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U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy dies
Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | August 25, 2009 | Scott Malone

Posted on 08/25/2009 11:38:13 PM PDT by Islaminaction

By Scott Malone – 20 mins ago BOSTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, has died, his family said. He was 77. "Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port (Massachusetts)," the Kennedy family said in a statement. One of the most influential and longest-serving senators in U.S. history -- a liberal standard-bearer who was also known as a consummate congressional dealmaker -- Kennedy had been battling brain cancer, which was diagnosed in May 2008. "We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," the family statement said. "He loved this country and devoted his life to serving it. He always believed that our best days were still ahead, but it's hard to imagine any of them without him," the family added.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 111th; cultureofcorruption; democrats; democratscandals; government; mythmaking; obama; revisionisthistory; swimmerbuysit; tedkennedy
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1 posted on 08/25/2009 11:38:14 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Islaminaction

This should of been posted in the news section. I apologize.


2 posted on 08/25/2009 11:39:22 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Islaminaction

It is...twice.


3 posted on 08/25/2009 11:40:46 PM PDT by top 2 toe red (O-B-A-M-A = One Big Ass Mistake, America.)
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To: top 2 toe red

I see. Please delete mods.


4 posted on 08/25/2009 11:42:04 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Islaminaction

Ted Kennedy is dead
____________________

The bar is open!

Drinks on the house!

Its PARTAY time


5 posted on 08/25/2009 11:43:12 PM PDT by GeronL (Toward the TOTUS State-Nightmare in Obamaland .. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Islaminaction
All my life I've been sick to puking of Kennedy this, Kennedy that. Now they are at last almost gone.

Bless you, Teddy. RIP. May you find mercy and pity for your monstrosities.

6 posted on 08/25/2009 11:44:01 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney?)
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To: Islaminaction

Bye.


7 posted on 08/25/2009 11:44:18 PM PDT by Shaka
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To: Islaminaction
a liberal standard-bearer who was also known as a consummate(DRINKER) congressional dealmaker!
8 posted on 08/25/2009 11:46:14 PM PDT by blondee123 (Welcome to Communism under B. Hussein OBAMA!)
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To: Islaminaction
The man who even democRATs knew was worse than Jimmy Carter has died.

God bless Mary Jo.

9 posted on 08/25/2009 11:46:42 PM PDT by South40 (Islam has a long tradition of tolerance, ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: Islaminaction

Kennedy smears President Bush and our troops on the US Senate floor:

He described the Iraq war as a fraud “made up in Texas” as part of political strategy — accused the President of the US of “telling lie, after lie, after lie”, in order to go to war in Iraq.

Kennedy smears Judge Alito...Mrs. Alito in tears:

“In suggesting that Samuel Alito had belonged to a racist conservative group, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy relied heavily on an essay published by the organization that sounded like a bigoted rant. The essay, titled ‘In Defense of Elitism.....But the magazine’s editor at the time says the article was pure satire, a send-up of what liberals think conservatives think. He added quote, ‘I think left-wing groups have been feeding Senator Kennedy snippets and he has been mindlessly reciting them,”

Sen. Edward Kennedy Smears the Nation

“On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked: ‘Who would prefer that Saddam’s torture chambers still be open?’ Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management — U.S. management.”

A speech on the Senate floor, May 10, 2004.

Kennedy’s smear of Judge Bork on the US Senator floor:

“Robert Bork’s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is — and is often the only — protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy....”

Kennedy betrays President Reagan:

May 14, 1983 document from the KGB archives reveals that Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) reached out to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party, Yuri Andropov, to propose a kind of public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s defense policy initiatives toward the Soviet Union, policies that Kennedy felt were too aggressive.


10 posted on 08/25/2009 11:46:51 PM PDT by roses of sharon (It is not actual suffering but a taste of better things which excites people to revolt: Hoffer)
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To: Islaminaction
"He loved this country and devoted his life to serving (SCREWING) it."
11 posted on 08/25/2009 11:47:35 PM PDT by blondee123 (Welcome to Communism under B. Hussein OBAMA!)
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To: roses of sharon

Thanks for all of that info.


12 posted on 08/25/2009 11:48:04 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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To: Islaminaction

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

oops, sorry. Let us mourn...


13 posted on 08/25/2009 11:48:14 PM PDT by max americana (i)
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To: Islaminaction

Well, this certainly will crimp Obama’s vacation. How inconvenient!


14 posted on 08/25/2009 11:48:37 PM PDT by TCats
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To: roses of sharon

This damn traitor lived far to long.


15 posted on 08/25/2009 11:48:39 PM PDT by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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To: Islaminaction

He’s dead?


16 posted on 08/25/2009 11:50:04 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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17 posted on 08/25/2009 11:52:06 PM PDT by NoLibZone (North Korea? The only buildings in Hawaii at risk of destruction are those housing Obama's records!)
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To: Islaminaction

Mary Jo: “Hey Teddy. See this button? It has only one direction: DOWN! Step right in!”


18 posted on 08/25/2009 11:52:09 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Islaminaction
Sarah's statement was classy and short.

I would like to extend our sympathies to the Kennedy family as we hear word about the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy. He believed in our country and fought passionately for his convictions. -Sarah Palin and family

19 posted on 08/25/2009 11:53:09 PM PDT by Dianna (Obama Barbie: Governing is hard.)
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To: TCats

It will give him the chance to get in front of the cameras that he said he didn’t want on his (10th) vacation, to mention Kennedy in passing (literally, in this case) then put in a plug for his health insurance reform, or whatever the hell it’s being called these days.


20 posted on 08/25/2009 11:53:35 PM PDT by GnuHere
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