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Entry: Jesse Helms (1921-2008) Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/jesse_helms_1921_2008#31942 Post contents: @Matt Ritenhouse: Excuse me, but Senator Helms was not a "provincial redneck." Certainly he had deep roots in the soil of rural, small town North Carolina, but he was also an eloquent orator, a stickler for good grammar, and a reader (and quoter) of great literature. Just because a man speaks in one of the many accents of the South doesn't make him any less brilliant or smart than, say, a graduate of Harvard yard, thank you. Morever, I should rather be governed by an upright gentleman such as Jesse Helms than by any ten or hundred such graduates....after all, isn't Barack Obama a Harvard product? Sent at: 2008 11 20