RIP Teddy Kennedy

[Duckies]

You will be greatly missed, Sir.

For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. -- Senator Edward Moore Kennedy

 

[BigJimW]

I am going to keep my peace regarding this man, but I will acknowledge that someone known by a lot of people died today.

At least he left a bill with his name on it that will ultimately be the death warrant to millions of smokers in this country. Nice.

Now I go back to work.

 

[CZEdwards]

Duckies, agreed.

 

[EasyE]

OK. well leave it to me then.............................Can anyone say Chappaquiddick?

 

[Mary Kay]

Right or wrong, he tried for a great many years. That's a lot more then most people can say. Yes the man had demons, but he did right by his family...all of them. To me that is the mark of a man. Let God judge, let us just say there are better men, worse men but no one like him. Rest in Peace Teddy.

 

[gashin]

EXACTLY - just another politician...

Right or wrong, he tried for a great many years. That's a lot more then most people can say. Yes the man had demons, but he did right by his family...all of them. To me that is the mark of a man. Let God judge, let us just say there are better men, worse men but no one like him. Rest in Peace Teddy.

 

[Jay9928]

You won't be missed by me Ted. Murderer, drunk, and a womanizer. Liberal to the tenth degree Democrat scum.

In May 1983, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) directed friend and fellow Senator John Tunney to meet with the Soviet KGB with a tantalizing message. Tunney was to tell the KGB to alert Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov that Kennedy believed then President Ronald Reagan was a threat, possibly a military one, to the Soviet Union. Because of his worry over Reagan’s intentions, he offered to Andropov, through Tunney, to coordinate American media with the aim of undermining President Reagan with the electorate. In short, an American Senator collaborated with our arch foe in the Cold War to undermine a sitting President.

Have a good time in hell Ted

 

[EasyE]

You won't be missed by me Ted. Murderer, drunk, and a womanizer. Liberal to the tenth degree Democrat scum.

In May 1983, Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) directed friend and fellow Senator John Tunney to meet with the Soviet KGB with a tantalizing message. Tunney was to tell the KGB to alert Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov that Kennedy believed then President Ronald Reagan was a threat, possibly a military one, to the Soviet Union. Because of his worry over Reagan’s intentions, he offered to Andropov, through Tunney, to coordinate American media with the aim of undermining President Reagan with the electorate. In short, an American Senator collaborated with our arch foe in the Cold War to undermine a sitting President.

Have a good time in hell Ted

Undermining a sitting United States President is what the Lefty's do best man......its nothing new. Happened to Regan Happened to Bush. Far lefty's dont have inteligent politcal views, they only have rehashed bad ideas that they will say and do ANYTHING to get passed............for example : what your seeing now with the bail outs and healthcare non sense......

p.s you left out the part where he kills a young women by driving her and himself into a lake. Dude whifs the bridge then proceeds to save himself and leave the girl to drown. Then good old Teddy goes to bed before telling anyone that there is a drowning young lady down the street in the lake.

 

[Jay9928]

p.s you left out the part where he kills a young women by driving her and himself into a lake. Dude whifs the bridge then proceeds to save himself and leave the girl to drown. Then good old Teddy goes to bed before telling anyone that there is a drowning young lady down the street in the lake.

Yesterday 05:52 PM EasyE OK. well leave it to me then.............................Can anyone say Chappaquiddick?

 

[denec]

An Honest Summary of Ted Kennedy's Disgraceful Life

As soon as his cancer was detected, I noticed the immediate attempt at the “canonization” of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media. They are saying what a "great American" he is. I say, let's get a couple things clear and not twist the facts to change the real history:

1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.

2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. Oops! The man can't count to four! His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea , where a war was raging. No preferential treatment for him! (like he charged that President Bush received).

3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris , never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person of his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private!

4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia , he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked.. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959. Amazing!

5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed.. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?

6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts . At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond..

7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party, passing several houses and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew – that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead, Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car. Kopechne was able to stay alive for a while breathing a bubble of air inside the car.

One source notes “A diver was sent down and discovered Kopechne’s body at around 8:45 am. The diver, John Farrar, later testified at the inquest that Kopechne’s body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. He interpreted this to mean that Kopechne had survived for a while after the initial accident in the air bubble, and concluded that: ‘Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim’s side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.’ ”

The Kennedy family began “calling in favors”, ensuring that any inquiry would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family, before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn’t call police because he was in a state of shock.

It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight. Since the accident, Kennedy’s “political enemies” have referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. He pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS.

Kopechne’s family received a small pay out from the Kennedy’s insurance policy, and never sued. There was later an effort to have her body exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy’s family paid their attorney’s bills… a “token of friendship”?

8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years, but considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the "standard-bearer for liberalism". In his very first Senate roll, he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S. immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from third world countries.

9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every expansion of an increase in immigration, up to and including the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of “what’s right".

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than "great American". “A blond in every pond” should be his motto.

Let's not allow the spin doctors to make this jerk a hero -- how quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is. Let’s keep this going for truth, justice and the American way

 

[Casey C]

Undermining a sitting United States President is what the Lefty's do best man......

and the right would never undermine the president


seriously, who are you people? judge not or something christian like that...

 

[Duckies]

Thems teabirthers & deathers.

I ignore them.

We lost a great man who, even with his personal demons, did more for this country in his 47 years in the Senate than any other.

 

[denec]

Thems teabirthers & deathers.

I ignore them.

We lost a great man who, even with his personal demons, did more for this country in his 47 years in the Senate than any other.

Tell that to the family of Mary Jo Kopechne

This guy was lowlife with no morals whatsoever, nothing new from the kennedys a bunch of spoil brats

 

[Casey C]

Tell that to the family of Mary Jo Kopechne

This guy was lowlife with no morals whatsoever, nothing new from the kennedys a bunch of spoil brats

sigh

yeah and Laura Bush killed a man

let the mud slinging begin

 

[denec]

sigh

yeah and Laura Bush killed a man

let the mud slinging begin

I don't worship politicians, i think 99% are corrupt

 

[Robert]

Great Man who fought for the rights of those who had none, That is what America is all about.

Makes me sick some would take his death to start trash talking.

 

[Casey C]

I don't worship most politicians, i think 99% are corrupt

astute assumption, now if we can just teach you running down a dead man helps no one and hurts you..

 

[denec]

Great Man who fought for the rights of those who had none, That is what America is all about.

Makes me sick some would take his death to start trash talking.

did you even read what i posted...how can you say he is a great man?

he is a POS...if he ever took full responsibility maybe there would be some forgiveness..until then he is a rich spoiled brat who got away with what he did because he is a kennedy

 

[denec]

astute assumption, now if we can just teach you running down a dead man helps no one and hurts you..

i felt the same about him when he was alive..

 

[Drunkwaco]

If all the rumors are false RIP teddy
If most of them are true See ya sucker