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<blockquote data-quote="Joe" data-source="post: 493483" data-attributes="member: 9">It sorta reminds me of Lee Atwater.[MEDIA=youtube]X_8E3ENrKrQ[/MEDIA]He spent so much of his life hating 'the Left' or his Democratic opponents and running them down.But then one day he got Brain Cancer &amp; it was terminal.And suddenly then there was all this outpouring of sympathy and get well wishes from the very same people he demonized all those ears.In a February 1991 article for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine)" target="_blank">Life</a>, Atwater wrote:&quot;My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The 1980s were about acquiring – acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.&quot;In the article Atwater apologized to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis" target="_blank">Michael Dukakis</a> for the &quot;naked cruelty&quot; of the 1988 presidential election campaign.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joe, post: 493483, member: 9"] It sorta reminds me of Lee Atwater. [MEDIA=youtube]X_8E3ENrKrQ[/MEDIA] He spent so much of his life hating 'the Left' or his Democratic opponents and running them down. But then one day he got Brain Cancer & it was terminal. And suddenly then there was all this outpouring of sympathy and get well wishes from the very same people he demonized all those ears. In a February 1991 article for [I][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine)']Life[/URL][/I], Atwater wrote: "My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The 1980s were about acquiring – acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul." In the article Atwater apologized to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dukakis']Michael Dukakis[/URL] for the "naked cruelty" of the 1988 presidential election campaign." [/QUOTE]

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