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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Looks like Orca’s chickens are coming back to roost.
It’s their fault. As usual, I’m innocent of all charges. Trumped up or not.
Hope ya get better!!!!!!!! It must be the WisCONsin air! :)
I hate it when that happens.
"Ted Kennedy is a giant in American political history. He’s done more for health care than just about anybody in history. We are going to be rooting for him. I insist on being optimistic about how it’s going to turn out."
"Obama really seemed to me to inappropriately focus first on policy, and then on himself—and his own supposed attribute of optimism—with what he offered."
Agreed, given that conservatives have preserved as many free-market principles viz health care as much as humanly possible. Sen. Kennedy had a huge hand in the creation of HMO's and I don't think there's been a comparable health care disaster since then.
Oh boy. Susan Estrich on Fox. I think that’s my queue to take a break and start being productive.
Ditto!
have a good day all
“Prayers for his recovery and healthful retirement”
I can’t stand the man, he’s done a lot to harm this country but I don’t want to see anyone suffer like that. It’s hard enough to stay healthy when you DON’T weigh 300 pounds.
:0)
WHHHHHEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
OK. I’ll leave now too. TOL can take over...
Estrich saying the initial worry this was life-threatening has passed and now they’re just trying to figure out the cause.
Not now...
Two words: lawn chairs.
I have already had 3 post removed. Are the mods from dumocratunderground working at FR now???
We all know what the Rats would be doing if this were a GOP member that this happened to. Look what they said about Reagan.
Still nothing on Drudge.
Yes, he not only made it a political statement, but a self-congratulatory one at that!
I’ve been watching Fox and their non-stop coverage sounds less like reporting that the man has had a couple of seizures (& crisis over) and much more like a tribute to the memory of his life by his friends and colleagues. Covering his life, none has yet to make mention of Mary Jo.
Oh for heaven’s sake...quit whining.
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