Here is how his church buried him, and honored his life's work.
Posted on 04/05/2015 4:32:00 AM PDT by raccoonradio
The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate needs to make a couple of additions — namely, a comedy wing and a laugh track.
Lest we forget, for decades Ted Kennedy was the Norm Crosby of the Democrat party, mangling not just Oldsmobiles and blondes, but also the English language.
But political correctness now demands that all avert their eyes from the train wreck, er, automobile accident, that was Teddy’s life.
Presumably the Fox News Channel anchor’s tongue was firmly in cheek as he mentioned Ted’s ability to “inspire new generations.” But Scott Pelley wasn’t kidding last week when he described Teddy as a “New England superstar.” Not for nothing is Pelley’s network known as “See BS.”
Consider Joe Biden’s musings on Ted at the museum’s dedication: “He was an anchor to many of us in our personal lives.”
He certainly was to Mary Jo Kopechne, or at least his black ’67 Delmont was.
Then there was Obama himself on the man, the legend, the happy hour: “They knew Ted as somebody who bridged the partisan divide.”
That bridge would be the Dike Bridge. On Chappaquiddick.
On the subject of Obama, let us not forget Teddy’s endorsement of the then-junior senator from Illinois: “Why don’t we just ask Osama bin La — Osama Obama — uh, Obama …”
That sound bite should be available somewhere in the Institute.
On the youth of America: “Our national interest ought to be to encourage the breast and the brightest.”
On Patriots Day: “The embattled farmers stood and fired the shirt ’round the world.”
How about his references to those home-run kings “Mike McGuire and Sammy Susser of the White House,” or his attempt to punish media magnate “Rudolph Murdoch.”
Oh yeah, I got a million of ’em.
Joe Malone, the former state treasurer, is another guy who could provide the Institute with a treasure trove of Teddy’s Greatest Hits. Malone ran for U.S. Senate in 1988 and Teddy agreed to debate him. I’ll bet Joe still has the video, in which Teddy took a bold stand against “three-martini lunches.” I’m not kidding. That evening Teddy also came out strong for “the protection of American kind of lives.”
I’m sure that most viewers didn’t pay much attention to what Ted was saying. They were too busy watching him try to put the cap back on his pen, which he couldn’t do, his hands were shaking so uncontrollably, as he blearily tried to explain foreign treaties: “Those countries don’t have a death penalty and they will not extradite them to a country that do.”
Do what, senator?
Yeah, they definitely need a laugh track down there in Dorchester. That, and one other thing — an open bar.
You forgot to mention that the canine was a Portuguese water dog name “Splash”.
American taxpayers picked up the tab for this disgraceful “Institute.”
De morituris nil nisi malum
Sadly, yes. What a was of taxpayer dollars.
In a sane world, the taxpayers would have picked up the tab for the teddy Kennedy prison cell.
Monuments to the great men of a republic, like Washington, Monroe, Jefferson, . . . are one thing.
OTOH, publicly funded temples of worship to horrible, republic destroying politicians is quite another, and indicative of our corruption.
Oops. ARE quite another.
Avi Nelson would have proved a much more formidable candidate.
Truth is probably Ole Teddy was not a very sharp knife but dull knives are the ones who cut you.
But Ted greatly increased the size and waste of government as well as increasing the proportion of foreign troublemakers who are allowed in our country. His personal failings don’t matter in the least to the Big Government Unicrats.
The Scotch fumes are still rising from Kennedy’s grave.
And his widow graciously said that “only the first $60M” would come from the taxpayer.
Here is how his church buried him, and honored his life's work.
Shameful. Utterly shameful.
It is obviously to send a political and religious message, in support of Ted Kennedy.
If only the bar at the old Bud’s Country Lounge in Hyannis could talk...
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