Posted on 03/04/2009 10:50:56 AM PST by presidio9
Edited on 03/04/2009 11:04:20 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in a formal address to Congress this morning, announced that Queen Elizabeth has conferred honorary knighthood on Sen. Edward Kennedy, the veteran Massachusetts Democrat who is battling brain cancer.
The 77-year-old brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy and son of the former ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy is being honored for his role in swaying Irish-American public opinion during the Northern Ireland peace process. Brown said:
Northern Ireland is today at peace, more Americans have healthcare, more children around the world are going to school, and for all those things we owe a great debt to the life and courage of Senator Edward Kennedy.
[snip]In the Senate for 46 years, Kennedy has survived the assassinations of his older brothers, JFK and Robert Kennedy. He was almost killed in a plane crash in 1964 that left him with permanent back pain. His political future was clouded by an accident at Chappaquiddick. He drove a car over a bridge at Chappaquiddick in 1969, swimming to safety and abandoning his companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, who died trapped in the sunken car.
Kennedy -- an early
Article I - Section 9 -
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Of course we all know Dems are famous for trashing the constitution so since when does THAT stop them!?! And don't expect our pravda media to point this out either.
I am just furious - - our entire govt is CORRUPT beyond belief.
The Queen of England plans to honor a murderer !
I know someone who is not applauding. Mary Jo.
I would say so, yes.
I don't know. Maybe that's why a sword was used as the instrument conferring knighthood.
Unreal. I have over the past couple of days been looking into why the great Patrick Macnee of “The Avengers” has not been knighted (apparently when he became an American citizen, the Crown got a bit ticked off is all I can come up with), and now i read the Queen has knighted a mediocre, besotted U.S. Senator who would never have been elected in the first place but for his last name.
Sheesh.
I guess technically we can't say for sure. Mary Jo cannot be contacted for comment. Her family doesn't dare comment.
I am going to say this one time, because I hate when FR looks like it doesn't know what it is talking about. The knighthood is HONORARY, therefore it is not an official title. So the Constitution doesn't care. That's how Rudy Giuliani and Jack Ryan were both able to accept one.
And Eisenhower. And George Marshall. And Ronald Reagan. And GHW Bush.
Calm down and let the British papers rake Teddy over the coals—this is their embarassment, not ours.
I agree with you that I hate it when FR doesn’t know what its talking about. This is a PRIME example of that! To claim that an ‘honorary’ title is acceptable under our constitution is complete HORSE CRAP.
All ‘honorary’ means is a slick little legalease dodge that means absolutely NOTHING to get around that pesky constitution thingy so you can trash the constitution and look like you’re upholding it.
I bet my entire life savings that our founders intended Article I Section 9 to INCLUDE HONORARY or anything else titles! They knew what kind of tyranny they had just fought a war over!!!!!!!!!!!! Absolutely sickening.
How is Kerry taking this?
He’s losing his brain and she has lost her mind.
The Queen would knight a used toilet bowl brush.
Who next? Sir Charlie Manson or Sir Mumia.
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