Posted on 09/29/2002 6:26:02 AM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Ted K weighs in on anti-war talk
by Howie Carr
Sunday, September 29, 2002
It had to be a serious speech, as someone noted Friday, because Sen. Ted Kennedy remembered to wear his trousers.
And so the senior senator weighed in, so to speak, on C-SPAN 2. He laid out the case for not going to war, and it boils down to one salient fact:
More Americans have been killed by Ted Kennedy's Oldsmobile than by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
Invading Iraq would be another Bay of Pigs, worse for American security than the terrorist visa program, an even more profound disaster for the nation than the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 - name your own favorite Kennedy-family foreign-policy fiasco of the past and this war will be worse.
The bloated Hero of Chappaquiddick was asked by a student, what about the charges that liberals are undercutting the war effort to save their sorry hides in the midterm elections. To which this sorriest of liberals eloquently responded, and we quote verbatim:
``Well uh the question are we putting politics over principle when we are trying to uh uh try to get a vote on on the Iraqi situation get back to the other. Uh I don't uh I don't think so. Uh you know my sense is uh that people have at least uh feel in our Democratic caucus that people have made up their minds and that this debate is all over. I mean I'd say that is a feeling among many. Um I kind of reject it because I don't think people have heard the other side. Myself.''
And here is the other side. Saddam is tough, folks. He's meaner than a Skakel with a 6-iron, more ruthless than Willie Smith on a blind date. If we go into Baghdad we could suffer American casualties the likes of which haven't been seen since Joe Kennedy last passed out lit bottle rockets and cherry bombs at his Fourth of July party.
Not that President Bush is a bad man, you understand.
``Well I I uh as I mentioned at the opening I believe that President Bush believes in his policy very uh firmly and and deeply I there's nothing in uh in uh that would lead to to uh another decision. It's one I differ with for the reasons that I have outlined here but uh I don't question that he uh doesn't believe that very very uh deeply and I think that that's you know to his uh uh to his credit.''
Teddy suggested that we go again to what he called ```the United Nation.'' He cited the post-war expulsion of the arms inspectors ``in 1988'' - three years before the Gulf War began. He mentioned a movie. He quoted an employee of CNN. All in all, a bravura performance.
One by one, the Democrats denounce the war. First it was Al Gore, then Tom Daschle, the lobbyist's husband with the orange hair and the platform shoes. Now Teddy.
All they are saying is give peace a chance. Which moral titan of democracy will next add to the chorus - Hillary, perhaps, or the Torch, or maybe Grand Kleagle Byrd. Or will it be Tom the Taper Harkin?
Ted Kennedy has heard the terrible rumors about our terrorist foes. They abjure alcohol, adultery is punishable by death, waitress sandwiches are frowned upon more than somewhat.
Still, he implored the parlour pinks in the audience at Johns Hopkins to consider the more pressing domestic issues.
``And my my state of Massachusetts now we're - '' at this point he began trying to clear his throat of what may have been a bad ice cube.
``We're up to - '' More phlegmy coughing and gagging.
`` - Uh education is getting prohibitively high when our University of Massachusetts now have increased their tuition by 26 uh uh percent. Uh the prescription drugs, health care costs all of the other kinds uh employment uh the number of those individuals living in poverty, the children living in poverty are all down.''
And surely that's a good thing, Senator, is it not?
Ted Kennedy's solution is to give the arms inspectors another chance, although even from the depths of his ongoing 30-year blackout Fat Boy knows he's talking ragtime.
``Uh it's not a very satisfactory situation and I don't know realistically I'm not a professional to know uh whether that'd be as true in the future but uh certainly something to give uh some uh, you know, some thought about.''
Or we could just get Saddam to take a ride with you in the Oldsmobile, Senator. Problem solved. Drinks on the house!
Ted's car vs. Howie Carr, and Howie wins! LOL!
Win one for the Gipper! God Bless You Reagan, We Will Never Forget Your Great Service and Leadership - We here on FR will carry on your great work with diligence. Thanks for the Memories and Inspiration!
Kennedy has a heart?!?
Standing between Teddy and a bottle of Scotch.
Ummmmmm. Let me think about that one a minute.
Pity that it wasn't, since Kazinsky is interesting, cogent and relevent compared to this bloated coward.
Who, regrettably, remains convinced of his own importance...
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