Posted on 08/26/2009 1:30:15 AM PDT by kingattax
Condolences to all the Kennedy family on the Senator’s death, but we don’t need a Bonaparte family in America.
“What about Patrick?
He has the driving record, the substance abuse, and the “do you know who I am” attitude that make him a natural successor.”
Patches to catch up on the womanizing. Maybe he is gay?
Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
I’m not for sitting here and slamming him, even though, God knows, there’s a ton of material for that. But it doesn’t do any good to forget the bad people. That kind of forgetting is what leads to looking the other way when people step up to do evil—a skill that liberals have perfected. You can only take steps to stop evil when you recognize it for what it is.
To ignore History is to repeat it.
fixed it.
Girl? With Patches?
More likely a guy.
> To ignore History is to repeat it.
I didn’t say they should be ignored. But to preserve his misdeeds is to grant him an immortality that he doesn’t deserve.
I say he ought to be proactively forgotten. Just like some anonymous villain that has been hanged on the town gibbet for purse-snatching and buried in an unmarked grave in a potter’s field. In two weeks time nobody will remember him and nobody will care.
I think the MSM and liberal history re-writers may prove you wrong.
The U.S. Can I’ll afford anymore Kennedy style sociolism.
> Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
Yet you can remember history without commemorating the villains involved.
> But it doesn’t do any good to forget the bad people. That kind of forgetting is what leads to looking the other way when people step up to do evil—a skill that liberals have perfected.
But not if you know evil for what it is. All that is needed for that is a good, solid moral code and a clear understanding of right and wrong, coupled with a marked intolerance for wickedness.
None of that requires commemorating evil people.
> You can only take steps to stop evil when you recognize it for what it is.
True? What happens when two villains have a falling out and one kills the other? Let’s say their falling out is over theft and adultry: one villain stole the the other’s purse, so the other slept with the first villain’s wife. The thief then kills the adulterer — in that case he’s stopped evil without recognizing it for what it is.
The only way to stop evil is to stamp it out root-and-branch and replace it with good. And then be forever vigilant lest evil return.
> I think the MSM and liberal history re-writers may prove you wrong.
Yes, because he is not going to be proactively forgotten. He is the itch that will be continually scratched until it bleeds, causing more itching and more scratching.
And from our side, we are either going to play the itch or we’ll play the scratch. We’d be wiser to ignore it altogether, and get on with the proactive forgetting. Don’t let ourselves or Obama’s crowd be sidetracked by the death of this evil man.
From the moment he drew his last breath he is irrelevant to whatever now happens in America and this world. That is one reason why he should be proactively forgotten.
For Ted Kennedy it is time to meet the greatest Judge of all. The one who he cannot influence or bribe, or the family can’t pay off. I just hope Mary Jo is standing beside God at the pearly gates as Ted comes to hear the verdict of where he will spend his eternity.
Thank goodness!!
The Kennedy's prove that not all white trash is poor & lives in a trailer park. Prayers for his family, yadda-yadda.
nothing then...
He was scum; rich and famous, but scum non the less
But the name of the wicked will rot." (Proverbs 10:7)
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