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Senator Ted Kennedy and Mrs. Alito’s Tears
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| 27 January 2006
| John Armor (Congressman Billybob)
Posted on 01/26/2006 10:22:20 PM PST by Congressman Billybob
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To: de Buillion
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You didn't look close enough- This happened way after JFK and Robert (RFK?)..."
I'm not interested in the Kennedy history because it simply smelled bad before I knew about them. It was all a whitewash 40 years ago as it is now. My instincts were proven correct again. I was a belly-button-lint picking squirt when JFK became a God to all around me and I knew then that something was wrong about that!
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:15:51 PM PST
by
BobS
To: de Buillion
"Apparently, some Freepers are "reading challenged"."![](http://webpages.charter.net/aircover/USAflag.gif)
Apparently, some Freepers would prefer to tout stories without verifying them.
Questioning the author about his use of pronouns in order to nail down a story is not a bad thing. Stop taking it personally. Wait for the author's answers and then we'll know where to go.
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:16:05 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
As the article says, it was the Alitos who knew the Kopechnes. The Bomgardners were both working at McGuire Air Force base. She was a librarian and he was an air traffic controller. I Googled them, also.
John / Billybob
To: ilovew
"That was the other reason for Mrs. Alitos tears."It sounds like the article is claiming that Mrs. Alito was crying for Mary Jo, doesn't it?
No. It sounds like it was an additional factor.
To: Southack
If it is merely a pronoun issue, then the problem is simply that only **you** as the writer correctly knows that it is the Alito family, not Mrs. Alito herself, who knew Mary Jo. Knock it off Southack. I understood the article the first time I read it and I posted the correct interpretation to you after your first post in the thread.
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:18:11 PM PST
by
Chunga
(Mock The Left)
To: paulat
How large is the place where you live?
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:18:23 PM PST
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: Southack
"From the personal memories of this woman that
Mrs. Alito got from her husbands family..."
I wonder where this "fact" came from?
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:18:37 PM PST
by
Mojave
To: axes_of_weezles; Congressman Billybob
Caldwell and Roseland, New Jersey are in North Jersey. They are not near Mount Holly or McGuire AFB. Today, they are solidly suburban, not rural. They are only about 10 miles from beautiful downtown Newark. I don't know how rural the area was back in the 1960s.
Congressman Billybob - do you know when the Alitos moved to Caldwell? I know they were originally from the Trenton area. Most folks from Caldwell aren't Phillies fans, like Judge Alito is.
Funny how things work: Mr. Alito will go on to another great Court career; respected, admired and applauded.
Those who voted against him will be mired in their own soured pestilence; lost, forgotten and laughed at. Teddy-boy will be there with his bermuda shorts and his inane comments. Still, no one will listen.
And so it goes...........
BRAVO Judge Alito. !
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:19:31 PM PST
by
IntheHillsGolden
(You pass through places ...and places pass through you.........)
To: Congressman Billybob
"As the article says, it was the Alitos who knew the Kopechnes. The Bomgardners were both working at McGuire Air Force base. She was a librarian and he was an air traffic controller. I Googled them, also."![](http://webpages.charter.net/aircover/USAflag.gif)
OK. So Judge Alito's parents knew the Kopechne's. Thank you.
Now we just have to nail down how we know that the former Ms. Bomgardner was crying over her in-law's acquaintence (relationship with Sen Kennedy), rather than over her husband's brutal Senate grilling by desperate Democrats.
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:19:51 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Congressman Billybob
I was commenting on the other person's response, not your article. I think your article made it perfectly clear that Mrs. Alito went to high school in New Jersey.
To: traviskicks
I have two daughters, both married with children. I was raised as an only child, both of my brothers being much older and away at school. Starting with those two facts, I conclude that an only child is uniquely close to his/her parents, and that if either of my daughters (who have normal human sensibilities) had been an only child, and heard such a story from their in-laws personally, that's the way they would react to the man who caused the death of that other daughter and only child.
Logic as well as facts have their place in any article, as long as the logic is not skewed by bias.
John / Billybob
To: ilovew
I got mad enough to hit the abuse button...here's what I wrote:
This is a horrible article...there is NO REASON to think Mrs. Alito was CRYING for MaryJo Kopeckne!!! She was crying because her husband was attacked and someone finally said a kind word (Graham).
This has no place in breaking news...and just makes FR look silly.
I can read better in the National Enquirer!! This just exploits Mrs. Alito!!
Sorry to be so adamant...but this article embarasses FR!!
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:21:45 PM PST
by
paulat
To: The Worthless Miracle; eyespysomething; Congressman Billybob
If Kennedy were a republican, this would become the biggest news story for weeks. If Kennedy were a Republican, he'd have been censured and expelled by the Senate in 1969 and tried on charges of manslaughter.
To: Lancey Howard
Yes, that Mrs. Alito was crying for Mary Jo in addition to crying about the attacks on her husband. But why would she be crying for Mary Jo at all? Even as an additional factor? She didn't know Mary Jo personally. And from the article, it doesn't even sound as though her husband knew her really well either.
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:22:35 PM PST
by
ilovew
("We are living through a watershed moment in the story of freedom." GWB 12-14-05)
To: RobbyS
How large is the place where you live? It's called Earth. Google it.
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:23:04 PM PST
by
paulat
To: sageb1
Thank you. But unless the kiss was on the cheek my lady love would take umbrage.
John / Billybob
To: Southack
Wait for the author's answers and then we'll know where to go. That's a condescension. Some of us didn't have to wait...we got it when we read the article.
I have no opinion as to the conclusion the article draws from Mrs. Alito's tears, other than to say I've always respected Billybob's posts, just as I have yours...but the article itself doesn't leave any room for misconstruings.
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:24:09 PM PST
by
Chunga
(Mock The Left)
To: Congressman Billybob
Should stay in breaking news. Maybe Conservative Talk Radio will follow up on this story.
This might be something to trump Buckhead's feat of uncovering the dishonesty at CBS and Dan Rather...
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:24:25 PM PST
by
topher
(Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
To: BobS
You are absolutely correct- The Kennedy family history has stunk for many decades, and the stench gets cumulatively worse as time goes on.
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posted on
01/26/2006 11:25:51 PM PST
by
de Buillion
(Vermont- AMNESTY for child serial rapists. Come on up, y'all!)
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