ted kennedy dead

[Nobunaga]

... I wonder if Mass is going to change the law to get a senator in place quickly, as Kennedy asked them to do.

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[bedub1]

He killed more people with his car than I have with my gun.

[SultanOfSurreal]

He killed more people with his car than I have with my gun.

now now, that's only because you don't count the coloreds as people

[PLAYER57832]

One thing Kennedy was known for was being friends with people who were his political enemies.

That alone is reminder of civilization.

[Nobunaga]

... Can I call them or what?

... Dems pimp Kennedy's death to push bill.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TedKenne ... id=8420408

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[Phatscotty]

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08 ... d.kennedy/

ted kennedy was one of the best senators in history, discuss

I'd agree, if I was in a wheelchair

[jonesthecurl]

I'm glad he's dead. He should have been arrested, imprisoned, and executed back in 1969. His long drawn out death was just natures way of punishing him for his crimes.

Think of that as casting the first stone...

[pimpdave]

I'll miss the lion of the Senate. I always loved listening to him or hearing of his exploits.

[AAFitz]

For me, its sad to know that someone with that much wealth, and that much power spent his time to help out the working class of america, instead of taking the easy path and just going along with the flow.

He hardly was a saint, nor was his brother jack, but it is the fact that they tried to fight for the common man, even if it perhaps was an act, that deserves respect.

Unfortunately, my favorite song about Ted is a parody, but it is absolutely hysterical. Its "I drove in the water", and its sung by someone who sounds like him. Ill try and find it. Its not for the true fans, but it is damn well done, and Ill assume teddy had enough of a sense of humor to enjoy it himself.

[SultanOfSurreal]

For me, its sad to know that someone with that much wealth, and that much power spent his time to help out the working class of america, instead of taking the easy path and just going along with the flow.

He hardly was a saint, nor was his brother jack, but it is the fact that they tried to fight for the common man, even if it perhaps was an act, that deserves respect.

Unfortunately, my favorite song about Ted is a parody, but it is absolutely hysterical. Its "I drove in the water", and its sung by someone who sounds like him. Ill try and find it. Its not for the true fans, but it is damn well done, and Ill assume teddy had enough of a sense of humor to enjoy it himself.

i doubt he would enjoy a jokey song about the worst night of his entire life

[AAFitz]

For me, its sad to know that someone with that much wealth, and that much power spent his time to help out the working class of america, instead of taking the easy path and just going along with the flow.

He hardly was a saint, nor was his brother jack, but it is the fact that they tried to fight for the common man, even if it perhaps was an act, that deserves respect.

Unfortunately, my favorite song about Ted is a parody, but it is absolutely hysterical. Its "I drove in the water", and its sung by someone who sounds like him. Ill try and find it. Its not for the true fans, but it is damn well done, and Ill assume teddy had enough of a sense of humor to enjoy it himself.

i doubt he would enjoy a jokey song about the worst night of his entire life

youd be surprised what people with a real sense of humor will enjoy

[pimpdave]

youd be surprised what people with a real sense of humor will enjoy

How many people have you been in an accident with who died and you felt guilty about for the rest of your life?

[jbrettlip]

I think Ted was obviously doing something right, to get elected for 40 years. As one of the conservatives on the site, I don't wish death on anyone (other than the obvious....pimpdave!) He did a bad thing, but he represented his constituents, which was his job. I didn't have to agree with his poilicies, because I have never lived in MA.

So what did he actually accomplish? THis is a serious question, since most of his work was probably before I got interested in politics.

[john9blue]

Sultan > Gabon


Thread now officially over.

I see! Well, thank you for saving me the time I would use to formulate an educated opinion. I did not even read the second page.

[Phatscotty]

To the Liberals, Teddy was a God. The only brother who didn't have to balls to try to do whatever REAL accomplisments his brothers were trying to achieve. A god.....to liberals ONLY. I only ask you to look into your own future, and feel the joy and excitement and satisfaction you will feel when GW croaks, and then you will know exactly how I feel right now. I will grant a moment of silence as you mourn the loss of your god.

Hissssss

[Bruceswar]

He should have been imprisoned for manslaughter decades ago. He is a politician of the lowest order in terms of both policy and partisanship and his selfish recklessness directly cost another human being her life. He was in no way whatsoever a decent civil servant or human being.

Honestly this is good news in more ways than one as the Democrats now lose their filibuster proof majority.

No I don't feel that I have to say nice things about this murdering hack just because he died.

Click

QFT

[HapSmo19]

I'll miss the lion of the Senate. I always loved listening to him or hearing of his exploits.

Like these?:

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 U.S. 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, 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. Since the accident, Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick.
He plead 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, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the tandard-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's 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.



In his defense, the water was like,.....eight feet deep.

Did I mention he grew up on the water?

[bedub1]

I'll miss the lion of the Senate. I always loved listening to him or hearing of his exploits.

Like these?:

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 U.S. 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, 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. Since the accident, Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick.
He plead 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, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the tandard-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's 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.



In his defense, the water was like,.....eight feet deep.

Did I mention he grew up on the water?

The dude was a piece of shit. I'm glad he's dead.

[AAFitz]

youd be surprised what people with a real sense of humor will enjoy

How many people have you been in an accident with who died and you felt guilty about for the rest of your life?

None. And hopefully I never will. Perhaps enjoy is the wrong word. Without the song its hard to convey, and Im not suggesting that he would laugh about the fact that someone died, only the fact that the song is funny in and of itself. Ill try to find it again, but I think the radio station itself wrote and produced it, so its not easy to find.

[beezer]

I'll miss the lion of the Senate. I always loved listening to him or hearing of his exploits.

Like these?:

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 U.S. 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, 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. Since the accident, Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick.
He plead 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, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the tandard-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's 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.



In his defense, the water was like,.....eight feet deep.

Did I mention he grew up on the water?

^^^All the better reason to attach his name to the health care bill so it will fail

[SultanOfSurreal]

youd be surprised what people with a real sense of humor will enjoy

How many people have you been in an accident with who died and you felt guilty about for the rest of your life?

None. And hopefully I never will. Perhaps enjoy is the wrong word. Without the song its hard to convey, and Im not suggesting that he would laugh about the fact that someone died, only the fact that the song is funny in and of itself. Ill try to find it again, but I think the radio station itself wrote and produced it, so its not easy to find.

remember to tell us when your mom finally bites it so i can pen a heeee-larious song that you will surely enjoy

[AAFitz]

youd be surprised what people with a real sense of humor will enjoy

How many people have you been in an accident with who died and you felt guilty about for the rest of your life?

None. And hopefully I never will. Perhaps enjoy is the wrong word. Without the song its hard to convey, and Im not suggesting that he would laugh about the fact that someone died, only the fact that the song is funny in and of itself. Ill try to find it again, but I think the radio station itself wrote and produced it, so its not easy to find.

remember to tell us when your mom finally bites it so i can pen a heeee-larious song that you will surely enjoy

My mom had a great sense of humor. I love telling jokes, knowing shed laugh right along if she was still around.

Of course, there is a difference between making up a song about a person, and having them enjoy it, and making up one about their mom. I didnt say Ted would laugh at a song about rose, but that hed smile at a joke about himself....

As any person that has lived such a life, they grow accustom to hatred, and parodies, and are able to see funny, for funny despite themselves.

I assure you, hes heard the song, and I guarantee he laughed. Im sure it was in private, but no one could not enjoy, being famous, or even infamous enough to have someone write a song about them, which was sung in his voice, almost to a tee.

But hey, I am sorry to interrupt your mourning. Im not knocking the guy, Im just saying I bet he had a better sense of humor than you seem to. I liked ted, he is from my home state, and I feel he worked hard to fight for rights for people like me. But when somethings funny, its funny.

Feel free to waste some time writing a song about me. Ill send you a pm with my many mistakes that Ive made, and my many flaws. Id be honored if you spent some time with a tribute to good ole aafitz.

[HapSmo19]

i doubt he would enjoy a jokey song about the worst night of his entire life

For him, I'm sure the worst night was the next one, when he had to start calling in favors and writing checks.

Kennedy 'joked about Chappaquiddick'
Biographer reveals deadly incident was a 'favorite topic of humor'

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108256

One of Sen. Ted Kennedy's favorite topics of humor was the incident at Chappaquiddick Island, Mass., in 1969 in which he drove off a bridge and left behind a 28-year-old woman who drowned, according to a biographer who reminisced about the iconic Democrat on a Washington, D.C., talk show this morning.

Edward Klein, speaking to WAMU guest host Katty Kay, said one of Kennedy's "favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick."

"He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?'" said Klein, a former Newsweek foreign editor and former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine.

Klein, the author of a biography published this year, "Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died," immediately tried to put his remarks in context.

"I mean, that is just the most amazing thing," he said. "Not that he didn't feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too."

Kopechne, a former campaign worker for the late Sen. Bobby Kennedy, was one of six single women at a party with the married Ted Kennedy and several other married men. Kennedy said he was taking Kopechne back to the ferry landing for a return trip to Martha's Vineyard when he took a wrong turn and drove off a bridge. He managed to escape but left Kopechne behind and didn't report the accident until the next day when he saw police had discovered the body.

After huddling with advisers, Kennedy made a televised statement that saved his Senate seat, but the incident is widely believed to have been a major factor in his failure to win the presidency.

Klein also is the author of a 1996 book about the Kennedys, "The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years."

[SultanOfSurreal]

i doubt he would enjoy a jokey song about the worst night of his entire life

For him, I'm sure the worst night was the next one, when he had to start calling in favors and writing checks.

Kennedy 'joked about Chappaquiddick'
Biographer reveals deadly incident was a 'favorite topic of humor'

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=108256

One of Sen. Ted Kennedy's favorite topics of humor was the incident at Chappaquiddick Island, Mass., in 1969 in which he drove off a bridge and left behind a 28-year-old woman who drowned, according to a biographer who reminisced about the iconic Democrat on a Washington, D.C., talk show this morning.

Edward Klein, speaking to WAMU guest host Katty Kay, said one of Kennedy's "favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick."

"He would ask people, 'Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?'" said Klein, a former Newsweek foreign editor and former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine.

Klein, the author of a biography published this year, "Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Died," immediately tried to put his remarks in context.

"I mean, that is just the most amazing thing," he said. "Not that he didn't feel remorse about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne but that he still always saw the other side of everything and the ridiculous side of things, too."

Kopechne, a former campaign worker for the late Sen. Bobby Kennedy, was one of six single women at a party with the married Ted Kennedy and several other married men. Kennedy said he was taking Kopechne back to the ferry landing for a return trip to Martha's Vineyard when he took a wrong turn and drove off a bridge. He managed to escape but left Kopechne behind and didn't report the accident until the next day when he saw police had discovered the body.

After huddling with advisers, Kennedy made a televised statement that saved his Senate seat, but the incident is widely believed to have been a major factor in his failure to win the presidency.

Klein also is the author of a 1996 book about the Kennedys, "The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years."

hmm i surely believe this article from world net daily

[Phatscotty]

man this thread is taking a pounding.