Having just read that our first woman Attorney General, Janet Reno died. I immediately remembered a truly insensitive joke John McCain made about her and 18 year old Chelsea Clinton at the 1998 Republican Convention:

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Because her father is Janet Reno."

McCain was 62 back then, and has since apologized, but it would be so fitting for Reno's passing to remind Arizona voters of the man he was, and very likely still is, and to defeat his Senate bid as a long overdue, but fitting, retribution for the kind of Republican crassness that paved the way for Trump to perhaps lower the bar on decency even more with his mocking a disabled reporter.

It would be such a powerful way to honor Janet Reno's life, and so poetically just, for John McCain to lose his Senate race tomorrow as divine retribution for that deeply offensive Janet Reno/Chelsea Clinton joke.

Proud Liberal Dem

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4. RIP

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Mon Nov 7, 2016, 12:15 PM

Nov 2016

She was a tremendous person. Saddened by her passing.

Mika

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5. RIP. I met her in 2006. Helped her get her canoe from the roof rack in the Everglades.

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Mon Nov 7, 2016, 12:36 PM

Nov 2016

Was cycling a century ride with a group thru the Everglades Nat Park, where we ran into her at a rest stop where there was a canoe launch point. I went up to her with greetings and an offer of help with the canoe. We chatted about the beauty and solitude of the park. I thanked her for work in gov't, and beseeched her to watch out for the Alligators. We laughed, shook hands, and went on our way.

A very nice and gentle person.

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