Or if you must, at least be appetizing:
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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A person's destiny is always in their own hands, that is why we were granted free will to live within the bounds of what we are taught and what we naturally know to be right and wrong. That family has rarely considered or taken their actions in life very wisely. Their grief and tradegy has always been largely and usually directly a consequence of their own bad decisions. They have mostly been given a pass for their lack of good sense, morality or judgement because of the large myth built up around them. I do hope he survives because a stroke is not a laughing matter but don't be surprised if you see him wheeled, still incompacitated, into the senate so that the dems don't lose the seat or position.
#2!
The simple, sad fact is that the only way to get a Kennedy out of Congress is through permanent disability or death.
Ohhhh, if only I could post my true opinion on how I feel about that man. But, then, my post would be pulled and I'd get banned.
WTF?
If Senator Kennedy is like a relative of mine who had the same thing happen.....
The ambulance was called at 8:30AM. If Kennedy was found in his bed with the stroke symptoms then he will not be recovering much. The stroke occurred hours before and was doing damage for hours. Different than if someone has a stroke dying daytime and an ambulance is called immediately
That may be, Fox News and all the people they interview are giving eulogizes right now.
They were on another thread on the same subject that got pulled. We appreciate your support.
You're a class act!
Bless you...
My mother had one last year. Her brain was gone when they found her.
More than one of us can testify to the sadness of having a relative, and I presume oneself, live past their cogency.Your loss is fresh, my mother died in '04. But really, over the five preceding years, a little at a time. Dad died rather suddenly, and that hit me like
a tontwo tons of bricks. And affected me for years and years.
I don’t care.
When the man is in grave condition, it is not time to discuss these things. Yes, some of the deification going on is hard to take. But, again, this is NOT the time.
Prayers for Senator Kennedy and his family.
Let it go.
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for what it’s worth.
Seeing as you've been a poster since 2000, you should realize the legal
BS that could be thrown our way if posts that could be determined as vulgar
were to be challenged in a legal case.
Remember: Loose lips sink ships.
The media is hyperventilating over Kennedy .. and FOX has been on the air since 8:55 am talking about it.
I don’t wish the guy ill .. but this is just riduculous.
Guess it’s time to use my Rush 24/7 and listen to some more of Rush’s brillant words.
It ain't censorship when a private website upholds its own basic standards. This isn't the time or place for this stuff.
Bi-partisan refers to working with the other party. It does NOT mean working with the other end of the political spectrum.
There are plenty of RINO Quislings in the Senate to aid and abet Kennedy, and Kennedy’s work with them was indeed “bi-partisan.”
Aye-aye, Sir!
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