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TALKING TEDDY
TAS ^ | 6/21/04 | The Prowler

Posted on 06/21/2004 3:19:50 PM PDT by swilhelm73

The Kerry campaign is looking for a way to ease Sen. Edward Kennedy out of their regular rotation of officially sanctioned surrogates after a series of embarrassing incidents involving the senior Massachusetts senator.

First, Kennedy was caught by Boston reporters mocking Kerry at a private, supposedly closed-to-the-press fundraiser in Boston, where Kennedy was doing a poor imitation of Kerry begging Kennedy for help and support.

Then Kennedy and his Senate staff leaked word that Kennedy was being asked by Boston officials to help bail out the troubled Democratic convention in Boston, where local unions are protesting their lack of financial gain from the convention. "That leak was clearly intended to put Senator Kerry in his place. It didn't have to get out," says a Kerry adviser.

Finally, Kennedy gave an interview to a Boston magazine where he criticized the Pope for giving communion to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet while American Catholic bishops threatened to withhold communion from Kerry.

"Kennedy is just getting a little too comfortable with talking on our behalf," says the Kerry adviser. "It's our fault for giving him so much leeway. Now we're paying the price. There is probably no way that we can take him completely off the surrogate list. It's not like we can really control him, but he's not going to be on our list of reliable surrogates down the road, that's for sure."


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: augustopinochet; catholic; edwardkennedy; kerry; tedkennedy

1 posted on 06/21/2004 3:19:50 PM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: swilhelm73

Ted Kennedy - a hitchiker's worst nightmare.


2 posted on 06/21/2004 3:21:27 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Liberalism is the end result of too many people peeing in the gene pool.)
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To: swilhelm73

Lie down with dogs...


3 posted on 06/21/2004 3:22:06 PM PDT by Max Combined
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To: reagan_fanatic
Put Ted Kennedy In A Boat In Boston Harbor And Ship Him Off!
4 posted on 06/21/2004 3:22:41 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (http://www.osurepublicans.com)
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To: Max Combined
Hey, watchit dude :(

Dont start offending my dogs here.

5 posted on 06/21/2004 3:25:15 PM PDT by prophetic
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To: swilhelm73
Already posted here.
6 posted on 06/21/2004 3:26:11 PM PDT by TomServo (“I'll give you three seconds to stop licking my face." "Count slow...")
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To: swilhelm73

"a series of embarrassing incidents involving the senior Massachusetts senator."

Starting at his birth.


7 posted on 06/21/2004 3:55:06 PM PDT by Redcoat LI (You Can Trust Me , I'm Not Like The Others.....)
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To: swilhelm73

Eddie Kennedy would look like he is inside with an Eddie Munster haircut.


8 posted on 06/21/2004 3:59:32 PM PDT by PoorMuttly ("BE Reagan !")
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To: swilhelm73

Hmmmm. So that's why we haven't heard anything from uncle teddy since President Reagan's death. I wondered what had happened to him. The last time I saw his mug on TV was in the rotunda during the funeral. He had been pushed back from the front row and didn't look very happy. tee hee


9 posted on 06/21/2004 4:07:18 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("Hold on to your hats.....it's going to be a bumpy night")
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To: swilhelm73
...just hand the pos/sot some more booze! :/
10 posted on 06/21/2004 4:14:52 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :)
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To: ConservativeMan55

"Put Ted Kennedy on a boat in Boston Harbor and ship him off!"

I put him in a tiny boat
And sent him out to sea
That he might sink, or he might swim
But he'd never come back to me!

(From an old Scottish folk song).


11 posted on 06/21/2004 4:24:12 PM PDT by wontbackdown
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To: wontbackdown

LOL!!!!!


12 posted on 06/21/2004 4:29:25 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (http://www.osurepublicans.com)
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To: swilhelm73
after a series of embarrassing incidents involving the senior Massachusetts senator.

Otherwise known as his life.

13 posted on 06/21/2004 6:47:10 PM PDT by Feckless
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