Posted on 08/29/2009 10:28:04 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
BOSTON – President Barack Obama led the nation Saturday in mourning and remembering "the greatest legislator of our time," celebrating the indelible impact of Edward M. Kennedy as a senator for nearly a half-century and leader of America's most famous family during tragedy and triumph.
Delivering an emotional, simple eulogy for Kennedy that capped a two-hour Roman Catholic funeral Mass, Obama employed humor, his own experiences and timeless anecdotes to memorialize the senator, who died Tuesday at 77 after battling brain cancer for more than a year. The country may have viewed him as "heir to a weighty legacy," Obama said, but he was playfully known by the youngest Kennedys less grandly: as the big cheese, "The Grand Fromage."
"Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections," Obama said. "It was to give a voice to those who were not heard, to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity, to make real the dream of our founding."
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He was all for taking money from some to give to others. A virtue these days, it seems.
US President Barack Obama applauds as he prepares to speak at the funeral of Senator Edward Kennedy in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston. President Barack Obama eulogized Senator Edward Kennedy Saturday as a "champion" of the poor and dispossessed, unbroken by tragedies which tore unmercilessly at his political clan. (AFP/Jewel Samad)
Drunks, cheaters, and murderers...yeah...the BEST of America shines today...PUKE.
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (L) looks at former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura (R) before funeral services for U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston, Massachusetts August 29, 2009. Senator Kennedy died late Tuesday after a battle with cancer. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES POLITICS OBITUARY)
Did they cover the crucifixes?
Well, that should bring his tracking score up two or three points for the next week, and drop the stock market two to three hundre.
Aw, don't be so hard on him, Norm. After all, he could write nice, helpful letters to the KGB.
“He was all for taking money from some to give to others. A virtue these days, it seems.”
Except for his. You may remember the fact that he owned a shopping mall back in the 80’s and was caught treating his emplyees like dirt. Minimum wage and all. I hope the SOB rots in hell.
He t’was no Robin Hood.. that is for sure.
“President Barack Obama eulogized Senator Edward Kennedy Saturday as a “champion” of the poor and dispossessed, unbroken by tragedies which tore unmercilessly at his political clan.”
Mary Jo Kopechne’s death was a tragedy. But caused by Teddy. Did Barack mention that?
Skinny, thieving jerk eulogizes fat, thieving jerk.
Greatest? Yes, in a technical sense.
Most moral? Far from it.
I feel bad for the Bushes having to sit there. Clintons to the right, Obamas in front, Kennedys to the left...that’s truly a nightmare!
Baraq Obomba in a church. That’s unusual.
Robert Byrd (D-WV) 91, born November 20, 1917
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) 85 January 23, 1924
Daniel Inouye (D-HI) 84 September 7, 1924
Daniel Akaka (D-HI) 84 September 11, 1924
Arlen Specter (D-PA) 79 February 12, 1930?
God bless America.
we wouldnt want to see anyone erupt into flames right there in church now..would we?
Oh wait..on second thought...
I plan to get to work early Monday morning to stand in front of the Headquarters Building where I will watch the flag raised to full staff and stay there where it belongs!
It’s his third time in church since he was elected. One was a Unitarian church. He did go visit a mosque when he was globe trotting.
He may well have been the greatest legislator of our time. ANd that’s the problem. We have had way too much legislation.
I turned the TV off when it was his turn to speak.
He only speaks lies in my opinion.
After all, he did try to claim a homestead exemption on his DC home until he got caught. Blamed it on the bookkeeper.
And that's why when Teddy's mother, Rose Kennedy, died, her estate was probated in much more inheritance-friendly Florida, where she had a home, and not in Massachusetts. Petty concerns about such trivialities as the law that requires estates be probated where the person had their legal home were just shrugged aside. Never mind that one has to actually LIVE in a state to be a resident; even though Rose hadn't left Massachusetts in about twelve years, her family insisted that in her heart, she just KNEW she was a Floridian and wanted her estate settled that way.
Where’s the BARF Alert?
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
I suppose by that definition he’d be the greatest idiot.
I found it hard to believe they were GOING! It would seem they could have found SOME legitimate excuse....
The Catholic church passes on another teaching moment.
Did anyone else notice Hillary chatting it up with Bush? Aad what was slick willy yappin to falsemessiah about? NOTICE the Carter’s steered clear of the Clintoon’s? They really must be in a feud.
Surprised the church did not fall down when the O bozo arrived.
Meanwhile, this will be a cheap embalming, he was already preserved in Al.
Vince
If he had died last year, he would’ve gotten a classy Presidential eulogy.
Did he demand that Christian symbols be covered up before speaking??
Throw some dirt in the hole and get it over with already.
Look at Clinton’s clenched jaw and Obambi’s nose in the air, egos you cannot measure. Bush looks like the only one who is relaxed.
I didn't see any emotion at all. Did anyone else see any emotion?
And here's big Teddy objecting to a nice "green" wind farm that would be too near his own backyard:
Kennedy doesn't play by the rules
...But like a lot of well-to-do Cape and Islands landowners and sailing enthusiasts, Kennedy doesn't want to share his Atlantic playground with an energy facility, no matter how clean, green, and nearly unseen. Last month he secretly arranged for a poison-pill amendment, never debated in either house of Congress, to be slipped into an unrelated Coast Guard bill. It would give the governor of Massachusetts, who just happens to be a wind farm opponent, unilateral authority to veto the Cape Wind project.... When word of the amendment leaked out, environmentalists were appalled....
Obama doesn't do emotion. It has to be edited in by the media, who are all too happy to oblige.
“Throw some dirt in the hole and get it over with already.”
You got that right!!! Even Fox news is sucking up. Thank God for Andy Griffith reruns.
And as usual with the dems, the voice of the people fell on deaf ears.
I wished/HOPEd for a moment they would burst into flames or bugs would appear all over their bodies from thr effects of the smoke and where they were(in a beautiful Catholic church)Anyone else endured this event until the end and also see this???
Isn’t Nadler greater than Kennedy was, around the waist?
I see ole’ Chewey they First Wookie sitting there with her bottom jaw stuck out.
It’s his third time in church since he was elected. One was a Unitarian church. He did go visit a mosque when he was globe trotting.
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I see you are keeping count too. Amazing that he attended Trinity faithfully every single Sunday
I thought Dan Rostenkowski was the greatest legislator of our time. Oh well...
This man Obama voted ***THREE*** times against giving medical care and attention to babies who were born alive after an abortion. He voted **THREE** times to allow these infants to die from cold, neglect, and hypoxia on cold stainless steel slabs in a utility room! If this were an adult that would be called torture!
Obama is a man who supports shoving scissors into the brains of infants already more than half born, scrambling their brains, and sucking the gelatinous mass into surgical suction jars.
Obama is a man who wishes to force all Americans to pay for the crime of abortion through our taxes.
Anyone who thinks that the Catholic Church is standing as a representative of Christ on earth,...well.., they are mistaken.
That's the way coaches success is determined!
How telling is the body language on Bill and Hill!
Where is Totus?
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