Posted on 08/29/2009 4:50:30 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
"In general, it may be affirmed that there is no such passion in human minds, as the love of mankind, merely as such, independent of personal qualities, or services, or of relation to ourselves." - David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, 1739
One of the media idiots was mourning that the last Kennedy (other than Jean) is gone, and now what will happen to their legacy? Joe and Rose had 30 grandchildren, and now some 69 great-grandchildren. There will be no end to their strain in America.
“Senator Kennedy needs to be sent to the afterlife with a private, family-only funeral and the prayers of the Church for the salvation of his immortal soul. He will not be missed by the unborn who he betrayed time and time again, nor by the rest of us who are laboring to undo the scandalous example of Catholicism that he gave to three generations of Americans.”
Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer,
President, Human Life International
are you talking about the RCC or the American Catholic Church, Bishops - East Coast division?
“Where the corpse is, let the vultures come!” - Jesus of Nazareth
“Anybody here seen my old friend Teddy?
Can you tell me where he’s gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die drunk
I just looked around and he’s gone ...”
Some theologians argue that the church age is over and I can see that with the Catholic church.
II Thessalonians 2:3-4:
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
“that would be to suggest Kennedy was not genuinely moved by the plight of those whose struggles he embraced on the political stage. He clearly was so moved.”
Road apples. He was animated by the power of Satan to work tirelessly for America’s destruction.
Excerpt:
It was only in a British newspaper that the American author Joyce Carol Oates was able last week to publish the following (factually accurate) account: “Kennedy chose to flee the scene leaving the young woman to die an agonising death, not of drowning, but of suffocation over a period of hours. It was over 10 hours before Kennedy reported the accident, by which time he’d consulted a family lawyer. The senator’s explanation for this unconscionable, despicable, unmanly ... behaviour was never convincing.”
MaryJo’s parents weren’t much better.
They let the Kennedy’s BRIBE them to SHUT UP!
Imagine taking Kennedy money for justice in the murder of your daughter. I can’t.
Mark Steyn: Airbrushing out Mary Jo Kopechne ("Only a Kennedy could get away with it.")
“…........We are all flawed, and most of us are weak, and in hellish moments, at a split-second’s notice, confronting the choice that will define us ever after, many of us will fail the test. Perhaps Mary Jo could have been saved; perhaps she would have died anyway. What is true is that Edward Kennedy made her death a certainty. When a man (if you’ll forgive the expression) confronts the truth of what he has done, what does honor require? ……………”.Ted Kennedy went a different route. He got kitted out with a neck brace and went on TV and announced the invention of the “Kennedy curse,” a concept that yoked him to his murdered brothers as a fellow victim — and not, as Mary Jo perhaps realized in those final hours, the perpetrator. He dared us to call his bluff, and, when we didn’t, he made all of us complicit in what he’d done. We are all prey to human frailty, but few of us get to inflict ours on an entire nation.
His defenders would argue that he redeemed himself with his “progressive” agenda, up to and including health-care “reform.” It was an odd kind of “redemption”: In a cooing paean to the senator on a cringe-makingly obsequious edition of NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, Edward Klein of Newsweek fondly recalled that one of Ted’s “favorite topics of humor was, indeed, Chappaquiddick itself. He would ask people, ‘Have you heard any new jokes about Chappaquiddick?’”
“…………When a man is capable of what Ted Kennedy did that night in 1969 and in the weeks afterwards, what else is he capable of? An NPR listener said the senator’s passing marked “the end of civility in the U.S. Congress.” Yes, indeed. Who among us does not mourn the lost “civility” of the 1987 Supreme Court hearings? Considering the nomination of Judge Bork, Ted Kennedy rose on the Senate floor and announced that “Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit down at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution . . . ” ………………….”
Whoa! “Liberals” (in the debased contemporary American sense of the term) would have reason to find Borkian jurisprudence uncongenial, but to suggest the judge and former solicitor-general favored re-segregation of lunch counters is a slander not merely vile but so preposterous that, like his explanation for Chappaquiddick, only a Kennedy could get away with it. If you had to identify a single speech that marked “the end of civility” in American politics, that’s a shoo-in.
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bttt
ROTFL! Rainbows and unicorns for everyone... ;-D
Will our left leaning MSM call them out as 'Chappaquiddick Type-people'? I won't hold my breath. It does point out the relevance of his behavior even 40 years on.
I, too, have always thought that about Ted, the needy little boy, trying to live up to the larger than life much older brothers in a famous family. It must have been difficult for him. My biggest issue with Ted being lionized or canonized as heroic is how he has dealt with people one on one when it really counted. His constituents recall a 'regular' guy (maybe he secretly longed to be) who got on well with everyone, but who can't be nice to strangers in a diner when it's time to put in some face time as a politician? Most can. He left Mary Jo in the car - he wasn't some young kid, he was a grown man and he didn't even anonymously call in a tip to police. Or call in a favor. His treatment of his wife Joan while he philandered away was atrocious. It's those little things that get me, even before we discuss his pro-abortion stance or other political issues.
They are a pretty ‘blah’ looking family overall and none really seem to ‘standout’ . Even Caroline was awful in her attempt to become a nominee for Senate.
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