Patrick Moynihan dies

[arcticpenguin]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&ncid=703&e=1&u=/ap/20030327/ap_on_re_us/obit_moynihan

WASHINGTON - Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York City shoeshine boy who became an iconoclastic scholar-politician and served four terms in the Senate, died Wednesday. He was 76.

[Denise]

He is a good example that the "American Dream" can come true.

Too bad... full life though.

[Roadtoad]

Moynihan was correctly referred to as one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th Century. His was a life of service to his nation, and to the world at large. It's an example that should be repeated, loud and long, throughout the nation, and the world.

You may have disagreed with his politics. You may have argued his policies. But, by God, you stood up when he entered the room.

We're poorer for the loss.

[subgenius]

A great example of why "liberal" isn't a dirty word.
Wrote more books than most Senators have read.--George Will