Posted on 05/06/2006 2:13:42 PM PDT by bkepley
- He formed alliances with crime bosses in major markets, among them Boston, New York, Chicago, and New Orleans. These would come in handy years later when his son was running for national office. Among his mob associates was Frank Costello, former boss of the Luciano crime family, who bragged, "I helped Joe Kennedy get rich." Sam Giancana, who would later figure prominently in Jack's presidency, called Joe "one of the biggest crooks who ever lived."
Howard Hughes hated all these SOBs.
Thing is they've spread out -- RI, Maryland and I heard speculation Robert was thinking of running for office from NY.... heaven help us if congress and/or senate was populated with even more Kennedy's... now, there should be a rule!
Abe Lincoln once said you can fool some of the people all of the time, or All of the people some of the time, but you cant fool all of the people all of the time.
In Massachusetts the Kennedy's have fooled enough Massachusetts voters for long enough to have established a legacy of rapine,womanising,corruption,lies and criminal misconduct, second to no other family in the history of the United States. And still these people vote them back in office. God help the decent people of Massachusetts for they are outnumbered by the fools that empower assholes like the Kennedy's.
Please, there is SO MUCH dirt on the Kennedys, verified and published, that there's not even a need for rank speculation. That family is like "Dallas" and "Dynasty" had never gone off the air! It's like....well, it's like having the guilty pleasure of reading "The National Enquirer" without having been seen buying it in the checkout lane!
This one's particularly interesting: How old honeyfitz screwed with people's lives:
http://www.ytedk.com/framed.htm
--Bible says sins of the father are paid for up to the 4th generation.. Kennedys have a long way to go
Things like this really help me to respect ancient wisdom.
"to the 4th generation"
And these fellows keep extending the lease.
Four legged rats or two legged rats, all the same; the only difference being the four legged variety destroy ecosystems and the two legged variety destroy civilizations.
Coming to a district near you soon enough.
Four legged rats or two legged rats, all the same; the only difference being the four legged variety destroy ecosystems and the two legged variety destroy civilizations.
Coming to a district near you soon enough.
And then there's Norma Jean..
But from everything I've read about them, I agree with you that old Joe Kennedy, the founding father, was terribly flawed and it passed on like a curse from him. Hubris barely begins to describe it. And Rose, who did leave him for a few weeks after Jack's birth, was sent back to him by her father and eventually worked out her own way of surviving.
Just after John Kennedy was elected President, Harry Truman was speaking to some students at Harvard. One of them asked, "What are we going to do in January, when the Pope will be in the White House?" Truman replied, "It's not the Pope I'm afraid of, it's the Pop."
Sorry about the twofer...
Only the wife appreciates such.
"It's not the Pope I'm afraid of, it's the Pop."
LOL. There's a lot of aspects to that reply.
Yup. Mysteriously dead as a door nail.
Let's not forget the daughter they had lobotomized. What a tragedy.
There be the understatement of the century.
I am laughing so hard I have decided to take the wife out for a good drunk. I hope the local police will drive us home without the bother of an unnecessary breathalyser should I crash the truck.
It seems that old Joe eliminated the competition in a rather harsh manner. I know a couple of his cousins, they say the same thing, and the story has the possibility of being true.
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