OMFG!! Former US senator McCarthy dies

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=76883

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Former US senator Eugene McCarthy, whose 1968 anti-Vietnam War presidential candidacy helped drive president Lyndon Johnson from office, has died.

The 89-year-old democrat from Minnesota had suffered from Parkinson's disease, fell ill on Friday night and died from complications on Saturday morning, according to his son Michael.

"He's obviously going to be remembered for his opposition to the war in Vietnam and his campaign against Johnson, but I think he'd maybe prefer to be remembered for his work on the Civil Rights Act ... Medicare and Medicaid and environmental law," his son said.

"Another thing about him was that he was able to participate in some of the most contentious debates of his time ... and do it on the basis of ideas and policies and not on personalities. I think that was one of the reasons he had such appeal to the young."


McCarthy made his mark in the tumultuous 1968 campaign as a Pied Piper of the anti-Vietnam War movement that drove Democratic president Lyndon Johnson from office.

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Thanks for letting us know!

:-(

WTF is going on today? :cry:

and I just got home in time for the 11 o clock news and I hear that both McCarthy and Pryor died...what a sad day

He'd probably still be alive if people quit attaching OMFG to his name.

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