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Kennedy to be buried at Arlington - What a Travesty!
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Posted on 08/26/2009 9:11:49 AM PDT by AUH2O Repub

Just heard on noon news that Kennedy will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. What an insult to our troops!


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KEYWORDS: arlingtoncemetery; maryjokopechne; swimmerbuysit; tedkennedy
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1 posted on 08/26/2009 9:11:49 AM PDT by AUH2O Repub
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To: AUH2O Repub

Arlington?

After how he smeared our troops???????????????????

Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:

He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.

Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation

“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”

A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.


2 posted on 08/26/2009 9:12:23 AM PDT by roses of sharon (It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt: Hoffer)
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To: AUH2O Repub

Well, according to his bio he is a former veteran....


3 posted on 08/26/2009 9:13:12 AM PDT by meandog (GWB IS the reason for Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: AUH2O Repub

He should be buried at sea.


4 posted on 08/26/2009 9:13:16 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: AUH2O Repub

What....the landfills in Massachusetts are all full?


5 posted on 08/26/2009 9:13:27 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The AFL-CIO and SEIU.....two domestic terrorist organizations doing Obama's dirty work for him.)
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To: AUH2O Repub

eww.


6 posted on 08/26/2009 9:13:30 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: AUH2O Repub

Buried at Arlington?.....What for?....Do they need fertilizer?....


7 posted on 08/26/2009 9:13:35 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AUH2O Repub

Good lord. >:(


8 posted on 08/26/2009 9:13:37 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -George Orwell)
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To: AUH2O Repub

Outrageous!

Kennedy is a disgrace. Yes, he’s a national figure but he LOATHED the military. Bury him in a cess pool, where he truly belongs.

There goes the restof the summer ... “mouring” Kennedy.


9 posted on 08/26/2009 9:14:33 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: penelopesire
He should be buried at sea.


10 posted on 08/26/2009 9:14:53 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Health Care Reform has met the DEATH Panel.)
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To: AUH2O Repub

A desecration fitting his ilk.


11 posted on 08/26/2009 9:15:08 AM PDT by Carley (WHEN YOU HONOR THE DISHONORABLE YOU SHOW YOUR OWN TRUE COLORS)
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To: AUH2O Repub

POS where no flowers will grow naturally.
The ground will be dark around his hole.
And green around all patriots.


12 posted on 08/26/2009 9:15:48 AM PDT by bossmechanic (If all else fails, hit it with a hammer)
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To: AUH2O Repub

As I suspected! Where exactly, with Jack and Bobby?


13 posted on 08/26/2009 9:16:14 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: Carley

everyone is waiting on the clintons

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/Awaiting_the_Clintons.html?showall


14 posted on 08/26/2009 9:16:37 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: AUH2O Repub

Obama will attend the funeral....


15 posted on 08/26/2009 9:16:44 AM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: AUH2O Repub

Unfortunately any elected official in the US government is qualified to be buried at Arlington. This is really an insult to the American Heros buried there.


16 posted on 08/26/2009 9:17:00 AM PDT by jesseam (G)
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To: AUH2O Repub
Ted Kennedy was a singular figure in American history. Very few if any, over such a long period, have done more to harm America. But Obama is committed to trying.

“Socialism hasn’t worked in 6,000 years of recorded history because it didn’t have me to run it.” - Ted Kennedy
And despite all his efforts to the contrary, it never worked in America either. Even with him as the Jackal of the Senate trying his best to implement it. May God have mercy on his soul...but we are better as a nation with him permanenetly out of that position of power and influence.

The best epitath for this leftist, socialists, corrupt old man would be for a conservative or at the least a moderate, to be elected to fill his seat by the people of Mass.

Now we have Barrack Hussein Obama and his ilk, who will surely try to use the death of Kennedy to push through the biggest socialization effort in American history - ObamaCare.

We cannot let it happen. Stand firm, speak out, lean into their storm of word and ideologies...and push them back.


THE GRIM REAPING OF AMERICA


AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY


THE STORM UNLEASHED ON AMERICA

A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION

A 4TH OF JULY TEA PARTY SPEECH

...and on the lighter side, take your mind off the Obamanation for a few minutes and enjoy some beautiful Western US scenery slideshows.

JEFF HEAD'S WESTERN US SCENERY SLIDE SHOWS

TED KENNEDY'S "OTHER" LEGACY - LEFTIST, SOCIALIST ANTI-AMERICAN TO THE CORE

Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:

He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.

Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:

In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”

Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation

“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.” - A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.

Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:

“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”

Kennedy betrays his Senate position, President Reagan and America
:

May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.

Kennedy was either a prime instigator or author of every expansion of an increase in immigration, up to and including the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.

The death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick:

On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts .. At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, and flipped into Poucha Pond.

He escaped te car andswam to shore and walked back to the party, passing several houses and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car.

The Kennedy family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family, before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn't call police because he was in a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight.

The inquest into Kopechne’s death took place in Edgartown in January 1970. At the request of Kennedy’s lawyers, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered that it be conducted in secret. The 763-page transcript of the inquest was released four months later. Judge James A. Boyle presided at the inquest. Among Judge Boyle’s conclusions in his inquest report was the following: “There is probable cause to believe that Edward M. Kennedy operated his motor vehicle negligently … and that such operation appears to have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.”

Under Massachusetts law Boyle, having found “probable cause” that Kennedy had committed a crime, could have issued a warrant for his arrest, but he did not do so. District Attorney Dinis chose not to pursue Kennedy for manslaughter, despite Judge Boyle’s conclusions.

Kennedy pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. Kopechne's family received a small payout from the Kennedy's insurance policy, and never sued. There was later an effort to have her body exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy's family paid their attorney's bills.

In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?

While attending law school at the University of Virginia , he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959.

He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.

17 posted on 08/26/2009 9:17:06 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: penelopesire

GMTA!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2324881/posts?page=18#18

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KennedyCare ... it is dead in the water


18 posted on 08/26/2009 9:17:13 AM PDT by maggief
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To: meandog
Well, according to his bio he is a former veteran....

He served one hitch and never rose above the rank of private.

There may be an earthquake in D.C. what with all the turning-over-in-grave incidents that are sure to follow....

19 posted on 08/26/2009 9:17:17 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte
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To: AUH2O Repub

They better be sure and allow proper drainage for all the ensuing urine.


20 posted on 08/26/2009 9:17:20 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 ("Peace" is that brief, glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - Anonymous)
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