Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 - August 25, 2009)
Mary Jo Kopechne (July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969)
So while Ted Kennedy lived 77 and 1/2 years, Mary Jo Kopechne died eight days short of her 29th birthday, when he drove her off the Chappaquiddick Bridge. Kennedy got off with the charge of leaving the scene of an accident. He was given a two-month suspended sentence and paid a small fine.
While Massachusetts voters quickly forgave Kennedy, the American people never did. He toyed with the idea of being President a few times, but never received his party's endorsement. Also, he was never offered the chance to run as Vice-President on his party's ticket.
When JFK was elected President in 1960, he wished for little brother Ted to fill his vacated Senate seat. Ted was not yet 30 years of age and constitutionally ineligible, so a college roommate of JFK was appointed as a placeholder. In 1962, when Kennedy turned 30 years of age, a special election was held allowing him to become Senator.
In 2004, when Kennedy thought fellow Massachusetts Senator John Kerry would be the next President of the United States, Kennedy pushed for a change in state law. With Republican Mitt Romney as the Governor of Massachusetts, Kennedy was successful in changing the law so that a Senate vacancy would be filled by special election and not by gubernatorial appointment.
In the past year, knowing that he wouldn't fill out his current term, Kennedy has attempted to undo the law, so that the current Democratic Governor will be allowed to appoint his successor. In a nutshell, that illustrates the duplicity of Ted Kennedy. The same guy who was expelled from Harvard for having another student take a test for him.
Kennedy has been promoting socialized medicine since the Nixon administration, trying to satisfy the wishes of big labor. With ObamaCare losing support everyday, those trumpeting the plan likely see Kennedy's death as a most timely one. In the coming weeks, look for calls to pass ObamaCare in the name of Ted Kennedy. We can only hope that these calls meet the same fate as Kopechne did 40 years ago.
Update: Early Wednesday, CBS aired comments on Kennedy's deaths from author Douglass Brinkley. Brinkley suggested the need for health care to pass in honor of Kennedy's and his legacy. Brinkley factoid: Early in 2004, Brinkley released Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War, a book about John Kerry's war experience and beyond, based on interviews with Kerry. It was no coincidence that Kerry was running for President at the time, and the book presented Kerry's negative views of the Viet Nam War as a parallel to the anti-Iraq war position he was taking as a Presidential candidate. In Tour of Duty, Kerry is highly critical of several officers he served with. Brinkley failed to interview almost of of the men prior to publication. Brinkley's book is considered to be a definite factor in motivating fellow veterans to organize as Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and campaign against Kerry in 2004.
All I can say is that Ted Kennedy's soul needs a huge amount of prayers. He was a backwards Catholic and did awful things as far as I'm concerned. We need to stop Democrats from using his death to coerce people to support Obamacare and vote for it.
ReplyDeleteI say good riddance to him. He was a murderer and did more to ruin the USA with immigration policies and all sorts of freebees for the lazy scum. If not for him, America would have been better, and not the cesspool it is now. It also makes me sick the non stop homages to him, worse than MJ, and they are going to ram healthcare even more, saying it's for him. It will be at least a month before the MSM stops glorifying him. I haven't even watched the news tonight, it's too annoying.
ReplyDeleteAnother dirt bag going to hell...ho hum, there are not enuf prayers to save his soul. Why is it the awful horrid people live long lives and the good people die young?? I should know, My mom died when she was 35, I was 5, what chance did she have? She was a saint. I'm sick of evil people living long, prosperous lives. Mary Jo will be waiting for him, to send him to door # 2. God rest HER soul. And all GOOD dear departed.
Hopefully, before Kennedy heads south for eternity, God will arange for a meetng between Ted and Mary Jo.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to track all of the liberals who use Ted's demise as a way to push ObamaCare. I may do a post on that.
In Minnesota, we lost Senator Paul Wellstone to a plane crash in 2002, eleven days before the elections. His posse of liberals tried to use his memorial service as a rally to elect Walter Mondale, his replacement. It didn't work - people saw it for the cheap political stunt that it was.
The moonbats are already naming the new plan for socialized medicine after him - pretty sick stuff. No pun intended.
ReplyDeleteAnd they honored the bastard's request to be buried in Arlington. There must be a special section for socialists.
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