Ted Kennedy

Well, I suppose we can now expect about 5 days of round-the-clock homage to
the late Sen. Kennedy. Still, when one looks back, it was one heck of an odd
legacy.
The guy starts out as the little brother of a couple of heavy hitters, sort
of the kid the family expects nothing from. Then, just as he's thrust into
prominence, he commits a crime that should have landed him in jail for at
least a few years and gets off, essentially with a stern lecture. Then,
after finally giving up on the whole Presidential idea, he spends 30 years
in which he damn near mastered being a US Senator. I mean that in the
positive sense, as the man learned how to compromise, deal and cajole a very
clumsy mechanism towards many good ends. Even for those that don't agree
with his goals and outcomes, it must be admitted he was as good at making
that body work as anyone, possibly ever. Like I said, an odd course, and a
hard one to reckon, overall. Thoughts?
Tom

Tom Littleton wrote:
Well, I suppose we can now expect about 5 days of round-the-clock homage to
the late Sen. Kennedy. ...

Ted Kennedy will be put in the ground on Saturday at Arlington National.
I hope the creeps and the wingnuts will have the decency to wait until
Saturday night to start their hatefest. But I kinda doubt it.

--
Ken Fortenberry

one more drunk off the road...fine by me.....

"Teddy was thrown out of Harvard in 1951 for cheating"

"but the senator's carousing -- and testimony about him wandering
about the house in his shirttails and no pants"

"Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick
Island, on Martha's Vineyard. Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old worker
with RFK's campaign, was found dead in the submerged car's back seat
10 hours later."

Nice legacy, Teddy...

Guess you didn't have it in you to stick around long enough to get
voted
out like the rest of your croonies will in 2010...

"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
...
"Teddy was thrown out of Harvard in 1951 for cheating"

"but the senator's carousing -- and testimony about him wandering
about the house in his shirttails and no pants"

"Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick
Island, on Martha's Vineyard. Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old worker
with RFK's campaign, was found dead in the submerged car's back seat
10 hours later."

Nice legacy, Teddy...

Guess you didn't have it in you to stick around long enough to get
voted
out like the rest of your croonies will in 2010...



A surprisingly astute observation from someone who has never, ever f**ked
up.

John... there but for the grace of god...

John B wrote:
"~^ beancounter ~^" wrote in message
...
"Teddy was thrown out of Harvard in 1951 for cheating"

"but the senator's carousing -- and testimony about him wandering
about the house in his shirttails and no pants"

"Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick
Island, on Martha's Vineyard. Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old worker
with RFK's campaign, was found dead in the submerged car's back seat
10 hours later."

Nice legacy, Teddy...

Guess you didn't have it in you to stick around long enough to get
voted
out like the rest of your croonies will in 2010...



A surprisingly astute observation from someone who has never, ever f**ked
up.

John... there but for the grace of god...

John,

The woman was pregnant, probably with his kid, and
she did not drown. She suffocated. So, somehow,
the drunk managed to get out of the car underwater
and close the door behind himself so she would
suffocate instead of drown. I say "murder one".

He also negotiated with the Soviets behind Reagan's
and the state department's backs -- can we cay "treason".
(That was discovered in the KGB's archives.)

Have you heard his nasty, vitriolic comments on the
senate floor about Judge Bork and Clarance Thomas?
This is not a nice man by any stick. He tried
to destroy these mens careers and even their
very lives.

Lets not forget the "waitress sandwiches". What
a pervert.

And, no not "there but for the grace of god".
Who anyone could compare there tribulations
in life to that pig is incredulous.

Just my 2 cents.

-T

On 2009-08-26 18:36:09 -0400, Ken Fortenberry
said:

Tom Littleton wrote:
Well, I suppose we can now expect about 5 days of round-the-clock
homage to the late Sen. Kennedy. ...

Ted Kennedy will be put in the ground on Saturday at Arlington National.
I hope the creeps and the wingnuts will have the decency to wait until
Saturday night to start their hatefest. But I kinda doubt it.

I doubt there will be any "hatefest", unlike the one's I saw being
broken up at Arlington for KIA military.

David LaCourse wrote:
Ken Fortenberry said:
Tom Littleton wrote:
Well, I suppose we can now expect about 5 days of round-the-clock
homage to the late Sen. Kennedy. ...

Ted Kennedy will be put in the ground on Saturday at Arlington National.
I hope the creeps and the wingnuts will have the decency to wait until
Saturday night to start their hatefest. But I kinda doubt it.

I doubt there will be any "hatefest", unlike the one's I saw being
broken up at Arlington for KIA military.

The hatefest has already started in the right-wing blogosphere and
on the Limbaugh show. I was talking about the creeps and wingnuts
of roff.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On 2009-08-26 19:12:02 -0400, Ken Fortenberry
said:

David LaCourse wrote:
Ken Fortenberry said:
Tom Littleton wrote:
Well, I suppose we can now expect about 5 days of round-the-clock
homage to the late Sen. Kennedy. ...

Ted Kennedy will be put in the ground on Saturday at Arlington National.
I hope the creeps and the wingnuts will have the decency to wait until
Saturday night to start their hatefest. But I kinda doubt it.

I doubt there will be any "hatefest", unlike the one's I saw being
broken up at Arlington for KIA military.

The hatefest has already started in the right-wing blogosphere and
on the Limbaugh show. I was talking about the creeps and wingnuts
of roff.

Well, since I do not follow any bogospheres, right, left, up or down,
nor listen to the Limbaugh show, and most of the wingnuts on roff are
anarchistic socialists, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Dave

Ken Fortenberry wrote:
David LaCourse wrote:
Ken Fortenberry said:
Tom Littleton wrote:
Well, I suppose we can now expect about 5 days of round-the-clock
homage to the late Sen. Kennedy. ...

Ted Kennedy will be put in the ground on Saturday at Arlington National.
I hope the creeps and the wingnuts will have the decency to wait until
Saturday night to start their hatefest. But I kinda doubt it.

I doubt there will be any "hatefest", unlike the one's I saw being
broken up at Arlington for KIA military.

The hatefest has already started in the right-wing blogosphere and
on the Limbaugh show. I was talking about the creeps and wingnuts
of roff.


Ken,

You need to actually listen to Rush for two weeks or so
before calling what he is doing a "hatefest". If you
want to hear hate, listen to the Kennedy trashing
Bork or Thomas. By the way, Rush is playing back
Kennedy's speeches from the senate floor. Do you
consider judging Kennedy by his own words to be "hate"?

And remember in a political debate, the first one
to call the other one names looses.

-T