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UPDATED: Sen. Edward Kennedy, 77, dies after cancer battle 
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Sen. Ted Kennedy made many visits to the Mahoning Valley. Here are some Vindicator files images of his visits.
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (AP) — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in an enduring political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.
In nearly 50 years in the Senate, Kennedy, a liberal Democrat, served alongside 10 presidents - his brother John Fitzgerald Kennedy among them - compiling an impressive list of legislative achievements on health care, civil rights, education, immigration and more.
In a brief statement to reporters at his rented vacation home on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., President Barack Obama eulogized Kennedy as one of the "most accomplished Americans" in history - and a man whose work in Congress helped give millions new opportunities.
"Including myself," added the nation's first black president.
Kennedy's only run for the White House ended in defeat in 1980, when President Jimmy Carter turned back his challenge for the party's nomination. More than a quarter-century later, Kennedy handed then-Sen. Barack Obama an endorsement at a critical point in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, explicitly likening the young contender to President Kennedy.
To the American public, Kennedy was best known as the last surviving son of America's most glamorous political family, father figure and, memorably, eulogist of an Irish-American clan plagued again and again by tragedy. But his career was forever marred by an accident at Chappaquiddick in 1969, when a car he was driving plunged off a bridge, killing a young woman.
Kennedy's death triggered an outpouring of superlatives from Democrats and Republicans as well as foreign leaders.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, the conservative Republican from Utah who was alternately a political partner and opponent of the unapologetic liberal for three decades, said "Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States Senator whose influence cannot be overstated." He listed of nearly a dozen bipartisan bills they worked on jointly, including a federally funded program for victims of HIV/AIDS, health insurance for lower-income children and tax breaks to encourage the development of medicine for rare diseases.
Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday.
"We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," it said. "We thank everyone who gave him care and support over this last year, and everyone who stood with him for so many years in his tireless march for progress toward justice, fairness and opportunity for all."
A few hours later, two vans left the famed Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port in pre-dawn darkness. Both bore hearse license plates - with the word "hearse" blacked out.
Several hundred miles away, flags few at half-staff at the U.S. Capitol, and Obama ordered the same at the White House and all federal buildings.
There was no immediate word on funeral arrangements. Two of Kennedy's brothers, John and Robert, are buried at Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac River from Washington.
In his later years, Kennedy cut a barrel-chested figure, with a swath of white hair, a booming voice and a thick, widely imitated Boston accent. He coupled fist-pumping floor speeches with his well-honed Irish charm and formidable negotiating skills. He was both a passionate liberal and a clear-eyed pragmatist, willing to reach across the aisle.
He was first elected to the Senate in 1962, taking the seat that his brother John had occupied before winning the White House, and served longer than all but two senators in history.
His own hopes of reaching the White House were damaged - perhaps doomed - in 1969 by the scandal that came to be known as Chappaquiddick. He sought the White House more than a decade later, lost the Democratic nomination to President Jimmy Carter, and bowed out with a stirring valedictory that echoed across the decades: "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die."
Kennedy was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in May 2008 and underwent surgery and a grueling regimen of radiation and chemotherapy.
He made a surprise return to the Capitol last summer to cast the decisive vote for the Democrats on Medicare. He made sure he was there again last January to see his former Senate colleague Barack Obama sworn in as the nation's first black president, but suffered a seizure at a celebratory luncheon afterward.
He also made a surprise and forceful appearance at last summer's Democratic National Convention, where he spoke of his own illness and said health care was the cause of his life. His death occurred precisely one year later, almost to the hour.
He was away from the Senate for much of this year, leaving Republicans and Democrats to speculate about the impact what his absence meant for the fate of Obama's health care proposals.
Under state law, Kennedy's successor will be chosen by special election. In his last known public act, the senator urged Massachusetts state legislators to give Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick the power to name an interim replacement. But that appears unlikely, leaving Democrats in Washington with one less vote for at least the next several months as they struggle to pass Obama's health care legislation.
His death came less than two weeks after that of his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver on Aug. 11. Kennedy was not present for the funeral, an indication of the precariousness of his own health. Of nine children born to Joseph and Rose Kennedy, only one - Jean Kennedy Smith, survives.
In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Kennedy's son Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., said his father had defied the predictions of doctors by surviving more than a year with his fight against brain cancer.
The younger Kennedy said that gave family members a surprise blessing, as they were able to spend more time with the senator and to tell him how much he had meant to their lives.
Kennedy arrived at his place in the Senate after a string of family tragedies. He was the only one of the four Kennedy brothers to die of natural causes.
Kennedy's eldest brother, Joseph, was killed in a plane crash in World War II. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was gunned down in Los Angeles as he campaigned for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination.
Years later, in 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr. was killed in a plane crash at age 38. His wife died with him.
It fell to Ted Kennedy to deliver the eulogies, to comfort his brothers' widows, to mentor fatherless nieces and nephews. It was Ted Kennedy who walked JFK's daughter, Caroline, down the aisle at her wedding.
Tragedy had a way of bringing out his eloquence.
Kennedy sketched a dream of a better future as he laid to rest his brother Robert in 1968: "My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it."
After John Jr.'s death, the senator said: "We dared to think, in that other Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But like his father, he had every gift but length of years."
His own legacy was blighted on the night of July 18, 1969, when Kennedy drove his car off a bridge and into a pond on Chappaquiddick Island, on Martha's Vineyard. Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old worker with RFK's campaign, was found dead in the submerged car's back seat 10 hours later.
Kennedy, then 37, pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and received a two-month suspended sentence and a year's probation. A judge eventually determined there was "probable cause to believe that Kennedy operated his motor vehicle negligently ... and that such operation appears to have contributed to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne."
At the height of the scandal, Kennedy went on national television to explain himself in an extraordinary 13-minute address in which he denied driving drunk and rejected rumors of "immoral conduct" with Ms. Kopechne. He said he was haunted by "irrational" thoughts immediately after the accident, and wondered "whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys." He said his failure to report the accident right away was "indefensible."
After Chappaquiddick especially, Kennedy gained a reputation as a heavy drinker and a womanizer, a tragically flawed figure haunted by the fear that he did not quite measure up to his brothers. As his weight ballooned, he was lampooned by comics and cartoonists in the 1980s and '90s as the very embodiment of government waste, bloat and decadence.
In 1991, Kennedy roused his nephew William Kennedy Smith and his son Patrick from bed to go out for drinks while staying at the family's Palm Beach, Fla., estate. Later that night, a woman Smith met at a bar accused him of raping her at the home.
Smith was acquitted, but the senator's carousing - and testimony about him wandering about the house in his shirttails and no pants - further damaged his reputation.
Kennedy offered a mea culpa in a speech at Harvard that October, recognizing "my own shortcomings, the faults in the conduct of my private life."
Politically, his concession speech at the Democratic convention in 1980 turned out to be a defining moment. At 48, he seemed liberated from the towering expectations and high hopes invested in him after the death of his brothers, and he plunged into his work in the Senate. In his later years, after he had divorced and remarried, he came to be regarded as a statesman on Capitol Hill, with a growing reputation as an effective, hard-working lawmaker.
His legislative achievements included bills to provide health insurance for children of the working poor, the landmark 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, Meals on Wheels for the elderly, abortion clinic access, family leave, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
He was also a key negotiator on legislation creating a Medicare prescription drug benefit for senior citizens, was a driving force for peace in Ireland and a persistent critic of the war in Iraq.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada issued a statement that said: "Ted Kennedy's dream was the one for which the Founding Fathers fought and for which his brothers sought to realize. The liberal lion's mighty roar may now fall silent, but his dream shall never die."
Former first Lady Nancy Reagan said that her husband and Kennedy "could always find common ground, and they had great respect for one another."
"Even facing illness and death he never stopped fighting for the causes which were his life's work. I am proud to have counted him as a friend and proud that the United Kingdom recognized his service earlier this year with the award of an honorary knighthood." - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
Whatever his national standing, Kennedy was unbeatable in Massachusetts. He won his first election in 1962, filling out the unexpired portion of his brother's term. He won an eighth term in 2006. Kennedy served close to 47 years, longer than all but two senators in history: Robert Byrd of West Virginia (50 years and counting) and the late Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who died after a tenure of nearly 47 1/2 years.
Born in 1932, the youngest of Joseph and Rose Kennedy's nine children, Edward Moore Kennedy was part of a family bristling with political ambition, beginning with maternal grandfather John F. "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a congressman and mayor of Boston.
Round-cheeked Teddy was thrown out of Harvard in 1951 for cheating, after arranging for a classmate to take a freshman Spanish exam for him. He eventually returned, earning his degree in 1956.
He went on to the University of Virginia Law School, and in 1962, while his brother John was president, announced plans to run for the Senate seat JFK had vacated in 1960. A family friend had held the seat in the interim because Kennedy was not yet 30, the minimum age for a senator.
Kennedy was immediately involved in a bruising primary campaign against state Attorney General Edward J. McCormack, a nephew of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack.
"If your name was simply Edward Moore, your candidacy would be a joke," chided McCormack.
Kennedy won the primary by 300,000 votes and went on to overwhelmingly defeat Republican George Cabot Lodge, son of the late Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, in the general election.
Devastated by his brothers' assassinations and injured in a 1964 plane crash that left him with back pain that would plague him for decades, Kennedy temporarily withdrew from public life in 1968. But he re-emerged in 1969 to be elected majority whip of the Senate.
Then came Chappaquiddick.
Kennedy still handily won re-election in 1970, but he lost his leadership job. He remained outspoken in his opposition to the Vietnam War and support of social programs but ruled out a 1976 presidential bid.
In the summer of 1978, a Gallup Poll showed that Democrats preferred Kennedy over President Carter 54 percent to 32 percent. A year later, Kennedy decided to run for the White House with a campaign that accused Carter of turning his back on the Democratic agenda.
The difficult task of dislodging a sitting president was compounded by Kennedy's fumbling answer to a question posed by CBS' Roger Mudd: Why do you want to be president?
"Well, it's um, you know you have to come to grips with the different issues that, ah, we're facing," Kennedy said. "I mean, we can, we have to deal with each of the various questions of the economy, whether it's in the area of energy ..."
Long afterward, he said, "Well, I learned to lose, and for a Kennedy that's hard." Kennedy married Virginia Joan Bennett, known as Joan, in 1958. They divorced in 1982. In 1992, he married Washington lawyer Victoria Reggie. His survivors include a daughter, Kara Kennedy Allen; two sons, Edward Jr. and Patrick, a congressman from Rhode Island; and two stepchildren, Caroline and Curran Raclin.
Edward Jr. lost a leg to bone cancer in 1973 at age 12. Kara had a cancerous tumor removed from her lung in 2003. In 1988, Patrick had a noncancerous tumor pressing on his spine removed. He has also struggled with depression and addiction and announced in June that he was re-entering rehab.
Kennedy's memoir, "True Compass," is set to be published in the fall.
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Stand by for another month or two of being bombarded with 24/7 coverage of anything and everything Kennedy.
But at least we'll be done with Michael Jackson.
Yeah all they are going to talk about now is all of his "accomplishments"... I think they should have a 20/20 special all day about Mary Jo Kopechne. If you want to talk about a battle for your life, she's the story.
This thread will probably be a fun one to watch!
Search4answers is right. Of course in the Peoples' Republic of the Mahoning Valley, none of that matters. They will worship all communist anti-Americans with vigor. After Ted Kennedy fought for their right to tax the rich, small businesses and them for free health care. Illegal immigration, thank Ted Kennedy for the 1965 Immigration bill. Cutting funding to the South Vietnamese while Red China supported North Vietnam and causing the South, Laos and Cambodia to fell into the hands of communist murderers (2M) Cambodians murdered. Who lived a super rich capitalistic lifestyle while condoning socialism for all the socialist serfs and union fools who idolized him, Ted Kennedy. Who dumped large amounts of oil contaminated diesel fuel from his energy wasting and polluting yaught where his liberal subjects were swimming while opposing offshore oil drilling for Americans and windmills because it spoiled his view from the Kennedy Compound, Ted kennedy. Who let a woman who worked for his campaign drown but saved his own skin and didn't report the "accident" for 13 hours and received a slap on the wrist, Ted Kennedy.
pro-it is spelled "yacht." This is the second time I've seen you misspell it. You should also admit that your disdain for the man stems from his work on the Civil Rights Act and the fact that given your prior posts you are obviously a racist. Your posts read like ransom notes and lead one to believe that you are both unstable and ignorant.
I'm for the repeal of the 26th amendment except for those in military service, one thing Ted Kennedy did that many agree on, however I don't. Today our government thinks an 18 year old is mature enough to vote and not mature enough to drink. I don't believe most people under 21 understand the responsibility voting requires when it comes to being informed.
I knew I mispelled yacht. You've mispelled several words in the past but I ignored it. Was is eubonics? You to be civilized to have civil rights. I'm not ignorant, the admirers of Ted Kennedy are the ignorant. And Teddy didn't behave in a civilized manner. Thank you for calling me a racist; I consider it a compliment if you said it. Yes, the Kennedy clan was very liberal. Look how many non whites who they permitted to marry into thier white trash family.
I found this on a forum out there in Internet Land:
"Let's get a couple things clear & not twist the facts to change the real history about Teddy Kennedy.
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?"
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from the last post:
"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"?
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from the last post:
"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."
The "editorial comments" in the above posting are not mine. This piece did stir up a few things in my memory that I'd forgotten, such as Kennedy returning to the party, passing among other things a fire station along the way, after the Mary Jo Kopechne incident..
NoBS,
Thank you.
He also championed legislation to give large tax breaks to mid sized oil companies. The Kennedy's own a ton of oil rights.
NoBS, true, A drunken, doper, communist like Kennedy mercilessly grilled Bork, Thomas, and Aeillo (don't know the exact spelling) even making his wife cry. He also tore into Sen. Tower a great American when he was was in the running for Sec. of Defense because he drank and was unfaithful to his wife. Imagine a drunken, doped up, adulteress lady murdeing (he saved his own skin) anti-American degenerate tearing into real Americans.
Refreshing to see that there are those who are not afraid to speak the truth no matter what!!!! Death should not erase the sins of your life. It is what it is!! thats why you have to be careful how you live in life cause you will be accountable in death. Why would you erect a statue or pay tribute to a corrupt,womanizing, and murdering boozer who by the way helped greatly create the economic disaster we have today. Shame all those medical expenses were incurred to keep a terminal patient alive for a couple of more months. Hope our senior citizens get the same consideration if obamacare gets in. R.I.P Mary Jo.....justice was served.
There should be a memorial service tonight for Mary Jo... lol if there's one thing I hope the Republicans can stoop low enough to do it's that.
Too bad he was able to force the 1965 Immigration Act and the bill to stop funding our allies in South East Asia because millions of innocent civilians were murdered; of course, so was Mary Jo murdered and coved up and drunken Teddy got a slap on his wrist. If Ted would have died before all his misdeeds, America would be much better off now.
How the heck is he allowed to be buried at Arlington?
Yes, It's a disgrace that a disgraceful socialist slug will be buried among our great heros who sacrificed so much for America! It's a dishonor to all the real Americans buried there. A drunken bum who accomplished nothing good for America and everything bad. It would be more appropriate if Ted Kennedy were buried in Cuba or Venezuela among other anti liberty cut throats. A loser who allowed a woman to drown, or murdered, to save his own skin. His fat carcass will also lay in state in another national landmark, I don't know where. That's a Kennedy, always laying somebody.
He served in the government. His brothers are also buried there.
He served in the goverment? Which one, certainly not ours or American Citizens. His brother were over sexed dopers who wanted to socialize America. Joe DiMaggio had it right. They (John and Bobby Kennedy) got what they deserved. If you don't believe Marilyn Monroe died of natural causes of commited suicide, you have to be a loyal Democrat.
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IN MEMORY OF MARY JO KOPECHNE
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFK...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFK...
Kopechne and Edward Kennedy left the party at 11.15pm. Kennedy had offered to take Kopechne back to her hotel. He later explained what happened: "I was unfamiliar with the road and turned onto Dyke Road instead of bearing left on Main Street. After proceeding for approximately a half mile on Dyke Road I descended a hill and came upon a narrow bridge. The car went off the side of the bridge.... The car turned over and sank into the water and landed with the roof resting on the bottom. I attempted to open the door and window of the car but have no recollection of how I got out of the car. I came to the surface and then repeatedly dove down to the car in an attempt to see if the passenger was still in the car. I was unsuccessful in the attempt."
Instead of reporting the accident Edward Kennedy returned to the party. According to a statement issued by Kennedy on 25th July, 1969: "instead of looking directly for a telephone number after lying exhausted in the grass for an undetermined time, walked back to the cottage where the party was being held and requested the help of two friends, my cousin Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham, and directed them to return immediately to the scene with me - this was some time after midnight - in order to undertake a new effort to dive."
When this effort to rescue Kopechne ended in failure, Kennedy decided to return to his hotel. As the ferry had shut down for the night Kennedy, swam back to Edgartown. It was not until the following morning that Kennedy reported the accident to the police. By this time the police had found Mary Jo Kopechne's body in Kennedy's car.
He also co-wrote No Child Left Behind.
He left Mary Jo behind.
Neither one turned out well.
The simple words Mary Jo will eventually out shine all the hoopla made over his death and life.
This country handed him a pass on what ever he did for having 2 slain brothers.
Kennedy's love them or hate them one thing is for sure America will never have a family like that and pray to God we don't.
That's right folks. Bring on the Bush dynasty!
Bushes and Kennedys are both loser dynasties. But the Kennedys are so much worse. Ask Mary Jo's family. Dead Ted was a drunk, doper, traitor, woman murder and abuser, liar and a communist. All Kennedys are trash.
I don't know about that. I wonder what your family has accomplished. Do you have a brother that was President? a senator? an attorney general? Should I keep going?
If his last name wasn't "Kennedy" he would've been in and out of prison instead of continually being elected by silly Massachusetts voters who are enamored with his surname. I refuse to rewrite history just because an old man died, especially one who let a young woman die while he called his attorney to cover his sorry behind. Good riddance.
Let me know when you make it to Congress Jake. I'd like to see the kind of legislation you get passed.
I don't have any relatives who were presidents or senators. Of course no one in my family was a pro-Hitler Mafia bootlegger who bribed his sons' way into politics. Not to mention, having his own daughter lobotomized! And the tradition lives. All socialists are lobotomized. What would have happened if Reagan or another conservative allowed one of his supporters to drown (at the very least) while he swam to safety and didn't report it to the police for 13 hours. Then to top it off, his family fought to prohibit her body from being exhumed.
If Dead Ted had nothing to hide, he wouldn't have blocked Mary Jo being exhumed for an atopsy. I'm not sure, was there an atopsy?
Hate hate hate! Pro Am--maybe if you kept your mouth shut while sitting in that sack of puss that is your life your brain would have a chance to normalize.
I guess it's a shame then UnAmerican. You seem to have so much to offer for public service.
I wonder what people will say about you when you die. Where will you want your motorcade to go?
WOW!!!!! You folks are nasty... Why can't we all just get along???
Hate = the Ted Kennedy national health insurance bill. Hate = denying the truth about Ted; the truth I brought to light. Socialism feeds upon lies and death. Thank you losers for attacking the truth and proving my point. Ted didn't offer public service to America, his work was public dis-service. He did however have an impressive motorcade of mice following their pied piper. Fortunetly for them they didn't follow him off a bridge. Oh, I'm sorry, Mary Jo didn't matter to you socialists. She didn't matter to the kennedy family who bribed everyone they could to protect ted from the justice he deserved. Speaking of justice, Joe Di Maggio, Marilyn Monroe's ex-husband said JFK and RFK got what they deserved.
Great string of unconnected facts there. Nice dodge. You seem to simply come back to the same points over and over again. You must be an interesting conversationalist.
Plenty of people disagree with your armchair assessment of the good senator. The people of Massachusetts disagreed enough to re-elect him over and over, despite his shortcomings.
They're not unconnected facts; they ARE the facts. You keep avoiding truth over and over again. Dead Ted was re-elected over and over again because they're socialist useful idiots. Fact aren't important to them either. It must be torture being a socialist, attempting to hiding the bright light of truth under a bushel. Mary Jo was a socialist who volunteered to work for Dead Ted and look what he did to his loyal volunteer; imagine what he's do to you.
I would love to get along xytown but i believe that in these times -when the least moderate and most mouthy of the uneducated among us are given forums from which to speak- it is too dangerous to let it go unanswered.
Saddad, the Unabomber was very educated. You remember, the communist who fertilized his garden with his own do do? Oh yes, he murder and maimed numerous people with his primitive, homemade bombs. The truth hurts, doesn't it? Why are you leftos so cowardly? You live in a fantasy world and believe you own lies. I'm the least moderate? What about the Bamster's Czar who wants to force abortions on pregnant for society's sake? He's a moderate? Cap and Trade, another moderate bill. Eric Holder wanting to prosecute the CIA for blowing second hand smoke into a turban heads face; the mastermind of 911. Did you forget about the 3000+ people he murdered? Islamic beheadings, very moderate. Can you make one truthful statement? You haven't so far, Marxist. I want to make my own health care decisions. It's called the Ohio Healthcare Act.