Ted Kennedy doesn't know who wrote "The Communist Manifesto"

The Boston Globe ^ | 12/22/2005 | Ted Kennedy

[rlmorel]

...I hope the president doesn't continue to hide behind such transparent and irrelevant justifications. Congress has amended the 1978 FISA law over time, most recently with the passage of the PATRIOT Act -- and there is no reason to think we wouldn't do so again -- if we knew what the administration is doing. If the president needs more powers to lawfully protect the American people from terrorism, then he should come to Congress to seek modification of current laws. The president has failed to provide a sufficient legal basis for his actions; instead he and his Cabinet spent the week refusing to negotiate with Congress and opposing bipartisan efforts to extend the PATRIOT Act for three more months.

Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto. Following his professor's instructions to use original source material, this young man discovered that he, too, was on the government's watch list.

Think of the chilling effect on free speech and academic freedom when a government agent shows up at your home -- after you request a book from the library.

Incredibly, we are now in an era where reading a controversial book may be evidence of a link to terrorists...

[rlmorel]

LOL...still is!

[Admin Moderator]

Don't post that graphic again.

[ZULU]

All the voters of the Massachusetts apparently need to know is his name is Kennedy - at least a substantial number of them.

I'm surprised they haven't petitioned the Pope to have John, Bobby, Rose, And the Senior Kennedy Patriarch - the Boorleger - declared saints.

[SunkenCiv]

probably said this to get off the hook for a deadline in the class. :')

Thanks hsalaw and USNBandit.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549641/posts?page=38#38

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[HighlyOpinionated]

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Manifesto of the Communist Party

1848



1- Is Teddy's ghost writer ignorant or just sloppy?

2- Did Teddy dictate the article to a secretary who was ignorant?

3- Is there anyone among Teddy's office staff who actually studied while in college?

4- Was there no one in Teddy's office willing to challenge him on the authorship of "the manual" they all follow so blindly?

5- Is this another demonstration of the ignorance of the Democrats?

6- Is it all Bush's fault?



How can anyone take THAT seriously?
Th-Th-Th-Th-That's all folks.

[Allan]

you mean the esteemed Senator from Illinois?

[Lancey Howard]

The disgusting, murderous pig is the perfect Senator for the simpletons who keep re-electing him.

[js1138]

Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto

Sorry to disagree with your interpretation, but unless Communist Manifesto is italicized, it's a generic phrase, not a specific book. It's a manifesto, it's communist, and it's by Mao.

[Palladin]

What, pray tell, is the name of "the student"?

The little creep should be outed for one and all to recognize him as a liar.

[Revolting cat!]

It's one of his Greatest Hits, everybody knows that!

[Intolerant in NJ]

Fox News reported last night that this student's story had turned out to be false, but that a Kennedy's staff member nevertheless insisted that "although the story itself is not true, it demonstrates the real nature of the Bush administration" - now that's stupid....

Mary Jo Kopechne.....

[sgtbono2002]

Exactly---By the way I have listened to Ted Kennedy and although he didnt write the Communist Manifesto, He could have.

[justrepublican]

The people who vote for him don't need to know how to read , because Teddy will make all there decisions for them.

[Calvin Locke]

Chivas, is his preferred adult beverage, iirc.

Go to Boston talk host/columinist Howie Carr's website on Teddy at http://fatboy.cc/ for a look at the runt's family and life.

[freedomlover]

I got a grin a few hrs ago when Err Atlanta played the "best" of Mike Malloy and we was going nuts over this treating it as gospel - it had just come over the wire.

[rcocean]

"Facts are not relevant when a lib is [attempting to] make a point. It's for a good cause, don't get sidetracked by details such as truth and facts."

This is the motto Mary Mapes and Dan Rather live by. Well that, and "FIA".

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

PING

[Calvin Locke]

5.) Errors are ignored if a.) they are anti-America or anti-Bush, or b.) it's down by a "beautiful person".

Don't forget the porn site pictures that some Marxist Boston City Councilor and cohort purported to be US forces
raping/torturing Iraqis. Reporter said they were bogus. Editors told her to write the story as told by the
activists anyway, and it was printed.

Ah, to be a subsidiary of the New York Slimes.

[Fido969]

What a jackass that guy is.

Half the country is laughing at teddy making a fool of himself again.

And a fair portion of those people are laughing at the idiots in Massachusetts that keep sending that moron back to Washington.

[Ostlandr]

This is just out there on too many levels. The Chappaquiddick U-Boat Commander can't even quote a faked story correctly.

And besides, what self-respecting college library doesn't have dozens of copies of both the Manifesto and Mao's Little Red Book left over from the '60s?