Posted on 09/26/2008 3:42:58 PM PDT by timsbella
Edited on 09/26/2008 4:01:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Sen. Ted Kennedy Taken to Cape Cod Hospital, Condition Unknown
Well that’s a good thing but this may happen more often and with cancer nothing is minor. I really do pray that he has time to have long conversations with God.
My pleasure.
Sending a shot of Wild Turkey your way as well.
Nothing is gained. That’s what I reflect on. What do we gain by showing that vicious a hatred for Ted? I loath what he has stood for, and things that he has done in his life. That’s fair game, but to wish him hell or God’s wrath upon him? We all walk down that isle sooner than we want to, and none of us is pure as the driven snow.
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You are right, no one is pure, but I have never murdered anyone and then try to cover it up. This is why the conservative movement will never get anywhere, we let the LEFT have a pass on everything and they are busy playing “gotcha” with us at every turn.
Dear LORD, I pray that Senator Kennedy understands where his future would be with Jesus as his Redeemer, or where his future will be if he chooses to reject Jesus’ amazing gift of salvation. And I pray for you to comfort and lift up his family during this long good-bye. In your precious name, Amen.
When this came up and they first took him away with a seizure I was reminded of some dozen "events" that suggested this wasn't just a recent thing.
His oldest sister Mary (I believe was her name) was in her early twenties and did some things best described as "acting out". Old Joe Kennedy and his wife Rose had the girl lobotomized. She lived on many decades as an invalid in an institution.
Teddy "acted out" exactly once, in college, and his brothers hustled him off to the Army ~ most likely to save him from Old Joe's doctors.
There were other, later events, but enough to show a pattern.
Most likely he shouldn't have been given a driver's license, but he was, and that had its own problems.
Even his supposed drinking and drunken behavior in public looked more like what so many folks with brain tumors encounter ~ .
No, wouldn't want that ~ no brain tumors ~ no sceleric inflamation ~ no epilepsy ~ no shunts ~ no....... and yet so many of the folks I've known who went through dealing with this same situation faced up to it bravely and trundled on, and so it is with Ted Kennedy. Can't fault him at all. His nieces and nephews should be proud of him, and to the degree this is hereditary, they should prepare their lives to carry on to the end as well as he did.
Over 60 comments removed in less than 200 posts. Is this any kind of record?
I don’t find fault with anyone who wants to go there whenever they like to see what the other side is doing. That being said, I realized you were going there because you were testing and it was a good model to use. That’s what I would do.
When venal Boston Congressman Joe Moakley died the dozen or so contenders on the Democratic primary all prefaced any comment or the answer to any question with the phrase, "If Joe Moakly were here, he'd say..." It was the Carthago delenda est of that primary.
God’s will be done.
Ignore the nonesense. Our moderator is nailing all of it. We are lucky to have a moderator with some sense this evening.
“No comment.”
Dittos.
Again, I agree with you. Sooner or later we will all be taking our dirt nap. Despising his actions and philosophy is one thing, gloating on suffering is another. “Weak-sauce” as my son would say.
When a person is doing something that is wrong, we should confront them and put an end to it. We both fully support that.
What we shouldn’t do is try to stick it to them when they are down.
I understand where you are coming from. We both despise what Ted has conducted himself like, but we must be able to extend mercy when it is appropriate. Otherwise we have allowed the left to change us to something we shouldn’t have allowed them to.
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