Posted on 08/25/2009 11:38:13 PM PDT by Islaminaction
By Scott Malone – 20 mins ago BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, has died, his family said. He was 77. "Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port (Massachusetts)," the Kennedy family said in a statement. One of the most influential and longest-serving senators in U.S. history -- a liberal standard-bearer who was also known as a consummate congressional dealmaker -- Kennedy had been battling brain cancer, which was diagnosed in May 2008. "We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," the family statement said. "He loved this country and devoted his life to serving it. He always believed that our best days were still ahead, but it's hard to imagine any of them without him," the family added.
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This should of been posted in the news section. I apologize.
It is...twice.
I see. Please delete mods.
Ted Kennedy is dead
____________________
The bar is open!
Drinks on the house!
Its PARTAY time
Bless you, Teddy. RIP. May you find mercy and pity for your monstrosities.
Bye.
God bless Mary Jo.
Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:
He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.
Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:
“In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”
Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”
A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.
Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:
“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”
Kennedy betrays President Reagan:
May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.
Thanks for all of that info.
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
oops, sorry. Let us mourn...
Well, this certainly will crimp Obama’s vacation. How inconvenient!
This damn traitor lived far to long.
He’s dead?
Mary Jo: “Hey Teddy. See this button? It has only one direction: DOWN! Step right in!”
I would like to extend our sympathies to the Kennedy family as we hear word about the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy. He believed in our country and fought passionately for his convictions. -Sarah Palin and family
It will give him the chance to get in front of the cameras that he said he didn’t want on his (10th) vacation, to mention Kennedy in passing (literally, in this case) then put in a plug for his health insurance reform, or whatever the hell it’s being called these days.
More like chat.
If you would like to bring the mods’ attention to something, it’s a good idea to actually address the reply to them...
I won’t pretend to feel any sorrow whatsoever at the long-overdue passing of this evil, evil man.
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Our 40 year nightmare is over!
No “prayers for the family” — this is “burn in hell forever you socialist bastard murderer!”
40?
Try 47!
Very prolific family.
Be nice to see the last of them.
Unfortunately they seem to go for politics.
Families I’d like to see quit politics:
Bush
Clinton
Kennedy (and relations like the Calif Governor and her puppet husband).
So has there been a WH statement, or is that above their pay grade?
I second that
Thanks for that roundup. I will only say RIP.
Palin’s statement shows far more class that I would have done.
I’d, if restrained, would have said nothing.
Otherwise, I’d merely say that he most likely will not need winter clothing where he is now.
Again? That's like the second time today!
Lord, I apologize for that one there, and be with all the starving Pygmies down there in New Guinea, Amen!
AFter a few weeks of Kennedy glorification we MIGHT be able to watch some TV again.
Well what is the point now after there are conversations going?
The only question that matters to me is WILL this help Obama ram through healthcare????
Do cowards ever actually live?
It appears that as long as a murderer of millions of people is an American, he is “great.” The glowing tribute from George H.W. Bush is stomach-turning.
The death of Ted Kennedy is no more an occasion for mourning and tributes than the death of Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao.
There is no indication of repentance for his career of lies, murder, theft, and oppression.
His funeral will almost certainly take place at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church in Boston, from where Rose Kennedy was buried, unless for some reason the family desires a “state” funeral in Washington. In any case, the orgy will be broadcast, hundreds of pro-abortion Catholics will slither forward to receive Communion on camera. Archbishop Sean O’Malley will crouch in a linen closet for a week, until the funeral is over.
You’re the one who decided to get mod attention. I’m just telling you how to get their attention.
Exactly how long will the worldwide MSM be talking about this?
typical, wholly instrumental in landing us with Obama and then doesnt stick around to see the mess he created.
Sorry but this is one guy i will not be crying for, he’ll have to make his case to the big guy upstair for what he’s done in life.
Thanks, have a good night.
I’m not the expert. I was actually making a comment about how many threads there are about Senator Kennedy’s death.
I guess I’ll go into hibernation. Or else I will be throwing up daily.
He was NOT a ——— man (can’t type the word)
He was NOT a good family man
He was not a good senator.
the only reason he even has any success is that Jack and Bobby were murdered.
Pro abort...cowardly killer of a young woman.
I think we are in for disappointment in our fellow citizens.
guarantee you 100% the line will be “Ted made it his life work to make healthcare reform a reality, its up to us to do it for him”. I bet you 100% thats what they’ll do. Obama will use his death like a brooch for political use.
Ted made health care his life passion?
Thought observing the sky thru the bottom of a booze bottle was his passion.
When not busy scr*wing the American citizens.
Honest, objective commentators would say more along the lines of:
“Ding dong the witch is dead...”
Yep. Someone in life who was responsible for death and then never offered up his own fortune to take care of the "poor uninsured."
I hope he was in agony until Mary Jo came to take him away and send him to hell.
Every time they say "Ted Kennedy has died" I add "Thank God!"
nah, nah, nah nah...hey, hey, hey
“Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else!”
Patrick Henry
Adios, Slaver
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