Senator Arlen Specter, 82

[monk222]

Senator Arlen Specter died this morning at 82 from his cancer. He was a standout. Even before I was born and became a political spectator, he was already involved in the historic investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy. He was a Republican, but he was a maverick before Sarah Palin and John McCain ruined that term, an independent's independent, well, except for that time he carried water for Clarence Thomas to get on the Supreme Court and called the wrong person a perjuror. No one is perfect.

(News-LJ)