Posted on 08/26/2009 1:49:10 PM PDT by Former Fetus
Wednesday, August 26, 2009; 4:31 PM
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the political patriarch who died late Tuesday after a 15-month battle with brain cancer, will be buried Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery, close to the famed gravesites of his slain brothers.
As tributes poured in Wednesday from across the country and the world, Washington mourned the Massachusetts Democrat whose outsize personality and political skills continued to drive the health-care debate even in his final days.
Flags were ordered flown at half-staff at the U.S. Capitol, the White House and federal buildings. Across the Potomac River at the nation's military cemetery, photographers and camera crews were escorted to the flickering orange flame and polished marble gravestones that mark the final resting places of John F. Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, in the third year of his presidency, and Robert F. Kennedy, gunned down nearly five years later during his own White House campaign.
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Scottish flags were also ordered to half-staff as most expect whiskey sales to dip to an all-time low.
A waste dump would be more appropriate for Fat Teddy!
Who decided to turn Arlington into a toxic waste dump?!?!?
A burial at sea would be more appropriate for the U-Boat commander.
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.
And Yassar Arafat got the Nobel peace price.
The PC crowd discarded reason long ago. Are we surprised?
Will Jello Biafa, 6025, East Bay Ray, and Klaus Flouride be allowed to be buried near the other Dead Kennedys?
He’s no Jack Kennedy.
Ted Kennedy didn’t just betray presidents. He committed outright treason and emboldend our enemies in wartime.
Will he have an alcohol-fed eternal flame?
Was he a veteran? Or are Senators entitled to burial at Arlington?
Recall this when you hear OBAMA embrace Kennedy's legacy at the same time telling the public that the opponents of Obamacare "lie" about it. Fearmonger much?
Everclear flame.
The Tomb of the Well Know Marxist
The Tomb of the Well Known Marxist
At least he’s gonna be buried, and is no longer among the living. There is a silver lining!
I don’t remember Teddy being a vet. Did he ever serve in the military?. If not he has no right to be buried there..
In general, you set the bar pretty low. But JFK was a bona-fide war veteran and was POTUS.
How the swimmer rates is beyond me. They just just dump his bloated carcass into the Potomac and let it get swept out to sea. Maybe use a Buick as a coffin...
This is the ultimate insult to our Fighting Men and Women around the world who sacrificed all for this Country. We need to keep them in our hearts because their final resting places has been desecrated beyond recognition.
This is just wrong.
Some cities have “Ghost Tours” of all the supposed ghosts of years past that still walk the streets. Maybe now some entrepreneurs can give Arlington Ghost Tours of all the real heroes buried there that have gotten out of their graves so they won’t lay near Teddy.
Ya gotta love the NYTimes (okay, so maybe you don’t), their lead story on Kennedy opens by describing him as ‘disciplined’. Or maybe they’re using it as a modifier for ‘liberal’ and a disciplined liberal is the new euphemism for a Leninist liberal...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/us/politics/27kennedy.html?hp
Arlington, eh? I wonder if he EVER thought about the thousands upon thousands of murdered US citizens at the hands of illegal aliens....THAT is Ted’s legacy, the guy who invited and promoted the invasion of this sovereign nation with his first amnesty.
Keyword Aliens
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/aliens/index?tab=articles
Well, technically it’s not treason because he is a constitutionally protected class....a Democrat.
“the lion of the Senate had been able to actively participate. “
A Misspelling. Should be Lyin of the Senate.
True story! Eminent domain by another name...
“whose outsize personality “
By at least 300 lbs.
US Army 1951-1953.
Oh well.
Maybe we can all go over there during the freeper convention and pay our respects. /*sarc
Well, that was certainly eye-opening. My estimation of JFK just increased a good bit...
2 year hitch in the Army after getting thrown out of Harvard. Rose to the rank of private.
From wiki:
Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in June 1951.[9] Following basic training at Fort Dix, he requested assignment to Fort Holabird for Army Intelligence training, but was dropped after a few weeks without explanation.[9] He went to Camp Gordon for training in the Military Police Corps.[9] In June 1952, he was assigned to the honor guard at SHAPE headquarters in Paris.[4][9] His father’s political connections ensured he was not deployed to the ongoing Korean War.[4][10] While stationed in Europe he travelled extensively on weekends and climbed the Matterhorn.[11] He was discharged in March 1953 as a private first class.[9][11]
Kramer, in a suprising blind squirrel move, has called the Chivas Regal stock a SELL.
Why is he entitled to be buried in Arlington???????? I could feel my head pound when I read this, I think my ears are bleeding.
Plus Senators can be buried there also. He qualifies under two criteria.
He is in hell now, but he does qualify for Arlington.
Teddy was the left-wing equivalent of the holy roller who is secretly a sexual freak and has little boys chained up in his basement, but “atones” for it by screaming at other people about sin and damnation.
Teddy spent almost his entire public career “atoning” for Mary Jo, at our expense.
He went past the rank of "private" which is the first two ranks, E-1 and E-2. He became a Private First Class, E-3.
I think saying that Kennedy is “in Hell” is disrespectful to his family. Declaring where he is now is above my pay grade.
he requested assignment to Fort Holabird for Army Intelligence training, but was dropped after a few weeks without explanation
I betcha my Senator, Jeff Sessions, hasn’t shed any tears over this a$$hole’s death today! He Borked Sessions years ago when Jeff had been nominated for a federal judgeship - I guarantee JS has never fogotten that!
Rose to the rank of private. LOL that is quite witty :O)
Look at it this way. If you are walking around Arlington National Cemetary and have to take a wizz, there is now an appropriate place to do it.
I'll believe that when I see the stake in his heart.
He may qualify as a senator but not from his military ‘service’. Do you recall in the 90’s when Clinton tried to bury his money man (need a name here) who had been in the merchant marine? They caught him at it and he had to back down. At that time they were quite clear about the requirements for burial due to declining space.
IIRC it was minimum grade of E-5 AND a purple heart. Teddy doesn’t qualify on either.
LOL!
I think a Burial at Sea would be most appropriate for the late senator who loved spending time on his yacht and was an avid Swimmer.
I think a Burial at Sea would be most appropriate for the late senator who loved spending time on his yacht and was an avid Swimmer.
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