they've thought so many evil thoughts that their brain simply won't process it any more? not much of a legacy to look back on in your late days, is it?

[pitohui]

13. you know why don't you?

only the good die young, half of all people over age 85 have dementia, since GOP are evil and therefore don't die young, they have a greater risk of living into the dementia years

[pitohui]

10. how could they tell?

i know, i'm mean

[cali]

12. Great. In no time at all this will

be a long, hate filled diatribe. Makes me glad I was brought up to believe that discretion really is the better part of valor.

[Gabi Hayes]

17. you/re right. but I can't help this...see post 11

[BlooInBloo]

15. Good. I hope it's the really painful kind.

Evil bastard

[Lefty48197]

18. Thank God he can afford treatment for all those ailments

too bad he helped block so many others from getting coverage themselves.

[SharonAnn]

22. He should be grateful WE can afford the payments for him. It's the

taxpayer who's paying for his medical care.

[mike_c]

19. couldn't happen to a more deserving guy....

The man who once proclaimed that UNC was the "University of Nigras and Communists." :puke:

[EFerrari]

21. This is news?

:rofl:

[Jigarotta]

23. is that something like Joementia? nt

[rppper]

24. karmic payback....just like reagan........

remember when reagan said he couldn't remember.......

i hope all helms is seeing and hearing these days are black gay communists doing the pagan goat dance.....this only proves to me god works in mysterious ways.....

[KingFlorez]

25. This is news?

Anybody could see that he was demented long before now

[scarface2004]

27. let me know when they bury him...

i ll add it to the list of graves i need to urinate on!!

[flordehinojos]

28. i don't like jesse helms, never did, but i feel sad for him ...

the life cycle stages preparing to the end oflife are sad and lonely and i think we are all afraid of them and would prefer not to have to go through any of the pain of dying...but neither do i want to go through the suddenness of dying in a rapture and particularly not any rapture created by the bushit boy's nuclear bombs, or any nuclear bombs in response to the bushit boy's nuclear bombs.

[Golden Raisin]

30. He was a mean-spirited,

hate-filled excuse for a human being when in possession of his faculties. It's too late now for him but damn the crackers who kept re-electing him year after year.

[Swamp Rat]

31. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

Racist filth and fundie PNAC supporter! :hi:

[librechik]

33. improved over the plain ol batshit crazy he was the last 50 years

now he has illness as an excuse