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'The greatest' — Kennedy honored at funeral Mass (by O: "the greatest legislator of our time")
AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/29/09 | Glen Johnson - ap

Posted on 08/29/2009 10:28:04 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

BOSTON – President Barack Obama led the nation Saturday in mourning and remembering "the greatest legislator of our time," celebrating the indelible impact of Edward M. Kennedy as a senator for nearly a half-century and leader of America's most famous family during tragedy and triumph.

Delivering an emotional, simple eulogy for Kennedy that capped a two-hour Roman Catholic funeral Mass, Obama employed humor, his own experiences and timeless anecdotes to memorialize the senator, who died Tuesday at 77 after battling brain cancer for more than a year. The country may have viewed him as "heir to a weighty legacy," Obama said, but he was playfully known by the youngest Kennedys less grandly: as the big cheese, "The Grand Fromage."

"Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections," Obama said. "It was to give a voice to those who were not heard, to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity, to make real the dream of our founding."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: borking; cultureofcorruption; funeral; honored; kennedy; murderer; obama; tedkennedy; thegreatest; traitor
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To: NormsRevenge

Isn’t Nadler greater than Kennedy was, around the waist?


41 posted on 08/29/2009 11:23:27 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: NormsRevenge

I see ole’ Chewey they First Wookie sitting there with her bottom jaw stuck out.


42 posted on 08/29/2009 11:29:26 AM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: a fool in paradise

It’s his third time in church since he was elected. One was a Unitarian church. He did go visit a mosque when he was globe trotting.
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I see you are keeping count too. Amazing that he attended Trinity faithfully every single Sunday


43 posted on 08/29/2009 11:30:38 AM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: NormsRevenge

I thought Dan Rostenkowski was the greatest legislator of our time. Oh well...


44 posted on 08/29/2009 11:30:56 AM PDT by karnage (worn arguments and old attitudes)
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To: Sparko
I don't know if anyone has focused on the fact that Mary Joe died from asphyxiation, not drowning, which means that he had to have closed the door on her when it was in the water. What does that make it?
45 posted on 08/29/2009 11:31:20 AM PDT by richardtavor
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To: NormsRevenge
Look at this man, Obama, standing at the pulpit of a Catholic church. Isn't the Holy Eucharist on the altar behind him?

This man Obama voted ***THREE*** times against giving medical care and attention to babies who were born alive after an abortion. He voted **THREE** times to allow these infants to die from cold, neglect, and hypoxia on cold stainless steel slabs in a utility room! If this were an adult that would be called torture!

Obama is a man who supports shoving scissors into the brains of infants already more than half born, scrambling their brains, and sucking the gelatinous mass into surgical suction jars.

Obama is a man who wishes to force all Americans to pay for the crime of abortion through our taxes.

Anyone who thinks that the Catholic Church is standing as a representative of Christ on earth,...well.., they are mistaken.

46 posted on 08/29/2009 11:38:28 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: NormsRevenge
What was his won-loss record in the Senate, year by year, as compared to others???

That's the way coaches success is determined!

47 posted on 08/29/2009 11:42:30 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: NormsRevenge

How telling is the body language on Bill and Hill!


48 posted on 08/29/2009 11:44:28 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: massmike

Where is Totus?


49 posted on 08/29/2009 11:45:51 AM PDT by Mouton
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To: massmike
I purposely didn't see the 3 hours last night, and made sure I was away to day. But am wondering if Obama used his screens in the pulpit?? Liturgical churches in which I have been around, teleprompters are forbidden. But then, he IS the president
50 posted on 08/29/2009 11:51:10 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

Add Jimmy Carter - he’s 85!


51 posted on 08/29/2009 11:52:41 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: NormsRevenge
Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections," Obama said. "It was to give a voice to those who were not heard,

Doesn't BO read his script before hand? He DID NOT give a voice to those who were not heard - he approved of their killing!
52 posted on 08/29/2009 11:59:07 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: NormsRevenge

It is spooky to see him stand with that “Alpha and Omega”


53 posted on 08/29/2009 12:03:50 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: NormsRevenge

The sight of Obama in a Catholic pulpit is utterly repugnant. I never had much respect for the archibishop of Boston, but this is an outrage for which he should be dismissed in disgrace


54 posted on 08/29/2009 12:04:10 PM PDT by wiley
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To: moose2004
Look at Clinton’s clenched jaw and Obambi’s nose in the air

Not to mention Michelle's ever present pouting, scowling mouth. She looks like she is angry all the time, except when she knows the camera is directly on her for some PR. Imagine living with that scowl staring at you always?

55 posted on 08/29/2009 12:04:10 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: NormsRevenge
'The greatest' — Kennedy honored at funeral Mass (by O: "the greatest lying, lecherous legislator of our time")

There, added the proper descriptive words.

56 posted on 08/29/2009 12:07:16 PM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’d say in the past year he’s been the greatest legislator of our time because he hasn’t been able to work in the senate and therefore has not caused more damage like the rest of them.


57 posted on 08/29/2009 12:17:22 PM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 ("Peace" is that brief, glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - Anonymous)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

More proof that only the good die young.


58 posted on 08/29/2009 12:20:11 PM PDT by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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To: NormsRevenge
He's right. In the current system, the "greatest legislators" are the ones who cause the most damage to the people.

But in a limited government like the Founders intended,"he who governs least, governs best".

59 posted on 08/29/2009 12:20:52 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: NormsRevenge

Wait Michael Jackson still isn’t buried ??

Ted will be remembered for the murderer he is .


60 posted on 08/29/2009 12:24:50 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops)
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