Ted Kennedy Dead at 77

[UFO]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/...t.ted.kennedy/

[ronaldj]

The old lions are passing. And so shall we.

[Fidel]

Great American, Great Senator, lets hope this puts health care over the top.

[Meddle]

Another dead politician.

No loss.

[gnome]

He has crossed the Jordan, using the Chappaquiddick bridge. Tell Mary Jo I say, "Hi".

[Lorax]

The most relevant sitting senator of the last 50 years.

A true servant of the people.

2500 bills presented from his office alone.

If Obama wants to make Kennedy's fight for universal health care carry on, he should name this coming legislation after Senator Kennedy, and publicly announce he will not sign any bill that does not include a public option.

No better way to honor the decades of work on this subject by the 20th century's most effective, most beloved senator.

[Sstashmoo]

Quote: "A true servant of the people."

A proven murderer that has walked Scot free for 50 years..

[Lorax]

SStashmoo, a proven liar, still able to post hatefully due to Democratic ideals of freedom of speech.

[ejames01]

R.I.P. Edward.

Too bad Steelers & CraigD are missing out on trolling this thread.

[gnome]

As are all the Britsh soldiers and ciizens who were killed by the Kennedy lead fund-raising for the IRA.

meh

[Sstashmoo]

Quote: "SStashmoo, a proven liar,"

No Name calling on here MA'am

[Lorax]

Quote: "SStashmoo, a proven liar,"

No Name calling on here MA'am

Just a statement of fact, Sis.

[14509glenfield]

In "passing", whom do you miss more a year down the road..... Politicians, celebrities, sport figures or someone a whole lot closer to you?

[Sstashmoo]

Quote: "Just a statement of fact, Sis."

Show once where I lied about anything Lorax. I would need to have lied for you to call me a "liar".

[Lorax]

Quote: "Just a statement of fact, Sis."

Show once where I lied about anything Lorax. I would need to have lied for you to call me a "liar".

Look, Sistashmoo, just look what you posted as fact and consider it questionable.

Whether willful or not, that's something only you can know.

[oladub]

SStashmoo, a proven liar, still able to post hatefully due to Democratic ideals of freedom of speech.

Various speech regulations as promoted by Democrats are an attack on the 1st Amendment.

Very few Senators equal Senator Kennedy's record at running our economy into the drain. They ought to erect a statue for this guy on Wall Street. Ted Kennedy voted for expanded immigration - legal and otherwise, for OPIC - which gives loans to US corporations moving production abroad, NAFTA, for the Wall Street bankers' bailout, and for the Fed/Fannie/Freddie creation of a huge unsustainable economic bubble that went 'poof'. He may have not improved the labor market for working Americans but , bless him, his heart was always in the right place.

Ted Kennedy even managed to undermine the Carter presidency with criticisms and fifth column actions. Perhaps Teddy was still disgruntled that the Kopechne misfortune had derailed his rightful role as would be president. This was years after he was kicked out of Harvard, and readmitted, for cheating. By the time his nephew committed a rape in his Florida compound, Teddy had his act down and adroitly performed a middle of the night evacuation before the press showed up.

Did I mention his heart was always in the right place? He will be missed on Wall Street. Maybe with the Senator's passing, the wind power project can finally go ahead off of his Cape Cod compound.

[Lorax]

Yeah, and the Rethuglican smear machine is allowed to spread hate and spew bile, such as the "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth", "Freedomworks", the RNC, "The Family" "Christian Coalition" "Focus on the Family" and dozens more right wing stink tanks.

You better thank you lucky stars for freedom of speech with that track record.

[oladub]

Lorax, You attempt to change the subject and express what might be considered a veiled threat. Why not instead just laud your fallen hero for his efforts to to promote international trade and otherwise promote the fortunes of Wall Street? Must I remind your that according to the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson stated that such freedoms are endowed by the Creator? They are not to be given and taken with silly and unconstitutional speech laws as you and some of your heros would like to believe.

[Sstashmoo]

Quote: "freedoms are endowed by the Creator"

I've told Lorax all that before, she's too busy talking about "Rethuglicans" and the "Tush Reich" and other such nonsense. Anyone who would subvert the Constitution, as it is misinterpreted as of late, is treasonous.

[Lorax]

And your attempt at changing the Constitution is laughable.

The endowments by the creator are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But of course, that's getting a little too technical for most on the right.

And your assumption that "creator" refers to some bearded white male sitting on a cloud in the sky named "God" is also laughable. Perhaps that "creator" is named Chuck, or could be construed as a pagan goddess like Mother Nature.

It is purposely ambiguous. What other interpretations of the Constitution would you like to thrill us with today?

[Meddle]

The most relevant sitting senator of the last 50 years.

A true servant of the people.

the 20th century's most effective, most beloved senator.

What have you been smoking?


Ole Teddy is a perfect argument FOR term limits. Dude should have been gone long ago.

[Lorax]

What have you been smoking?


Ole Teddy is a perfect argument FOR term limits. Dude should have been gone long ago.

That's the beauty of Democracy- it isn't up to you, but the voters of Massachusetts.

[ejames01]

Ted Kennedy, 1932-2009: The Brother Who Mattered Most
By Richard Lacayo Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009

There was a time 40 years ago, right after the assassination of his brother Robert, when it looked like Edward Kennedy would become President someday by right of succession. The Kennedy curse, the one that had seen all three of his brothers cut down in their prime, had created for him a sort of Kennedy prerogative, or at least the illusion of one, an inevitable claim on the White House. For years he seemed like a man simply waiting for the right moment to take what everybody knew was coming his way.

Everybody was wrong. Ted Kennedy would never reach the White House. His weaknesses — and the long shadow of Chappaquiddick — were an obstacle that even his strengths couldn't overcome. But his failure to get to the presidency opened the way to the true fulfillment of his gifts, which was to become one of the greatest legislators in American history. When their White House years are over, most Presidents set off on the long aftermath of themselves. They give lectures, write books, play golf and make money. Jimmy Carter even won a Nobel Prize. But every one of them would tell you that elder-statesmanship is no substitute for real power.

Because Kennedy never made it to the finish line, he never had to endure a post-presidential twilight. Instead, by the time of his death on Aug. 25 in Hyannis Port at the age of 77, he had 46 working years in Congress, time enough to leave his imprint on everything from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009, a law that expands support for national community-service programs. Over the years, Kennedy was a force behind the Freedom of Information Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. He helped Soviet dissidents and fought apartheid. Above all, he conducted a four-decade crusade for universal health coverage, a poignant one toward the end as the country watched a struggle with a brain tumor. But along the way, he vastly expanded the network of neighborhood clinics, virtually invented the COBRA system for portable insurance and helped create the laws that provide Medicare prescriptions and family leave.

And for most of that time, he went forward against great odds, the voice of progressivism in a conservative age. When people were getting tired of hearing about racism or the poor or the decay of American cities, he kept talking. When liberalism was flickering, there was Kennedy, holding the torch, insisting that "we can light those beacon fires again." In the last year of his life, with the Inauguration of Barack Obama, he had the satisfaction of seeing a big part of that dream fulfilled. In early 2008, when Obama had just begun to capture the public imagination, Kennedy bucked the party establishment. Just before Super Tuesday, the venerable Senator from Massachusetts enthusiastically endorsed the young Senator from Illinois, helping propel Obama to the Democratic nomination and ultimately the White House.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/ar...nation-related

[Papasito]

Not the cleanest politician, I certainly didn't agree with many of his policies, I wish he was more like his brother, John, who respected individual freedom and believed in low taxes so business would boom and generate jobs. Nonetheless, Ted did fight for what he believed in, right or wrong, and did it to his last days.

May he R.I.P.

[Lorax]

As are all the Britsh soldiers and ciizens who were killed by the Kennedy lead fund-raising for the IRA.

meh

According to whom?

Kennedy helped broker the deal for peace. Don't regurgitate fascist talking points, please.