Post#26 » by Brandon-Clyde » Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:43 pm
Liberals act as if Chappaquiddick was some minor one time deviation in the life of an otherwise saintly man. Try some of the following
From Wikipedia
Although Kennedy was an accomplished legislator, his personal life was troubled during this time.[103] His weight fluctuated wildly, he drank heavily at times – although not when it would interfere with his Senate duties – and his cheeks became blotchy.[103][104] Kennedy later acknowledged, "I went through a lot of difficult times over a period in my life where [drinking] may have been somewhat of a factor or force."[103] He chased women frequently,[105] and also was in a series of more serious romantic relationships but did not want to commit to anything long-term.[106] He often caroused with fellow Senator Chris Dodd;[106] twice in 1985 they were in drunken incidents in Washington restaurants, with one involving unwelcome physical contact with a waitress.[105]
The last sentence is a polite way of saying a near sexual assault
a description of the assault
All right, it was the Gentleman's Quarterly in 1990, Michael Kelly. I just want to read you a sample of this story. "In December 1985, just before he announced he would run for president in 1988, Kennedy allegedly manhandled a pretty young woman employed as a Brasserie waitress. The woman, Carla Gaviglio, declined to be quoted in this article, but says the following account, a similar version of which first appeared in Penthouse last year, is full and accurate: It is after midnight and Kennedy and Dodd are just finishing up a long dinner in a private room on the first floor of the restaurant’s annex. They are drunk. Their dates, two very young blondes, leave the table to go to the bathroom. (The dates are drunk, too. 'They’d always get their girls very, very drunk,' says a former Brasserie waitress.) Betty Loh, who served the foursome, also leaves the room. Raymond Campet, the co-owner of La Brasserie, tells Gaviglio the senators want to see her.
"As Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-pound waitress and throws her on the table. She lands on her back, scattering crystal, plates and cutlery and the lit candles. Several glasses and a crystal candlestick are broken. Kennedy then picks her up from the table and throws her on Dodd, who is sprawled in a chair. With Gaviglio on Dodd’s lap, Kennedy jumps on top and begins rubbing his genital area against hers, supporting his weight on the arms of the chair. As he is doing this, Loh enters the room. She and Gaviglio both scream, drawing one or two dishwashers. Startled, Kennedy leaps up. He laughs. Bruised, shaken and angry over what she considered a sexual assault, Gaviglio runs from the room. Kennedy, Dodd and their dates leave shortly thereafter, following a friendly argument between the senators over the check." This is the waitress sandwich at La Brasserie. And this is mild. This is just an excerpt from a very, very long piece
more from Wikipedia
On Easter weekend 1991, Kennedy was at a get-together at the family's Palm Beach, Florida estate when, restless and maudlin after reminiscing about his brother-in-law, he left for a late-night visit to a local bar, getting his son Patrick and nephew William Kennedy Smith to accompany him.[103][122] Patrick Kennedy and Smith returned with women they met there, Michelle Cassone and Patricia Bowman. Cassone said that Ted Kennedy subsequently walked in on her and Patrick, dressed only in a nightshirt and with a weird look on his face.[103][122] Smith and Bowman went out on the beach, where they had sex that he said was consensual and she said was rape.[103] The local police made a delayed investigation; soon Kennedy sources were feeding the press with negative information about Bowman's background and several mainstream newspapers broke a taboo by publishing her name.[122] The case quickly became a media frenzy.[103][122] While not directly implicated in the case, Kennedy became the frequent butt of jokes on The Tonight Show and other late-night television programs.[103][123] Time magazine said Kennedy was being perceived as a "Palm Beach boozer, lout and tabloid grotesque" while Newsweek said Kennedy was "the living symbol of the family flaws."[124
Trashing the accuser and using the Kennedy money and name to gain an accquittal.suggests a real man of the people
and more
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens ...
The overdrawn, incendiary rhetoric of what became known as the "Robert Bork's America" speech enraged Bork supporters, who considered it slanderous, and worried some Democrats as well.[109][110][111] But the Reagan administration was unprepared for the assault, and the speech froze some Democrats from supporting the nomination and gave Kennedy and other Bork opponents time to prepare the case against him.[109][112] When the September 1987 Judiciary Committee hearings began, Kennedy challenged Bork forcefully on civil rights, privacy, women's rights, and other issues.[76] Bork's own demeanor hurt him,[109] and the nomination was defeated both in committee and the full Senate.[76] The tone of the Bork battle changed the way Washington worked – with controversial nominees or candidates now experiencing all-out war waged against them – and the ramifications of it were still being felt two decades later.[110][112][113]
So for those upset about the hyperpartisanship of judges in the Senate can thank Kennedy
And last for now
"In the spring of 1983, during perhaps the tensest moment in the Cold War since the Cuban missile crisis ... Kennedy sent a message to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. This would be the same Yuri Andropov who had been the director of the KGB and had played central roles in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring," and Yuri Andropov was one of the Soviet leaders that Reagan didn't meet with. He said, "They keep dying on me. It makes no sense to meet these guys." Gorbachev was the first Soviet leader he met with.
So Kennedy was "Arguing that Reagan, not Andropov," not the Soviets, "threatened world peace, Kennedy offered to help Andropov contain Reagan by manipulating American opinion," and here's the letter. "On 9-10 May of this year..." This is the letter to "Comrade Y.V. Andropov." It says, "Special Importance, Committee on State Security of the USSR." It's KGB.
"Comrade Y.V. Andropov -- On 9-10 May of this year, Senator Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant J. Tunney was in Moscow. The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Center Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov. Senator Kennedy, like other rational people, is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations. Events are developing such that this relationship coupled with the general state of global affairs will make the situation even more dangerous. The main reason for this is Reagan's belligerence, and his firm commitment to deploy new American middle range nuclear weapons within Western Europe.
Trying to go behind an elected presidents back to make a deal with with a dictator to undercut the elected presidents policy is pretty much treasonous
There is more bad about this man than the public has been allowed to see. He has used his family's name and money to avoid punishment for his crimes
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect." -- Ronald Reagan
