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Big 75 (Ted Kennedy's Birthday Barf Alert)
The Washington Times ^
| Feb. 22, 2007
| John McCaslin
Posted on 02/22/2007 5:35:36 AM PST by seanmerc
Big 75 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, celebrates three-quarters of a century of living today. (If it's any consolation, women overheard in Mr. Kennedy's company of late say the senator has never looked better. What is it about him and Bill Clinton?). "Sen. Kennedy began his career setting a high standard when it comes to birthdays," fellow Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry observes in a birthday tribute to his colleague. "It was when he reached the minimum constitutional age -- 30 -- that he first came to the Senate: 1 of just 16 senators elected at such a tender age from a total of over 1,895 Senators in all of American history. By his 70th birthday he was one of just 28 senators to ever cast over 10,000 votes." Mr. Kerry recalls that Mr. Kennedy's maiden speech in the Senate was to demand an end to the filibuster of the original Civil Rights Act. He also credits the senior senator for lowering the voting age to 18 and ending "the hypocrisy that 18-year-olds were old enough to die for their country in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for its leadership at home." Say what you want to about Mr. Kennedy's ideals and ideology, Mr. Kerry concludes, he "sticks to his guns. ... He is listening still -- to the voices his conscience tells him must never be ignored."
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: capecodorca; chappaquiddick; dui; heartattack; igotawaywithmurder; liverdisease; lurch; manslaughter; maryjokepechne; perjury; stroke; tedkennedy
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Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:35:37 AM PST
by
seanmerc
To: seanmerc
Happy Birthday Ted.
Now crawl off into the woods somewhere and die...
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:38:14 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
To: seanmerc
God please send us term limits.
Amen.
To: seanmerc
What's the over under on how many birthday toasts he will partake in today?
To: mainepatsfan
What's the over under on how many birthday toasts he will partake in today?32
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:40:22 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Hillary Hugo Chavez wants to "take those profits" away from you, for the common good)
To: seanmerc
...By his 70th birthday he was one of just 28 senators to ever cast over 10,000 votes. And not a single one favors America.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:40:32 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: seanmerc
Say what you want to about Mr. Kennedy's ideals and ideology, Mr. Kerry concludes, he "sticks to his guns That's because they're covered with butter, sugar, and caramel, and he's about to eat them up.
To: seanmerc
This is the one I'm having a difficult time with:
"If it's any consolation, women overheard in Mr. Kennedy's company of late say the senator has never looked better."
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:41:56 AM PST
by
seanmerc
To: seanmerc
He is listening still -- to the voices his conscience tells him must never be ignored."I wonder if he can hear Mary Jo....
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:42:36 AM PST
by
TomServo
("Jim Henson’s Flying Leatherneck Babies!")
To: seanmerc
Happy birthday you drunken murderer.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:43:33 AM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(Hillary Hugo Chavez wants to "take those profits" away from you, for the common good)
To: seanmerc
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:43:40 AM PST
by
IrishMike
("Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.")
To: seanmerc
I anxiously await the day when I can approach Ted's gravestone with a full bladder...and leave with an empty one.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:44:01 AM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: seanmerc
At his birthday party...
To: seanmerc
To: seanmerc
Maybe it was...
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:45:08 AM PST
by
seanmerc
To: seanmerc; NeoCaveman
He should donate his liver to science; it's got to be a medical miracle.
To: Constitution Day
It will certainly be well-preserved.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:47:03 AM PST
by
seanmerc
To: seanmerc
Only the good die young...
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:49:53 AM PST
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: seanmerc
Maybe he has the some endowment as Rasputin.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:51:16 AM PST
by
Citizen Tom Paine
(An old sailor sends we need a 800 ship Navy.)
To: seanmerc
One look at Ted Kennedy is a good indication of what his brothers might have looked like had they survived to old age. The Camelot mystique wouldn't have held up if JFK and RFK lived to look like him.
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posted on
02/22/2007 5:51:58 AM PST
by
Loyalist
(Social justice isn't; social studies aren't; social work doesn't.)
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