Where's the sympathy for her after she was lobotomized courtesy of the parents?
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Posted on 05/24/2008 3:33:59 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
My circle of friends lost a fine man, a husband and father of several children, to brain cancer not long ago. He fought with courage and optimism, and received fine treatment, but the disease simply proved too strong. I sympathize with the plight facing Ted Kennedy, his family and loved ones.
That said, I cannot help but comment on Bob Herbert's NY Times column of this morning, Tears for Teddy. The gist is that this is but the latest of many challenges that Kennedy has faced. And it's certainly true that the senator's life has been touched by more than its fair share of tragedy.
Even so, read this line, the one the Times placed on its op-ed web page to promo the column, and see if the same thing doesn't come to your mind as did to mine:
The press will tell you that this is Senator Kennedy’s toughest fight. I don’t even know if that’s true. Who knows what the toughest fight has been for someone named Kennedy?
My reaction was to immediately think of Chappaquiddick, and to try to imagine the fight that Mary Jo Kopechne made. And so I was drawn to read the column, to see how Herbert might address the matter. He first made an elliptical reference to it, writing of the Kennedy clan's "tragic failings." But then came these lines, which immediately followed the "toughest fight" one cited above [emphasis added].
This is a guy who has experienced every kind of horror, who went down in a plane, who had to fight back after Chappaquiddick, who has had two kids stricken with cancer, and on and on. So who knows?
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Chappaquidick is chump change compared to Kennedy's other outrages. That was just a simple manslaughter gig and he only killed one American.
This thoroughly disgusting man should have been driven in shame from office in 1969. Instead, he has afflicted this country for another 40 years and fostered a Liberal legacy which may in the end be the downfall of this nation and our people.
Ted Kennedy as a Senator has caused more lasting harm to America then anybody I can think of (Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter are neck in neck in the running) - and that's a mighty competitive list from which to choose!
“Who knows what the toughest fight has been for someone named Kennedy?”
The media keep repeating their stupid idea, that the Kennedy family has had an inordinate number of tragedies, and that there is a “Kennedy curse”.
Total bullfeathers.
The media like to invent things which they then wind up believing.
I have no sympathy for this Kennedy. He has been the beloved of the left for too long now. He has done enough damage.
Bob Herbert.... I mean, who cares what this chattering little chipmunk thinks about anything?
As for The Swimmer, he’d better be summoning a priest-confessor to his bedside when the time comes.
But you know what? I don’t think he will.
As long as a RAT wants to discuss Chappaquidick; it must be pointed out that it proved what a pathetic, self serving selfish man Teddy is.
Kennedy has gotten way with murder and treason, but father time will not be denied.
But you can bet the house that he’ll get a saint’s funeral.
A mere slip of the tongue. He probably meant “swim back.”
Where's the sympathy for her after she was lobotomized courtesy of the parents?
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I read that Kara Kennedy, daughter of Ted born in 1960 was fighting lung cancer. His son Ted lost a leg to cancer as a child. The gene pool certainly looks cancer prone.
You hit the nail on the head with those comments, Gritty!!!
Amen!
And the individuals that he is responsible for being slaughtered in Southeast Asia. Him pissing on the sacrifices that the Armed Forces men and women made over there including the giving of their lives. And in all probability, the lives of innocent people he has destroyed over here.
Mary Jo would be 69 today, most likely a mother and grandmother by now. So, Ted actually killed five or more people.
Herbert needs to wear a jockey suit when he praises Kennedy... the man mostly responsible for destroying the black family unit.
KGB Letter Outlines Sen. Kennedy’s Overtures to Soviets, Prof Says
By Kevin Mooney
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
October 20, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - The antipathy that congressional Democrats have today toward President George W. Bush is reminiscent of their distrust of President Ronald Reagan during the Cold War, a political science professor says.
“We see some of the same sentiments today, in that some Democrats see the Republican president as being a threat and the true obstacle to peace, instead of seeing our enemies as the true danger,” said Paul Kengor, a political science professor at Grove City College and the author of new book, “The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism.”
In his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.
The letter, dated May 14, 1983, was sent from the head of the KGB to Yuri Andropov, who was then General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party.
In his letter, KGB head Viktor Chebrikov offered Andropov his interpretation of Kennedy’s offer. Former U.S. Sen. John Tunney (D-Calif.) had traveled to Moscow on behalf of Kennedy to seek out a partnership with Andropov and other Soviet officials, Kengor claims in his book.
At one point after President Reagan left office, Tunney acknowledged that he had played the role of intermediary, not only for Kennedy but for other U.S. senators, Kengor said. Moreover, Tunney told the London Times that he had made 15 separate trips to Moscow.
“There’s a lot more to be found here,” Kengor told Cybercast News Service. “This was a shocking revelation.”
It is not evident with whom Tunney actually met in Moscow. But the letter does say that Sen. Kennedy directed Tunney to reach out to “confidential contacts” so Andropov could be alerted to the senator’s proposals.
Specifically, Kennedy proposed that Andropov make a direct appeal to the American people in a series of television interviews that would be organized in August and September of 1983, according to the letter.
“Tunney told his contacts that Kennedy was very troubled about the decline in U.S -Soviet relations under Reagan,” Kengor said. “But Kennedy attributed this decline to Reagan, not to the Soviets. In one of the most striking parts of this letter, Kennedy is said to be very impressed with Andropov and other Soviet leaders.”
In Kennedy’s view, the main reason for the antagonism between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1980s was Reagan’s unwillingness to yield on plans to deploy middle-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, the KGB chief wrote in his letter.
“Kennedy was afraid that Reagan was leading the world into a nuclear war,” Kengor said. “He hoped to counter Reagan’s polices, and by extension hurt his re-election prospects.”
As a prelude to the public relations strategy Kennedy hoped to facilitate on behalf of the Soviets, Kengor said, the Massachusetts senator had also proposed meeting with Andropov in Moscow — to discuss the challenges associated with disarmament.
In his appeal, Kennedy indicated he would like to have Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) accompany him on such a trip. The two senators had worked together on nuclear freeze proposals.
But Kennedy’s attempt to partner with high-level Soviet officials never materialized. Andropov died after a brief time in office and was succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev.
In his attempt to reach out the Soviets, Kennedy settled on a flawed receptacle for peace, Kengor said. Andropov was a much more belligerent and confrontational leader than the man who followed him, in Kengor’s estimation.
“If Andropov had lived and Gorbachev never came to power, I can’t imagine the Cold War ending peacefully like it did,” Kengor told Cybercast News Service. “Things could have gotten ugly.”
In the long run of history, Kengor believes it is evident that Reagan’s policies were vindicated while Kennedy was proven wrong. In fact, as he points out in his book, Kennedy himself made a “gracious concession” after Reagan died, crediting the 40th president with winning the Cold War.
Interesting observation I was not aware of. I would have thought otherwise based upon the areas opposition to windmills on their horizon.
You left out LBJ ... it was his “Great Society” that created permanent debt and a permanent underclass, soaring illegitimacy and other social ills from which we will never recover. Oh, and he horribly mismanaged Vietnam.
Basically, he's a race traitor.
The "Kennedy Curse" is an overwhelming familial arrogance, borne of their legendary ability to obstruct justice and raise themselves above human law, that causes them to believe they are not subject to the laws of physics and nature. Hence, the deaths many of them have suffered.
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