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Eminentoes
Trustfund Ted
The rules did not apply to the Kennedys.
“After all is said and done, Ted Kennedy is still the man in American politics Republicans love to hate,” Republican strategist Lee Atwater, himself the victim of brain cancer, observed in 1990. Though attitudes toward Senator Kennedy softened because of his illness, he remained a figure with few admirers who weren’t also colleagues, constituents, or political fellow travelers. Kennedy votaries who dismiss criticisms of the late senator as the product of partisanship or ideological bitterness tell themselves a comforting lie. Scores of Democrats shared Kennedy’s politics. None elicited the heated response in conservative direct mail, campaign ads, or red-meat speeches. Ted Kennedy’s politics, rather than blinding conservatives to Ted Kennedy’s virtues, blinded liberals to his vices — which were large and many.
The caricature that Ann Richards and others painted of George H.W. Bush — “born on third base and thought that he hit a triple” — more resembled Ted Kennedy, a gregarious rogue enabled by wealth, power, and a famous last name. The privilege that shielded the playboy senator from the consequences of his actions acted as a double-edge sword by ensuring that he also never learned from the mistakes he didn’t suffer from.
Despite ranking in the bottom half of his class at Milton Academy, Ted Kennedy matriculated into America’s most prestigious university in 1950. Grades? He was a Kennedy. His three older brothers and father had graduated from Harvard. Why couldn’t he? Unable to perform in the classroom as he performed on the football field, the youngest of the Kennedy brood hired a classmate to take his Spanish exam. Those who had bent the rules to admit him abided by them in expelling him. Joe Kennedy was furious — that his son got caught, not that he cheated.
When the immature Kennedy impulsively enlisted in the Army to save face, he discovered that his contract obliged him to a longer period of service, and exposed him to the dangers of combat. An outraged Joe Kennedy responded, “Don’t you even look at what you’re signing?” His father, one of the richest men in America, “fixed” the matter with a few phone calls. Ted’s four-year contract became a two-year stint, and the possibility of a soldier’s life on the front lines in Korea was rectified with a posh assignment in Paris guarding NATO’s headquarters.
Ted Kennedy is perhaps the only senator who never — save for his Army respite from Harvard — held a steady paying job prior to landing one in that august body. This infuriated his opponent, Edward McCormack, in the 1962 Massachusetts Democratic primary. “If his name was Edward Moore, with his qualifications,” the state’s attorney general remarked in a debate, “your candidacy would be a joke.” But starting at the top was the Kennedy way. If Joseph Kennedy could go from stock swindler to chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Robert Kennedy could become attorney general of the United States without ever having tried a case in court, then certainly President Kennedy’s kid brother could, just three years out of law school, win a place in the U.S. Senate.
“Of course, I’m hurt,” Edward McCormack reflected immediately after his loss. “I think it’s unjust that he should even try for the nomination. Two years ago, I led all candidates in this state at the polls. Right now I hold the most important elective office held in this state by a Democrat. Then along came Teddy Kennedy out of the blue. If this is politics, if they can get away with this, then I don’t want any part of politics.”
A few years later, Ted Kennedy got away with it again. After finishing ninth in a field of 31 in a regatta, Kennedy spent a Saturday partying with six unmarried women and a group of married men. Pounding rum and cokes, Kennedy absconded from the booze barbecue with Mary Jo Kopechne, whom he drove to her death off a narrow, unlit bridge without guardrails. For almost ten hours, the senator dried out, called numerous acquaintances, and tried to get his cousin to go along with a cover story that Kopechne had been alone at the wheel — but did nothing to alert authorities to his party companion’s plight. Political fixers fixed him with a neck brace, produced a renewed driver’s license for the unlicensed senator, and released incomplete phone records — exposed by the New York Times a decade later — that erased the calls he made between the time of the accident and the time of his reporting it. Characteristic of the treatment he had received his whole life, Kennedy avoided jail and overwhelmingly won reelection the next year. His mother responded by initially disinheriting Ted’s cousin, her orphaned nephew, who refused to go along with her son’s subterfuge.
Like his previous mistakes, the accident did nothing to alter Kennedy’s misbehavior. Here, caught in broad daylight in the marital act on the floor of a posh Washington restaurant. There, waking his son and nephew to carouse the Palm Beach bars on Good Friday — leading to accusations of a rape occurring within earshot of the senator. Whereas assassinations and World War II kept his older brothers forever young, Ted’s reckless behavior made him the Peter Pan of the Senate. Though his jet-black hair turned snow white, and his football physique transformed into a Fritos physique, Ted Kennedy remained in suspended adolescence for most of his 47 years in the elected office.
Insulated by the consequences of his behavior, Kennedy was also shielded from the consequences of his policies. He was the champion of busing who kept his own children far from the public schools; an advocate of publicly funded campaigns who bankrolled his political career with his family’s shadowy financing; an icon of feminists who used women like Kleenex, serially harassed members of the opposite sex, and spent ten hours attempting to rescue his political career as he denied the young women suffocating in an air pocket in his Oldsmobile professional rescue attempts; and the primary booster of socialized medicine who assembled a dream team of neurosurgeons to consult on his treatment for brain cancer. The proverbial limousine liberal was made real in Trustfund Ted.
Particularly galling to Senator Kennedy’s amazed antagonists was the manner in which those that he wronged rewarded rather than punished their transgressor. Edward McCormack’s family chose Kennedy to deliver a eulogy at his funeral. In anticipation of the 1976 race for the presidency, Joe and Gwen Kopechne offered that they would cast their votes for Kennedy should he run. More than a half century after expelling Ted Kennedy, Harvard awarded him an honorary degree and celebrated him at The Game, where Harvard Stadium’s confused spectators were left wondering how Ted Kennedy ‘54 could have caught a touchdown pass in the 1955 Harvard-Yale game.
“My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life,” Ted eulogized slain brother Bobby in 1969. More than four decades later, Ted Kennedy’s conservative detractors are wondering why the senator’s admirers aren’t heeding such advice.
About the Author
Daniel J. Flynn is the author of Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America. He blogs at www.flynnfiles.com.
Robbins Mitchell| 8.28.09 @ 6:21AM
Is Nazi Joe's last big mistake still dead?
wanda keith | 8.28.09 @ 6:28AM
Excellent article. You captured my thoughts exactly.
Timothy L. Pennell| 8.28.09 @ 7:27AM
Dead at last. Dead at last. Thank God Almighty, this DRUNK is dead at last. All these accolades coming from all these people. This guy was a PIG. A PIG, a MURDERER, and a TRAITOR. The DRUNKEN Son of a NAZI SYMPATHIZER. The Son of a man, who had his own daughter LOBOTOMIZED, and then shipped off to die somewhere, out of sight. A good 'Catholic Boy', who's 'in your face' philandering, drove his wife to the bottle, and eventually to an ASSYLUM. A piece of GARBAGE who, after driving his car off of a bridge, in a DRUNKEN STUPOR, saved HIMSELF, and left his companion, a young woman, to DIE. He sat there for HOURS. There was a HOUSE, right there, with a PORCH LIGHT ON. FACT! He might have saved her. But SHE never entered his mind. His CAREER had to be saved. So he left her for DEAD.
Just like he did with the South Vietnamese. And Laos, and Cambodia. He was the driving force, him and that other piece of trash, Chris Dodd, in pulling the rug out from under our ALLIES in Southeast Asia. Cutting off PROMISED MILITARY AID. Cutting off the WEAPONS they needed to fight the COMMUNISTS, themselves. The Boat People, and the GENOCIDE in the KILLING FIELDS. More BLOOD on his hands.
In the 1980's he sent a letter to SOVIET LEADER Yuri Andropov, trying to HELP the SOVIET LEADER, stop PRESIDENT REAGAN from countering Warsaw Pact Intermediate Nuclear Missiles, with Missiles in EUROPE. He was giving AID and COMFORT to our ENEMIES. Just as he always has.
And finally. No-one has been a bigger Champion, for the 'RIGHT' to MURDER Gods' most INNOCENT creation. Little babies, inside their Mothers' Womb. The BLOOD of MILLIONS of UNBORN CHILDREN is on his hands. I only pray that there's a SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL, for this Creature. I don't know WHO all these people on television are talking about, because THIS is TED KENNEDY.
TexGEOas| 8.28.09 @ 7:35AM
Forensics showed that Mary Jo Kopechne lived up to 30 minutes after the car entered the water. She clawed for breath chasing the escaping air bubbles while Ted Kennedy left the scene... and ultimately left the island... never reporting the accident to anyone. Fishermen found the car the next morning and reported it. Let's also not forget THIS Ted Kennedy.
Kitty| 8.28.09 @ 7:48AM
How ironic that the day after ol' Teddy K died, Dominick Dunne died, also from cancer.
Dunne wrote "A Season In Purgatory," which was instrumental in the renewed attention of the Kennedy relative, Michael Skakel, for the murder of Martha Moxley. He was eventually convicted of the crime.
What's puzzling is this book is not mentioned in most of the Dunne obits I've read. Then, again, maybe it's not surprising, considering that that particular book was a veiled account of the Kennedys.
Robert Rosencrans| 8.28.09 @ 8:34AM
I've never read a better characterization of a rat.
WestRight| 8.28.09 @ 9:33AM
Fat Teddy and his clan are the real prototype for all Limosine Liberals and perfectly reflects the true principles of the Democrat party. My prayer for TK is 'May his death be a harbinger for the rest of the Limosine Libs in 2010!
Jerry Adams| 8.28.09 @ 9:41AM
Just think - If he had been driving a Beetle, (they float for a while), he would have been President.
R Martin| 8.28.09 @ 9:43AM
There has been a lot of talk about naming whatever emerges as a health care bill in honor of Sen. Kennedy. Whether or not that happens, we should at least do this: name the swine flu vaccine after him.
loulou| 8.28.09 @ 9:45AM
What a family of criminal thugs! Can we at long last be rid of the Kennedys?
Kitty| 8.28.09 @ 9:56AM
Jerry Adams: National Lampoon Magainze did a joke ad that read: "If Ted Kennedy drove a Volkswagen, he'd be President today!"
You can view a scanned copy here:
http://www.jasoncoleman.com/Me.....wsmall.jpg
...
Janice| 8.28.09 @ 9:59AM
a mini masterpiece
B Boyd| 8.28.09 @ 10:04AM
Even though many Conservatives and Family Values Groups did not like Ted Kennedy, we must remember that he was a human being. When we stand before God, individually, we will give an account for every idle word spoken, the evil thoughts in our hearts and minds, and every wrong act we committed without being caught. No one should ever wish someone else to be in hell. Yes, we may think that person deserves it but so does every human that is born. My prayer is that Ted had an opportunity to repent of the evil he did and that he found grace and mercy in God through Jesus Christ.
Darren Goode| 8.28.09 @ 10:30AM
The sun now shines more brightly across our country that the last bastard of that family is dead. A whole troupe of filandering, lying, nepotizing, drunken layabouts is finally going to be viewing the grass from the other side of the turf. Good riddance to a fat, bloated, murdering pig.
Carole Gravellisi| 8.28.09 @ 10:40AM
Any man who can pull up his trousers underwater must surely have had the votes of Massachusetts voters...for how else to explain his victories to the Senate? Oh, I forgot his father Joe bought the kid that seat......
LQQKY| 8.28.09 @ 10:49AM
To B Boyd: Sorry B, even if he manages to get close to the Pearly Gates, he's gonna find that his money is not near enough to pay the toll to get in and that his family name and influence can no longer help him -- particularly since there is a great of doubt that his daddy and siblings are there to pull strings to help him.
Barbarian Heretic| 8.28.09 @ 11:01AM
I read a brilliant comment this morning:
The Dem health insurance plan should be renamed "KopechneCare"- after all, it's dead in the water...
Dustoff| 8.28.09 @ 11:09AM
To B Boyd
Sorry I must also disagree. Ted Kennedy has wreck and smeared SO many lives. I feel hell is the only place for this man. Heck, I'm worried he'll take over. (Not once has he ever said sorry for any of his actions) He even blamed his car wreck on the car. His words ( the car drove off the road and into the water)
scott| 8.28.09 @ 11:45AM
Your comparisons regarding accountability are the baseline of Teddy's life. I'm mentally adding Breitbart's "sociopath" description to it. Teddy was shameless.
Anthony| 8.28.09 @ 11:49AM
Well said Mr. Flynn, truly Ted Kennedy was a contemptable and reprehensible human being, perhaps, one of a select few in human history, with no redeeming value.
That said, it's right to also focus on the enablers, who perhaps, deserve more scorn than the departed Kennedy. Time and time again, as noted by Mr. Flynn, to paraphrase, good men and woman did nothing to put a halt to the destructive behavior of this one man wrecking crew. Be it out of fear, greed or cowardice, many people, some departed and some who remain today, will have to face the consequences of their actions and inactions. And for what? A piece of human debris. What little value some people place upon their souls. Ted Kennedy's destructive swatch was wider than a 100 Katrina's.
L. Ross| 8.28.09 @ 12:14PM
Daniel Flynn:
The best, short article every written about Teddy. Bravo. A Masterpiece.
catladyjan| 8.28.09 @ 1:45PM
Timothy Pennell,
Well said......I could not AGREE WITH YOU MORE!
The guy was a sleazy dirtbag and shamefully, called himself a "Catholic". He AND the rest of them were disgraceful in every way. I am glad he's gone too.
Walter| 8.28.09 @ 2:15PM
Also don't forget, that while Ted has NEVER voted to decrease or get rid of the death tax, the Kennedy's have transferred 100's of millions of dollars inter-generationally while paying a small portion of the percentage that you or I would pay.
Tim| 8.28.09 @ 2:51PM
Matthew 6 (New International Version)
19 "This, then, is how you should pray:
" 'Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come,
your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
Forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.' For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com| 8.28.09 @ 3:05PM
loulou, bad news. If you recall, back when john kerry was leading in the 2004 presidential polling, konnedy led an effort to revise the senatorial succession laws to prevent then governor Romney, a republican appointing a non-democrat to that office by holding a special election instead. Once it became apparent that konnedy would not survive this term, toddy-boy was leading an effort to repeal the law he had revised in 2004 since given the current political climate, even in taxachusetts, an election might not preserve the dumbocratic veto proof majority. In konnedy’s cancer racked mind, it would be much better for the dumbocratic governor appoint miss vicky to that senate post. Plus, konnedy niece caroline is available for senate work.
Gill O’Teen ✝✡
gill.Oteen07041776@gmail.com
Don’t Tread on Me!!
Dean| 8.28.09 @ 3:28PM
In the movie "Chinatown," John Huston remarked that "Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough." Astronomers reckon the age of the universe to be roughly 14 billion years. Even that is not enough time to make Ted Kennedy and his fellow liberals "respectable."
Dixie Pixie| 8.28.09 @ 3:39PM
It is a article of faith of Liberalism that the political system is fixed to a given outcome. The left is right, as it is the liberals that are doing the “fixing”. Sen. Kennedy's life is a standing monument to the glory of political fixing. Why is it surprising the senators life would be celebrated by the benefiters of his political fixing, RE: the Washington elite. Senator Kennedy spent his life taking from the middle class and giving it to the governmental and legal classes. No wonder he was so beloved. He used your tax dollars to buy that “love”.
jr| 8.28.09 @ 5:09PM
"My prayer is that Ted had an opportunity to repent of the evil he did and that he found grace and mercy in God through Jesus Christ. " Is this all that is necessary -- death just before your eyes -- repent, and all forgiven. Nonsense!!!!!!!!!!!!! He lives a lifetime of corruption and murder and in 1/2 second he is on the way up instead of down?
Marianne7| 8.28.09 @ 5:11PM
eeewwww... Where was mrs bobbitt when we needed her?
Pingback| 8.28.09 @ 5:16PM
The American Spectator : Trustfund Ted | americantoday links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Cheney:RulesDon't apply to him| 8.28.09 @ 5:40PM
Cheney Power Grab: Says White House Rules Don't Apply to Him
by Justin Rood
Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies, according to a new letter from Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., to Cheney.
Bill Leonard, head of the government's Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), told Waxman's staff that Cheney's office has refused to provide his staff with details regarding classified documents or submit to a routine inspection as required by presidential order, according to Waxman.
In pointed letters released today by Waxman, ISOO's Leonard twice questioned Cheney's office on its assertion it was exempt from the rules. He received no reply, but the vice president later tried to get rid of Leonard's office entirely, according to Waxman.
Leonard did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
In a statement e-mailed to the Blotter on ABCNews.com, Cheney spokeswoman Megan McGinn said, "We are confident that we are conducting the office properly under the law."
As director of the tiny, 25-person Information Security Oversight Office, Leonard is responsible for keeping track of the nation's secrets and making sure they are properly protected.
For the first two years of the George W. Bush administration, Cheney's office complied with a presidential order that requires officials to report statistics on the number of documents it classifies and declassifies.
Since 2003, however, Cheney's office has refused to submit the data to ISOO. And when ISOO inspectors tried in 2004 to schedule a routine inspection of the vice president's offices, they were rebuffed, Waxman's letter claims.
Other White House offices, including the National Security Council, did not object to similar inspections, according to Waxman.
"Serious questions can be raised about both the legality and advisability of exempting your office from the rules that apply to all other executive branch officials," Waxman said in his letter to the vice president, and asked him to explain why he felt the rules didn't apply to him and his staff and how he was protecting classified information in his office.
Former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was recently convicted on several counts of perjury and obstruction of justice stemming from the leak of the identity of former covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, Waxman noted, and in 2006, former Cheney aide Leandro Aragoncillo pleaded guilty to sharing classified U.S. documents with foreign nationals. Aragoncillo also worked under former Democratic Vice President Al Gore, who complied with ISOO's requests.
Copyright © 2007 ABCNews Internet Ventures
Marc Jeric| 8.28.09 @ 6:29PM
I was going to say my piece about that bottom-feeder lying scum Ted Kennedy - but then I desisted since Mr. Pennel said it all.
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Alan Brooks| 8.28.09 @ 7:29PM
I shouldn't be so hard on Pat Buchanan, he was right the liberal double standard is the 8th wonder of the world.
Ted and Jacko were/are such unlikely heroes it is literally fantastic.
This is incredible, just incredible. Fobbing off Ted as a role model. Self deception to the nth degree.
Jack| 8.28.09 @ 8:33PM
I can understand the philandering, the lying, the manslaughter, the boozing, the bloating, the cheating, and the ... more boozing. All perfectly natural for a self-serving, self-absorbed, self-centered, self-pleasuring adolescent ass.
What I can't understand is his infatuation with the Commies. What was in it for him?
Jack| 8.28.09 @ 11:15PM
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Oscar Araiza| 8.29.09 @ 12:54AM
To BBoyd & LQQKY:
I must agree (however grudgingly) with BBoyd.
Our battles are to be fought in this realm. TK now belongs in His realm & must defend himself. While we may condemn TK's life & actions here, God reserves for Himself condemnation (or salvation) there. In other words, as the condemned are told prior to their demise, "May God have mercy on [his] soul".
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Our battles are to be fought in this realm. TK now belongs in His realm & must defend himself. While we may condemn TK's life & actions here, God reserves for Himself condemnation (or salvation) there. In other words, as the condemned are told prior to their demise, "May God have mercy on [his] soul".
Kevin| 8.29.09 @ 1:55AM
Rubbish Kennedy for sure but never forget it was the scumbag electors who kept him in power.
Says a lot about American morals.
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Ed Driscoll » “You Can’t Make An Omelet Without Breaking Chicks, Right?” links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Rick | 8.29.09 @ 7:17AM
The death of any person (in this case Ted Kennedy) is something that should be treated with respect. Even if it is that of your enemy.
Unfortunately some people still exhibit the barbaric customs of the middle ages, when it was customary by some tribes to chop off the head of a slain hero and display it as a trophy in the market place.
Shame on you Mr. Flynn
DaveS| 8.29.09 @ 8:44AM
Since mid-week, the most anyone on camera has said about Teddy-boy is that he "was for them" - no further info known or required. Name me something important he accomplished (for persons not belonging to the Clan.)
I despised Ted as a MA teenager, and my wife castigated me often for saying I looked forward to the day I wouldn't hear from Ted again. Kopechne is enough to get the picture, poor Ethel.
I watched the TV 'Inquest' in Marxist Vineyard (the outside the courthouse view) and wondered, 'what's going on inside?' Friendly and incompetent judge, family members only - you get the point - just like a staged pre-November '08 rally for BHO.
Flags flying here in NY at half-mast. Oh, brother. At least, understandably, it was on government school lawn.
God rest his soul. Now, MA, please don't sent another like him to Washington.
Dave Lincoln| 8.29.09 @ 9:11AM
"Unfortunately some people still exhibit the barbaric customs of the middle ages, when it was customary by some tribes to chop off the head of a slain hero and display it as a trophy in the market place."
"Shame on you Mr. Flynn "
Uhhh, hate to tell you, Rick, but Ted Kennedy died of cancer. His head was still firmly attached upon his demise. So, he wasn't slain. Oh, and he wasn't any kind of hero either.
Go ahead writing about the middle ages; I'm all ears. What does it have to do with Mr. Flynn's article? Flynn told it like it was.
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Imagine If Chappaquiddick Happened With Todays Media » Pirate's Cove links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Fourth Stooge| 8.29.09 @ 10:18AM
A pig of a man. The son of a pig of a man. Mary Jo gave her life to save us all from a pig of a man.
Joe Kennedy's obituaries omitted his strong ties to the Ku Klux Klan and his open support of Nazi Germany. Or his shameful treatment of his daughter.
Ted was never held responsible for any of his mistakes either. The worse he behaved, the more he was lionized. He was not held responsible for his actions during his life and we are expected to hold our tongues upon his death also. When are we allowed to speak the truth about this pig of a man?
Which Kennedy will now replace him on the national stage? We are sure to be afflicted with one of them...and we will be expected to thank them...
D Jones| 8.29.09 @ 10:34AM
Quick...somebody get a stake to drive through his heart! And don't forget to separate the head from the body and burn them in separate pyres!!!
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Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : Trustfund Ted [spectator.org] on Top links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Dave Lincoln| 8.29.09 @ 12:03PM
"Quick...somebody get a stake to drive through his heart! And don't forget to separate the head from the body and burn them in separate pyres!!!"
C'mon, D. Jones, you know that staking and posthumous-beheading are prohibited at Arlington, right? Jeeesh! Get with the program. We're going to have to think of something else, prontomundo. Let's start brainstorming now, before we get another poltergiest situation.
"He's back!!"
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My smart alleck disrespectful posting of the day….. | Political Byline links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Jack Sherratt| 8.29.09 @ 1:24PM
What a shame that the Catholic Church, led by the Pope, allowed the name of Jesus to be desecrated by holding a Catholic Mass for Ted Kennedy! This was the ultimate in hypocrisy! Even Judas Iscariot would have trouble "topping" this desecration of Jesus' name!
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I hope that he had the opportunity to apologize to Mary Jo Kopechne « Lyssa, Lovely R links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
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Roundup « 4Simpsons Blog – Eternity Matters links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
HistoryWriter| 8.29.09 @ 4:48PM
Reading these comments reminds me of life in the jungle: the hyenas come out and nibble on the carcasses after the lions have gone.
GENE HAUBER| 8.29.09 @ 4:51PM
I AGREE WITH TIMOTHY PENNEL. TED KENNEDY WAS A MENACE TO THIS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC IN HIS EVERY WAKING MOMENT.
HE WAS ALSO THE BIGGEST PIG AND PIECE OF SHIT THIS COUNTRY EVER PRODUCED.
GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH....WE SHOULD REJOICE THAT HE IS DEAD AND HIS OVERBEARING INFLUENCE IS GONE FOREVER.
Macaroni | 8.29.09 @ 5:16PM
This man, you know, was, you know, like, you know, A DEGENERATE PIG.
Macaroni | 8.29.09 @ 5:16PM
This man, you know, was, you know, like, you know, A DEGENERATE PIG.
Macaroni | 8.29.09 @ 5:19PM
Forgive the double posting. What I meant to continue with was, you know, I can't, you know, figure out, you know, what it is, you know, about this family of brats (with the exception of Eunice, who did do some pretty cool things with her life), that, you know, continues to hold fascination with people. Good Gawd, get over it! Camelot was forty freakin' years ago! I'm sick of hearing about it!!! YOU KNOW!
Eric Cartman| 8.29.09 @ 9:23PM
The Kennedy lovers just can't seem to bring themselves to see what a rat bastard Teddy was - tells you something about them, doesn't it?
Alan Brooks| 8.29.09 @ 11:09PM
None of the attacks on Ted are unfair.
There is great-- justified-- anger at Ted. But not that much hatred; and not thoroughly unjustified hatred. Can you imagine if Reagan had dopily run off a bridge, drowning a young (pregnant?) woman. Yet another reason I've switched from lib to conservative-- less fairness in the left.
I shouldn't attack Pat Buchanan, though he's no picnic as a person. Pat is right that the liberal double standard is the 8th wonder of the world.
It derives from GUILT.
Liberal guilt...
uh, guilt, oh, say, at hmm, like um, let's see, maybe for having DROWNED someone in July of '69? It is called manslaughter and it is a crime punishable by imprisonment.
Alan Brooks| 8.29.09 @ 11:13PM
If Ted detractors stayed up late gnashing their teeth about Ted and punching holes in the plaster, that would be going too far. But most at AS have families, they turn off the computer at night and forget about the day.
Ted defenders are not convincing.
IescapedMA| 8.30.09 @ 12:00AM
I have kept quiet on this topic; I was raised to show respect for the dead. Funeral is over, now can everyone just be honest about this family. Maybe the education center is a good use for the compound; it is better than the party house the young hell raisers have been using it for over the past 20 years. Ted's new wife may have humanized him but he was not always a nice person and many people could attest to that. He is the reason for so many hardworking people leaving MA. let us hope that the empty seat is filled by a true public servant in an election and not by ascension as it has been. There should be term limits too, no one should hold office for this long, they lose sight of why they are there.
Do ALL elected officials get this treatment if they ask and is it paid for by we, the taxpayers?
UpChuck.Liberals| 8.30.09 @ 12:12AM
I'd like to take a few moments to say something about Ted Kennedy .......................................................................................... well if you can't say anything nice about the dearly departed (yahoo, one down too many to go) then don't say anything.
urdumcunts| 8.30.09 @ 1:47AM
So this is where all the worthless POS's hang out...
John Lockwood| 8.30.09 @ 8:11AM
Let's not forget that Teddy, the lover of the poor, did his best to kill school choice, even for poor black children in D.C., while he and the rest of the family went to private schools.
Laney B| 8.30.09 @ 9:06AM
Kennedy was an embarrassment. His hypocritical posturing and family money allowed him and them to hoodwink a nation besotted by good looks and a friendly press. To the everlasting shame of Massachusetts voters, he, a man with no practical experience of the real world, was kept in office to ply his nonsense on the American people.
God must have invented Ted Kennedy as a reminder to the rest of the lowly proletariat that if you are born with money, you can buy respectability. Now that he's safely gone from this earthly habitat, the rest of us can look to a better future than the one lived under The Kennedy Boys' arrogant view of the world.
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Cris Worth| 8.30.09 @ 1:55PM
Liberals by nature are hypocrites. Ted championed BUSING, a very divisive issue especially in Massachucetts. His rich kids went to private schools but lower income kids weren't so lucky. The pinnacle of his hyprocrisy occured in 1973 in a speeched referenced to Watergate: "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" High and mighty Ted the honary citizen of Chappaquiddick did not lose his political seat unlike Nixon. Nixon did many things both good and bad but he didn't drive a car off a bridge and allow a young woman to suffocate in his car.
Cris Worth| 8.30.09 @ 2:02PM
Liberals by nature are hypocrites. Ted championed BUSING, a very divisive issue especially in Massachucetts. His rich kids went to private schools but lower income kids weren't so lucky. The pinnacle of his hyprocrisy occured in 1973 in a speeched referenced to Watergate: "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" High and mighty Ted the honorary citizen of Chappaquiddick did not lose his political seat unlike Nixon. Nixon did many things both good and bad but he didn't drive a car off a bridge and allow a young woman to suffocate in his car.
(My apologies I spelled honorary wrong in the original comment. A lower income victim of public schools)
ptson| 8.30.09 @ 5:42PM
I think it is only fitting that the private Congressional Health Care Plan should be named after Teddy Kennedy. The TEDDY KENNEDY PLAN, a symbol of self-indulgence and total disregard for the public. The other plan, the PUBLIC plan is something else, however. I suggest that the public plan be named the MARYJO KOPECHNE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. This will properly memorialize a lifetime of Teddy's work. Surely the public WILL NOT receive the same benefits as Congress but this Kennedy plan will provide the same level of care given to Maryjo by Teddy, with similar results. For those who wait eagerly for passage of the public plan, (as Maryjo probably waited) my advice based on past history is DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH!
Alan Brooks| 8.30.09 @ 7:44PM
no one at AS is wild to the point of punching holes in the sheetrock about Ted.
But there is one total nut at AS:
Daphne Kenward.
However, Daff is pretty harmless; she would only bite an orderly bring her dinner tray at night when the haldol wears off.
Alan Brooks| 8.30.09 @ 7:47PM
...and Daphne would only bite an orderly's knuckles if there wasn't enough gravy on the mashed potatoes on her tray.
Chip In Indy| 8.30.09 @ 8:51PM
Ted Kennedy's career survived because he was such a sympathetic charactor. Irish-Catholics rooted for the Kennedys because of all they endured. Too bad Ted ended up being such a poor representation of the group that revered him so much. He was always on the wrong side of an issue. He had poor judgement. He was a terrible husband and father. Hopefully this is the last we hear of this clan for awhile. Can this country afford to have another Kennedy in office?
Greg in Houston| 8.30.09 @ 9:34PM
I wonder if the character of J R Ewing was loosely based on Ted Kennedy? What a bum.
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Christopher Holland| 8.30.09 @ 11:54PM
That pig joked about his car crash. I will pay big money to see the look on Saint Peter's face when the fat sob turns up at the pearly gates, talking about redemption. An eye for an eye, indeed.
Will Oiubeccia| 8.31.09 @ 1:05PM
Father God,
We ask for mercy for our nation, for deliverance from the cult of arrogance, lawlessness and unaccountable acts of evil and treason that have dominated the past century and that have backed the rise our current government in this century.
Let the big media's negligence and biased manipulations become obvious, transparent and humiliating. Let suppressed evidence of wrongdoing among the powerful be revealed even-handedly across all political factions, Lord God, to be judged by the People of our nation.
Let our Constitution be restored to its primacy as the supreme law of our land, and rededicated to You, as "Nature and Nature's God." Let Satan's power be broken, Father, and our nation restored to economic prudence and social decency.
Through Your divine intervention, Lord, cause a man or woman be fairly elected in the place of Edward Kennedy who will serve Your purposes first and highest, work to restore the dignity of human life at all stages, bring credit to Christianity and Catholicism, and install a conscience of truth in the Senate.
Heal our unbelief that even You cannot heal the corruption in Washington, Lord God; for with you, all things are possible.
Where we have been weak, indifferent, negligent or indulgent in our duties as citizens to preserve for our descendants this nation conceived in liberty, Father, forgive us; and give us the strength even in our old age to make amends by word and deed.
We pray in the name of Jesus, Author and Savior of Mankind,
Amen!
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