Kudos and major h/t to “joedirt” over at the Oval.
This is a perfect example how liberals advance through life.
Gio-
Last of The Kennedy Dynasty
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 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 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. What a pompous moron.
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”. And you know, the Senate and house are loaded with many other examples like this but they are kept in office!? And they are from BOTH parties.
Let’s not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero — how quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is…and you just know it’s all BUSH’S fault!
It makes me gag how this POS is being celebrated, just as the MSM are in an orgasmic paroxysm over Walter OneWorldGovt Cronkite.
I pray that the Obama Deathcare bill sink, so that it won’t become Ted Kennedy’s last screw-you “gift” to America.
Most politicians are indoctrinated with tunnel vision, they only see campaign contributions and inventing a long drawn out career. They seem to be completely isolated from the American people, whether US workers, senior citizens or homeless veterans are ignored. To me catering to the 20 plus illegal immigrants seem to be more important to the status quo in Washington, than following the oath of allegiance to our nation. Right now the US population is up in arms, because the Democrats have authored a bill to give free government health care, to foreign nationals and their families. Can anybody tell me why American families are forced by law, to pay for people of other countries? We should have health care, but it should be the individual choice?
You either paid your premiums, co-pays and deductibles, to the giant insurance corporations and hoped they didn’t kill of their service, if they suddenly decided you were a risk. Or you tried a new avenue available to many Europeans, that of a government health insurance plan? YOU! Should choose? What’s best for your family? Not some politician who is a stockholder in one of those wealthy insurance giants? Not only have citizens and legal residents been the prey of private medical care providers for decades, with some unable to afford the crippling premiums. That our hard earned dollars are whisked away in taxes to pay for a large bowlful of benefits, including free health care, for just anybody who can slip past government officials, at our border, ports or overstaying a tourist visa.
In Europe this obscene travesty of immigration laws, may cause a collapse of governments in the near future. Activists like me see the destruction of our culture and irreversible OVERPOPULATION. Instead of these calculated cash going to support foreign national families, it should be going to refurbish our highways, bridges and tunnels. Inside America our infrastructure is falling apart. Instead of nation building, we should us our money to stabilize our own economy. Early immigrants gave much to this America, whereas the last ten years have eroded our welfare safety net to our own people. They did not come here to bleed America dry as they do today. Crime Yes! But not on the ever increasing scale, as it does today.
If the Democratic leadership move forward with Immigration Reform or AMNESTY, American will further hemorrhage from those who are already here, and they in turn sponsoring their families, but the open door welcome for the following hordes sitting patiently in foreign lands? Trillions of dollars are on the line, because of the numerous federal mandates on taxpayers.
The only power Americans have is the vote and even that is been compromised? As one voice we must pressure our Senators and Representatives, to empower E-Verify as part of the Save Act. 202-224-3121 Our concentrated effort of millions of phone calls, is making these subservient lawmakers to corporate welfare very nervous. They like their jobs, their exceptional health care and the benefits that go with it? Support for the bi-partisan SAVE Act, which will expand E-Verify and protect American Workers! We must focus on the zenith to this major problem-the jobs that attract illegal aliens. It would phase in a requirement for every employer to use the electronic E-Verify system. Remember also that the US chamber of Commerce, the ACLU, the Council of Foreign Relations are not friends of the ordinary American Worker, as they are anti-Sovereignty, Open border and are sustained by corporate grant givers, to destroy any Immigration Enforcement laws.
DEMAND NO AMNESTY! NO FAMILY UNIFICATION KNOWN AS CHAIN MIGRATION! NO MORE HEALTH CARE OR ANY OTHER KIND OF BENEFITS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. CLOSE THE BORDER AND ENFORCE THE FENCE WITH THE NATIONAL GUARD! GOOGLE–NUMBERSUSA, AMERICANPATROL for honest answers.