All the way with Teddy K.

[tombogan03884]

The  Last of
 The Kennedy Dynasty
 
 
As soon as his cancer was detected, I noticed the immediate attempt at the “canonization” of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media. They are saying what a "great American" he
 is.  I say, let's get a couple things clear & not twist the facts to change the real history.
 
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 e nlisted 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 US 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
limousine, 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 pled
> guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a
> SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS.

  

 Kopechne's family received a small pay out 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"?

a8.    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
> "standard-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.

   Let's not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero -- how quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is.
Let’s keep this going for truth, justice and the American
way

He has also been stopped several times in the NH Seacoast for speeding and Drunk driving, also let us not forget the episode a few years ago of him chasing young girls around on a beach while shitfaced and naked.
Well, actually we might WANT to forget that one.  

Whatever it takes to FINALLY get rid of him
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_state_surveys/massachusetts/52_in_massachusetts_favor_kennedy_s_request_for_interim_replacement

Fifty-two percent (52%) of Massachusetts voters agree with terminally ill Senator Edward M. Kennedy that the governor should name an interim senator to take his place until a special election can be held.

[tt11758]

Kennedy is an embarrassment, and the left treat him as if he were the second coming of Christ (Obama being the first coming).

To those of us who lived through the 60's, and still remember poor Mary Jo Copechne, Kennedy can be thought of as little more than a common murderer.

I used to have a bumper sticker that read, "My Gun Is Safer Than Ted Kennedy's Car". 

[Kid Shelleen]

Remember the old Kennedy limerick?

There once was a Senator from Mass,
who wanted a new piece of a$$.
He lucked up and found one,
fu^%ed up and drowned one.
Now his careers in the past.

It's a shame that the last line never proved true. Only a rich and powerful liberal could have survived that mess.

[tombogan03884]

Remember the old Kennedy limerick?

There once was a Senator from Mass,
who wanted a new piece of a$$.
He lucked up and found one,
fu^%ed up and drowned one.
Now his careers in the past.

It's a shame that the last line never proved true. Only a rich and powerful liberal could have survived that mess.

Actually Kid, the title of this thread came from the poster that ended his presidential ambitions.
It was a photo of an arm with a cigar sticking out of a Caddy that was driving into the ocean
It had his campaign slogan underneath "All the way with Teddy K".
It was the most effective use of redirected branding I have ever seen.

[Kid Shelleen]

You are completely correct Tom, but whoda thunk that the good people of Mass would send him back to the Senate over and over and over and over.......................................................

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[tombogan03884]

You are completely correct Tom, but whoda thunk that the good people of Mass would send him back to the Senate over and over and over and over.......................................................

Ever heard of James Micheal Curly ? He was Mayor of Boston, got convicted on corruption charges and sent to jail, He never stepped down, they had city council meetings in his cell, and he got re elected. Whitey Bulger once the biggest gangster North of Providence, now on the FBI 10 most wanted list, He was #1 but got bumped down to #2 by Bin Laden, His Brother, Billy was Mass Senate President for about 20 years, then President of U Mass. This biggest surprise about Barney Frank is that in the State legislature He defied Billy and still had a political career, of course it meant he had to leave the State legislature to do it.
It's just standard Mass Dem politics.

[Timothy]

You are completely correct Tom, but whoda thunk that the good people of Mass Boston would send him back to the Senate over and over and over and over.......................................................

I've only met one person who'll admit voting for him!

[twyacht]

I never will forget the 60 Minutes episode on Teddy, and the media Camelot mystique, when an older woman in Boston was asked

Why do you vote for Ted Kennedy?

Her reply was: " He takes care of us "

Now he wants (or his staffers want) to change the election law he changed in 2004, when Romney was Gov. and Kerry was a "shoe in for POTUS"..To keep the magical Senatorial number.

He will lie in state at the Capitol, and have a taxpayer funded State Funeral, and the media will cover it ad nauseum...

And Little Billy, all grown up, is pissed off....

[tombogan03884]

"He will lie in state at the Capitol, and have a taxpayer funded State Funeral, and the media will cover it ad nauseum."

True, but the SOB will be dead, Hope he passed it on to his fellow Mass Dems.