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That's Sir Edward Kennedy to you; not everyone in Britain is applauding
Los Angeles Times ^ | March 4, 2009 | Johanna Neuman

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: chappaquiddick; kopechne; tedkennedy
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1 posted on 03/04/2009 10:50:56 AM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9

If ever there was an undeserved honor . . .


2 posted on 03/04/2009 10:53:07 AM PST by YHAOS
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To: presidio9

May I present Sir Teddy the drowner.


3 posted on 03/04/2009 10:53:23 AM PST by MattinNJ (Sanford/Palin in 2012)
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To: presidio9
Sir Teddy...

The black Night/Knight of the Chappaquiddick.

4 posted on 03/04/2009 10:53:27 AM PST by Semper Mark (Communism is Socialism with a gun to your head.)
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To: presidio9

Ted should take the queen for a drive over a bridge.


5 posted on 03/04/2009 10:54:01 AM PST by DogBarkTree (Sometimes you have to let it go in order to get a Grip.)
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To: YHAOS

Such as Barry getting elected?


6 posted on 03/04/2009 10:54:01 AM PST by misterrob (FUBO----Just say it, Foooooooooooooo Boooooooowwwwww. Smooth)
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To: presidio9
So now all I have to do to be knighted is be an alcoholic, drown my secretary, and interfere with the rape investigation on my nephew. My how the empire has fallen.
7 posted on 03/04/2009 10:54:23 AM PST by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: presidio9

One more reason to abolish the monarchy.


8 posted on 03/04/2009 10:54:28 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: presidio9

Not good enough. They need to make him an admiral!


9 posted on 03/04/2009 10:54:28 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (American Revolution II -- overdue.)
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To: presidio9

Sir Edward of Chappaquiddick


10 posted on 03/04/2009 10:54:39 AM PST by Obadiah (Party - my house - on December 22, 2012!)
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To: YHAOS

I wonder what Arthur would have done about knighthoods being tossed around like candy.


11 posted on 03/04/2009 10:54:53 AM PST by utherdoul
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To: presidio9

unconstitutional...but since when did that stop anyone in DC?


12 posted on 03/04/2009 10:55:00 AM PST by XD45
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To: presidio9

TED: Hey, queenie..let`s take a ride, I`ll drive. mmkay”


13 posted on 03/04/2009 10:55:06 AM PST by He who knoweth not his name
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I present to you, Sir Ted the Lyinhearted.


14 posted on 03/04/2009 10:55:37 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Let the 2nd American Revolution begin!)
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To: presidio9

Alot of Brits have to question this. Gordon Brown probably sat there in shock as Obama requested this favor...and had to pull every single trick in the book to get the queen to agree to this. She likely pulled a dozen problems and insisted Gordon fix them before agreeing to any of this. The curious thing is that Ted is in pretty bad shape, and very likely unable to make a 8-hr flight to the UK to do this ceremony...and based on press info...he’ll be lucky to make it to June.


15 posted on 03/04/2009 10:55:55 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Give him command of an entire squadron of submersible cars.
16 posted on 03/04/2009 10:56:37 AM PST by Stonewall Jackson (We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.-Robert E.Lee)
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To: presidio9

That rumble you feel are ten generations of Irish Kennedy ancestors are spinning in their graves.


17 posted on 03/04/2009 10:56:52 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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I thought the Brits thought more highly of their traditions.

Who’s next? Sir Blago?


18 posted on 03/04/2009 10:57:01 AM PST by bigbob (-)
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Quiz Time!!!!

If you heard the partial quote below by itself would you know who it was?

"..swimming to safety and abandoning his companion.."

19 posted on 03/04/2009 11:02:14 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: presidio9

Mary Jo Kopechne was still unavailable for comment.


20 posted on 03/04/2009 11:05:54 AM PST by NonValueAdded (May God save America from its government; this is no time for Obamateurs)
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