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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.
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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!
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posted on
08/24/2008 6:17:55 PM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
[Ted] Kennedy Hoping to Attend ConventionBut first they've got to get him out of the pickle jar.
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posted on
08/24/2008 6:19:51 PM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: Zakeet
[Ted] Kennedy Hoping to Attend ConventionHe heard there would be an open bar?
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posted on
08/24/2008 6:20:09 PM PDT
by
South40
To: Zakeet
“You will never see a more wretched hive of scum and villainy”....Obe-Wan was a conservative :-)
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posted on
08/24/2008 6:21:06 PM PDT
by
EagleUSA
To: Zakeet
Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead!
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posted on
08/24/2008 6:21:47 PM PDT
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
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?
To: Zakeet
"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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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))
To: Zakeet
Maybe they’ll give him a microphone. Pass the POPcorn.
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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?)
To: Zakeet
How many houses/Oldsmobiles does he own?
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posted on
08/24/2008 6:28:02 PM PDT
by
maggief
To: Zakeet
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posted on
08/24/2008 6:30:31 PM PDT
by
South40
To: Zakeet
Plenty of bars near the Pepsi Center, so he’ll be there...
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posted on
08/24/2008 6:31:45 PM PDT
by
tips up
To: Zakeet
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posted on
08/24/2008 6:33:02 PM PDT
by
blondee123
(NO-BAMA for President in 2008!!!)
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.....
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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^)
To: skinkinthegrass
Don't forget the KoolAid
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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?)
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: Zakeet
Too bad that Mary Jo can't attend with him.

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posted on
08/24/2008 6:39:13 PM PDT
by
HighWheeler
(The higher the concentration of libs, the bigger the tragedy that follows.)
To: Zakeet
Sounds like another Wellstone moment, with the corpse in attendance.
To: Zakeet
It would be fitting if someone could insert a subliminal photo of Mary Jo Kopechne in the Kennedy appreciation video at the convention.
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posted on
08/25/2008 1:22:33 AM PDT
by
1955Ford
To: katykelly
>Sounds like another Wellstone moment, with the corpse in attendance.<
LOL !!!!!!!
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posted on
08/25/2008 1:35:18 AM PDT
by
4.6V8
To: Zakeet
appearing at the Pepsi Center Will it be renamed the Chivas Center in his honor?
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posted on
08/25/2008 4:29:28 AM PDT
by
iowamark
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