Kennedy Unbound (Unrestrained praise for the best Senator ever!)

Boston Globe Online ^ | 1-5-2003 | By Charles P. Pierce, Globe Staff

[vannrox]

After 40 years in the US Senate, Edward M. Kennedy has transcended the family mythology and become his own man.

Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, 70 years old and serving his seventh term, in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

[vannrox]

Hum...

[mikeb704]

Giving new meaning to "gravitas". . .

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[Drango]

Mary Jo Kopechne family have any thoughts on this?

[pabianice]

[FreedomAvatar]

Drunk.
Felon.

[linn37]

is Kennedy admitting that Dubya used him for a photo op?

[Inyokern]

Edward M. Kennedy has transcended the family mythology and become his own man.

From that photo, he appears to have become about 2 or 3 men.

[alloysteel]

Shouldn't we make Teddy President Pro Tem of the Senate or something, and take the title away from that old KKK racist Robert Byrd. Then hook him up on an intravenous supply of Chivas Regal, pair his vote with, say, Trent Lott, and let him embalm himself until sainthood may be proclaimed. Of course, that may take centuries, but what the h*ll, Massachusetts will surely keep him in office.

[ZULU]

"Kennedy Unbound"

I thought he was always pretty "tight".

The brother of a loser womanizer, another brother a "snot-nosed brat", and a father who was a pro-Nazi bootlegger.

What can one expect of him?

[South40]

January 3, Hyannisport, MA: Senator Ted Kennedy Admitted
to a Boston Area Hospital Following an "Unidentified Health Incident."

[litehaus]

"The brother of a loser womanizer, another brother a "snot-nosed brat", and a father who was a pro-Nazi bootlegger."

You forgot---President.....of The Kennedy School of Diving and Driving....

[Honcho]

And that's the key. That's how you survive what he's survived. That's how you move forward, one step after another, even though your name is Edward Moore Kennedy. You work, always, as though your name were Edward Moore. If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.


This makes my want to puk.....

[mountaineer]

The sycophantic Boston Glob got one thing right:

if his name were Edward Moore, he would have done time.

So what makes this guy so great? That he avoided prison? I guess in Democrat morality, that makes Kennedy one of the greatest senators of all time.

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After 40 years in the US Senate, Edward M. Kennedy has transcended the family mythology and become his own man.

Oh boy, our Teddy has finally decided to act like a man.

Seventy years is a hell of a long childhood.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

IMHO he's the "greatest senator" purely based on time served. He's still in the senate because

1. He couldn't get himself elected president
2. He can have his Massachusetts senate seat as long as he wants it - which has nothing to do with achievment or ability.

I think the conviction of Skakel has gone a very long ways in revealing the family for what they are. In that sense, the bloom has come off the rose, and recently.

I think based on Kennedy's lifetime habits he may not be all that long for this world and he knows it and the writer of this article knows it. It reads pretty much like an obituary and Kennedy seems largely incoherent most of the time.

So JFK got the grand prize, RFK got the consolation prize, and now folks want to award Ted the booby prize - as in "He got to the Senate and stayed there". And if there were any justice, he wouldn't even have that. Yawn.

[E Rocc]

President Pro Tem of the Senate or something, and take the title away from that old KKK racist Robert Byrd.

That was already taken care of in November by the electorate. >:)

-Eric

[dead]

And what of the dead woman?

Oh that old nobody – she was never a Kennedy.

[dead]

1. He couldn't get himself elected president
2. He can have his Massachusetts senate seat as long as he wants it - which has nothing to do with achievment or ability.

I’ve been predicting a very similar future for Hillary Clinton, provided Rudy Guiliani doesn’t decide to deny her number two.

[Inspectorette]

The sycophantic Boston Glob got one thing right:

if his name were Edward Moore, he would have done time.

I'm old enough to remember when he first ran for the U. S. Senate in 1962, never having been elected to any office whatsoever. His opponent, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, made the statement, "If your name were Edward Moore instead of Edward Moore Kennedy, your candidacy would be a joke."

Senator Lodge never had a chance against Old Joe and his machine.

[sheik yerbouty]

Murderer