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Ted Kennedy’s sons recall their father’s legacy
bostonglobe.com ^ | Sept. 4, 2012 | Brian MacQuarrie

Posted on 09/04/2012 4:59:39 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The two sons of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy strode into the lobby of the Omni hotel on Tuesday morning and were besieged by delegates, reporters, and well-wishers. Photos were taken, sound bites recorded, and a flurry of handshakes exchanged.

“It’s like he’s still in Congress,” Ted Jr. quipped as he waited for his brother, Patrick, a former US representative from Rhode Island.

The sons arrived in Charlotte for an afternoon reception for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, which is being built at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and to attend a video tribute to their father later Tuesday during the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. Joseph Kennedy III, candidate for Congress form Massachusetts, will introduce the video.

The video, in part, would replay some of Kennedy’s debate performance against Mitt Romney in their 1994 Senate race, and resurrect issues -- economic and social -- that characterized Democratic differences with Romney both then and now.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kopechne; maryjo; maryjokopechne
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1 posted on 09/04/2012 4:59:43 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I wonder if Mary-Jo’s name will come up?


2 posted on 09/04/2012 5:01:32 PM PDT by HapaxLegamenon
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Boy is it going to be funny to read this in about an hour


3 posted on 09/04/2012 5:01:51 PM PDT by reefdiver (zer0 One and Done)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

burp...


4 posted on 09/04/2012 5:03:00 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Mary Jo is unavailable for comment


5 posted on 09/04/2012 5:04:10 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I seem to remember (was it in the ‘70’s?) Ted Kennedy pushing HMO’s as a solution to America’s health care problems....


6 posted on 09/04/2012 5:04:46 PM PDT by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: HapaxLegamenon
“It’s like he’s still in Congress,” Ted Jr. quipped as he waited for his brother, Patrick, a former US representative from Rhode Island.

Tell me, why is he a "former US representative," Junior?

7 posted on 09/04/2012 5:05:21 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The swimmer left her to die. Mary Jo Kopechne’s death kept him from being President.


8 posted on 09/04/2012 5:05:24 PM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I can hear it now -

DO IT FOR TED

DO IT FOR TED


9 posted on 09/04/2012 5:06:13 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I can hear it now -

DO IT FOR TED

DO IT FOR TED


10 posted on 09/04/2012 5:06:23 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How did they make it all the way to Charlotte without at least one of them getting killed? Maybe they took the train. Obviously they didn’t drive a car, fly a plane or ski there. I’ve never heard of a Kennedy getting killed in any kind of a train accident.
Yet.


11 posted on 09/04/2012 5:06:26 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What a legacy!

His cousin, if I’m not mistaken, is in prison for rape and murder.

His father was a murderer, marital cheat, sexual predator, liar, and a perjurer.

His uncle was a marital cheat, sexual predator, and an overall terrible president.

His other uncle was a marital cheat, sexual predator, and was involved in Marilyn Monroe’s murder.

His grandfather got his millions from running whorehouse, illegal booze, and gambling.

What a legacy to be proud of. Kinda’ brings a tear to my eye!


12 posted on 09/04/2012 5:06:26 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: Free ThinkerNY
We know the Ted Kennedy legacy.


13 posted on 09/04/2012 5:06:40 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I recall a waitress sandwich with a side order of thighs. ;-)


14 posted on 09/04/2012 5:07:01 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

What no medium to channel Teddy’s spirit from hell? Consider the freak show the DNC is, you figure they would have a medium.


15 posted on 09/04/2012 5:08:25 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: laweeks
His father was a murderer, marital cheat, sexual predator, liar, and a perjurer.

You forgot Old Joe was also a Nazi sympathizer.

16 posted on 09/04/2012 5:08:30 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: HapaxLegamenon

Beeeeeelchchchchch!!!! Puuuuuuuuuke!!!Where all da white women at? Brrrrrrrrruuuump!!


17 posted on 09/04/2012 5:08:38 PM PDT by albie
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Dad could swim like a fish.


18 posted on 09/04/2012 5:09:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
“It’s like he’s still in Congress,” Ted Jr. quipped

Well, Ted Jr., you guys get your dead voters to vote, why not get your dead senators to... senate.

19 posted on 09/04/2012 5:09:34 PM PDT by workerbee (June 28, 2012 -- 9/11 From Within)
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To: SgtBob

“Senator Kennedy, why do you want to be President” ?

“Er ah, well er a, you see it’s um, er a is it hot in here” ?


20 posted on 09/04/2012 5:11:06 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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