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[Ted] Kennedy Hoping to Attend Convention
ABC News ^ | August 24, 2008 | Rick Klein

Posted on 08/24/2008 6:17:54 PM PDT by Zakeet

The biggest question that has convention delegates buzzing in Denver on Sunday: Will Sen. Ted Kennedy appear in person Monday night?

The answer to that question, a Kennedy friend tells ABC News, is yes -- assuming he gets final clearance from his doctors before flying to Denver and appearing at the Pepsi Center.

"The plan is for him to fly in Sunday night," said the friend, speaking on condition of anonymity.

A video tribute to Kennedy, D-Mass., is slated for Monday evening, the first night of the Democratic National Convention. Directed by documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Mark Herzog, the video will be introduced by Kennedy's niece, Caroline Kennedy.

Assuming the senator is able to make the trip, expect a thunderous reception when he takes the stage at the conclusion of the video. It's likely to be the emotional high point of the evening -- if not of the entire convention -- if it's able to come together, given the Kennedy family's long association with the Democratic Party, and Kennedy's early endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama.

Obama campaign aides and convention organizers have said that the decision rests with Kennedy himself, and that they have always considered his attendance unlikely.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; convention; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; denver2008; kennedy; obama; tedkennedy
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Between the Clintons and the Swimmer, I never will have any prime time exposure other than my coronation!

1 posted on 08/24/2008 6:17:55 PM PDT by Zakeet
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[Ted] Kennedy Hoping to Attend Convention

But first they've got to get him out of the pickle jar.

2 posted on 08/24/2008 6:19:51 PM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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To: Zakeet
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He heard there would be an open bar?

3 posted on 08/24/2008 6:20:09 PM PDT by South40
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To: Zakeet

“You will never see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”....Obe-Wan was a conservative :-)


4 posted on 08/24/2008 6:21:06 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!


5 posted on 08/24/2008 6:21:47 PM PDT by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: Zakeet

Obama campaign aides and convention organizers have said that the decision rests with Kennedy himself,


Does this, in fact, mean the Obamessiah cannot simply will Kennedy to appear?


6 posted on 08/24/2008 6:21:54 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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"Hold still Ted, don't move ... In the Name of The One (thas me!) ... I say HEEEEAAAAAALLLLL!!!!!! [*SMACK* to he forehead!]
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7 posted on 08/24/2008 6:22:02 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jimmy Carter is the Skidmark in the panties of American history. (Obama is his 2nd term))
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Maybe they’ll give him a microphone. Pass the POPcorn.


8 posted on 08/24/2008 6:23:29 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Don't go chasing waterfalls.....na na na na nana na na na na nana....gets stuck in your head, huh?)
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To: Zakeet

How many houses/Oldsmobiles does he own?


9 posted on 08/24/2008 6:28:02 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Zakeet
Ted Kennedy will be introducing Osama Obama
10 posted on 08/24/2008 6:30:31 PM PDT by South40
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Plenty of bars near the Pepsi Center, so he’ll be there...


11 posted on 08/24/2008 6:31:45 PM PDT by tips up
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12 posted on 08/24/2008 6:33:02 PM PDT by blondee123 (NO-BAMA for President in 2008!!!)
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To: IllumiNaughtyByNature; P8riot
Pass the POPcorn.....considered it passed.
more POPCORN!....

more REFRESHMENTS!....

more PARTYING!....
and Hookers....

Lookee Here, Teddy (just dying to get there) coming.....

13 posted on 08/24/2008 6:35:34 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (If you aren't "advancing" your arguments,your losing "the battle of Ideas"...libs,hates the facts 8^)
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Don't forget the KoolAid


14 posted on 08/24/2008 6:38:15 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Don't go chasing waterfalls.....na na na na nana na na na na nana....gets stuck in your head, huh?)
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Too bad that Mary Jo can't attend with him.


16 posted on 08/24/2008 6:39:13 PM PDT by HighWheeler (The higher the concentration of libs, the bigger the tragedy that follows.)
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Sounds like another Wellstone moment, with the corpse in attendance.


17 posted on 08/25/2008 12:44:12 AM PDT by katykelly
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It would be fitting if someone could insert a subliminal photo of Mary Jo Kopechne in the Kennedy appreciation video at the convention.


18 posted on 08/25/2008 1:22:33 AM PDT by 1955Ford
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>Sounds like another Wellstone moment, with the corpse in attendance.<

LOL !!!!!!!


19 posted on 08/25/2008 1:35:18 AM PDT by 4.6V8
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appearing at the Pepsi Center

Will it be renamed the Chivas Center in his honor?

20 posted on 08/25/2008 4:29:28 AM PDT by iowamark
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