Posted on 05/17/2008 9:02:55 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
HYANNIS -- U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy was rushed by ambulance to Cape Cod Hospital this morning after falling ill at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport.
Hyannis fire responded to the compound after a call was made around 8:30 a.m. It's unclear what Kennedy's medical condition is, but after he spent almost two hours in the emergency room a decision was made to transfer him to Mass General Hospital in Boston.
Kennedy, 76, was placed on a stretcher and wheeled out to the MedFlight helicopter around 10:15 a.m. where it took off from Barnstable Municipal Airport.
The Kennedy family is preparing to host the annual Best Buddies Challenge event in Hyannisport this afternoon, which is a fund-raiser for the organization. Best Buddies was founded by Anthony Kennedy Shriver and helps people with intellectual disabilities.
Hundreds are expected to participate in the event, which kicked off this morning with a 100-mile bicycle ride from the Kennedy Library in Boston to Hyannisport.
A concert at the Kennedy compound is scheduled for tonight.
Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate for forty-three years.
He was elected in 1962 to finish the final two years of the Senate term of his brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, who was elected president in 1960.
Since then, Kennedy has been re-elected to seven full terms, and is now the second most senior member of the Senate.
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I've been censored!...post deleted...and I still can't wrap my brain around the fact!...
..and the AdminModerator is too busy to give me the courtesy of 'why'....
Agree, let's focus on the positive. He...uh...well...by annually authoring bills to ban all "armor-piercing" ammo (which of course includes all hunting ammo) he's done as much as anyone to motivate 2nd Amendment rights groups/individuals to action.
There. See, it wasn't that difficult.
What happened to my comments???
All I said was that the posters should behave themselves and not make personal attacks on the Senator.
I was trying to be helpful. My prayers are with Sen. Kennedy and his family in this difficult time.
Re. post #193, thanks for the insight. Glad you had the wisdom to leave the poor guy alone that day.
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‘After he paid for the flowers and returned to his vehicle, I walked over to the vendor and asked if he knew who his customer was. He did not. I informed him about Sen. Kennedy and told him that his flowers were most likely going to be placed at his brother’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery.’
Yep. And I'll be charitable and assume that his actions resulted from stupidity and a hunger for power, and not pure evil.
FROM 2003 AND 2004, ie, WARTIME, with boots on the ground.
Senator Ted Kennedy’s said that Iraq is “Bush’s Vietnam.”
“In Najaf, the militant Shiite cleric Al-Sadr echoed the refrain Iraq could become quote, ‘another Vietnam’ for America.”
Apparently nothing else is happening in the world, according to FNC. Lots of pols and has-been pols getting in their fair share of free, compassionate, air time. Looks like Drudge is right to hold fire for the time being.
Excellent food for thought. I want to hate him but I have no right. Rationalism is often abandoned when emotions well up, and I personally will try to put my opinions of his politics and personal life aside in order to wish well for him and his family.
I would rather win over the country through the spread of conservative principles rather than through anyone’s demise.
What, you think you’re the only one to have a post zotted?
Please
Head down. Keep moving, soldier.
They are talking about it a lot. And have at least two threads monitoring Freeper’s comments.
Probably a good idea. Jim wouldn't appreciate some of this behavior.
That post made me smile.
Has to be the kindest well wishes for the Senators well being and hope you retire now post I have ever come across.
If the Admin will send you my post, please tell me what I said wrong.
It’s quite possible your comment was deleted by mistake. One of mine was yanked by accident (it said “Prayers up for Sen. Kennedy”) on the thread that got pulled. Please don’t sweat it. The mods are real busy today.
If they push the “Fairness Doctrine” they would have quite a store of “shocking” ammo if not for the mods.
Yes, was just pointing out it’s the same problem. It doesn’t
necessarily mean there will be the same result. We’ll see what happens; just pointing out it’s the same thing as before.
...ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen. (Pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death. Amen)
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