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Soapweed

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This came in Soapweed's e-mail, and it pertains to the question at hand.

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The Last of the Kennedy Dynasty by Kevin Thompson

I got this in a recent e-mail. I cleaned it up just a little bit… Since whenever anyone hears I am from Massachusettsthey are quick to ask me about Ted Kennedy, I thought this post would be appropraite (after I cleaned it up).

As soon as cancer was found, I noticed the immediate attempt at canonization of old Teddy by the main stream 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 mista kenly 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 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, after passing several houses and a fire station. Then two friends 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 and 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 were the standard bearer for the nation in matters of right.

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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hypocritexposer said:
Simple question Reader, in the sake of having a civil discussion.

Do you think illegal aliens should be deported?


A better question should be "If illegals that have been ordered DEPORTED by a judge should they have to leave?
 

alice

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Mahoney-Pursley Ranch said:
reader (the Second) said:
Sorry, I need background and details. No games tonight. You are incapable of a single post without an agenda and you only have one agenda :wink:



MY my are we PMS'ing ? :lol:

I had been giving you the benefit of the doubt...that just ended.

Alice
 

alice

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reader (the Second) said:
That was strike number two for him with me Alice.

I don't know a single enlightened gentleman who says such foolish things personally.

I could start making snide innuendos about testosterone and that might actually be closer to reality :wink:

Why bother...after that comment. That pretty well says it all. I'm embarrassed...he's from Texas. And, true Texas mothers raise their sons better than that.

Alice
 

alice

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Mahoney-Pursley Ranch said:
reader (the Second) said:
Sorry, I need background and details. No games tonight. You are incapable of a single post without an agenda and you only have one agenda :wink:[/quote




I apologize for my behaviour.

Thanks...you're good folks...

Alice
 

backhoeboogie

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Soapweed said:
9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every expansion of and increase in immigration, up to and including the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. [/b] Not to mention the Pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court Nominees, as if he were the standard bearer for the nation in matters of right.

Everyone screamed at Bush about amnesty.

Take it easy on Kennedy, he is good for something; Bill Clinton doesn't look quite so bad when you compare him to Kennedy.
 
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