Posted on 09/04/2007 12:03:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Once upon a time, Ted Kennedy could count on his daily dose of veneration. The right wing hated the Massachusetts Democrat, but progressives honored him as a defender of old-school liberalism.
In a remarkable turnaround, liberals are now heaping scorn on the 73-year-old senator. Young audiences boo at his name, and the leftish "Daily Show" on Comedy Central makes fun of him.
The source of unhappiness is Kennedy's efforts to kill an offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind was to be the first such project in the United States and a source of pride to environmentally minded New Englanders. Polls show 84 percent of Massachusetts residents in favor. But now it appears that America's first offshore wind farm will be near Galveston, Texas.
Proposed the month before Sept. 11, 2001, Cape Wind remains in limbo. It's been frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy included, who don't want to see windmills from their verandas. Many millions have been spent spreading disinformation and smearing the wind farm's supporters.
The towers would be at least five miles out and barely visible from shore on the clearest day, but the summer plutocrats resent any intrusion on their waterfront vistas -- and, equally, any challenge to the notion that they control everything.
"But don't you realize -- that's where I sail!" may stand as Kennedy's most self-incriminating quote.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Hey Teddy,
Kill anybody lately?
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NEVER FORGET
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Here’s a Sen. TED KENNEDY Picture of another color, taken as he toured military operations all over a then Free South Vietnam to personally see for himself what the fight for Freedom was really all about there at the very beginning of the Vietnam War in 1965:
(See 5th Picture down)
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
Years later, after Sen. TED KENNEDY went on to lead a post-WATERGATE Democrat Congress into cutting off all our funding for the then Free South Vietnamese People to fight for their own Freedom with, just as the Soviet Union gave $6 Billion in tanks, artillery and ammo to Communist North Vietnam, horridly came upon the Free South:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. MoviePremieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
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(In other words, Sen. TED KENNEDY has always just known better..!!)
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Now with Sen. TED KENNEDY and his fellow Anti-Freedom Activists pushing hard to regain control of our precious Oval Office...
..in a new time of war
..in a new century
..with our own Freedom
..directly at stake
..right here at home
..what price is left for the still Free (that’s US) to pay now, I wonder..??
Don’t YOU..???
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Signed:..”ALOHA RONNIE” Guyer
Veteran-1st Major Battles for Freedom of the Vietnam War 1965-66
http://www.military.com/ContentFiles/WWS_Index
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_colleciton.htm
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NEVER FORGET
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Yes, and you'd think Fat Teddy would take all the guidance getting his drunken ass back to port he could get!
Is that a real ad?
Ted doesn’t want any competition as Mass’s most famous wind farm.
No, it was a satirical ad in National Lampoon Magazine.
I’ve been trying to Google up a quote I’ve heard more than a few times, something about “They always shoot the wrong Kennedy”, anyone know who said that originally?
And to expand a bit, there was an actual VW ad that bragged the “Bug” was so tightly constructed that it would float.
Dennis Leary (whover he is?)
09 Death
(The lights blast up full as he puts the match to another cigarette. He is now standing center stage.)
That’s the problem with this country. We always shoot all the wrong guys! We shoot JFK, we shoot RFK and it comes to Teddy, we go, “Ah, leave him alone. He’ll screw it up himself, no problem, you know?” He’s the biggest target in the whole goddamn Kennedy family — and nobody takes a shot at him. He weighs about 7000 pounds. You could shoot a bullet in Los Angeles and hit him in the ass in Boston five minutes later! He’d be standing on the lawn at the Kennedy compound going, “Uh, there’s a. . . uh. . . bullet. . . uh, uh. . . in, uh. . . my, uh. . . uh, uhh. . . ass, uh.”
Ted Kennedy. Good senator but a bad date. You know what I’m saying? One of those guys who gets home around midnight and says, “What did I forget? Oh! The girl! Damnit! I’ve gotta start remembering these things.” You know what I’m saying? I think you do. I think you hear me knocking and I think I’m coming in. And guess what? All I’m wearing is a shirt.
Ted Kennedy sitting on the Sexual Harassment Committee. Cut me a giant piece of big-break pie. Ted Kennedy sitting up on the dais — all 7000 pounds of him — going, “I’m finally an expert and I can’t even open my mouth. Wow.”
See, I grew up in Massachusetts as a working-class Irish kid. We adored the Kennedys.
We had this love/hate relationship with them. We loved to elect them, but we hated them because they had so much money. We loved to see them get into trouble, but we hated them because they always got away with it.
But I had to draw the line long before the Easter Rape Weekend. I had to draw a giant line. I had to draw the line at the Rose Kennedy birthday party a couple of summers ago. Now, if you’re a hundred — have a party. But do it in private because you probably don’t look too good. Not the Kennedys. No. Since it was Mrs. Kennedy it was on the cover of People magazine and on CNN. They wheeled her out onto the lawn at Hyannisport — there must have been two thousand Kennedys out there. She has no idea where she is. The wheelchair’s rolling. She’s in a trance. (Waving erratically) “Where’s Jack? Where’s Bobby?” She’s lucky Teddy wasn’t pushing the chair. “No. Teddy. Not off of the bridge. . . Noooooooo —” SPLASH.
There’s another cliche about the Kennedys. That the world was a bright and shining place until JFK was snatched away. But there’s an element of truth to that. That’s why it’s become a cliche. After JFK died, the war in Vietnam escalated. Then Bobby died and the war got worse. Then we had drugs. Then we had bell-bottoms. Then Casey Kasem had his own TV show. Then we had more drugs and more bell-bottoms and more drugs and guns and crime and poverty and more guns and more crime.
http://jorgen.nu/ncfc/09_death.asp
Bwhahahaha! Who's kidding who? The Kennedy family all by itself keeps the Wood's Hole and Hyannis Coasties as busy as can be all summer long.
The state tax authorities did nothing about the hundreds of million in the estate.
Nice to have leftist friends in government.
Harrop’s a leftist moonbat... the vast majority of mindless libs in MA are just fine with the fat, intern-killing drunk in Washington.
He’s always been turned on by liberals......................
(They have a demo windmill on their union hall right along side a major artery into Boston from the south. The sucker is even lit up at night).
A refreshing and thoughtful post. And a wonderful rebuttal to any of the gloabl warming minions and Al Gore. It’s all the ammo needed.
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