A decade later the Mel Carnahan plane crash still resonates

[lovedforaday]

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[lovedforaday]

He was the first dead person to be elected to the US Senate.

Why did I type that?

[juliet316]

As much of a tragedy I know it was, sadly my most prominent memory is the political rally the Democrats turned his memorial service into. How classy. *eyeroll*

[muppetfromhell]

I think you're thinking of Paul Wellstone... and in that case at least it was the right wing media claiming the democrats turned it into a political rally, not actually the democrats that did it.

[andnightsgrow]

i remember when this happened, mostly because my republican dad talked a lot about how it was a shame how he died but at least hey, a dead democrat is a good democrat! and then the outrage when he was posthumously elected (i love him, but he's kind of a dick). not that that was an uncommon feeling around here (springfield, ridic conservative, sucking the blunt family's dicks is a city tradition, etc etc)

[haruhiko]

sucking the blunt family's dicks is a city tradition

Oh lawd the mental image I just had of a whole crowd of senior citizens with kneepads on crowding into the town square for the biannual Blunt Clan Suckoff.

[painfulblue]

I remember when this happened, even though I was only 14 and not really into politics. :-/

[xerox78]

I remember being all HA HA [/Nelson] that John Ashcroft lost to a dead guy, then being NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! when Bush appointed Ashcroft as U.S. attorney general instead.