Here send him this !
Teddy turns 70 and we’re supposed to celebrate Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) – and his liver – hit 70 last week. He’s been in the U.S. Senate for almost 40 years now, and shows no sign of leaving. Sure, there was a rumor a few years ago that he wanted to retire to the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, but some dolt tipped him off that the wildlife there wasn’t the sort that Teddy so savors. Now he’s staying put.
Anyway, we were instructed that all should observe the b-day boy’s special event. Pronounced the publisher of the Lowell, Massachusetts Sun: “It’s fitting and proper no matter where we stand politically or personally to celebrate these milestones in the life of a man who endured so much personal tragedy, but has never given up his quest for improving the lives of those less fortunate.”
Yes, indeed, the deep thinkers often refer to the personal tragedies endured by the Kennedys. When John F. Kennedy Jr. died, ABC News reported: “Again and again, freak accidents and assassinations, drug abuse and scandals have stalked the family.”
Oh, now I see. The Kennedy clan bore little or no responsibility for drug abuse and scandals. Those were stalking the family.
On Teddy’s birthday, CNN’s senior political correspondent Candy Crowley said, “He is the last of the liberal lions, roaring on behalf of the voiceless.” A clip of the senator followed: “We stand to protect the consumers and to protect the patients, to protect the children, protect the women, to protect the disabled in this country.”
There was a time that Teddy wasn’t so concerned about protecting women. Remember Mary Jo Kopechne?
In 1969, she and five other women, all in their 20s and unmarried, attended a party in a rented cottage with Teddy and five other men. All the men, except for the 60-year-old chauffeur, were married. None of their wives was present.
There was a tremendous amount of liquor consumed. Kennedy denied he was under the influence when he and Miss Kopechne left the party together.
He claimed he took a wrong turn and drove his car into eight feet of water. He got out of the car, returned to the party and brought two other men to the scene of the accident. When they were unable to rescue the girl, he told the others he would call the police.
He didn’t. Instead, he returned to his motel, spoke to an employee there, began making telephone calls to associates and went to sleep. All that time Mary Jo Kopechne remained in the car.
Maybe she could have been saved. The captain of the Edgartown, Massachusetts’s scuba team believed she might have stayed alive in an air pocket for several hours.
The next morning the car and the girl’s body were found. When Kennedy finally completed an accident report, he didn’t even know her full name, referring to her simply as “Miss Mary ___.”
A sheriff said he had seen Kennedy’s car hours after Kennedy alleged the accident occurred. The senator asserted he based his estimate on the clock of the rented car he was driving. When it was learned the car didn’t have a clock, Kennedy changed his story.
A grand jury investigated, but the results were already decided. Said the district attorney, “I feel sorry for him (Kennedy). What’s all this business about a conflicting statement? That’s nothing! Never mind the press. Never mind being president. Let’s save him.”
Senator Kennedy didn’t want the girl’s body exhumed for an autopsy. Fortunately for him, neither did the judge responsible for making the decision. Described as a “party-line Democrat of limited judicial gifts,” the judge maintained a bust of President Kennedy on display in his chambers.
A member of the grand jury admitted, “We were dupes and boobs and let ourselves be manipulated. Nobody ever briefed us properly about what we could do.” Bragged the district attorney later, “There’s no question in my mind that the grand jury would have brought an indictment against Ted Kennedy for manslaughter, if I had given them the case.”
A few years later, in condemning President Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, Kennedy demanded to know, “Is there one system of justice for the average citizen and another system for the high and mighty?” The Leftist hypocrite learned the answer to the question in 1969.
His media defenders can look beyond all that. In his biography of Kennedy, the New York Times’ Adam Clymer wrote: “Yet his achievements as a Senator have towered over his time, changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.”
And now he’s reached the ripe old age of 70. Mary Jo didn’t make it to 30. Then again, who even remembers her?
Ah heck, I thought his 5000'th bottle of Chivas.
Oh, stop it, FwyVet, you're dewusional <{;P......
I think I'll just send Ted a new bra.
Here send him this !
