Posted on 08/30/2009 12:52:50 PM PDT by Dallas59
Ted Kennedy’s canonization is too much. Every day brings the deaths of thousands of people, the vast majority of whom are known only to their families and friends. These people aren’t mourned by politicians, reporters, or the general public...
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Pompous funerals for politicians and celebrities aren’t anything new. Liberals probably say the same thing when throw nifty funerals for beloved politicians on our own side.
Kennedy is very dead and buried.
Can’t we let up on these Kennedy threads?
He is gone. Time to move on.
Did something important happen while I was at church? Did Teddy Kennedy die or something?
I agree. It is usually not nice to speak ill of the dead, but that didn’t stop Kennedy from joking about Mary Jo Kopechne. I am not sure why he should be given more respect than he gave her.
“Did something important happen while I was at church? Did Teddy Kennedy die or something?”
Yes. He took a oneway trip to hell.
“The torture of remorse will be increased by the good examples of virtuous friends which the reprobate witnessed; and still more by the gifts which God has given him for the salvation of his soul; and so many years given to him that he might repair the evil which he has done.”
- Alphonsus (of Liguori), 1770
Socialism dies when socialists die.
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