Re: RIP Ted Kennedy

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:47:38 -0500, Michael wrote:

ChairMan wrote:
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Kurt <kurtwheeling1965@xxxxxxxxxxx>spewed forth:
On Aug 26, 8:46?am, "Cheri" <cher...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:12:54 -0400, Sleepyman wrote:
He will be missed.
IMHO - no big losss. He should have been in prison after what he
did.
I think he did a lot more good on the outside than he ever could have
done in prison, and I'm sure it's a huge loss to his family and his
constituents.

Cheri
Agreed. I think he suffered from living with that terrible incident
the rest of his life. What a loss for the country it would have been
if his political career had been ruined by that and he would never
have gone on to spearhead so many important programs and policies.

Someone posted a picture of JFK, Bobby, and Ted when they were young
men. It truly is an end to a great era in American politics.

Kurt

TED KENNEDY DA MAN. .

The Last of The Kennedy Dynasty.
As soon as his cancer was detected, I noticed the immediate attempt at
the "canonization" of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media. They
are saying what a "great American" he is. I say, let's get a couple
things clear & not twist the facts to change the real history.

1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was
expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a
classmate to cheat for him.

2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed
up for four years instead of two. Oops! The man can't count to four!
His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a
step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during
prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment
shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe , not
Korea , where a war was raging. No preferential treatment for him!
(like he charged that President Bush received).

3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris , never advanced beyond the rank of
Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a
person of his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private!

4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia , he was
cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was
clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with
his headlights off after dark.. Yet his Virginia driver's license was
never revoked. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959. Amazing!

5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash and hospitalized
for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he
was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of
those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the
report was unsealed. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media,
did we?

6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick
Island in Massachusetts . At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his
chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine and offered to give a ride
home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker.
Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy
steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond.

7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party passing several houses
and a fire station. Two friends then returned with him to the scene of
the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what
he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the
accident to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his
hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police
the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered.
Before dying Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her
head in the upside-down car.

The Kennedy family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry
would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of- state to her family
before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain,
but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water
trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn't call police because he was in a
state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held
off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem
overnight.

=0 A
Since the accident Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him
as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. He pleaded guilty to
leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF
TWO MONTHS.
Kopechne's family received a small payout from the Kennedy's insurance
policy and never sued. There was later an effort to have her body
exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this
in court, and Kennedy's family paid their attorney's bills.... a "token
of friendship"?

8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years, but
considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored
or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights,
increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier
for the indigent, funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors, and
is widely held as the "standard-bearer for liberalism". In his very
first Senate roll he was the floor manager for the bill that turned
U.S.immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for
immigrants from third world countries..

9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of
every expansion of an increase in immigration up to and including the
latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the
pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court nominees, as if he
was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of what is right.
What a pompous ass!

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud,
boisterous, and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better
description than "great American". "A blonde in every pond" is his
motto. Let's not allow the spin doctors to make this jerk a hero -- how
quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is.

11. He is now worried that when he dies, Massachusetts law currently
requires a special election to fill the vacancy, but that would mean
that the senate would only have 59 Democrats and would not be
filibuster-proof. He is asking the state legislature to change the law
so the (Democrat) governor can appoint the replacement immediately upon
the vacancy and not have to wait for a special election, which would be
many months after the vacancy.



Taking shots at this man is pretty unseemly. Let he who is without
sin.....



I know he made a mistake at Chappaquiddick. It cost Mary her life. I
drove once in my life stoned. I drove about 4 miles with my wife in the
car. Nothing happened. But, I never forgot that incident and swore I
would never ever repeat something so stupid.

All of us make bad decisions. We often do bad things. We all must
evaluate the whole of a person's life and our own life.

The difference is that most of us have to pay for our mistakes.



I hope Ted finds a better place.

Michael

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