OT:Ted Kennedy passes away

MaryvalesFinest · Post #1 » by **MaryvalesFinest** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:47 am

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... 26-ON.html

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. - Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has dies after a yearlong battle with a brain tumor.

BurningHeart · Post #2 » by **BurningHeart** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:52 am

I express sorrow for his family.

Mr. Sun · Post #3 » by **Mr. Sun** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:57 am

I'd say rest in peace for him, but Mary Jo won't make that possible.

Sun Scorched · Post #4 » by **Sun Scorched** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:31 pm

I feel sorry for the hurt these things invariably cause families, but it will not take a moral giant to fill that man's shoes.

He was, quite simply, an empty suit.

phxfanatbirth · Post #5 » by **phxfanatbirth** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:03 pm

He will be met by Mary Jo and the unborn baby he murdered.

DirtyDez · Post #6 » by **DirtyDez** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:35 pm

Good ole Teddy, the biggest hypocrite off all time

eastsidecrossover · Post #7 » by **eastsidecrossover** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:26 pm

I wonder if Mary would do post the same if a conservative past away, would he pay the same respect? I wish he would, but most likely, that wont happen with crazy libs. Same goes with both sides.

However, I will not kick a man when he has past away from the illness that took his life. Not even Obamacare could have saved his life. Actually, he would have been gone months ago if that was his plan. Personally, he will not be missed by me.

But I will say this. All I have to say about Sen Kennedy is.............Chappaquiddick incident. Look it up and see if he deserves to be buried along our nations bravest in Arlington Cemetery.

Frank Lee · Post #8 » by **Frank Lee** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:32 am

eastsidecrossover wrote:However, I will not kick a man when he has past away from the illness that took his life. Not even Obamacare could have saved his life. Actually, he would have been gone months ago if that was his plan. Personally, he will not be missed by me.

But I will say this. All I have to say about Sen Kennedy is.............Chappaquiddick incident. Look it up and see if he deserves to be buried along our nations bravest in Arlington Cemetery.

yeah, you won't kick him, but you sure got your licks in eh ?

pot meet kettle

wdrummel · Post #9 » by **wdrummel** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:52 pm

Ted Kennedy was the epitome of entitlement. A life lived in the reflected glory of his betters where his family name and family wealth won his battles and guaranteed that he never had to answer for his disgraces, even when they cost a life. He was the figurehead of that fine liberal tradition of, "rules for thee, but not for me." He was a drunken, rapacious boor, he was a brazen, arrogant, hypocrite. He was a bloated, bilious toad. I'll gladly tolerate the next few days of media fawning, of necrophiliac fellatio on his bloated Moby Dickesque carcass just to know that he is no longer walking this Earth and no longer sharing my air. Tonight, I'll open my best bottle of Cabernet-Sauvignon and drink it as if it were Ted Kennedy's blood.

Sun Scorched · Post #10 » by **Sun Scorched** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:39 pm

wdrummel wrote:Tonight, I'll open my best bottle of Cabernet-Sauvignon and drink it as if it were Ted Kennedy's blood.

I didn't like the guy, but that's a bit morbid.

And cabernet? Really?

I wouldn't even waste box wine.

wdrummel · Post #11 » by **wdrummel** » Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:06 pm

Lol

I laughed when I read it because it was so morbid... I had to plagiarize it.

Plus if I were to drink anything that would symbolize Teddy's blood it would be a can of crisco.

hunterxaz · Post #12 » by **hunterxaz** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:27 am

God bless his family. We lost a great American and an amazing senator. He will be missed.

BobbieL · Post #13 » by **BobbieL** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:53 am

Hi Teddy

So very nice to finally see you again. I wasn't sure we would ever see each other again. Whats it been - just over 40 years.

Signed,

Mary Jo Kopechne

Mr. Sun · Post #14 » by **Mr. Sun** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 1:33 pm

And yet he was always protected by most of the media, who shared his views on just about everything. In 1962, at the behest of President Kennedy, the Boston Globe played the story of his expulsion from Harvard below the fold on the front page. To the very end the Globe did its best to shield him - last week the struggling Times-owned broadsheet broke the story of his deathbed attempt to change the Massachusetts law on Senate succession, without mentioning that he himself had lobbied in 2004 to enact the law he was now denouncing as undemocratic. Only then, he was for stripping the governor of his right to fill a Senate vacancy, because, you see, that governor was a Republican.

The Globe reported that Kennedy was extremely concerned that the people of Massachusetts would have no representation in the Senate for five months until the special election. The fact that he had already missed 97 percent of the Senate roll-call votes in 2009 was not noted until the next day - in a different newspaper.

NapoleonII · Post #15 » by **NapoleonII** » Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:28 pm

The embodiment of 'politics as usual.'

Bill Bradley · Post #16 » by **Bill Bradley** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:08 pm

A lot of POS posting in this thread. A mod should lock this. Pathetic, clueless, and classless.

the_warden · Post #17 » by **the_warden** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:33 pm

Bill Bradley wrote:A lot of POS posting in this thread. A mod should lock this. Pathetic, clueless, and classless.

Why? He really did embody politics: a man born into a life of power and privilege who used those things to get away with manslaughter. That's the exact opposite of the democratic ideal. I'm sorry that I don't glamorize the dead: Strom Thurmond was a racist old coot and Ronald Reagan is somehow a Republican deity when he was far from economically conservative and wasted billions not only on defense, but starting the War on Drugs (which has helped America imprison more of its population than any other supposedly "free" country). Acknowledging these things isn't "pathetic, clueless (I don't even know where you got that one), and classless."

BurningHeart · Post #18 » by **BurningHeart** » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:16 pm

Bill Bradley wrote:A lot of POS posting in this thread. A mod should lock this. Pathetic, clueless, and classless.

Classless? I see a few people saying RIP to Mary Jo, so I don't see how that's classless at all.

Bill Bradley · Post #19 » by **Bill Bradley** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:41 am

the_warden wrote:
Bill Bradley wrote:A lot of POS posting in this thread. A mod should lock this. Pathetic, clueless, and classless.

Why? He really did embody politics: a man born into a life of power and privilege who used those things to get away with manslaughter. That's the exact opposite of the democratic ideal. I'm sorry that I don't glamorize the dead: Strom Thurmond was a racist old coot and Ronald Reagan is somehow a Republican deity when he was far from economically conservative and wasted billions not only on defense, but starting the War on Drugs (which has helped America imprison more of its population than any other supposedly "free" country). Acknowledging these things isn't "pathetic, clueless (I don't even know where you got that one), and classless."

Dude, you really don't know what you are talking about and nor do most of the people posting in this thread. Everyone is focusing on Chappaquiddick because that is probably the only thing they have heard about Kennedy. And Kennedy was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident and never had the chance to be President after that, so it's not like he didn't pay a price or got off scott free. Nobody here knows what happened that night, so everyone acting like they know he did something nefarious is just off-base and typical of people who are just talking out of their asses.

And to act like Kennedy was just another beneficiary of privilege is also off base. The Kennedys cared more about poor people and the common man than any family of politicians. And Ted was one of the most productive and influential Senators of all time. To just ignore the good that the did and focus on the negative and portray Kennedy as some sort of evil guy is just ridiculous. Not to mention that the guy is dead and people in this thread are talking about drinking his blood? Jokingly or not, this thread is sad.

the_warden · Post #20 » by **the_warden** » Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:37 am

Bill Bradley wrote:
Dude, you really don't know what you are talking about and nor do most of the people posting in this thread. Everyone is focusing on Chappaquiddick because that is probably the only thing they have heard about Kennedy. And Kennedy was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident and never had the chance to be President after that, so it's not like he didn't pay a price or got off scott free. Nobody here knows what happened that night, so everyone acting like they know he did something nefarious is just off-base and typical of people who are just talking out of their asses.

Ted Kennedy was an alcoholic who left a party with a woman who wasn't his wife, drove off a bridge, and didn't report the accident for 10 hours. You say the price he paid was that he "was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident and never had the chance to be President after that." Really? That's his punishment for an obvious case of vehicular manslaughter (not even mentioning the very likely possibility he was drunk or the rumors that he was having an affair with Mary Jo). If he weren't Ted Kennedy, he'd be convicted of that. But he was Ted Kennedy, so he got off with "leaving the scene of the accident."

And my point in saying that (while you go on about how the Kennedys cared about the poor or whatever) is that, when it came to an actual situation where Teddy should have been viewed the same as an ordinary man under the law, he wasn't. The practical application of his supposed beliefs failed. He killed someone, got convicted of a very minor crime, and got to be the senator from the state of Massachusetts for the rest of his life. And you say the punishment was fitting because he "didn't get to be president." Disgusting.