Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Posted on 08/30/2009 12:03:07 PM PDT by Joiseydude
"Death makes angels of us all," wrote the author and poet, Jim Morrison. So it appears to be with the demise of the "Liberal lion of the Senate," Ted Kennedy. The man whose life reads like a manual for bad behavior is, in death, being lionized by those who continue to repudiate his myriad transgressions. What kind of a country are we if we willingly blind ourselves to evil because it masquerades as virtue?
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And so it came to pass that the Prince of Camelot approached the point where the paths to heaven and hell diverge - one path descending steeply to the burning fires of hell, the other continuing over the narrow wooden bridge over the fissure that opened to the fires of hell, and then onward the short further distance to the the gates of heaven.
The prince was nervous as he approached - nothing had really stuck to him on earth, but this was a different world.
Upon seeing St. Peter, the prince asked with trepidation if he might be given special considerations befitting his station on earth, to which St. Peter replied, “Yes, Senator. We have even arranged for a car and driver to take you to your eternal destination via the path that continues straight ahead.”
The prince, now ecstatic that his actions on earth would not force him to join the other condemned souls trudging along the steep path down the fissure to hell, exclaimed, “YESSS!!! It’s not sticking here either!”
St. Peter then continued”, “In fact, angel Mary Jo has asked for the privilege of being your driver. She’s waiting for you in that ‘68 Olds that we’ve been saving just for you. It’s parked up ahead just before the bridge.”
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
Well he also wrote, "this is the end."
What, I ask, what lasting good has the Kennedy dynasty done for America?
The rotten apple, corrupting the entire barrel.
I remember the good old days when JFK got elected and the only problem with Teddy was getting drunk at the parties and jumping in the swimming pools fully clothed
Just a demonstraton of what money and belonging to the democrat party will get for you.
I don’t know what barrel you’re referring to? He was by no means any different from any of the other Kennedys, except for Eunice Shriver. The men in the family especially took their lead from Old Joe who was highly advanced reprobate.
And Rosemary.
A short lived one....
I was repulsed that the Dems want to link Obamacare to Kennedy. I laughed out loud when I read Ace (ace.mu.nu) refer to it as ChappaquiddickCare.
I also enjoyed the blogger (can’t recall who) who said “If they (Dems) want to talk about Camelot, then we are going to talk about the Lady Of The Lake.”
And now a word from Dennis The Constitutional Peasant
“I was repulsed that the Dems want to link Obamacare to Kennedy”
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At first glance, I would agree with you. But upon further examination, I think it would be a great idea.
In Kennedy’s honor, it could be name it KopechneCare and urge you representatives to take the Kennedy-esque approach - do nothing and let it die.
The story about Joe Kennedy Jr. is that when JFK won the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for saving his crew on PT-109, Joe Jr. (on leave from the Navy at the time) was upstairs sobbing while the others were celebrating. Old man Joe supposedly had told him "you better go out and win a bigger medal if you ever want to be president;" and what he did ended up costing him his life (volunteering for a dangerous mission to knock out a Nazi V2 missile site).
Old man Joe couldn't also stand the fact that Rosemary had what amounted to a learning disability so he had her lobotomized--and the brain operation was so badly butchered it left her permanently retarded for the rest of her life.
He made no attempt to hide his womanizing with starlets like Gloria Swanson from wife Rose or his kids--leaving, IMO, the impression that it was okay (and JFK followed the example of their father as did RFK if J. Edgar Hoover's FBI files are correct).
The father was cozy with the mob, "admired Hitler" while ambassador to England, and probably helped IRA terrorists with their initial beginnings.
Is it any wonder why Teddy's life or the rest of the Kennedy's suffered so tragically (Sins of the father< etc.)?
Whenever I recall this tragic incident, what truly eats at me is the image of that woman huddled into a small space and struggling for each breath of life, while the coward who put her there was struggling to come up with an alibi to save his political future. How low on the evolutionary scale do you have to be to leave someone to drown in the dark, murky water, as you figure out an angle to free yourself of culpability?
Says Pete: "Say didn't you write my earthly successor a letter just before you came up here?
"Yes." says the prince peevishly.
"What did you write him?"
"Uh, nothing much."
"C'mon, don't screw with me, man. I read the letter."
"Uhhmm..."
"You tried to tell him how to do his job didn't you? You intimated highly that every problem in the Church was his fault, didn't you? You told him that if the prince of Camelot were in charge of the Church life would be a lot more pleasant, didn't you? Do you know why he did not issue any consoling words after you died?"
"But, but..." The prince realized his Camelot charm was not going to work.
"No buts about it mister. When you ticked off one of my boys you ticked me off royally. However, just to let you know we aren't totally heartless we have arranged for a car and driver to take you to your eternal destination via the path that continues straight ahead.” The prince, now ecstatic that his actions on earth would not force him to join the other condemned souls trudging along the steep path down the fissure to hell, exclaimed, “YESSS!!! It’s not sticking here either!” St. Peter then continued: “In fact, angel Mary Jo has asked for the privilege of being your driver. She’s waiting for you in that ‘68 Olds that we’ve been saving just for you. It’s parked up ahead just before the bridge.”
(Mark Steyn inspired a new tagline for me)
“Ted Kennedy went a different route. He got kitted out with a neck brace and went on TV and announced the invention of the ‘Kennedy curse,’ a concept that yoked him to his murdered brothers as a fellow victim — and not, as Mary Jo perhaps realized in those final hours, the perpetrator. He dared us to call his bluff, and, when we didn’t, he made all of us complicit in what he’d done. We are all prey to human frailty, but few of us get to inflict ours on an entire nation…
The senator’s actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tells us something ugly about American public life.”
Yes, my oversight. She has been so far removed from the public eye since Old Joe decided she needed to be lobotomized that I’d completely forgotten about her. Few were left unscathed by the old man’s overweening pride and ambition, were they?
“I think it would be a great idea.”
Ditto. Isn’t Obamacare bloated and obscene? It doesn’t surprise me at all that the Dems instinctively made this connection. If the shoe fits...(though, in fairness, one important difference is that Obamacare seems destined to sink like a stone).
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