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TED KENNEDY, OXYGEN THIEF:
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| Tuesday, May 11 2004
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Posted on 05/12/2004 8:22:41 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Back in college, a good friend of mine had a name for people who were interminably stupid, annoying, arrogant, or otherwise insufferable. He called them "oxygen thieves."
The name always struck me as a wicked blend of humor and contempt, carrying with it the harsh implication that a person's very existence was not only wasting, but in fact robbing the rest of us of a valuable (though infinitely abundant) resource.
Needless to say, my friend didn't use the term often. It was always reserved for the worst of the worst, the sort of habitual offenders that made life unbearable.
The moniker came rushing back to me last night after hearing Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the floor of the United States Senate:
"On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked, 'Who would prefer that Saddam's torture chambers still be open?
"Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management."
What sort of dysfunctional moral compass must one have to make such a comparison?
It's one thing for someone like Michael Moore to utter garbage like this at the film festival in Cannes. It's something altogether different for one of the country's highest elected officials to speak these words in the well of the United States Senate.
I received a slew of emails yesterday from people ripping Joe Lieberman's remarks (see below) and saying that he doesn't have a "shred" of moral credibility left. Please, spare the bandwith. Lieberman is a moral Goliath compared to Kennedy.
Over the years, in addition to being a formidable legislative force, Kennedy has always been one of the worst purveyors of maleficent rhetoric. Kennedy's remarks yesterday, however, were not only the acme of rank partisanship but crossed a line that truly disgraced the Senate as well as the Senator.
Kennedy is now using the scandal at Abu Ghraib to work openly and actively against U.S. policy and U.S. interests in Iraq. By his own words, Kennedy is trying to "shame" America before the world, and in doing so he is emboldening our enemies and endangering our soldiers. There is just no other way to explain what he did yesterday.
Republicans in the Senate have the votes, and they should use them to rebuke Kennedy immediately.
And as the nominee of the Democratic party and one of his closest personal friends, John Kerry should distance himself from Kennedy's remarks as well. He won't, but he should.
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: drunkcommie; orcaofbaystate; senatorscumbag; tedkennedy
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Today we play compare and contrast. First Joe Liebermann, than Orca of The Bay State.
Loyal Opposition:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/commentary.html#5_10_04_1244
US Senator and member of Iraqi Resistance:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119546,00.html
Other examples that would embarass Aaron Burr:
http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id320.htm
To: .cnI redruM
Teddy, just shut-up!!!
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:25:27 AM PDT
by
Sister_T
(Democrats AND The Partisan Press are the REAL enemies to freedom in the world!)
To: Sister_T
LMAO!
Memo to Sen. Kennedy - The car costs $25K, the local dry cleaner gives out coat hangers for free.
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:27:09 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Training doesn't give you common sense or respect for human dignity.)
To: .cnI redruM
The fat, drunk, mudering pig has done the eqvivilent of shiving our soilders in the back seat of a car, driving the car off the bridge and leaving them their to suffocate.
He is a truly contemptable human being.
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:27:56 AM PDT
by
AMDG
(Kennedy Family Motto - "We'll drive off that bridge when we get to it")
To: .cnI redruM
"Waste of skin"
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:28:34 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
To: boris
If he wasn't on television 5 days a week, I could look at an accurate portrait of him and think it was a modern art masterpiece.
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:32:58 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Training doesn't give you common sense or respect for human dignity.)
To: AMDG
The most unflattering description I've ever heard attributed to another human being has to be "walking puddle of vomitus". Edward Moore Kennedy fits it to a tee!
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:35:36 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Training doesn't give you common sense or respect for human dignity.)
To: .cnI redruM
We need ole Ted.
To remind us what scum looks like.
Thank Goodness the people of Taxatusetes have him.
Memo to (Self)Voter#537 stay below mason-dixon.
You could get in a lot of trouble up there if you bumped into ole Ted, and slapped him around and gave him what he deserves.
He is not worth it. He is an oxygen thief.
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:36:51 AM PDT
by
DeaconRed
(God made whiskey to keep the Kennedys from taking over the world. It worked. Thank you God.)
To: .cnI redruM
He is also an extraordinary waste of skin. Lots and lots of skin....
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:40:56 AM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: Cyber Liberty
And he's a waste of perfectly good booze - he doesn't have to be drunk to be fat and stupid...
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:43:23 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
To: Cyber Liberty
Jabba, The Frikken Hutt!
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:43:40 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Training doesn't give you common sense or respect for human dignity.)
To: boris
"Waste of skin" Waste of a prodigious amount of skin.
Waste of enough skin to cover all the beaches of Rio and the Riviera and have enough for a second coat.
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:43:54 AM PDT
by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
To: .cnI redruM
"On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked, 'Who would prefer that Saddam's torture chambers still be open? "Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management." What sort of dysfunctional moral compass must one have to make such a comparison?
Have tried e-mailing Kennedy three times over the last couple of days, all returned as undeliverable. I think the good Senator has shut down his e-mail for the time being.
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:44:44 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: .cnI redruM
What sort of dysfunctional moral compass must one have to make such a comparison?The same kind that would allow a woman to slowly drown in a submerged Oldsmobile while one sobered up and concocted a cover story. Oh, and got fitted for a neck brace.
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:46:17 AM PDT
by
SpinyNorman
(You can't wrap yourself in the protection of our flag at the same time you are trampling on it.)
To: Rummyfan
No, I think WE shut down Orca of The Bay State's email server. A comment like that will tend generate a certain volume of response.
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:47:39 AM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
(Training doesn't give you common sense or respect for human dignity.)
To: .cnI redruM
What pisses me off about this statement, other than the obvious, is how he generalizes it by saying "U.S. management." So seven reservists represent the US now? Kennedy's got the IQ of a bowling ball...
To: SpinyNorman
To: .cnI redruM
The term I use to describe such people is "Toxic Waste." That "stings" a little more than "Oxygen Thief."
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:52:05 AM PDT
by
El Gran Salseron
(It translates as the Great, Big Salsa Dancer, nothing more. :-))
To: .cnI redruM
Ted's own dad summed it up best:
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, Teddy"
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posted on
05/12/2004 8:55:26 AM PDT
by
Toskrin
(War least of all goes according to plan.)
To: .cnI redruM
What I can't understand is why anyone takes this humongous, drunk, murdering bag of wind seriously.
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