Posted on 09/16/2004 9:25:45 AM PDT by Fishface
I just heard a report on the local talk radio show here in Rhode Island that Ted Kennedy slated campaign speech for John F-ing Kerry in Pennsylvania today was cancelled.
As it turns out, the town they had him stumping in was Mary Jo Kopechne's hometown and there was a considerable backlash. Another great move by the Kerry Campaign.
To refresh your memory, Mary Jo Kopechne is the young woman that Ted murdered years ago when he crashed his car in Martha's Vineyard. I say murdered because she didn't drown, she suffocated in the submerged car while waiting to be rescued. Ted walked away and didn't report it to the police until his friends made him the next morning, leaving her to die.
I know Rush, Sean Hannity and Howie Carr are lurkers. Let's hope they see this.
What do you mean, "Are they that stupid?" -- they are working to elect Kerry aren't they?
Interesting.
Those BIGGIES THEMSELVES or staff members are lurkers?
You are 100% certain of this?
Hope so.
I was just going to make a cheeky comment about . . .
evidently someone forgot Scuba-Teddy's scuba gear and he couldn't be left outside running loose without it.
He is not going to give a speech, he is going to conduct swimming and water safety classes.
I am just loving the bonehead moves sKerry's campaign is making.
You would think that SOMEONE in that large an organization would have known there are "NO GO" zones for their bigshots. Simply hilarious.
NOW for the answer to the question.
"First the question, Ted, you were 18 years old in 1950, that means you were old enough for either the draft, or enlistment in the military service during the Korean Conflict, did you join, were you drafted, or did you use your priviledged circumstances to avoid going?"
This was obtained from Mike Romer's "Ted Kennedy's Biography" located at Uselessknowledge.com
"...This fine example for our youth has quite a colorful history all of his own. He was thrown out of Harvard college for having another student take a test for him, this of course, was covered up (an early trend starting) and was forced into the Army by old Joe for a 2 year stint as a Military Police "Honor" guard at SHAPE Headquarters in Paris, not a bad assignment for a rich, cheating brat during the Korean war. By the way, the normal enlistment period for that timeframe was four years, not two like draftees. After his service, he was allowed back into Harvard to complete his degree and go on to further education, all greased by his father."
So the next time Ted talks of President Bush as a "Fortunate Son" maybe some freeper nearby can remind him of his difficult assignment at the hands of his daddy, Joe Kennedy, an insider trading, bootlegger.
Before condemming the Obese Bloviater we should pause to consider just how hard it must have been to put a woman's clothes back on in an automobile, under 20 feet of salt water - and while you are drunk!
The term "vehiclar homicide" suggests murder and is applicable here.
We can also argue the point that having the ability to save someone from death and not can be construed as a form of murder. ""
Expecially if she was pregnant, which is a rumor from day one of this problem for Teddy boy.
Good grief! What ineptitude on the part of Kerry's staff!!
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