Posted on 08/26/2009 5:17:57 AM PDT by bmweezer
Ted Kennedy has died after a long battle against brain cancer. While this site - and many Americans - will not mourn this loss, we still extend our condolences to Kennedy's family. Losing a brother, uncle, cousin or friend is never easy and we pray that Kennedy's family will find comfort in their time of sorrow.
With that being said, Kennedy's death drops from the scene one of the more horrific and needlessly glorified politicians of the past forty years. If ANY of his brothers would have outlived him, Ted's political career would have been moribund at best. However, after one brother died in World War II and two were assassinated, it fell to Ted to carry the Kennedy mantle, something that the media was more than willing to help accomplish. Never very bright in his own right, as compared to his brothers, the youngest of Rose and Joseph Kennedy's children went to Washington as a Senator in 1962 and never left. While his first term in Washington was remembered more for him playing the role of mourning brother, the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident involving Kennedy and the death of one Mary Jo Kopechne, forever soured Kennedy to at least half the country, who saw him as nothing more than a murderer. Despite this, Kennedy moved on by being one of the Senate's most liberal members and course, by being a Kennedy.
In 1980, despite Chappaquiddick, Kennedy made his play for the White House by taking on then-President Jimmy Carter in the presidential primaries. Although Kennedy lost, his run set the stage for Carter's defeat and for a time brought back memories of Camelot for those that appreciated such a thing.
Thereafter, with his goal of following his brother into the White House gone, Kennedy continued to serve in the Senate, nine terms in all, became known as the Lion of the Senate and continued his push for more liberal, socialized programs. In between, Kennedy divorced his wife, became a drunk, and from time to time was caught having fun with women who were the age of his children.
For the past decade, Kennedy's main push has been for universal health care, which if passed, he would have been excluded from, but which he had deemed appropriate for the masses. No doubt Kennedy's death will give President Obama one last weapon in his push for ObamaCare. Of course, only with Democratic presidents could one put forth the death of an old, rich, murdering Senator who sought private and experiential treatments to extend his life, and try to make that death a rallying cry for socialized medicine, which would have excluded the type of treatments that Kennedy's sought and received.
Ted Kennedy, RIP
Limousine liberalism is the most effective strategy ever discovered for being a fat, rich, blue-blood aristocrat and having the poor peasants admire them adoringly. The gimmick was probably discovered by a king long ago.
Agreed....Mary Jo did not have the opportunity to live her life...Ted Kennedy did. God is going to implement the plan He had for Ted Kennedy.
Mother Teresa was a champion of the poor and downtrodden. Ted..... I'm not so sure. He could have dedicated some of his rather large family fortune to charitable acts, or trusts or foundations. Instead his version of helping the poor and downtrodden was picking my pocket and giving it to them, or government agencies.
Title should read Obama receives crown.
He was a crook and a broken human being who did much to harm our constitution and freedom. If that doesn't make someone an enemy, what does?
Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:
He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.
Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:
“In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”
Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”
A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.
Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:
“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”
Kennedy betrays President Reagan:
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.
I don’t know that I’ll mourn his death, but may he rest in peace. I know he has a lot to repent and showed no mercy toward Mary Jo, but he’s in God’s hands now, and I hope he chose to repent and reflect in his last days.
“Shame on you. The man is dead. If you can’t say something polite and sympathetic, than shut up.”
You shut up. People have ther right to comment as they damned well please. He lived his life as he pleased and we are free to comment as we please. If Tedddy didn’t want to have his legacy as it is then he shouldn’t have lived the life he did.
Next thing you know you won’t want anything bad said about any other tyrant like Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot. Teddy was a tyrant to freedom in this country.
” Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot”
Wow, great minds think alike!
“He was a liberal. That doesn’t make him an enemy.”
Yes, it does! Liberals want to take away our freedoms and you think that is something to respect???
I don't think so. I grew up in an age where etiquette and manners meant something, but I draw the line at "politeness Nazis" without a clue, who can't even spell "then" properly.
I never fail to find sympathetic words at the passing of public persons I respect and admire. And when less than admirable persons die I simply remain silent.
But I could never fail as a human being by not expressing something at the passing of particularly evil egregiously bad lives.
This man was a drunkard, a womanizer, a coward and a cold-blooded killer, albeit with tons of inherited wealth. A total scumbag nonetheless. The details are available for anyone who has been on Mars for the last 45 years.
You forced me to elaborate, my intention was to keep it short:
Good riddance!
Strange, that you would choose that as his most noteworthy claim to fame.
He was also evil through and through, and some of us simply can't rely on our ethical blind spot and bad memory as easily as you seem to.
Why should we celebrate and eulogize those who would make slaves of us all?
45 posted on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 9:07:43 AM by Noumenon
I don’t and I can’t wait until Jimmy Carter jpins him.
Any idea how long this will go on? I’m sick of it already!
Good point.
BUMP!
He was a lyin' SOB.
Look at his TV address to state of Massachusetts after Chappaquiddick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgL6BsLmyQ8
You don't want to say something bad about Kennedy then don't do so. No one is stopping you.
Sig: I do want to correct one statement I made - I said the Mass. police did nothing to prosecute him - however, he was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, paid a fine, and, I think, was on probation for a few months. However, he escaped what would easily have been a manslaughter charge if it were you or me. So my comment should have stated he was prosecuted, but for such a ridiculous offense that it amounted to nothing.
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