Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on August 29, 2009 by Allahpundit
“But if you are sympathetic to Kennedy and his politics, as I am, you’re mindful that the accident at Chappaquiddick happened in 1969, the year after Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. (Ted, just 36 and the last of the brothers, shouldered the burden of 11 more fatherless nieces and nephews.) You’re also willing to measure the benefits that Kennedy brought to countless people through his politics, and give them proper weight on the scales of the man’s record. Finally, if you measure his capacity to reform himself, you tip the scales further…
For some women, reverence for Kennedy stopped with Chappaquiddick. The rest of us have a very different view: Kennedy had the gift of time to make amends, and we were the beneficiaries of that.”
***
“We are all flawed, and most of us are weak, and in hellish moments, at a split-second’s notice, confronting the choice that will define us ever after, many of us will fail the test. Perhaps Mary Jo could have been saved; perhaps she would have died anyway. What is true is that Edward Kennedy made her death a certainty. When a man (if you’ll forgive the expression) confronts the truth of what he has done, what does honor require?…
Ted Kennedy went a different route. He got kitted out with a neck brace and went on TV and announced the invention of the ‘Kennedy curse,’ a concept that yoked him to his murdered brothers as a fellow victim — and not, as Mary Jo perhaps realized in those final hours, the perpetrator. He dared us to call his bluff, and, when we didn’t, he made all of us complicit in what he’d done. We are all prey to human frailty, but few of us get to inflict ours on an entire nation…
The senator’s actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tells us something ugly about American public life.”
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rob verdi on August 29, 2009 at 10:36 PM
From another part of the Eleanor Clift rantings:
Just wow. I can’t even begin to detail how twisted this is. I can’t believe that anyone would even publish this.
“managed to muddle through”?? This is just totally sick sh!t. Eleanor Clift is a ghoul … a moronic ghoul.
Considering the fact that Kennedy’s legislation did more ill than good, by a mile, I guess by Clift’s reasoning I would have been justified in snuffing him out, as she justifies his snuffing out Mary Jo Kopechne – who was nothing but innocent, unlike Kennedy.
These libs are ghoulish sub-humans.
progressoverpeace on August 29, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Have you seen the comments here:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/08/what-do-the-kennedys-mean-to-you.html
d1carter on August 29, 2009 at 10:38 PM
A mechanic giving guarantees.
Ah ha.
Loxodonta on August 29, 2009 at 10:38 PM
That you are sympathetic to Kennedy and his politics becomes rather obvious as you stand logic on it’s head.
So he was with Mary Jo, rather than with any of his 11 new children, to get her advise on how to stretch his quality time with them further? I don’t think so.
So he designed an automobile and an autobahn and made the trains run on time?
Well I guess if you consider not drowning any more women after Mary Jo reforming himself.
You mean he started paying a fair amount of taxes on all his offshore sheltered wealth?
MB4 on August 29, 2009 at 10:38 PM
So. When will Fox News mention the Grandson Messenger Boys? Sunday or Monday?
kingsjester on August 29, 2009 at 10:38 PM
I hope the liberal media Teddy necrophilia ends soon. This crap is making me ill.
farright on August 29, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Dang, Steyn is brilliant.
conservative pilgrim on August 29, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Now Eleanor Clift is another story. What a partisan hack. I’m not thinking very nice thoughts about this woman.
conservative pilgrim on August 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Sarcasm noted.
Ugly on August 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Kennedys legacy—–spending lots of money——OUR MONEY
mobydutch on August 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM
He was called the Lion of the Senate. Not for his white mane or mighty roar, but because he mated without limits and killed without remorse.
Jim Treacher on August 29, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.
- Thomas John Barnardo
MB4 on August 29, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Who knew that Sen. Kennedy would be more annoying in death than in life. What has this man done to deserve this much introspection and adulation?
Cindy Munford on August 29, 2009 at 10:42 PM
My beliefs on the here and now and the hereafter have reincarnationalistic overtones.
Lanceman on August 29, 2009 at 10:43 PM
?????
TXMomof3 on August 29, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Try an alka seltzer spritzer with a Pepto chaser. That’s what I’m having this evening. I find a slice of lime makes it a little more palatable.
TxAnn56 on August 29, 2009 at 10:44 PM
He was a Kennedy, that race of godlike beings to libs on the East coast. Not very many others care all that much, beyond the basic sympathy for someone who has died.
ddrintn on August 29, 2009 at 10:44 PM
If you are willing to rationalize away murder to advance your principles, how much would it take to defend committing murder to advance your principles?
PackerBronco on August 29, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Its ALIVE ALIVE !
/Media Dr Frankenstein
on Zombie Ted’s Funeral and 3 day infomercial on the benefits on Obamacare
William Amos on August 29, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Extraordinary.
Loxodonta on August 29, 2009 at 10:45 PM
And that’s all we need at Arlington.
Drunk sod over the drunken sot.
Lanceman on August 29, 2009 at 10:45 PM
TXMomof3 on August 29, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Mom – During the funeral, one of the prayers was said by a 10 year old Grandson, who was evidently put there to pray for Healthcare Reform. At the burial, the Democrats had four of the grandsons do it together. I hven’t watched it. It would make me sick.
kingsjester on August 29, 2009 at 10:46 PM
That is very hard to believe as she was in no more than 8 feet of water.
MB4 on August 29, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I don’t want to moralize here, but I will. I think it is sickening even with the Mary Jo incident, that he is looked up to. All the philandering around he did, seems to me to be a sickness. He had some overwhelming need to dominate women. I think he was one twisted perv.
TXMomof3 on August 29, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Just one of millions of preborn children gone before their time thanks to Ol’ Ted’s efforts.
Let’s face it: his status as pre-eminent Catholic pol who supported abortion gave others the cover they needed to use the pathetic “personally opposed but…” line of BS. This, in great contrast to his sister Eunice, who was in the infinitesimally small pro-life sliver of the Democratic party.
Lurking Vet on August 29, 2009 at 10:47 PM
Kennedy’s letter to the Pope, hand delivered by Obama in July, read graveside at Arlington late today:
“Most Holy Father, I asked President Obama to personally hand deliver this letter to you. As a man of deep faith himself, he understands how important my Roman Catholic faith is to me, and I am deeply grateful to him.
“I hope this letter finds you in good health. I pray that you have all of God’s blessings as you lead our Church and inspire our world during these challenging times.
“I am writing with deep humility to ask that you pray for me as my own health declines. I was diagnosed with brain cancer more than a year ago, and, although I continue treatment, the disease is taking its toll on me. I am 77 years old and preparing for the next passage of life.
“I have been blessed to be a part of a wonderful family, and both of my parents, particularly my mother, kept our Catholic faith at the center of our lives. That gift of faith has sustained, nurtured and provided solace to me in the darkest hours. I know that I have been an imperfect human being, but with the help of my faith, I have tried to right my path.
“I want you to know, Your Holiness, that in my nearly 50 years of elective office, I have done my best to champion the rights of the poor and open doors of economic opportunity. I’ve worked to welcome the immigrant, fight discrimination and expand access to health care and education. I have opposed the death penalty and fought to end war. Those are the issues that have motivated me and been the focus of my work as a United States Senator.
“I also want you to know that even though I am ill, I am committed to do everything I can to achieve access to health care for everyone in my country. This has been the political cause of my life. I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health care field and will continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone.
“I have always tried to be a faithful Catholic, Your Holiness, and though I have fallen short through human failings, I have never failed to believe and respect the fundamental teachings. I continue to pray for God’s blessings on you and our Church and would be most thankful for your prayers for me.”
At the Arlington, health care is mentioned!
This past Wednesday:
Vatican paper criticizes Ted Kennedy’s abortion stance
The senator “was constantly in the front line in battles such as the protection of immigrants, gun control, (and) minimum wage for the poorest.
“But unfortunately there were positions on his part in favor of abortion,” said a report in the Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
djn on August 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Everyone who says a good word about Kennedy, or participated in that pathetic memorial service, is slime. Plain and simple. The fact that, not only didn’t Kennedy eventually kill himself from the guilt he felt over having killed someone and gotten away with it, but he loved Chappaquiddick jokes, serves to prove that Ted Kennedy was one of the most despicable types of sub-humans one can ever come across.
As I’ve always said, the left are despicable, lying scumbags. Their reaction to the death of their murderer-hero just proves that they are even worse. Poe would write a story about them, “The Tell-No-Tale Heartless”.
progressoverpeace on August 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Not if he was drunk enough.
Lurking Vet on August 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM
He should fill in for Rush every time if Dr. Williams can’t.
I love listening to him.
He sounds like Mr. Bentley from ‘The Jeffersons’.
Lanceman on August 29, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Great read!
Steyn is very impressive, and I enjoy his subbing in for Rush.
Vanbasten on August 29, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Fine. Drunk Cockroach.
Upstater85 on August 29, 2009 at 10:49 PM
And that would be another reason to delay calling in the cops – a field sobriety test, which he almost certainly would have failed.
Lurking Vet on August 29, 2009 at 10:49 PM
The sad part is the media doesnt realize that there really is no Kennedy legacy worth talking about. JFK wouldnt have been able to push through civil rights reforms it took LBJ’s strongarming to do that.
Bobby has even less of a legacy that that. Nothing remains of his time in the Senate. And Teddy’s legacy is even smaller than Bobby’s.
There is no magic in the Massachusett’s camalot. It was always more of a greek tragety than the Arthuran Legend.
William Amos on August 29, 2009 at 10:50 PM
This should also be brought up -
“Kennedy earned C grades at the private Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a “legacy” — his father and older brothers had attended there, so the younger and dimmer Kennedy’s admission was virtually assured. While attending, he was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, 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. Kennedy was assigned to PARIS, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.“
I wonder who may have been shot up or died in his place.
MB4 on August 29, 2009 at 10:50 PM
He could kill all the women he wants and I’d still kiss his a$$.
FIFY
We’ve got our heads so far up his fat a$$, we can no longer breathe, therefore our brains don’t function well.
FIFYA
He failed.
Yes, I’m a VICTIM of Mary Jo Kopechne.
FIFYA
And it tells us one hell of a lot about the people who eulogized him today.
GarandFan on August 29, 2009 at 10:51 PM
They should have called him what he was: SCUM
CWforFreedom on August 29, 2009 at 10:51 PM
CWforFreedom on August 29, 2009 at 10:52 PM
And because he let females do all the dredging.
Schadenfreude on August 29, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Yesterday, I had to listen to a little old lady tell me what a wonderful man Senator Kennedy was, and how much good he had done for American, and how much he would be missed. She went on for 30 minutes, non stop. I didn’t say a single word. It was worse than Obama worship.
Loxodonta on August 29, 2009 at 10:53 PM
And I want the name ‘Kennedy Space Center’ changed to the ‘Nixon Space Center’.
We’ll leave Johnson Space Center in Houston alone, since that’s my last name as well:)
Lanceman on August 29, 2009 at 10:53 PM
I doubt that he ever even tried to save her. He supposedly swam 500 feet right after for some reason. She may have lived for tens of minutes in an air pocket and a house with a pouch light was only a few hundred feet away.
MB4 on August 29, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Loxodonta:
Should have asked her if she ever has any lucid moments.
GarandFan on August 29, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Another Maalox moment. I have to wonder if that wasn’t drawn up a week or so before he died. I thought this so called letter to the Pope was top secret. This whole graveside campaign won’t fly with real world and especially the elderly.
TxAnn56 on August 29, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Mid 80′s. I just smiled at her.
Loxodonta on August 29, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Millions of abortions and millions of poor entrapped by social programs. Yep nice work there Teddy (aka scum)
CWforFreedom on August 29, 2009 at 10:55 PM
“…. how important my Roman Catholic faith is to me….”
A serial adulterer, an abuser and objectifier of women, a man who was materially complicit in the procuring of MILLIONS of abortions, and a callous drunk who put his political future above the life of a young woman….does this behavior speak of a person who puts faith at the center of his life?
Yeah, right.
Benedict’s silence shouts from the top of St. Peter’s all the way to Boston.
Lurking Vet on August 29, 2009 at 10:55 PM
You should have pee’d on her leg and barfed on her. Don’t fail us next time.
Cheshire Cat on August 29, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Disgusting, this worship of Teddy the murderer is just disgusting.
Dhuka on August 29, 2009 at 10:57 PM
Allahpundit,
Pundits are funny critters just like New Yorkers,
New prison rehabilitation, make Inmates Senators so they can reform themselves.
/snark
BDU-33 on August 29, 2009 at 10:58 PM
The hero of Chappaquiddick. The hero of Paris.
MB4 on August 29, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I don’t know about ya’ll, but I am wondering about the letter he supposedly wrote last week. Would he have been capable of thinking about and verbalizing a request for Mass. to change the law to allow Patrick to fill his seat? Or is this a another lie?
TXMomof3 on August 29, 2009 at 10:59 PM
You think this is bad? Wait ’til Clinton’s state funeral.
Lanceman on August 29, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Frank Sesno on CNN ripped Kennedy pretty hard for the Robert Bork hit job. I was floored. At least someone didn’t drink the Kool-Aid.
rockmom on August 29, 2009 at 10:59 PM
There’s one more individual, sort of the liberal lion of the U.S. Senate, and that would be Ted Kennedy. If there’s one issue that Ted Kennedy likes more than any other, it’s taxes. In his mind, he’s the Robin Hood of the U.S. Senate. He’s going to steal from the rich and give to the poor. He talks about tax cuts or bonanzas for the rich and giveaways. He supports the inheritance tax in the name of social justice and says repealing it would benefit millionaires. He believes it’s that simple.
That’s what Ted Kennedy says about taxes. But what is the Kennedy record of actually paying taxes? Ted Kennedy of course is a millionaire. You’d think the inheritance tax would affect him. How has that worked out? The reality is that the Kennedys have set up dozens of trusts around the world to avoid paying the very tax that he says is important to pay in the name of social justice: the inheritance tax. What’s particularly ironic about this is, for a long time, their largest asset was Merchandise Mart, the real estate conglomerate. When they decided to set up a trust, where do they domicile that trust? Anybody want to guess? Was it Massachusetts, their home state? Florida? California? Delaware?
The Kennedys domiciled Merchandize Mart, with more than $600 million, on the Pacific Island nation of Fiji. Has Ted Kennedy ever been to Fiji? I don’t think there’s any record that he has. But they picked Fiji because it avoids IRS scrutiny, the sort that you would get if you domiciled the trust in the United States.
The reality today is that Ted Kennedy receives money from trusts established numerous times, from 1926, 1936, 1978, 1987, and 1997, and those trusts of course are designed to avoid paying the inheritance tax.
What does this actually mean in practical terms? Let me give you the bottom line. Ted Kennedy supports an inheritance tax of 49%. Forty-nine percent of what you have goes to the IRS after you die. Now, what rate did the Kennedys pay? The Kennedys have transferred $300 million, this is all according to their records, they have transferred $300 million from one generation to the other, and out of that, they have paid $132,000 in taxes, which is nowhere near 49%? Actually it’s .004 percent. The Kennedys, like a lot of other people on the left, love the idea of paying taxes for other people. When it comes to themselves, they’re not so interested.
MB4 on August 29, 2009 at 11:00 PM
I am duly chagrined.
Loxodonta on August 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Time Magazine Article has an interesting article:
The Kennedys: Rehearsal for an Inquest
Friday, Oct. 31, 1969
For all of Edward Kennedy’s legal efforts to avoid what he fears would be a circus-style inquest into the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, a sort of rehearsal for an inquest was held last week in Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County courthouse. Nearly 200 newsmen and spectators jammed into Judge Bernard Brominski’s courtroom in Wilkes-Barre to hear arguments on whether Mary Jo’s body should be exhumed from a nearby Larksville cemetery for an autopsy. While the proceeding showed that Kennedy’s apprehension was well founded, it also indicated that the lack of a postmortem has contributed to keeping the case alive and controversial.
Edmund Dinis, the Massachusetts district attorney in whose jurisdiction the death occurred last July, seemed determined to compensate—or even over-compensate—for his initial timidity in investigating the biggest case of his life. He allowed his assistant, Armand Fernandes, to hint in the course of cross-examination that Mary Jo might have died from a skull fracture or “manual strangulation” rather than drowning.
Mary Jo’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kopechne, are fighting an autopsy, arguing that Dinis should prove that there is legitimate suspicion of foul play before exhuming their daughter’s body. Dinis maintains that the suspicion already exists, raised by the delay before the death was reported and the apparent contradictions in Kennedy’s public accounting of the episode. To underscore discrepancies regarding the exact time of the accident, Dinis played a tape recording of Kennedy’s televised explanation of the event. Kennedy himself was in Europe last week for a meeting of the North Atlantic Assembly. Dinis summoned none of the others present at the Chappaquiddick party.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839093-1,00.html
A central question was whether an autopsy would be of any medical value three months or more after the body was embalmed and buried. The Kopechnes’ lawyers called Dr. Werner Spitz, deputy chief medical examiner for Maryland and an expert on drowning cases, who said that anatomical evidence of drowning would already have disappeared.* Spitz argued that Mary Jo did in fact drown—but not immediately. A pinkish froth around the nose, he said, indicated that she “remained alive for a certain time” while the car was under water in Poucha Pond. “She breathed, that girl,” Spitz said. “She wasn’t dead instantaneously.”
djn on August 29, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Mega shark verse Giant Octopus was pretty bad, but on a positive note they left it open for a sequel. Now I am on Spring Break Shark attack.
rob verdi on August 29, 2009 at 11:04 PM
They’re now going to erect a wind farm on Nantucket in his honor, in addition to the Ted Kennedy Memorial Swimming Pool.
They are saying Do It For Ted; does that mean we should all run out and drown a young woman and offer our services to the KGB in his “honor”?
Dhuka on August 29, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Patches: Pater. Does this letter I’ve just read to you express your views about the Massachusetts law on filling vacant US Senate seats?
The Swimmer: uhhhhhhhh …
Patches: Call Deval! It’s a go!
Loxodonta on August 29, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Well thanks for the update as I was worried I was missing a great movie while out watching the local high school game tonight.
/s
Gotta love how the SciFi Channel’s movies have the special effects quality of the 1950s
CWforFreedom on August 29, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Something that MJK did not have.
Johan Klaus on August 29, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Less that you might think…
elgeneralisimo on August 29, 2009 at 11:11 PM
It says something ugly about American public life in Massachusetts (and other liberal bastions).
The rest of American has spent over 40 years saying that Mary Jo Kopechne was not available for comment.
INC on August 29, 2009 at 11:13 PM
It has been days of virtually no TV news so so I could avoid all this drama. I am so tired of the Democrats and their incessant drama.
Terrye on August 29, 2009 at 11:15 PM
robverdi:
I tried watching that Syfy thing and when they blamed the rebirth of the prehistoric sea monsters on global warming, I decided it was time to read a book instead.
Terrye on August 29, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Steyn at his feynest.
Terrie on August 29, 2009 at 11:17 PM
I’m just glad Mr. & Mrs. Kopechne aren’t here to witness this disgusting charade for the man that killed their daughter, and lived to joke about it.
TxAnn56 on August 29, 2009 at 11:18 PM
The mask fell off when he was around his pals in the MSM, asking who had the latest Chappaquiddick jokes
dave c on August 29, 2009 at 11:21 PM
To quote Il Duce, after a hit and run of a child was “Never look back, Vanderbilt, always look ahead in life.”
Johan Klaus on August 29, 2009 at 11:22 PM
Think about the people the world media travails over!!
Teddy Kennedy, Mary Jo, cheater at Harvard, DUI Poster boy, and destroyer of political opponents personal reputations, supporter of everything that is destroying the fabric of this country, and supporter of abortion up to the first breath of 45 million aborted Americans since 1973.
Michael Jackson, should we even go there?
Walter Cronkite, Liberal Lion of the media who once said he would be glad to sit at the right hand of Satan (check YOUTUBE for the video).
What a whacked out world we live in. And these Vassals/Lords of ours want us to surrender our Health to them?
We is the Peons…..The elitist in D.C. is da Pee-urs.
PappyD61 on August 29, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Are you an abortion doctor?
Johan Klaus on August 29, 2009 at 11:26 PM
we have a final…
Steyn: a million
Clift: zero
bigjack on August 29, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Maybe one reason Kennedy was for abortion was that he knocked up more than one woman and wanted them to abort.
I wouldn’t be surprised based on his past behavior that he brought the family power to bear on women to get an abortion to protect his rep.
Sapwolf on August 29, 2009 at 11:32 PM
What clever calculus you have. Won’t do him any good now, I’m afraid.
spmat on August 29, 2009 at 11:32 PM
All this hate must burn you up.
How does it feel to lead such a powerless, purpose-less life?
There is a special place in hell for you.
cornfedbubba on August 29, 2009 at 11:34 PM
You tell us.
Jim Treacher on August 29, 2009 at 11:37 PM
But Teddy is your hero. It must have been his great strength in wanting to hear the newest Chappaquiddick jokes that really drew you in. Ghoul.
progressoverpeace on August 29, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Wonderful! A corn fed cliche club!
Lanceman on August 29, 2009 at 11:39 PM
I’m so glad that Strom Thurmond’s funeral was equally stupendous. It would be hard to take if there was a double-standard or something.
What’s that you say? Oh… Never mind.
Peri Winkle on August 29, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Thanks for the link! I really needed to laugh after the mindless pap that been in the news the last few days. Best part of it is that it’s on ABC’s website.
TugboatPhil on August 29, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Such is the very definition of cowardice, courageous actions don’t count for much when the chips aren’t down.
Mark is a very brave man, I fully expect the President to use any excuse to fly like a Harpy at anyone who demeans Ted Kennedy no matter how low the man was, for him its a win win attack.
Speakup on August 29, 2009 at 11:41 PM
If they don’t hurry and bury Teddy, Nancy and Harry are going to strap his corpse to a dolly and roll it into Congress to try to win some more votes.
pearson on August 29, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Steyn is amazing. What a powerful piece.
capitalist piglet on August 29, 2009 at 11:42 PM
I am so glad I spent this last week of Summer with my son before he starts school out and about, enjoying the days……….
………. as for Teddy “the Swimmer” Kennedy,
I just took a dump, and flushed it……….
Seven Percent Solution on August 29, 2009 at 11:50 PM
*sigh… if we had term limits we wouldn’t have to worry about that… Oh, wait… my bad.
Upstater85 on August 29, 2009 at 11:50 PM
The senator’s actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tells us something ugly about American public life.”
===========================================================
Again,it all comes back in the Lefty mindset,that they
don’t mind that Mary Jo Kopechnes was used as a sacrifi
cial lamb,at the Alter of Liberalism,and that all is well,
Teddy’s sins washed clean,and forgived by those who share
the same ideals,and politics.Its all the wonderful work
that Ted has done over the years,and in that,he can be all
overlooked!! -Quite sick,me thinks!!
And, this kind of Left brain thinking,sounds alot like
Jihady parents sending their children out on a mission,
never to return,as in self-kabluey!!
Sacrificing their children at the Alter of Jehadism is
all-forgiven,as it serves as a higher purpose,in their
beliefs and ideals!
Me thinks, in a roundy bout way,Liberals and Jihadys have the same type sick reasoning minds!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh,and,
“tells us something ugly about American public life.”
——————————-
Make that,tells us something ugly about Liberal Socialist
American public life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on August 29, 2009 at 11:54 PM
Wow. The first page was a shocker – only one comment even approaching neutral.
What do you know? People don’t like having smoke blown up their assets, after all.
capitalist piglet on August 29, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Everyone who says a good word about Kennedy, or participated in that pathetic memorial service, is slime. Plain and simple.
progressoverpeace on August 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM
All this hate must burn you up.
How does it feel to lead such a powerless, purpose-less life?
There is a special place in hell for you.
cornfedbubba on August 29, 2009 at 11:34 PM
cornfedbubba:
CornHubbaBubba: If there was a way to harness all the hate,bile,lefty mind-numbing thinking,that comes from the
Liberals,
America would have a new energy source!!
canopfor on August 29, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Thanks for sharing. Wish I could see the faces of the dopes who posted that question when they read the answers they got. From the news coverage you’d think that all of America was mourning loss of Teddy. Apparently not so much, lol.
Dee2008 on August 30, 2009 at 12:00 AM
+100
atheling on August 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Yeah, endless acts of “good will” using OUR money! Heaven forbid he should have used some of his own offshore tax-sheltered family fortune to do those good deeds, nosirree, need to use the fruits of Americans who have to actually work for a living to make up for his failings.
[censored]
AZfederalist on August 30, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Yes, this Pope doesn’t kiss ass. I like him for that.
atheling on August 30, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Hot damn, that’s genius.
Spirit of 1776 on August 30, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Why not? Dead people have been voting regularly in Chicago for years. And oddly, every single one is a DEMOCRAT. Coincidence?
GarandFan on August 30, 2009 at 12:15 AM
Magnificent my friend! Magnificent!
conservnut on August 30, 2009 at 12:19 AM
The Left’s dismissal of Mary Jo Kopechne’s death, as well as of millions of the unborn, reflects their inability to appreciate another human being with equal rights like themselves.
Their solipsistic egotism, their moral nihilism, and their lack of imagination (Borg-like) reveals that to the Leftist/Progressivebot, ideology can and should trample on the rights of the individual.
atheling on August 30, 2009 at 12:19 AM
And you know what has got to add to their consternation even more?
They can’t say that people who “hate” His Royal Majesty Ted are just a bunch of racists.
MB4 on August 30, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Favorite comment from the ABC blog
“He reminds us that stimulus money needs to be diverted to building guard rails for bridges.”
Heh
gophergirl on August 30, 2009 at 12:23 AM
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