Posted on 08/26/2009 9:11:49 AM PDT by AUH2O Repub
Just heard on noon news that Kennedy will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. What an insult to our troops!
Yes according to the news report I heard on the way in to work.
Yep..that’s kinda what I was thinking..lol!
“with Jack and Bobby. . .?”
It’s fitting, since his status was basically a derivative of theirs.
A little, anyway ...
I hope they keep Ed-Lard-O's alcohol soaked carcass a safe distance away from this. At best, it would contribute significantly to global warming. At worst, it could explode and injure dozens.
Right, guess you think Fat Ted was a great war hero too. LOL
He spent his service in Paris, NOT in Korea!
Pappy Joe made it all possible.
He is an Army Vet.
under the lawn keepers shed I hope
I agree the hatred on this thread is juvenile.It goes beyond politics.
"..(e) Persons who have held any of the following positions, provided their last period of active duty (other than for training) as a member of the Armed Forces terminated honorably:
(1) An elective office of the United States Government..."
"..Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1951.[9] Following basic training at Fort Dix, he requested assignment to Fort Holabird for Army Intelligence training, but was dropped after a few weeks without explanation.[9] He went to Camp Gordon for training in the Military Police Corps.[9] In June 1952, he was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquarters in Paris.[4][9] His father's political connections ensured he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War.[4][10] While stationed in Europe he travelled extensively on weekends and climbed the Matterhorn.[11] He was discharged in March 1953 as a private first class.[9][11.."
Is there a large group who can be in DC and along the funeral route in view of the cameras and can lift “Remember MaryJo” signs at the right time? What a travesty. This really is going to be a Wellstone moment but I don’t think this will save their ill fated heathcare plans.
Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor, while aiding and abetting the enemy, no telling how many troops died after Kennedy agitated for the headchoppers:
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, and the United States of America:
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.
Absolutely Disgraceful
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Sweet!
I’m still waiting for the Kopechne family statement..........................................................................................................................................................................................................
Let’s not get too upset. It’s not the burial or the place of burial, it’s what happens to the body on Resurrection Day.
I’d like a tally of all the treatments Kennedy received this year that would be denied to my loved ones under Obama/Kennedy Care.
According to another article..Members of Congress can be buried there. I have ceased to be amazed at what these self serving politicians will do. They believe they are the royal ruling class and as such, deserve the honored spot. It is just the cheap #$^&@ way of avoiding financial responsibility to the end. The American taxpayer will shoulder the cost.
*sigh*
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