Posted on 08/26/2009 9:58:02 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Arizona Sen. John McCain called Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy "the last lion of the Senate" Wednesday as he remembered the liberal Democrat who was on the opposite side from McCain on most issues.
"He was a formidable opponent, valuable ally and a dear friend," McCain said of the Massachusetts Democrat who died Tuesday night of brain cancer at age 77.
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Juan is still a B0z0 in is doddering old age.
Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:
He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.
Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:
“In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”
Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation
“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”
A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.
Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:
“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”
Kennedy betrays President Reagan:
May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.
If we combine this thread with the George W. Bush thread, will we create a black hole that will consume the Earth?
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He was a formidable opponent, valuable ally and a dear friend,”....
You bet! The best of Amnesty buddies...right, John?
Seriously, they were on the same side more often than not.
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You know, maybe Teddy should have taken Juan with him.
A “forminable opponent”??? McQueeg agreed with every liberal/socialist bill Kennedy came up with that I remember.
I remember Kennedy speaking at the 1980 RAT convention ... big headline next day in the WaPo that Kennedy “electrifies convention.”
Anyway one of his big applause lines was that the RATS had only a few months to convince the public that “Ronald Wilson Reagan is not Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
Well, duh ...
And that is precisely why you are not president!!!!
McCain and the other RINOs will sorely miss Ted Kennedy. It will be much more difficult for RINOs to sell out American freedoms and promote socialism without having the excuse of the Almighty Kennedy forcing them to do it. McCain pretend that Kennedy was an “opponent”. The fact is that they were partners.
Kennedy was a Hyena of the Senate and not the only one either, just the worst.
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Yeah, he sure could clog up the aisle.
He should have died in jail if he avoided being hung.
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