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Ted Kennedy, America's conscience (Mega-Hurl Alert)
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 30, 2009 | Neal Gabler

Posted on 08/30/2009 6:28:19 AM PDT by skimbell

His legislative achievements have been rightly celebrated. But perhaps his most enduring legacy is that he kept reminding us of how great we could be if we chose compassion over complacency...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; kennedy; tedkennedy
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"...In a time of rampant individualism, national self-satisfaction, international preening..."

Gabler again giving voice to how the left hates the U.S..

Can't have any of that rampant individualism stuff in their America.

1 posted on 08/30/2009 6:28:20 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: skimbell

Kennedy was America’s bolus.


2 posted on 08/30/2009 6:29:57 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

To clarify, - bolus - in the lower digestive tract sense.


3 posted on 08/30/2009 6:30:53 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: skimbell
he kept reminding us of how great we could be if we chose compassion over complacency...

He displayed much more complacency than compassion to Mary Jo Kopechne by leaving her trapped in a car to drown and 'complacently' waiting 9 hours before calling for help.

4 posted on 08/30/2009 6:33:00 AM PDT by American Infidel (It's pronounced 'ASK' not 'AXE'. It's a 3 letter word. How difficult can it be?)
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Good thing they aren’t allowing comments.


5 posted on 08/30/2009 6:34:47 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: skimbell
More wisdom from the former sweatered fanboy film critic.

Thumbs down!

6 posted on 08/30/2009 6:36:53 AM PDT by Rocko (Report this post to flag@whitehouse.gov)
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And this is the person who wanted to get in bed with the Russian communists?
7 posted on 08/30/2009 6:37:39 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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Sure, a drunk, womanizing, baby killing, murderer is America’s conscious. No he is the DNC symbol of morality.

Pray for America


8 posted on 08/30/2009 6:38:44 AM PDT by bray (He's a Divider not a Uniter)
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To: skimbell

“Compassion” with other people’s money is thievery, plain and simple. Our government wasn’t meant to be like a giant pinata with special interests jostling for a part of the spoils. Yet, that is exactly where we are today, no small thanks to Teddy and his ilk.


9 posted on 08/30/2009 6:38:54 AM PDT by CitizenUSA
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I think he is especially the conscience of the uninformed and the party regular and even the entire Northeast.


10 posted on 08/30/2009 6:39:35 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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Ted Kennedy was America's anti-conscience. He was the opposite of a true conscience, which true conscience leads a person to do good and to repent of the ill they do. One need only take an objective look at his life to know that.

THE TRUE LEGACY OF TED KENNEDY

11 posted on 08/30/2009 6:42:24 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Ted’s conscience ?


12 posted on 08/30/2009 6:43:25 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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There’s no doubt that for the people on the receiving end of Ted’s plundering of other people’s money, he was a hero.


13 posted on 08/30/2009 6:47:57 AM PDT by CitizenUSA
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To: skimbell

Yes, yes, yes....he was compassionate not complacent....as long as we the people submitted out taxes to finance his compassion.

What a hero!


14 posted on 08/30/2009 6:51:00 AM PDT by Dudoight
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15 posted on 08/30/2009 6:51:53 AM PDT by maggief (KennedyCare ... Dead in the Water)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

It never ceases to amaze me. I would get jail time for stealing from you, but a politician can legally take pretty much whatever I want for me.


16 posted on 08/30/2009 6:52:19 AM PDT by CitizenUSA
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"America's conscience"?? For all too many, that's probably true.

As someone who would leave a poor woman to her death so he could go home and sleep it off, a serial adulterer who chose party over country, party goals over national security, he is a great conscience for those who, among other things, want to give Constitutional privileges to enemy combatants, citizens' rights to illegal immigrants and death by abortion to innocents in the womb.

He was their hero and may his soul now reside where his life work has lead it.

17 posted on 08/30/2009 7:00:06 AM PDT by GBA
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I remember this sickening little rodent from that jerk Mclaughlin’s show. I see he hasn’t changed.


18 posted on 08/30/2009 7:01:27 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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And this is the person who wanted to get in bed with the Russian communists?

Oh he was in bed with the commies, but why would he go against his church? I remember a 'Polish' Pope working with Reagan to tear down that wall.

19 posted on 08/30/2009 7:06:03 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: skimbell

He reminded us that drunken sexual predators can prevail through the generous application of family money, secret payoffs, private investigators, and bloodless attorneys.


20 posted on 08/30/2009 7:08:15 AM PDT by angkor (The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
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