[Guenevere]

bttt

[Congressman Billybob]

Teddy Kennedy talked a much better game than he played. Of the person who replaces him lives by his words and not by his actions, the new guy or gal could be a pretty good Senator, methinks.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "A Fitting Legacy for Teddy"

[J40000]

From what I’ve heard of him, he wasn’t so much a passionate speaker as he was an Angry, hate-filled spewer of lies.

EVERY time I hear him go off on a rant, it’s like a dog going crazy when he sees a squirrel. And reason and fact are totally abandoned once he snapped. You can just FEEL the spit flying.

Am I wrong?

[kittykat77]

Our national media are treating the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy as a historic event, more historic even than the deaths of presidents like Gerald Ford. Is this level of attention warranted?

No, of course it's not warranted. But neither was the level of attention given to Michael Jackson's death, or Farrah Fawcett's death, etc, etc. Remember, first and foremost, "the media" is a for-profit business. It may be hard to accept, especially when such coverage annoys the heck out of you, but coverage of such stories bumps up viewership and readership.

It's futile to point out that the focus of such attention is morally unworthy if the businesses are making more money with such saturation coverage.

[the invisib1e hand]

Two of his brothers were mercilessly assassinated.

Well, this is an interesting comment. On the one hand, how can an assassin be any more merciful than by using a single, high-powered rifle on an unsuspecting individual?

On the other hand, what would be a "merciful" way to assissinate someone? The Terri Schiavo approach?

[Semper Mark]

Per the title: “Remembering Ted Kennedy”

“and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!”

[Christian4Bush]

And after he told Bork’s wife it was “nothing personal”, I hope Mrs. Bork told Chappakennedy to go bugger himself.

[IronJack]

"(The Kennedys) are the closest thing we have in this country to royalty, the clan's iconic images engraved on our national consciousness."

That, in a nation founded on class equality and coming from an ideology that supposedly worships egalitarianism, is anything but a compliment!

"He bore the unspeakable grief and overwhelming hopes of a nation."

He CAUSED unspeakable grief and ERODED the hopes of a nation with his self-serving, ineffective obstructionism.

Ted Kennedy may have been as asset to Cutty Sark, but he was no credit to the Senate.

[Sig Sauer P220]

I'm puking through some of the Fox News coverage of this debacle. I'm looking at the people present at this thing, thinking to myself, theres a churchfull of people there who helped bring down this country.

Some nitwit female commentator said, this church is in a less than affluent part of Boston, which just signifies the hardscrabble life the Kennedy's led.

Fact is, its probably the only liberal catholic church in the area that would allow this circus. What a pukefest.

[mulligan]

Why would anyone remember this piece of human trash?