I tried to be classy. I tried to be magnanimous. But you HAD to go and mention the Chappaquiddick murder...
Posted on 05/21/2008 10:29:29 PM PDT by The_Republican
Shortly after John Kennedy's inauguration, a fictive account of a conversation between Richard Nixon and Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's speech writer, made the rounds. According to the story, Nixon told Sorensen that there was one thing Kennedy said that he wished he had said. Sorensen asked whether it was the line starting with "Ask not what your country can do for you," and Nixon replied, "No, it was the one starting with 'I do solemnly swear.'"
Life for all of us is a mix of things we're proud of, things we're happy for, and things we wished had been different. The sad and unexpected news of Ted Kennedy's cancer provides a poignant reminder of our mortality and of the highs and lows in Kennedy's own life and the political life of a nation whose history for the last half century has been so closely intertwined with his own.
Ted Kennedy's career is a blend of two larger-than-life stories, one political, one personal. The political story starts where our fictional meeting does, with his brother's election to the presidency. As the youngest son of a political dynasty, little was expected of Ted, other than to follow in his older brothers' footsteps and help promote the family's aims. When JFK became only the second president elected while a sitting Senator, he had to resign his seat as the junior senator from Massachusetts. The family engineered an arrangement that installed someone they thought would be merely a bench-warmer to keep the seat safe until Ted turned 30 and was able to stand for election two years later. Ted won the Democratic nomination and the seat in 1962 and has represented his state in the Senate for 45 years now.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Kennedy has a tiny 0.5 cm (small pea sized) primary glioma. This means he had instant access to a high resolution state of the art MRI, something the liberals like Kennedy want to deny you or me.
In a socialized system, like Canada there would be a three month+ wait for a second rate obsolete MRI. And forget the PET scanners so invaluable in modern oncology. Stone Age Ontario doesn’t cover or even allow any PET scans.
The hypocrisy and dishonesty of democrats like Kennedy is impressive.
That being said, the gioma is incurable and Kennedy will be gone in a few months. I wish him a pain-free and peaceful death.
Good post.
BUMP what you said.
I just hate drunken Irishmen in general!
The entire article is well worth the read. The author has class.
I tried to be classy. I tried to be magnanimous. But you HAD to go and mention the Chappaquiddick murder...
Well said in every particular.
the only thing larger than life about fat ted is his orcan sized body...alcohol bloated head....a pea sized brain....all with an ego to match.....
this leviathan of self aggrandizement has truly had a negative impact on the USA and the world equal only to his physiology to the common man....
no matter what slef induced delusions of senate orations in the likes of cicero....his only true remembrance will be a dark night on a small bridge near his family compound ¬ where in a drunken stupor, drove a young woman off a bridge a bridge and walked away allowing her to die a slow death alone in water....
one can only hope that upon his final judgement...neither he nor the kennedy family can buy his way out of that crime!!!
Unctuous, oleaginous garbage.
The time for all the respect for Red Ted will be up eventually and then we can hear the other side of the morbid story of this Public servant.
And that will be a tale to be told!
Maybe they can start with his back channel with the Russian KGB in an effort to derail Reagan's presidency.
Animal Farm describes Kennedy and the rest of the limousine liberals-
Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer— except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs.
Ch. 10
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
It's hard to feel sorry for such a nasty, vicious man. The word "contempt" fits much better when reflecting on the wretched legacy of this disgraceful scoundrel.
I hope he gets saved. But other than that,...
I too wish him a peaceful, remaining existence.
But I keep hearing sad, forelorn liberals from Mass on the boob tube repeating how Eddie “has done so much good for the people of our country.” None of them point out what this ‘good’ is though.
The author "has class?" Since when does pointing out someone was negligent in getting someone KILLED get you labeled a "hater"?
THAT is an excellent point.
I take back what I said about the author. He's a clown.
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