Posted on 08/28/2009 11:07:13 AM PDT by Steelfish
Tens of thousands pay tribute to Ted Kennedy
BOSTON – Tens of thousands of people are paying tribute today to Sen. Edward Kennedy, who lay in repose for a second day in a flag-draped casket at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Members of the Kennedy family, including his daughter Kara Kennedy Allen, nephew Tim Shriver and 81-year-old Jean Kennedy Smith, the senator's sister and the last surviving Kennedy sibling, greeted visitors.
Smith, the former U.S. ambassador to Ireland, choked back tears. "This is a hard time for me," she said when asked to talk about her brother. She was joined briefly by her son, William Kennedy Smith. "It's a wonderful tribute to Teddy and the lives that he touched," he said of the line of thousands.
A five-person military honor guard stood at attention around the casket in a high-ceilinged room with a spectacular view of Boston Harbor.
Large photos of Kennedy with his family greeted mourners on their way into the room, including one of Kennedy as a boy with his father, Joseph P. Kennedy, and a 1960s-era shot of Kennedy with his slain brothers, John and Robert.
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But, but, but - he was a LION and KING among mere mortals -
a legend
the patriarch of a clan that belonged in Camelot (think castles and flags waving) -
And Rose - who can forget the saint - and Joe
and JohnJohn’s salute
- Gods, Irish Kings I tell you. Kennedy's live - - live large - in Kennedy Compounds - not “houses” like odinary subjects.
Gods - fall down on your knees - join with the MSM and worship THE KENNEDY LION ( I want to vomit)
Lib speak for liberal events:
Million Man March = 100,000
Thousands = hundreds
Large crowd = a few people with signs
All I know is that I turned on the boob tube and there was Jesse filling up the screen so I turned it back off. I swear I’m gonna cut his nussoff.
Oooooh. Just like Princess Di.
State employees and layabouts who wouldn’t take the time to call WEEI today and pledge a donation to the Jimmy Fund Radio-thon so that sick little kids could get the same care Kennedy got and that ObamaCare would deny.
Speaks a thousand words!
I think Michael Jackson had a bigger turnout and better rating. LOL
The guy in the middle in the Red shirt looks like a young Barney Frank. Of course it could be GASP a woman.
When yahoo first posted this Morning it said 100’s, I should have screen saved.
Looks like a lot of “Good Catholics” like the Kennedy clan to me.
Where are the people of color?
Ted Kennedy's Death a Loss for Democratic Health Care Push
Ted Kennedy made affordable health care for all Americans the goal of his Senate career and hoped to see that reform achieved in his lifetime.
How ineffective, even after nine terms in office, he eventually was in that regard. A man spends his whole "political career" on a goal he'll never reach because it is a false presentation and people saw through it.
While his goal may have been "affordable health care for all" what is being presented, and represented, is anything but that.
(You have to wonder what was his real goal was because that one is BS on its face. Nothing that the government is involved in is "affordable".)
IMO it was never about cost, it was about legislative control of the people.
I'll remember him as I choose...as a failure.
Barney would more likely be found in the picture on the right.
I wonder what the inestimable John and Abigail Addams think of the modern day residents of their Massachusetts.
I love your headline! Delisciously smarta$$ed, while being smoothly smug with a flashing stiletto edge!
Teddy was a legend in his own MIND!
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