Posted on 03/08/2009 7:17:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
BOSTON (CBS) ―
As part of Sen. Ted Kennedy's birthday celebration in Washington, the 77-year-old was presented with the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Kennedy was presented with the award during a star-studded event at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Sunday night.
"Every year, Sen. Edward Kennedy is nominated for his statesmanship and leadership on the most pressing issues facing out nation," said Caroline Kennedy, president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. "His passionate advocacy on behalf of civil rights, human rights, voting rights, economic, social and environmental justice – and his long battle to achieve quality affordable health care for all Americans – are each deserving of an award."
Kennedy has not been eligible for the award while he served on the Profile in Courage Award selection committee, but this year, Kennedy was given the honor that celebrates his brother's legacy.
Sunday's event also featured a special guest; Pres. Barack Obama. The President led a Kennedy Center crowd in a performance of "Happy Birthday", capping the tribute to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Kennedy is the third senator from Massachusetts to get the Profiles in Courage Award.
The award is named after Pres. Kennedy's 1957 Pulitzer-Prize winning book, "Profiles in Courage," which tells the stories of eight U.S. senators who risked their careers by taking principled stands for unpopular positions.
The JFK Library Foundation created the Profiles in Courage Award in 1989 to honor Kennedy's commitment and contribution to public service.
Current winners of the award include UN Secretary Gen. Kofi Annan, Senators Russ Feingold and John McCain and the first responders to the devastation of September 11.
That does it............ I’m going to bed before I puke all over my keyboard!!
It is only fitting that the “Swimmer” receive an award based on the book his brother did not write. Phonies all of them.
Kennedys:
Can’t Drive
Can’t Swim
Can’t Fly
Can’t Skipper a boat
Yet they know what’s best for us.
How pathetically ironic is it that Sir Osis of the Liver wins an award named after his brother, who risked his life to save his men by swimming through shark infested waters, dodging Japanese patrols. Yet, this POS left that poor young girl to die in a watery grave on Chappaquidick Island.
The \rat party becomes more vile and disgusting each day.
Those should be coming shortly for the old walrus.We are going to have quite a hog roast/kegger here on the farm when he finally goes.
I’m sorry, I don’t see that he’s done anything courageous.
He can have all the "awards" in life that people want to give him. I doubt it will give him much comfort when the time comes for his "reward" from a higher source.
I guess the award committee are devout nepotists.
Too bad you’re not nearby, I’d love to attend your party!
Need help making up a menu?
‘Soon To Be Dead, Ted’ won’t be helped by his ‘awards’ when he meets his Maker.
No man has done more harm to this nation and to the world, than Nearly Dead Ted.
Hurry up already, Teddie.
How about Mary Joe Kopeckne’s rights? What is his stand on that? F that steaming pant load. He can’t die soon or slow or bad enough. Rot in hell you human slime.
Mary Jo Kopechne could not attend the festivities.
It's true, you can't.
Edward (I would never call such a cowardly scoundrel "Ted") Kennedy has never taken a courageous breath in his miserable, scotch-soaked life.
While I would not wish his brain cancer on him, any sub-human who (apparently) let's a girl drown while his blood alcohol level goes down, is the precise reciprocal of a profile of courage.
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The unpopular position of being cast as a drunken murderer provided courage of his senatorial principles. Watta hero.
The erect a statute to Mary Jo Kopechne.
Underneath the statute place a dignified bronze plate telling the entire story of her death.
The most courageous thing Ted Kennedy could have ever done would have been to disappear from public sight 2 days after he watched Ms. Kopechne drown and stay disappeared.
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