Big 75 (Ted Kennedy's Birthday Barf Alert)

The Washington Times ^ | Feb. 22, 2007 | John McCaslin

[seanmerc]

Big 75 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, celebrates three-quarters of a century of living today. (If it's any consolation, women overheard in Mr. Kennedy's company of late say the senator has never looked better. What is it about him and Bill Clinton?). "Sen. Kennedy began his career setting a high standard when it comes to birthdays," fellow Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry observes in a birthday tribute to his colleague. "It was when he reached the minimum constitutional age -- 30 -- that he first came to the Senate: 1 of just 16 senators elected at such a tender age from a total of over 1,895 Senators in all of American history. By his 70th birthday he was one of just 28 senators to ever cast over 10,000 votes." Mr. Kerry recalls that Mr. Kennedy's maiden speech in the Senate was to demand an end to the filibuster of the original Civil Rights Act. He also credits the senior senator for lowering the voting age to 18 and ending "the hypocrisy that 18-year-olds were old enough to die for their country in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for its leadership at home." Say what you want to about Mr. Kennedy's ideals and ideology, Mr. Kerry concludes, he "sticks to his guns. ... He is listening still -- to the voices his conscience tells him must never be ignored."

[seanmerc]

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

[Dead Corpse]

Happy Birthday Ted.

Now crawl off into the woods somewhere and die...

[nascarnation]

God please send us term limits.
Amen.

[mainepatsfan]

What's the over under on how many birthday toasts he will partake in today?

[NeoCaveman]

What's the over under on how many birthday toasts he will partake in today?

32

[theDentist]

...By his 70th birthday he was one of just 28 senators to ever cast over 10,000 votes.

And not a single one favors America.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Say what you want to about Mr. Kennedy's ideals and ideology, Mr. Kerry concludes, he "sticks to his guns

That's because they're covered with butter, sugar, and caramel, and he's about to eat them up.

[seanmerc]

This is the one I'm having a difficult time with:

"If it's any consolation, women overheard in Mr. Kennedy's company of late say the senator has never looked better."

[TomServo]

He is listening still -- to the voices his conscience tells him must never be ignored."

I wonder if he can hear Mary Jo....

[NeoCaveman]

Happy birthday you drunken murderer.

[IrishMike]

Pass the scotch !

[Gay State Conservative]

I anxiously await the day when I can approach Ted's gravestone with a full bladder...and leave with an empty one.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

At his birthday party...

[Zuben Elgenubi]

[seanmerc]

Maybe it was...

[Constitution Day]

He should donate his liver to science; it's got to be a medical miracle.

[seanmerc]

It will certainly be well-preserved.

[P-40]

Only the good die young...

[Citizen Tom Paine]

Maybe he has the some endowment as Rasputin.

[Loyalist]

One look at Ted Kennedy is a good indication of what his brothers might have looked like had they survived to old age. The Camelot mystique wouldn't have held up if JFK and RFK lived to look like him.

[YourAdHere]

I wonder how old Mary Jo would be - if he hadn't killed her.

[BallyBill]

I forget who it was that said, "If I'd have known I was going to live this long, I would've taken better care of myself", but it fits Ted.

I heard Dean Martin say that, but I think he attributed it to someone else at the time.

Happy Birthday, Edward Moore Kennedy! Drink a bottle of Chivas for me.

[ravingnutter]

[PzLdr]

I thought the "Big 75" in the title referred to his head size - or waistline.

[seanmerc]

Or perhaps one of these...

[PzLdr]

One could only hope that on this birthday, he WAS toast.

[seanmerc]

Or a mandatory retirement age for senators...

[Obie Wan]

Well when the Good Lord does call Teddie home,his "eternal" flame will be a hibatchi fueled by gas fumes from the Hyannis sewage treatment plant !!!

[massgopguy]

That would be Mickey Mantle.

[mainepatsfan]

I'd settle for an amendment banning any senator from becoming President.

[PzLdr]

Mickey Mantle said that. And Mickey never killed anyone.

[Barb4Bush]

Teddy's 75? I guess that lends a little credence to the saying "only the good die young".

[N. Theknow]

Well, Ted I've been waiting 45 minutes...IS there anything other than killing women and themselves that Kennedy men are good at?

[COBOL2Java]

LOL! Perfect caption for that photo:

"Teddy! Teddy! C'mere and sit! I've got a big wet one for ya!"

[Garvin]

That's 38 years that Mary Jo Kopechne never got to enjoy.

[seanmerc]

Even Bill Clinton wouldn't...

[Doc Savage]

Just one look at Edward's face and if you're a REAL MAN you know you don't want a simpering, whimpering pantywaist like this marshmellow runnning our country and our military. Ah, gay love, so sweet, so satisfying, so elusive!!!!

[Nathan Zachary]

Wasn't during one of Teddy the drunk's birthday parties that Drunken Ted drove his car and parked it, (along with Mary Jo Kopechne) at the bottom of a creek?

[twonie]

He is a blot - and a big one - on our national escutcheon. He and democrats in general rend the fabric of society.

[Mr. Jeeves]

He doesn't look a day under 90. ;)

[Garvin]

Big 75, that's 38 more years that Mary Jo Kopechne never got to enjoy.

[Puppage]

His liver recently celebrated its 129th

[Verginius Rufus]

According to his sworn testimony after Chappaquiddick, he was drinking rum & Coke that evening...and only had three drinks.

Of course he wasn't asked how large the containers were.

[sgtbono2002]

Ted Kennedy's Birthday. A day of infamy.

75 years old and he has managed to avoid any semblance of anything that might be described as work.

Between his trusts and his milking the government teat, he hasnt hit a lick in his whole lifetime.

But then , neither has any of the rest of his pathetic family. They are like leeches , living off trusts and politics.

[AngryJawa]

Now crawl off into the woods somewhere and die...

Won't happen...he's pickled from the inside out.

When the end of the world comes, all that'll be left will be cockroaches, Keith Richards, and Ted Kennedy.

[itsamelman]

More like big 275...

[COBOL2Java]

Even Bill Clinton wouldn't...

And HE gets tittilated by a 7,000-year old mummy! :0)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Wonder how many cards he got from Mary Jo ? Someone reported a couple years ago that his office gets several dozen every year on the murderer's birthday.

[IrishMike]

Didn't the Kennedys make big money, and still do,
dating back to WWII and pappa Joe ?

[DaiHuy]

Teddy boi, it's 75 years to long you socialist pig