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Edward Kennedy
Discover the networks ^ | 08/26/09 | David Horowitz

Posted on 08/26/2009 10:33:40 AM PDT by DFG

A key player in the creation of Medicare in 1965 A major driving force behind the passage of the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 Escaped manslaughter charges for 1969 Chappaquiddick incident In the 1980s, supported the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, a Soviet-sponsored initiative that would have frozen the USSR's military superiority in place Secretly contacted the head of the Soviet KGB in 1983, in an effort to undermine the Reagan presidency Described the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq as “a fraud” Favored higher taxes for people in upper income brackets, but took many measures to minimize his own tax liability

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RIP Mary Jo
1 posted on 08/26/2009 10:33:40 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Kennedy legacy: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2324922/replies?c=19


2 posted on 08/26/2009 10:37:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: DFG

ya teddy did all he could to destroy this country...guess obama can finish it.


3 posted on 08/26/2009 10:39:42 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: DFG

And this is the legacy that some here on FR don’t want us to mention because it will offend the family.


4 posted on 08/26/2009 10:43:16 AM PDT by the long march
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To: DFG

All true!

I wish more Americans understood how our Constitution is supposed to work and what has been going wrong - so we can begin to work to reform things.

Kennedy now faces the only Judge that matters. I feel no need to add my own judgment to His.


5 posted on 08/26/2009 10:47:29 AM PDT by cvq3842 (Countless thousands of our ancestors died to give us the freedoms we have today. Stay involved!)
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To: DFG

David Horowitz has given a good summary of the life of a True Anti-American Liberal!


6 posted on 08/26/2009 10:47:47 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: BenLurkin; All
The legacy of Edward Kennedy will be the 1965 Immigration Reform Act. This is the most substantial piece of legislation in the history of the United States. It was bigger than the Emancipation Proclamation. It was more substantial than the New Deal or any other legislation.

In short the 1965 Immigration Reform Act was the WORST thing that EVER happened to the United States. It was worst than the Civil War. It was worse than the Great Depression or any economic turmoil. It was worse than any of the Wars we've been in.

It was worse because it changed the United States in a way in which no war could ever change. All the changes have been for the worse in my opinion and in the opinion of every person I know who remembers America before 1965 or there abouts.

No the legacy of Ted Kennedy will that more than any other person he was the person who contributed most to turning the United States into a 3rd World Country. Without the 1965 Act, Obama would never have been elected president. Kennedy (and those who voted for him) can rot for all I care.
7 posted on 08/26/2009 10:48:08 AM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough!)
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To: DFG

Teddy and Mary Jo, together again at last. Ain’t love sweet? / s


8 posted on 08/26/2009 10:49:03 AM PDT by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters | America -- a great idea, didn't last.)
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To: the long march

On a more positive note... The U.S. Senate doesn’t stink quite as bad today as it did yesterday.


9 posted on 08/26/2009 10:50:12 AM PDT by PalmettoMason ("an empty limousine pulled up in front of the White House, and Barack Obama got out")
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To: DFG

Screw Kennedy. Don’t care.

I want my TV back!

Now its all Kennedy all the time on every channel. Uuungh


10 posted on 08/26/2009 10:50:22 AM PDT by 240B (he is doing everything he said he would'nt and not doing what he said he would)
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To: DFG

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 President Reagan:

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.


11 posted on 08/26/2009 10:53:38 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: DFG

If you can’t say anything good about the dead, you say nothing at all.

And I can’t say NOTHING about Ted Kennedy LOUD ENOUGH!!!!!!


12 posted on 08/26/2009 10:55:37 AM PDT by ZULU (God guts and guns made America great. Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam.)
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To: DFG

The Mary Jo story was tragic to be sure, but the millions of unborn who were killed as a result of Kennedy policies and others like him is monstrous.


13 posted on 08/26/2009 10:56:37 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: DFG
David, don't forget shaming our troops.

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.” - Sen. Edward Kennedy (May 10, 2004)

14 posted on 08/26/2009 10:57:21 AM PDT by McGruff (This administration is turning into one long Wag The Dog movie.)
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To: the long march

Mary Jo will welcome dear Teddy boy with open arms.
Maybe he should have thought his excuse to tell her. He will have much explaning to do about a certain summer evening.
I bet he had the best doctors & not given the “death panel” & a red or blue pill.
To even think of naming the health care bill after him makes me barf.
Time marches on....


15 posted on 08/26/2009 10:57:46 AM PDT by mendedheart
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To: PalmettoMason

True that


16 posted on 08/26/2009 10:58:51 AM PDT by the long march
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To: McGruff

The last disgrace: he is to be buried at Arlington.

I suggest he be burried in a casket designed as a 67 Oldsmobile and hanging from the Key Bridge...close to Arlington but not quite there.

Vince


17 posted on 08/26/2009 10:59:01 AM PDT by Mouton
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To: DFG

Better Dead than Red, Ted.


18 posted on 08/26/2009 11:01:00 AM PDT by mdk1960
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To: DFG

Well, until reading this, I thought that the worst thing Teddy had done was to kill Mary Jo. As horrible as that was, he did other things that were worse for this country.

Good riddance.


19 posted on 08/26/2009 11:13:43 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: 240B

Kill your TV. You’ll be far the better for it.


20 posted on 08/26/2009 11:14:41 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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