Posted on 08/25/2009 10:22:54 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy brother who was left to head the family's political dynasty after his brothers President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, has died at age 77.
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made mine, though!
Mentioned elsewhere, the NBC cut-in made mention when covering the last year of his life his endorsement of Obama saying he “invoked another first-term senator who ran for the presidency”. Of course, not true as JFK was in his second senate term when he ran. So, the MSM is all about their new god now.
That having been said, this will be a test of character and leadership for Sean Cardinal O'Malley. Kennedy's public career does not merit a celebratory funeral. Even the death of a good and pious man ought not trigger a celebratory funeral much less the death of this man.
We are all sinners. It is the heritage left us by Adam and Eve. Few have as many deaths of innocents on their record as this shameless senator. We have no idea of whether he repented his sins as his light failed and the end approached. The Jesuits taught us (around the time that this man went to the Senate) that even Hitler might have had a grace of final repentance in the nanoseconds between shooting himself and his death. None of us should presume salvation.
When Paul Castellano who headed the Gambino Mafia family in New York, was suddenly murdered outside some Manhattan steak house, John Cardinal O'Connor denied Castellano a Church funeral because it might occasion scandal. Castellano was merely a Mafia Don. He was responsible for far fewer deaths in his career than Ted Kennedy was in any given day since 1973. Castellano's victims tended to be a tad less innocent than the unborn babies that were Mr. Kennedy's victims or than Mary Jo for that matter.
I would hope that the Archdiocese of Boston give Kennedy a small, private, quiet funeral and refuse to allow that funeral to be a traditional Kennedy family circus and propaganda fest. His family should be first in line to favor such a resolution to a situation of possible or probable eternal tragedy for which Kennedy was not lovingly created by God.
Who made Ted Kennedy? God made Ted Kennedy? Why did God make Ted Kennedy? God made Ted Kennedy to know Him, love Him and serve Him in this world and to be happy with Him forever in the next. That is what Ted Kennedy was taught a a child in the Roman Catholic Church of Pope Pius XII and of Richard Cardinal Cushing, the Roman Catholic Church founded by Jesus Christ upon Simon bar Jonah as Peter and ruled by Peter's successors ever since (some of whom will, no doubt join Mr. Kennedy in his final destination for good or for ill). There is little evidence of Ted holding up his end of the bargain although final repentance may have been his final choice.
If "here" is hell or the U. S. Senate or even just a debate, in the immortal words of then Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Eddie McCormick, Mr. Kennedy's first primary opponent: "If your name were merely Edward Moore rather than Edward Moore Kennedy, you would not even be here." Without politics, in his particular case, he might have been more likely, like his very Catholic sister Eunice Shriver, (likely but not certainly) to make heaven.
Let us remember ourselves and comport ourselves with dignity under such circumstances. He is gone and no longer a burr under our collective saddle. We owe it to our Father in Heaven to act as He would have us act in humility and not in some sort of triumph as Mr. Kennedy passes in the way of all flesh. God only knows. His will be done.
May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.
The raging liberals were the only ones that loved and adored him!
I’ve been out working in the garage. Didn’t hear. Well, back to work. I’m sure as hell not going to turn on the TV for the next month or so while they talk about him ad nauseum.
Something tells me that won’t be one of the soundbites on the alphabet news’ eulogies.
Today is a good day.
..................Ding Dong the Wizard, murderer, is dead.
Instead of heaping vitriol on him, like so many others here tonight have done, I’ll just offer a short prayer for his soul and leave it at that.
The fire is burning just a little hotter in Hell tonight. Enjoy Ted. You deserve it.
Just wait til his dead soul visits Ebenezer Pelosi this Christmas to warn her about her descent back to hell.
“The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went. Every one of them wore chains like Marley’s ghost ... The air was filled with lamentation and regret; wailings inexpressibly sorrowful and self accusatory…they cried piteously.”
Just made a rare visit over to DU to see how the Moonbats were coping.
The short answer - very badly.
The expected accolades and determinations to use his death as a catalyst to get Obamacare passed.
Also - not one word - zero - about Mary Jo Kopechne.
But when it’s a Republican or a Conservative - the double standard is in full display.
Just be glad the Kennedy family is over - for all practical purposes.
I’ll drink to that this weekend.
Are they complaining about our reactions as usual?
khao pen dhua ahea asat , pai ter
(Thumper)
It is up to Sean Cardinal O’Malley to bar Obama from the premises from which Kennedy will be buried. Same issues as at Notre Shame.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n21_v46/ai_15930014/?tag=content;col1
Oh, man...there goes bam’s vacation.
Umm. Kennedy. Speechless.
Him and me both.
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