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Why Boston backed Teddy (Why did Ted Kennedy win the Senate Eight times?)
MSNBC ^
| 8/27/2009
| Miake Taibbi
Posted on 08/27/2009 1:01:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I note the following statement in the article :
It was a quality Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., a long time Kennedy friend and colleague, said made him a "master political craftsman."
Delahunt described Kennedy as being the "kind of guy with 10,000 friends," but he said that he was also the "most generous politician" he knew.
IT IS EASY TO BE CALLED GENEROUS WHEN YOU'RE SPENDING OTHER PEOPLE's MONEY ! 'NUFF SAID.
To: SeekAndFind
These people are blind, stupid and willing to buy snakeoil no doubt.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:03:47 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
To: SeekAndFind
To the headline: because people in MA are idiots.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:04:11 PM PDT
by
svcw
(Legalism reinforces self-righteousness - it communicates to you the good news of your own goodness)
To: SeekAndFind
So, who did Teddy leave his wealth to???
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:05:10 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Paladin2
Will the current Mrs. K., Victoria Reggie Kennedy, get to ‘stay’ at the Compound for as long as she likes? Or is someone out there right now, changing the locks and alarm codes?
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:07:05 PM PDT
by
PennsylvaniaMom
("First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win!" Mahatma Ghandi)
To: PennsylvaniaMom
Maybe someone is putting up windmills just offshore as we speak.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:08:15 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: SeekAndFind
His family wealth bought him the seat and he sat there like a toad for the rest of his life.
To: SeekAndFind
I asked someone in Mass why they kept sending that POS back to the Senate and his answer was, "Well, if a Senator's job is to bring recognition to his state, then he does a pretty good job."
I replied, "If that is what a Senator's job is, then Illinois should run John Wayne Gacy for office?"
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:08:45 PM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
To: SeekAndFind
Why is the song: I can bring home the bacon, and fry it up in a pan, and never, never, ever forget your a man... cause I’m a...”
Come to mind?
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:10:04 PM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Pray for our country...)
To: Paladin2
Yes...as yet ANOTHER honor to the MEMORY of the LION of LIBERALISM...what better ‘green’ memorial than windmills. Dozens and dozens of TeddyTurbines off the Hyannis shore line.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:11:56 PM PDT
by
PennsylvaniaMom
("First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win!" Mahatma Ghandi)
To: b4its2late
Just maybe Bill Mauer was right, on Conan’s show, when he said people in the US are “STOOPID”. It only takes Mass. to prove it! Kennedys, Kerry, Romney, Franks and many, many others.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:13:27 PM PDT
by
GOYAKLA
To: SeekAndFind
There are a lot of stories about his "everyman" qualities being told around Hyannis, where he was often just another guy in the produce aisle. A friend once spotted him in some dive bar in Hyannis, drinking Jameson from a tumbler and dunking Chips Ahoy from the bag he'd set on the bar. Just like any other guy in the produce aisle. There was another story about the Hyannis PD driving him home in a stupor one night, I don't recall the details.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:14:23 PM PDT
by
angkor
(The U.S. Congress is at war with America.)
To: SeekAndFind
A “favored son” can do no wrong. He can even kill a girl and suffer no consequences.
To: SeekAndFind
Teddy and Massholes are THE perfect example as to why we need term limits.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:15:18 PM PDT
by
TV Dinners
(Hope is not a Strategy)
To: SeekAndFind
“Here in Massachusetts, people understood him and wanted him on their side”
...I guess they “understood” that murder is sometimes necessary.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:15:39 PM PDT
by
albie
To: SeekAndFind
I knew people from Hyannis when I lived up East. They told me that no Kennedy ever paid a bill for services rendered, whether a doctor or a barber.
To: SeekAndFind
Mike Taibbi. The name is well known in these parts.
Former Boston Channel 5 reporter and long time Kennedy apologist.
Where's the Barf Alert?
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:16:40 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Hope requires the contender, who sees no virtue in surrender.)
To: PennsylvaniaMom
Dozens and dozens of TeddyTurbines off the Hyannis shore line.Hey! And offshore structures visible from the Compound containing square mile after square mile of TeddySolarPanels.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:17:55 PM PDT
by
Ole Okie
(American)
To: SeekAndFind
As one who had to do battle with them, they are exactly like Ci-cago, corrupt, bribing, vicious and absolutely without any morals or scruples.
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:20:06 PM PDT
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
To: SeekAndFind
[[(Why did Ted Kennedy win the Senate Eight times?)]]
Because people with bent over noses stood around the polling places insuring that everyone voted for him? Either that, or there’s soemthign awful in the drinking water in Mass to cause mass mentality
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posted on
08/27/2009 1:20:18 PM PDT
by
CottShop
(Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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