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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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To: Free ThinkerNY
Ted Kennedy caught cheating on Harvard Spanish Exam

I think his dad made him sign up for the U.S. Army. I heard he mistakenly signed up for the full four year tour but was able to have it modified to a two-year draft hitch -- he served a total of 16 months.

What about his waitress wrestling prowess? I heard that he excelled especially the tag-team competition with fellow senators.

Lots to honor I hope the kid gets enough time.

21 posted on 09/04/2012 5:11:17 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: South40

And a traitor who passed secrets to the Soviets to harm Jimmy Carter (As if Carter needed help).


22 posted on 09/04/2012 5:11:30 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
I remember too... he was a glutonous, abortion loving, gun grabbing, gay loving, drunkard, rapist, open borders commie... did I leave anything out?

LLS

23 posted on 09/04/2012 5:11:48 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("if it looks like you are not gonna make it you gotta get mean, I mean plumb mad-dog mean" J. Wales)
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To: HapaxLegamenon
God Bless Mary Jo...
24 posted on 09/04/2012 5:12:27 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

My God,will they ever go away?

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25 posted on 09/04/2012 5:12:58 PM PDT by Mears
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To: LibLieSlayer

Wait a minute. Are you talking about Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton? Or some other Democrat?


26 posted on 09/04/2012 5:15:30 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The Edward M. Kennedy insta-TOOT. Fat, stupid and drunk all his life.


27 posted on 09/04/2012 5:16:00 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Got your Teddy legacy right here...


28 posted on 09/04/2012 5:16:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

About the only thing Jimmy Carter ever said that I liked was “If Ted Kennedy runs for president, I will whip his ass”.


29 posted on 09/04/2012 5:16:21 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Col Frank Slade

‘Is this Clinton Country ..?????”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwMgWsfou8A


30 posted on 09/04/2012 5:16:38 PM PDT by SMGFan (SMGfan is not "Sub Machine Gun" fan)
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To: HapaxLegamenon

“waitress sandwich” will not be mentioned either I am sure


31 posted on 09/04/2012 5:18:09 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: LibLieSlayer

You forgot about how he betrayed the South Vietnamese.How many got killed when they lost the means to defend themselves?


32 posted on 09/04/2012 5:18:46 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Huh? What do you mean “burp” and “hiccup?”


33 posted on 09/04/2012 5:19:22 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

These boys are proud of their Dad after he had his marriage annulled after 25 years making them both bastards.

He turned his wife into a drunk then drowned his pregnant girlfriend.

Yeah they should be really proud.


34 posted on 09/04/2012 5:20:50 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That picture is what always bothered me. In the book “Senatorial Privilege”, that diver, I think his name was Joe Farrah, or maybe Farraro or something similar, said if Kennedy had informed the authorities immediately, there would have been a good chance he could have rescued her alive.


35 posted on 09/04/2012 5:22:23 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: laweeks

Jack, Bobby and Teddy were brothers.

Old Joe was a bootlegger who bought Jack the POTUS with fraud in Chicago and West Virginia.

Old Joe lobotomized his own daughter, too. The knife was about the size of a butter knife. Apparently, she was awake during all of this, and the doc quit when she became incoherent. Joe did not want her as ‘wild.’

IIRC, Joe’s principal mistress was Gloria Swanson.


36 posted on 09/04/2012 5:23:40 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

His legacy is he and Chris Dodd sexually assaulting waitresses in Georgetown restaurants.


37 posted on 09/04/2012 5:26:27 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
IIRC, the bridge has now been removed.
38 posted on 09/04/2012 5:27:34 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Yeah, he also fixed SSI /s


39 posted on 09/04/2012 5:30:37 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: Past Your Eyes

Thus my tagline...


40 posted on 09/04/2012 5:32:39 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys=Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best for you.)
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