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Ted Kennedy doesn't know who wrote "The Communist Manifesto"
The Boston Globe ^ | 12/22/2005 | Ted Kennedy

Posted on 12/30/2005 7:19:44 PM PST by rlmorel

...I hope the president doesn't continue to hide behind such transparent and irrelevant justifications. Congress has amended the 1978 FISA law over time, most recently with the passage of the PATRIOT Act -- and there is no reason to think we wouldn't do so again -- if we knew what the administration is doing. If the president needs more powers to lawfully protect the American people from terrorism, then he should come to Congress to seek modification of current laws. The president has failed to provide a sufficient legal basis for his actions; instead he and his Cabinet spent the week refusing to negotiate with Congress and opposing bipartisan efforts to extend the PATRIOT Act for three more months.

Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto. Following his professor's instructions to use original source material, this young man discovered that he, too, was on the government's watch list.

Think of the chilling effect on free speech and academic freedom when a government agent shows up at your home -- after you request a book from the library.

Incredibly, we are now in an era where reading a controversial book may be evidence of a link to terrorists...

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


TOPICS: Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: tedkennedy; wasithillary
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

LOL...still is!


41 posted on 12/30/2005 8:22:14 PM PST by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: doctorhugo

Don't post that graphic again.


42 posted on 12/30/2005 8:27:35 PM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: rlmorel

All the voters of the Massachusetts apparently need to know is his name is Kennedy - at least a substantial number of them.

I'm surprised they haven't petitioned the Pope to have John, Bobby, Rose, And the Senior Kennedy Patriarch - the Boorleger - declared saints.


43 posted on 12/30/2005 8:32:39 PM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: AmishDude; USNBandit; Jet Jaguar; Palladin; hsalaw

probably said this to get off the hook for a deadline in the class. :')

Thanks hsalaw and USNBandit.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549641/posts?page=38#38

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549641/posts?page=7#7


44 posted on 12/30/2005 8:39:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
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To: rlmorel
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Manifesto of the Communist Party

1848



1- Is Teddy's ghost writer ignorant or just sloppy?

2- Did Teddy dictate the article to a secretary who was ignorant?

3- Is there anyone among Teddy's office staff who actually studied while in college?

4- Was there no one in Teddy's office willing to challenge him on the authorship of "the manual" they all follow so blindly?

5- Is this another demonstration of the ignorance of the Democrats?

6- Is it all Bush's fault?



How can anyone take THAT seriously?
Th-Th-Th-Th-That's all folks.
45 posted on 12/30/2005 8:39:33 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (In Memory of Crockett Nicolas, hit and run in the prime of his Cocker Spaniel life, 9/3/05.)
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To: yevgenie
you mean the esteemed Senator from Illinois?
46 posted on 12/30/2005 8:39:46 PM PST by Allan
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To: rlmorel

The disgusting, murderous pig is the perfect Senator for the simpletons who keep re-electing him.


47 posted on 12/30/2005 8:42:12 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: rlmorel
Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto

Sorry to disagree with your interpretation, but unless Communist Manifesto is italicized, it's a generic phrase, not a specific book. It's a manifesto, it's communist, and it's by Mao.

48 posted on 12/30/2005 8:43:48 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: river rat

What, pray tell, is the name of "the student"?

The little creep should be outed for one and all to recognize him as a liar.


49 posted on 12/30/2005 8:51:27 PM PST by Palladin (All the way with Alito!)
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To: rlmorel
It's one of his Greatest Hits, everybody knows that!


50 posted on 12/30/2005 8:56:21 PM PST by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: rlmorel
Fox News reported last night that this student's story had turned out to be false, but that a Kennedy's staff member nevertheless insisted that "although the story itself is not true, it demonstrates the real nature of the Bush administration" - now that's stupid....

Mary Jo Kopechne.....

51 posted on 12/30/2005 8:59:28 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Radix

Exactly---By the way I have listened to Ted Kennedy and although he didnt write the Communist Manifesto, He could have.


52 posted on 12/30/2005 9:03:32 PM PST by sgtbono2002
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To: jazusamo
The people who vote for him don't need to know how to read , because Teddy will make all there decisions for them.
53 posted on 12/30/2005 9:04:22 PM PST by justrepublican (Screaming like a keynote speaker at a Wellstone memorial.........!)
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To: jazusamo

Chivas, is his preferred adult beverage, iirc.

Go to Boston talk host/columinist Howie Carr's website on Teddy at http://fatboy.cc/ for a look at the runt's family and life.


54 posted on 12/30/2005 9:07:43 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: smith288

I got a grin a few hrs ago when Err Atlanta played the "best" of Mike Malloy and we was going nuts over this treating it as gospel - it had just come over the wire.


55 posted on 12/30/2005 9:08:25 PM PST by freedomlover (If you read this tag line, all your wildest dreams will come true.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
"Facts are not relevant when a lib is [attempting to] make a point. It's for a good cause, don't get sidetracked by details such as truth and facts."

This is the motto Mary Mapes and Dan Rather live by. Well that, and "FIA".


56 posted on 12/30/2005 9:09:18 PM PST by rcocean (Copyright is theft and loved by Hollywood socialists)
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To: nw_arizona_granny

PING


57 posted on 12/30/2005 9:12:48 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Merry Christmas to ALL!)
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To: rlmorel
5.) Errors are ignored if a.) they are anti-America or anti-Bush, or b.) it's down by a "beautiful person".

Don't forget the porn site pictures that some Marxist Boston City Councilor and cohort purported to be US forces
raping/torturing Iraqis. Reporter said they were bogus. Editors told her to write the story as told by the
activists anyway, and it was printed.

Ah, to be a subsidiary of the New York Slimes.

58 posted on 12/30/2005 9:17:01 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: rlmorel
What a jackass that guy is.

Half the country is laughing at teddy making a fool of himself again.

And a fair portion of those people are laughing at the idiots in Massachusetts that keep sending that moron back to Washington.

59 posted on 12/30/2005 9:18:47 PM PST by Fido969 ("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
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To: rlmorel

This is just out there on too many levels. The Chappaquiddick U-Boat Commander can't even quote a faked story correctly.

And besides, what self-respecting college library doesn't have dozens of copies of both the Manifesto and Mao's Little Red Book left over from the '60s?


60 posted on 12/30/2005 9:59:56 PM PST by Ostlandr ("Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering." - Master Yoda)
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