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Ted Kennedy’s America
New Republic Online ^ | October 26, 2007 12:00 AM | Jonah Goldberg

Posted on 08/29/2009 4:13:59 PM PDT by edge10

If you think American politics have gotten nastier, crueler, and more symbolic over the last 20 years, blame Ted Kennedy.

(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: blame; borked; civility; divider; fatteddy; goodriddance; jonahgoldberg; kennedylegacy; partisan; personaldestruction; polarized; tedkennedy; uncivil
An oldie but pertinent.
1 posted on 08/29/2009 4:13:59 PM PDT by edge10
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To: edge10

Ted Kennedy’s America already exists - it’s called Cuba.


2 posted on 08/29/2009 4:16:07 PM PDT by reg45 (Be calm everyone. The idiot children are in charge!)
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To: edge10
Ted Kennedy's legacy is one of divisiveness, anti-Americanism, elitism, arroogance and corruption...while pandering to lemmings who did not even recognize the chaines they were being bound with.

THE TRUE LEGACY OF TED KENNEDY

3 posted on 08/29/2009 4:16:37 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: edge10

I was watching the “procession” on FOX and was both pleased and surprized ar how few turned out....


4 posted on 08/29/2009 4:22:57 PM PDT by The Wizard (Democrat Party: a criminal enterprise)
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To: Jeff Head

It’s ok. Dead Ted is now getting a hot barbed poker rammed up his herpes infected rectum by the Devil for what he did to Mary Jo. UckFay the Kennedys!


5 posted on 08/29/2009 4:25:50 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: edge10
Ted Kennedy was a hyper-partisan demagogue who skirted the law with inherited wealth and a family name. He committed treason by colluding with the Soviets against Ronald Reagan. He betrayed his faith by supporting the barbaric practice of infanticide. He hypocritically supported environmentalism while fighting windmills that would devalue his real estate.

He was a drunk. He was a commie. He was the worst of America.

6 posted on 08/29/2009 4:26:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: TigersEye

“He was the worst of America”

This.


7 posted on 08/29/2009 4:32:07 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: The Wizard

I noticed that too. The lines were one or two deep.


8 posted on 08/29/2009 4:33:43 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (All Hail the Community Organizer in Chief)
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To: edge10

Another fine expose on Fat Teddy.


9 posted on 08/29/2009 4:36:28 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: edge10
Here is Uncle Teddy's Legacy: ted kennedy Pictures, Images and Photos
10 posted on 08/29/2009 4:38:57 PM PDT by AmericanSphinx71 (You can stick a fork in America, it's done.)
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To: edge10
If anyone could be blamed for the “politics of personal destruction” it would be Ted Kennedy.
11 posted on 08/29/2009 4:39:54 PM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: edge10

The liberals blame Lee Atwater. Did Lee and Ted know each other?


12 posted on 08/29/2009 4:47:17 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://aroodawakening.tv)
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To: TigersEye
He was a drunk. He was a commie. He was the worst of America.

And he, champion of the proabortion feminists, left a young (possibly pregnant) girl to suffocate to a horrible death.

13 posted on 08/29/2009 5:06:35 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://aroodawakening.tv)
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To: AmericanSphinx71

That’s a keeper.


14 posted on 08/29/2009 5:08:00 PM PDT by Bhoy (DRILL & NUKE)
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To: AmericanSphinx71

That ought to be a T-shirt!


15 posted on 08/29/2009 5:21:00 PM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: edge10

The way that the Kennedy boys turned out makes ya feel sorry for his mom Rose(I heard that she was a decent sort).


16 posted on 08/29/2009 5:36:12 PM PDT by US Navy Vet
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To: edge10

Now watch for the media to spin Chappaquiddick as a CIA plot with George Bush Sr. at the helm to frame innocent Ted. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.


17 posted on 08/29/2009 6:23:34 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://aroodawakening.tv)
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To: Jeff Head

When you look at today’s selection of judicial candidates, look no further than Kennedy’s character assasination of Robert Bork back in ‘87.

Since then, judicial nominations have gone down hill. No nominee will dare say one thing about their judicial philsophy. Any questions that are answered by the nominee are couched in the most vague terms.

No nominee, whether they’re chosen by a Dem or Rep President, wants to go through what Robert Bork (and Clarence Thomas later) went through.

The coarsening of our political debate, whether it be discussing judicial nominees or Cap and Trade, was the direct result of Ted Kennedy and his ilk.


18 posted on 08/29/2009 10:08:32 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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