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Old August 27th, 2009, 12:07 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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HYPOCRITE:

(1) A person who engages in the same behaviors he condemns others
for.

(2) A person who professes certain ideals, but fails to live up to
them.

(3) A person who holds other people to higher standards than he holds
himself.

The only reliable product of an organized liberalism is a flock of
hypocrites who feel that only *their* hypocrisy is divinely
sanctioned.


Yup...that about sums up Ted Kennedy.


I know his death is sad for some, but I refuse to get all worked up
about it. To me, Ted Kennedy was simply a drunken, womanizing murderer
that used his last name to get out of much deserved prison time for
Chappaquiddick. The man defined absolute partisan hypocrisy.

The mere fact that he asked for a law to be changed to allow the
liberal governor to appoint a liberal to take his seat speaks volumes
about his character. His refusal to stand by the law HE helped to pass
which prevented the Republican governor (Romney) from getting that
same power some years back is simply gross.

Kennedy worked tirelessly to raise OUR taxes (the average American
pays about 10% of their income in taxes each year) while he only paid
about .04% of his income in taxes. He had tax shelters in Aruba and
accounts in the names of his family members to avoid paying so much of
his "hard earned" money in taxes. He didn't like paying taxes but
thought that all of us working class people should.

Teddy called him self an environmentalist, yet when a Cape Cod
windmill project threatened to obstruct his sail boating landscape he
tried to get a friend in the Army Corps of Engineers to "investigate"
the project--and find reasons to shoot it down. Too bad for him that
his friend's investigation only pointed out how successful and
positive the Cape Wind project would inevitably be. Again, it seems
that Ted Kennedy was only "green" when the cost or inconvenience
applied to us and not him.

Oh, and lets not forget that he was the guy that created the Obamacare
amendment that excluded members of Congress from the very government
run plan they would create. According to him, the public plan is good
enough for us, but not for him or his politician pals. Smart thinking
on his part I suppose, since a government run plan would surely not
have given him the top notch medical care that he got for the last
year. At his age they would have just offered him a blue pill...

To me, he typified exactly what I can't stand about Democrats. He is
the typical liberal that feels that they should get to play by a
different set of rules than anyone else. I can't support that kind of
blatant hypocrisy.

He was not a man of integrity, certainly not a man of honor and I for
one, will not be sobbing today and talking about "what a great man" he
was. See, what he and all the other liberals of his ilk never seem to
understand is that the TRUE equality that they claim to stand for will
only come when THEY start subjecting themselves to the same oppression
that they want us to suffer under.

What's good for the wealthy elitist geese should always be what's good
for the private sector gander...