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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The "curse" was self-inflicted.
Will Ted's rationalizations pass the final judgment.
Further this deponent sayeth not.
I'm not sure if this occurred during Bush 41's term, but it's the story that's interesting. Either a member of Congress, or former Democrat member had passed. If my memory is correct, Dodd and/or Kennedy called the White House drunk in the middle of the night demanding the use of Air Force One, or one of the White House planes, so they could attend the funeral service the next day. I'm not sure who it was at the White House they spoke to, but according to the article, they were pretty nasty and obnoxious. I can't remember for sure, but it's possible that they had initially been turned down, but were so relentless in their demands that the decision was made to grant their requests just to shut them up. After all was said and done, the plane had been readied for them the next morning, and they never showed.
Does any Freeper have recollections of this story?
I LOVE this guy for quoting the magnificent Jim Morrison.
And then St. Peter says, “And just what was up with that “messiah” guy that you had act as the messenger— the pope gave him a glass of wine and he turned it into kool-aid”.
Kennedy was more of a Hyena than a Lion..
Lions deserve some respect..
Who knows? I surely don’t. It appears that someone sold the whole family to satan and all acquiesed. Someone, something (money/power) blinded them to right and wrong or made them justify that wrong was right and the father of lies became so convincing that in the end they believed they really were championing the poor and the helpless and not just themselves while they became richer and more powerful.
I’m convinced an atheist is less of a danger to society than an apostate Catholic.
The good that men do lives after them; the bad is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare.
“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”
Isn’t the quote, “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.”?
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
.. or something like that.
Then he delivers the line, "The good that men do lives after them, the bad is oft interred with their bones."
It continues, "So let it be with Caesar."
My dad had committed the entire speech to memory, and when we were kids, he would launch into it at any opportunity. So that's the way I heard it.
I suppose you could look it up.
mark for later
I did look it up.
But I won't tell my dad.
He's probably still reciting that speech to anyone that will listen.
Had to learn the whole Soliloquy back in the early ‘60s; it never left me (sadly).
I still remember Casey at the Bat.
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