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THE KENNEDY TRADITION (cut and run, and disgrace public office)
NY POST ^ | May 6, 2006 | EDITORIAL

Posted on 05/06/2006 5:06:53 AM PDT by Liz

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To: Rte66

Unfortunately they do not hold up well in a collision with a Kennedy barrier. Oops that should be Jersey barrier.


81 posted on 05/06/2006 7:08:33 AM PDT by thile44
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To: libstripper
LOL!

Now that's a good one I'll have to remember!

82 posted on 05/06/2006 7:15:58 AM PDT by kstewskis (Minutechicks ROCK!!!!)
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To: coconutt2000
If his last name were Bush, this would be all over the news about a "Bush family culture of addiction."

But since it is a Kennedy, it is "hush, hush."

I think it is just assumed versus "hush, hush."

It was a good thing that he was not driving on a bridge over water with a young lady beside him. It could have been much worse. Then, he'd really be following in his uncle's foot steps.

The cops that did not adminster a "breathalizer" should be forced to surrender their guns and badges, IMHO.

83 posted on 05/06/2006 7:26:28 AM PDT by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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To: BombHollywood

They're too busy trying to keep clean-energy, environmentally-friendly windmills away from Nantucket.


84 posted on 05/06/2006 7:28:39 AM PDT by Hoodat ( Silly Dems, AYBABTU.)
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To: martin_fierro

That's the gayest Mustang I've ever seen.


85 posted on 05/06/2006 7:39:32 AM PDT by MonroeDNA (Look for the union label--on the bat crashing through your windshield!)
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To: Liz

Like father like son.


86 posted on 05/06/2006 7:42:18 AM PDT by YoungCorps
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To: veronica

It is patronage machine politics. Joe Kennedy was the boss dispensing the favors. The big dig was the most recent example. It is a form of corruption that we need to excise in Boston and Chicago.


87 posted on 05/06/2006 8:20:44 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: jws3sticks
The cops that did not adminster a "breathalizer" should be forced to surrender their guns and badges, IMHO.

Imagine if you could be assured the cops would never arrest you because you paid their salary. Welcome to the d. c. police force bought and paid for in full by the U S Congress. Anyone that watched the Condit affair should know these are no more than private security guards for the reps.

88 posted on 05/06/2006 10:53:52 AM PDT by at bay ("We actually did an evil....." Eric Scmidt, CEO Google)
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To: libstripper

The shame is not that the Kennedy's cling to the myth of Camelot, but that so many Americans do, people who should know better but cannot shed their illusions.


89 posted on 05/06/2006 1:01:00 PM PDT by quadrant
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To: Liz

You know what I don't understand - why don't rich drunks just get drivers?


90 posted on 05/06/2006 1:02:07 PM PDT by gondramB (He who angers you, in part, controls you. But he may not enjoy what the rest of you does about it.)
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To: Liz

The New England tradition: reward the Kennedy with a lifetime seat.


91 posted on 05/06/2006 8:31:52 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: rabidralph


This is getting so stupid, it's not funny anymore. Makes you wonder who's stupider, the remainder of the Kennedy clan or the blue state ***holes who keep putting them in positions of power?
92 posted on 05/06/2006 8:36:27 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: Liz

bttt


93 posted on 05/06/2006 8:38:02 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: rabidralph

As for your MP&HG allusion, it doesn't quite work here. It's pretty obvious that the fruit fell very close to the tree here. It's almost like "survival of the fittest" turned upside down. The more putrid and worthless the Kennedy, the longer he lives.


94 posted on 05/06/2006 8:42:25 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: Northern Yankee


Ted Kennedy's accident involving the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in the Chappaquiddick incident, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. started refusing food and became uninterested in life. He died shortly afterwards on November 18, 1969.



Joseph P. Kennedy

Kennedy formed alliances with several other Irish-Catholic money men, including Charles E. Mitchell, Michael J. Meehan and Bernard Smith. He helped establish the Libby-Owens-Ford stock pool, an arrangement in which Kennedy and colleagues created an artificial scarcity of Libby-Owens-Ford stock to drive up the value of their own holdings in the stock. Using inside information, and the public's lack of knowledge, a pool operator would bribe journalists to present that information in the most advantageous manner. The stocks would then change in price up or down depending on the position favoured by the pool.

Kennedy got out of the market in 1928, long before the Crash, locking in multi-million dollar profits. Indeed when the 1929 crash did come, he made money due to his short positions.


During Prohibition, Kennedy's company Somerset Importers became the exclusive American agent for Gordon's Dry Gin and Dewar's Scotch which was only allowed to be imported during Prohibition for medicinal purposes. Anticipating the end of Prohibition (not difficult to do as it slowly passed through the required number of states) he assembled a very large inventory of stock that he sold for a profit of millions of dollars when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. He invested this money in residential and commercial real estate, the Merchandise Mart in Chicago and Hialeah Race Track in Hialeah, Florida.

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95 posted on 05/06/2006 8:57:10 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Liz


Howie Carr's got a great site: http://fatboy.cc
96 posted on 05/06/2006 9:28:08 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: kcvl
More examples of such a charming family.

Good grief!

97 posted on 05/07/2006 4:53:02 AM PDT by Northern Yankee ( Stay The Course!)
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To: REPANDPROUDOFIT

............If those dummies from Mass. want to keep electing a jerk .............


I hate to admit that it's the dummies in my state, RI, that keep this jerk in office


98 posted on 05/07/2006 5:00:24 AM PDT by aShepard (I Hope that Patches career goes Sink-a de Mayo)
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To: aShepard
I hate to admit that it's the dummies in my state, RI, that keep this jerk in office

Don't feel bad. The dummies in my state kept electing Clintons until the entire country had to suffer and still suffers. Don't ask me why either. I will never understand it. I think they would reelect Clinton today if they could.

99 posted on 05/07/2006 11:16:05 AM PDT by kcvl
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