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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


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KEYWORDS: kopechne; maryjo; maryjokopechne
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To: Past Your Eyes
Lots of commonality amongst the demon party.

LLS

41 posted on 09/04/2012 5:34:46 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: Col Frank Slade

Fantastic impersonation!


42 posted on 09/04/2012 5:35:47 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: Farmer Dean

I agree... it was a rhetorical question... ted kennedy had every vice in the book and a few that are not in the book. You brought up a large one.

LLS


43 posted on 09/04/2012 5:36:38 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: Free ThinkerNY

It doesn’t say much for the Catholic church that whenever a Kennedy wanted a divorce they simply got the church to give them an annulment.


44 posted on 09/04/2012 5:37:18 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: Past Your Eyes

Give em them time, they’re at a party and Patches likes the nose candy


45 posted on 09/04/2012 5:37:57 PM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: VRWCarea51

Oh yes... and he made the department of education actually work! /s

LLS


46 posted on 09/04/2012 5:38:39 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: Free ThinkerNY
Legacy?

Do murderers have legacies?

Another part of Teddy's 'legacy'

The Legacy of the 1965 Immigration Act

Senate immigration subcommittee chairman Edward Kennedy (D-MA.) reassured his colleagues and the nation with the following:

"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same ... Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset ... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia ... In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think."

Rot in hell you SOB!

47 posted on 09/04/2012 5:40:13 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Mears

“. . . will they ever go away?” - I was thinking the same thing today while clicking past the Democrat/MSM lovefest Freak Show and happening to catch a glimpse of Carter, then later “Teddy” and Caroline and Teddy’s videos endorsing Obama in 2008. I thought, “will they ever just go away?” Then I realized . . yes, eventually.


48 posted on 09/04/2012 5:41:50 PM PDT by Twinkie (Obamanation - where everything is free; except US!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

ted kennedy was a marxist and a murderer. obstructer of justice. a drunk, a philanderer and a liar. a narcissist.

unfaithful to his wife and unfaithful to his country.

if i would have did what he did, i would still be rotting in prison.

did i miss anything?

blessings, bobo


49 posted on 09/04/2012 5:43:08 PM PDT by bobo1
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To: Free ThinkerNY

on fox special report, Bret asked dick durban why Obama didn’t pass everything while he had both houses.

Durban said they couldn’t because teddy Kennedy was sick and couldn’t make it to the floor to vote. He blamed Kennedy...... he blamed a dead man


50 posted on 09/04/2012 5:45:22 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Present failure and impending death yield irrational action))
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To: Chode

...will always be Ted Kennedy's legacy

51 posted on 09/04/2012 5:49:34 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Doogle
damn right...
52 posted on 09/04/2012 5:55:07 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: reefdiver
Saw a couple of seconds of that video.

The Democrats are out of their nut running Kennedy stuff.

Most yout' don't know who he was nor do they care. The elderly Democrats have their TVs on but they don't know what's being said.

Don't they have anyone who's relevant anymore?

53 posted on 09/04/2012 6:26:44 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Twinkie

“I thought, “will they ever just go away?” Then I realized . . yes, eventually.”

The problem is,I’ll be gone too. I’m from MA and have been putting up with them my entire adult life.

((Sigh!))

.


54 posted on 09/04/2012 6:27:10 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They should have invited Orrin G. Hatch to speak after the Kennedy sons. That would have thrilled the delegates.


55 posted on 09/04/2012 6:30:48 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Who among us has not erred? Akin's the One!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

56 posted on 09/04/2012 6:31:38 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Doogle

Not the legacy for the MA people; so if MA can overlook Kopechne, why can’t MO overlook “legitimate rape”?


57 posted on 09/04/2012 6:32:45 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Who among us has not erred? Akin's the One!)
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To: bobo1

Bobo1 has his view, but the people of corrupt MA win with a Kennedy!


58 posted on 09/04/2012 6:35:20 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Who among us has not erred? Akin's the One!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

59 posted on 09/04/2012 7:05:54 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Revolting cat!

GMTA


60 posted on 09/04/2012 7:12:11 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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