Posted on 01/09/2007 11:40:00 AM PST by pabianice
Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) just announced on TV (clip on Fox News, 1/9/07) that 'Iraq is George Bush’s Vietnam. We have no chance of solving their civil war. We need resolve the war politically, not militarily.' How Kennedy’s staff – who have, in fact, run his office and written every word (all caps, triple-spaced) for the past 20 years – could have let him slip out of his net is a mystery. That this drunken embarrassment who owes his political career only to his brother’s pull is still in office says volumes about Massachusetts, one of just two states to lose population since 2004.
The MSM would have you believe that Ted Kennedy is a revered figure here in Massachusetts. He is not. He is a not very bright drunken playboy of late laid low by the combination of age, senility, and life-long alcohol abuse. Were it not for the 17th amendment to the US Constitution, Ted Kennedy would have lived his life quietly as a drunken womanizer with a trust fund derived from his father’s life of crime. Were that it were so.
Kennedy’s misstatement is breath-taking. We lost Vietnam to the American Left, not to the communists. As has been made clear in any number of books since 1975, the Vietnam War had nothing to do with a civil war and everything to do with an invasion of an American ally by Chinese surrogates. General Giap long ago confessed that Nixon’s bombing of North Vietnam in 1972, had it gone on several months longer, would have utterly destroyed the communist invaders and would have led to their swift defeat. Despite the Democrats’ desperate attempts to rewrite history from their safe refuges on American college campuses, they have been unable to make people forget that it was the Left’s total cut-off of all military aid to South Vietnam in 1973 – even rifle ammunition – that left our allies defenseless and led to North Vietnam’s/China’s final victory. That the MSM ignores this bitter truth is just one more reason to hold them in the contempt they so rightly deserve. That Ted Kennedy remains in the US Senate is just one more explanation of the scorn with which the public views that body. That we might now desert the Iraqs we have pledged to help ("politically" = cut and run) is shameful.
He also drowned a campaign worker in Chappaquiddik- anyone in the media interested in that at all? I have detailed info! I SWEAR!
That's a polite way to say it, my word to describe him has a few more s's added in there....
I wish the senator would tell us which war was amicably settled by politics, and that the pact and the peace lasted for a long, long time.
He's crackers.
He can't help it, he's from Massachusetts!
Addled is a polite way to put it. Voters in Massachusetts - have you no shame? Ted Kennedy is living proof that only the good die young.
That it fits more than just "the Swimmer" should be a bit of a wake up call...
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Yup, you're right.
Your link tries to hijack my browser.
"...Were it not for the 17th amendment ..."
Wet brain syndrome?
I've often wondered if JFK and Bobby were alive today, and had presumably continued in politics in the Democrat Party for some 40+ years, would they too have sunken to such a low level of liberal psychosis as the sotman Teddy?
"Pickled" is more like it.
Do a Google search for "St. George Tucker high treason", minus the quotes.
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