Posted on 12/24/2010 12:50:07 AM PST by raccoonradio
The late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s cuddly, curly coated canine companion, Splash, has gone to doggy heaven.
Kennedy’s widow, Vicki, announced the death of the 13-year-old Portuguese water dog to friends and family earlier this week.
“At Teddy’s side, Splash became a world-class fetcher of tennis balls and a meeter and greeter of presidents, senators, congressmen and even foreign dignitaries,” Kennedy wrote. “I like to think that he and his master are playing tennis ball fetch again tonight.”
Kennedy, who died last year after he was diagnosed with brain cancer, was rarely seen without the black-and-white, high-energy pooch, whether he was on Cape Cod or Capitol Hill.
“They all had a rollicking good time together,” said Phil Johnston, former state Democratic party chairman and friend of the Kennedy family. “Splash hit the lottery when it came to owners. It was so sad when the dogs lost their master.”
Splash was an author — he co-wrote a children’s book — and a bipartisan beast as well, receiving treats from former President George W. Bush’s furry buddy Barney.
Splash leaves behind siblings Sunny and Cappy.
Bye Splash!
Since your master didn’t beleive in doggie abortion on demand, I am sure you had a very active, loving and happy life.
Now, go chase rabbits.
So did the same person(s) who killed clintoon’s “Buddy” kill Splash? Anyway, who cares anything about that drunken philandering murderer, kennedy? Didn’t he have something to do with opening the doors to illegal aliens through his self-loathing, America-hating immigration politics?
Boston TV can’t push this story hard enough. Plus they want the Kennedy widow, Vicky, daughter of a convicted mobster, to run for the seat Scott Brown currently holds. There’s a billboard in Boston with Vicky’s picture emblazoned on it. No mention of running for office yet, however. Meanwhile I heard a car commercial actually use the word, Christmas. ‘...The sale would last until Christmas Day’. Almost fell out of bed.
Does Splash have three heads?
Surely the dog should go to heaven. I doubt the dog was a drunken lecher.
I think that Teddy naming the dog Splash just proves how unconscionable he was. Most would never be able to live down such a horrible thing but with Teddy, Kopechne was business as usual.
As Howie Carr said, naming his dog “splash” showed a particularly tin-earred lack of self awareness on the part of the Senator for life.
Named after his favorite Oldsmobile.
I think it was revealed just after he died that he often joked about Chappaquiddick
Howie once played an audio of clip of Ted reading the book.
One line: “She would stay in the water for hours and hours and hours.” So, unfortunately, did Mary Jo, thanks to Ted.
Robert Byrd tells us what happened (he also was known to say “God created the dog” in his own way)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwn82GisnW0
?I bet you’re loads of fun at a party.
And just who the hell does ANYONE think they are to presume on someone’s eternal fate? We can not know, so I implore everyone to stop making assumptions about what is happening in the afterlife. It is arrogance to the extreme.”
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