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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 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 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 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 "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

I heartily agree with you on this one.. He is a disgrace to the country and the State Of MAssachusetts, But that state has a penchant for electing bad politicians <,Kennedy, Frank, the great governor of theirs,,, His kid is currently a Senator in RI and he;s a freaking drunk too.. Just goes to show how far money and bullshit can take someone,, When he is gone I seriously don't think he'll be missed by many,

i won't miss him thats for sure

Thanks, Brian. The Kennedy's have always led a privileged life. I have stood on the bridge at Chappaquiddick and although it has no guardrails and is unlit you would have to be dead drunk and driving way too fast to flip off into the water. It was sobering to stand there and gaze into the water where he left that woman to die while he saved his own skin. I do have some respect for John F. He hated the Federal Reserve and instituted a silver certificate actually backed by silver held by the government. He was later, as we all know, assassinated before his executive order was fully implemented. Uncle Teddy is a liberal ass through and through and I do hope an honest Republican takes his seat after he passes. IMO its fitting that he has brain cancer. I understand that is a horrible way to go and he will indeed lose his mind before the end. I do hate to speak poorly of the dying but he's responsible for more crap than I care to think about. Good riddance.

It may be a long time before MAssachussetts elects a Republican, In fact most of New England, Where the War for Independence started is so figgin liberal it stinks ! My mom and brother live in RI and I can; t stand the place ..Used to be half decent but now it;s just the land of high taxes, statge control and freebies for imports ,,I think the founders spin in their graves seeing what became of their hard won country, One can only hope the folks in New England wake up but I wouldn;t count on it anytime soon,,

I bet the folks at Jack Daniels will miss him

That entire family is an abomination. They have accounted for more dead young women than any family in American history. Fat Teddy killed Mary Jo, his idiot brother had Marilyn Monroe snuffed, that jerk-off John-John murdered 2 by trying to fly an airplane in conditions for which he was not qualified, William Kennedy Smith is a serial rapist, and Michael Skakel, a cousin, beat a girl to death with a golf club in his youth.
Joe was on par with America's most notorious criminals, but most Americans don't know it. The whole goddamned family owes it's prominence to prostitution, booze and dope, but just like the other warts on them, nobody seems to care.

Ted will be obama's martyr and the healthcare bill that will be passed and signed into law will be named for him. It's already been decided.

GS78 wrote:Ted will be obama's martyr and the healthcare bill that will be passed and signed into law will be named for him. It's already been decided.

Yup, indeed it has. And look at the current state of "free" health care in Mass. Pitiful.

Ted is one of the many poster children for term limits on elected and appointed federal office! Mandatory retirement for politicians by 67 and no more than 30 years total service and nor more than 12 in any single office!

Pro is to Con as Progress is to Congress
CW

Time to resurrect this thread. Ted Kennedy passed today at age 77. He succumbed to brain cancer.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TedKenne ... id=6692022

We must all respect the office if not the man

I shall only post that I wish my condolencesto his family, Like him or not hewas still a manthat deserves his respect. And no I was not a fan/supporter, but I am a Christian.

Correct.. He was a man , He's dead now, RIP ,,Let's move on!!

Death is always a terrible thing. I am not one to speak ill of the dead, but I will not lament the end of the Kennedy dynasty.

PatP wrote:Death is always a terrible thing. I am not one to speak ill of the dead, but I will not lament the end of the Kennedy dynasty.

Well said. Ditto.