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08/26/09
Too soon? (click to see full frame)
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(Because he doesn't sound exactly "Utah")
08/26/09
Today it's got the added edge of vile things about Ted Kennedy from people who only know about Chappaquiddick (it was an accident) and nothing else about what he accomplished.
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It WAS and accident, his actions following the unfortunate incident is where he fucked up.
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08/26/09
Love, love
Yeah, yeah
Ah, ha
Teddy's dead
That's what I said
Let the rap a plan
Said he'd see him home
But his hope was a rope
And he should've known
It's hard to understand
That there's love in this man
I'm sure all would agree
That his misery was his
Woman and things
Now Teddy's dead
That's what I said
08/26/09
ripped him up and abused him
another drunkie plan
pushin' hope for the man
a terrible blow
but that's how it goes
teddy's on the corner now
if you wanna be a drunkie, wow
remember teddy's dead
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07/17/09
Does Ted not have a voice to say what he's thinking? His Dem friends could go back and say, "This is what Ted says..."
"I serve with Ted Kennedy. I know Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy is my friend. And you, sir, do not KNOW Ted Kennedy!"
07/17/09
Then again, by holding on to his Senate seat and not being in the Senate, his state essentially has only one U.S. Senator, since he hasn't been voting on any legislation in some time.
He could still call his old friends and colleagues as a private citizen, while allowing his state to have two Senators, just like every other state (even the rinky dinky ones).
07/17/09
I know I have been less than kind to Senator Kennedy in past posts, but my opinion his past actions has nothing to do with this. I don't think that his waning health should have anything to do with the passage of an enormously important and expensive bill. Senator Reed needs to realize that what is important here is the well being of the American People and not the legacy of Senator Kennedy. I would expect that both Senators know this.
Since I have been kind of a judgmental jerk about Kennedy in the past, I would like to say that I hope that his suffering ends soon. Hopefully it will be in the form of a recovery, but if not then in a peaceful and dignified way. No one deserves cancer and this man has worked hard for our country.
07/17/09
I'm telling you - term limits is the answer, and the only answer to change the paradigm, and possible enact some meaningful damn legislation.
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But now it's apparent that we aren't culturally equipped to handle any big issue. When Bush had a Congress full of Republicans he couldn't privatize schools or social security. Now, Obama has a Congress full of Dems and can't pass the most basic of public health care reforms. This is because Congressmen, too, are individualist, and hate the idea of losing their careers in exchange for what they collectively endorse as social ideals.
Because we are a nation of morally bankrupt pussies.
07/17/09
Instead, I think you'll have to agree that they're growing spectacularly every year.
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I guess I'm just too populist for these times.
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While I appreciate Kennedy's subsequent service to his country, I still don't forget that he helped an innocent woman die, and his only concern was to cover his backside.
07/17/09
Jeezalu, you could cut the sanctimony on this thread with a knife.
It is an "old" joke because some variant of it shows up on every single post about Ted Kennedy. The joke has put in 40 years of hard work, it deserves to rest. Put it out to pasture already.
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07/17/09
Yea right.
Not saying this is in good taste, but it is funny.
07/17/09
And it's all part of his legacy no matter what Kennedy has accomplished since then.
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Thank you, mom, for shedding light on the issue.
07/17/09
My point is that his more recent admirable accomplishments do not nullify the fact he did something completely horrible, evil even, and justice was never served.
07/17/09
I think you actually did clarify things. The people defending this joke aren't defending it's funniness, they are defending their own anger at Ted Kennedy for what happened 40 years ago, which is weird because no one on the thread was defending TK on that point.
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07/18/09
But what amazes me is how willing these people are to impugn the integrity of a plethora of law enforcement and criminal justice officials who, were Kennedy but a Republican, would be defended as pillars of the community and above reproach.
So...power buys you some allowances with "the man." When and in what culture is this news? Most vehicular homicides don't pull jail time.
They're also the sort of people, generally, who don't care that Prescott Bush funded the Nazi Party, as well as the Wermacht, until well into 1943, while providing substandard material to US troops fighting them.
07/18/09