http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/kennedy/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:37:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417941/posts An update on Sen.Max Baucus,MT. OK, fine. Whatever you say. Senator Max Baucus has finally come forward with an attack on his attackers who wondered, as did I, if booze was responsible for his bizarre behavior on the Senate floor last week. Bauchus called the whole thing outrageous. http://www.radioviceonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417941/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:37:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416887/posts GOP U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown has been all but abandoned by the same national Republican committees that pumped hundreds of thousands in campaign cash to former governors Mitt Romney and William Weld during their long-shot bids for U.S. Senate. The snub has outraged local Republicans who say national conservatives should be jumping at the chance to nab the first open Senate seat in decades despite Brown’s tough odds in the Jan. 19 special election. ...In 1994, NRSC’s leader, then-Sen. Phil Gramm, vowed an “all out effort,” during Romney’s underdog battle against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The national party boosted... www.bostonherald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416887/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:55:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416437/posts Photo that "could have changed history" actually from a Playboy shoot...see don't trust TMZ, they may have gotten Michael Jackson announced death first but they are trash just like all other media is trash!! DECEMBER 28--In a colossal screw-up, the gossip web site TMZ.com today published a photo purporting to show John F. Kennedy frolicking on a yacht with a harem of naked women--except that the image actually appeared as part of a November 1967 Playboy photo spread, The Smoking Gun has learned. The TMZ hoax was billed as an "exclusive" featuring a photo that "could have altered world events."... SmokingGun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416437/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416211/posts TMZ has obtained a never-before published photograph which appears to show John F. Kennedy on a boat filled with naked women -- it's a photo that could have altered world events. TMZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416211/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:50:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414077/posts IN OTHER WORDS ...December 23, 2009 Irritated at the bumps on the road to the Democrats' Thousand-Year Reich, liberals are now claiming that Republican Senator Tom Coburn requested a prayer for the death of Sen. Bob Byrd during the health care debate last Saturday night. Here is what Coburn actually said: "What the American people ought to pray is that somebody can't make the vote tonight. That's what they ought to pray." After reporting Coburn's remark, The Washington Post's Dana Milbank added: "It was difficult to escape the conclusion that Coburn was referring to the 92-year-old, wheelchair-bound Sen. Robert Byrd... AnnCoulter.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414077/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:00:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413988/posts it would be novelistically satisfying if the Democrats lost Ted Kennedy’s seat on the issue of government-run health care, thereby dooming...government-run health care. Weekly Standard Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413988/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:36:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412545/posts "I worked with him on many issues across party lines. There has never a major reform accomplished in the history of this country that hasn't been bipartisan, and he certainly, uh...all of the negotiations and efforts that I made with him, we never engaged in this kind of unsavory process of offering people different deals, which in the end cost people from other states lots of money and put burdens on them." ABC / Good Morning America via YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412545/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:03:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412172/posts The whitewashing of Ted Kennedy continued on the cover of Parade magazine, a supplement to many Sunday newspapers around the country. Dotson Rader interviewed Victoria Kennedy, the second wife of the late senator. Decades of womanizing and a woman’s death at Chappaquiddick after Kennedy left the scene of an accident weren’t really noteworthy. One large bold pull quote read "Nobody had a better sense of what was right than Teddy." "Tell that to Mary Jo Kopechne" was not a sentence that appeared in the article. The other large pull quote from Mrs. Kennedy was "He was elected to make... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412172/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:55:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412162/posts ‘We were so happy,” Victoria Kennedy says, describing her marriage to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. “It wasn’t fake. It was the real deal. We built a home and a family. Then one day everything changed.” That day was May 17, 2008, when Ted Kennedy suffered a massive seizure at his family’s historic residence on Cape Cod. “We’d driven to Hyannis Port the night before, just the two of us,” Victoria recalls. “The next morning, we had coffee, read the papers, chatted. It was a regular morning. Teddy got up to take the dogs out and, as... Parade Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412162/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:36:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411181/posts My late husband, Ted Kennedy, was passionate about health-care reform. It was the cause of his life. He believed that health care for all our citizens was a fundamental right, not a privilege, and that this year the stars -- and competing interests -- were finally aligned to allow our nation to move forward with fundamental reform. He believed that health-care reform was essential to the financial stability of our nation's working families and of our economy as a whole. Still, Ted knew that accomplishing reform would be difficult. If it were easy, he told me, it would have... Washington (Com) Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411181/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:35:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410637/posts The American Revolutionary War began in Massachusetts with the Battles of Lexington and Concord, on April 19th, 1775. Following what Emerson referred to as the “Shot heard ‘round the world”, a small fledgling colony stood up against the tyranny of the greatest military force on earth… And won. Great men and women stood up in perilous times and prevailed against what appeared to be unconquerable odds. Some have referred to the present day as perilous times, and once again the people of Massachusetts have an opportunity to set into motion a political revolution. On January 19th, a special election will... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410637/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:35:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408404/posts DECEMBER 15--The former office manager for the late Senator Ted Kennedy was indicted today on federal theft and fraud charges for allegedly pocketing more than $75,000 in unauthorized bonus payments over five years. Ngozi Pole, 39, was named today in a six-count felony indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. (a copy of the charging document can be found below). According to prosecutors, Pole, pictured at right, was in charge of processing bonus payments approved by either Kennedy or his chief of staff. These payments, according to the indictment, came in two forms: a "holiday bonus" paid in... Smoking Gun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408404/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:47:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406685/posts On the Next Right blog serial poster Ironman calls for Republicans to seriously contest the January 19 special election to fill Edward Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts. I’ve argued that this is a long shot, and Ironman doesn’t persuade me that it isn’t. But he does make one good statistical point. While Barack Obama’s 62%-36% margin in Massachusetts makes it seem out of reach for a Republican, Republican Chris Christie did win the gubernatorial race in New Jersey which Obama carried 57%-42% Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406685/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:48:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404918/posts The first flare-up in the general election U.S. Senate race happened just hours into the six-week contest as Republican Scott Brown challenged Democrat Martha Coakley to sign a no-tax pledge and she promptly slapped down the move as a “gimmick.” “I don’t get involved with campaign gimmicks,” Coakley said. “I’m just not going to respond to that.” Brown, a Wrentham state senator, said of Coakley’s dismissal: “I find that disturbing,” adding, “I think I’m more in line with what people are feeling - the burdens of family issues.” Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404918/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:27:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2404669/posts For all their protestations to the contrary, liberals have an awful habit of trying to tell people of faith, notably the Catholic Church, what their faith means and how it should apply in the political sphere. If you can stomach the irony, let’s take a look at the latest example of this genre, an opinion piece in the Politico by Robert Kennedy’s daughter, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Kennedy (I use her maiden name because it’s the only thing that gets her published) starts off well enough, with the title “On health care, the bishops have lost their... Redstate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2404669/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:18:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404270/posts I had the pleasure of interviewing Joe Kennedy (website) who is running as an independent for MA special election (January 19th, 2010) to fill the vacant seat of the late Ted Kennedy. Joe Kennedy is a small government kind of guy and is not at all related to the famous Massachusetts family and in fact is offering voters something new and fresh as opposed to the two incumbent parties. If you are tired of the federal government growing regardless of which party is in charge, understand that our entitlement programs are broken and believe that the media treats third party... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404270/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:50:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403409/posts Attorney General Martha Coakley has defeated three other candidates to win the Democratic nomination in the race to succeed the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. On the Republican side, State Sen. Scott Brown defeated attorney Jack E. Robinson. Jim Gomes, director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise, a policy research group at Clark University, Worcester, Mass., said public interest in filling the seat with someone like Mr. Kennedy, who died Aug. 25 after a bout with brain cancer, faded after the senator's wife and other family members declined to enter the race. "I have not sensed the voters of Massachusetts... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403409/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 02:47:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403360/posts With the clock ticking down towards the close of the polls at 8 p.m., some communities reported low voter turnout in the special primary elections for US Senate. People breezed past community centers, gymnasiums, town halls, and other polling places without a second thought, the majority paying no mind to the race to fill the office left vacant by the late Edward M. Kennedy. Four Democrats and two Republicans .... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403360/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:47:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403334/posts BOSTON – Massachusetts had a light turnout for party primaries Tuesday as voters took the first step to fill the U.S. Senate seat held for nearly a half century by Edward M. Kennedy.Four Democrats, from political insiders to newcomers, and two Republicans were competing for their respective party nomination in the quick campaign to succeed Kennedy. He died of brain cancer in late August at age 77 after holding his seat since 1962. The primary winners will face off in a general election on Jan. 19.Kennedy's widow, Vicki, called each of the Democrats early Tuesday to wish them well, an... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403334/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 01:20:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2403014/posts After the dreary wilderness years of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, when many Catholic bishops in the United States practiced a kind of know-nothingism in their silence and lack of real leadership on life issues, such as abortion, things are quickly changing. Individually and corporately, the American bishops are really starting to lead the Church determinedly in the right direction: the battlefront. Everyone knows that the white-hot center of this present generation's battle is abortion, and in increasing numbers, many of today's stalwart bishops are leading from the front, showing the way forward and, by their own example of fearless... Patrick Madrid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2403014/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:34:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401327/posts Six Candidates Seek Ted Kennedy’s SeatBy JIM HICKEY Islanders go the polls in the state primary on Tuesday to cast votes that will help choose Democratic and Republican candidates to run for the Massachusetts seat in the U.S. Senate left vacant in August when longtime Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — who held the seat for 46 years — died after a 14-month battle with brain cancer. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. in every town. The four Democratic candidates are Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, Stephen Pagliuca, a managing partner of the Boston Celtics, U.S. Rep. Mike... MV Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401327/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:32:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399473/posts Representative Patrick Kennedy Boston, Mass., Dec 3, 2009 / 07:48 am (CNA).- Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) has decided to pull out of the Communion controversy after unsuccessfully “milking" his confrontation with Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, said Joe Fitzgerald, a political analyst from the Boston Herald.Fitzgerald wrote: "Patrick Kennedy’s announcement that he’s 'not going to indulge in this debate any longer,' referring to his rejection of Catholic Church beliefs, was reminiscent of a strategy George Aiken floated at the height of the Vietnam War: 'Declare victory and pull out!' the late Vermont senator suggested.”The Boston Herald columnist added that Kennedy... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399473/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:49:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398944/posts Patrick Kennedy’s announcement that he’s “not going to indulge in this debate any longer,” referring to his rejection of Catholic Church beliefs, was reminiscent of a strategy George Aiken floated at the height of the Vietnam War. “Declare victory and pull out!” the late Vermont senator suggested. Speaking at a Brown University forum Monday evening, Kennedy said he was pulling out, having milked his confrontation with Bishop Thomas J. Tobin for all it was worth after igniting it by indiscreetly disclosing a private communication he had received from the latter. Tobin had informed him it would be inappropriate to receive... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398944/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:05:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398309/posts Rhode Island’s own Bishop Thomas Tobin went head-to-head with Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball last Wednesday. While it is uncertain who won the confrontation, it is quite clear that Matthews was wrong. Whatever Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy is, he is not a good Catholic. Bishop Tobin is free to tell him as much without exposing himself to accusations of “transgressing into the law.” The casus belli was Patrick Kennedy’s public announcement that he was asked to refrain from taking communion by Bishop Tobin in February 2007. The Bishop told Rep. Kennedy that certain positions he took as a legislator... Brown Daily Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398309/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:29:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397266/posts PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rep. Patrick Kennedy says all people deserve health care because they are "children of God" in his first public appearance since escalating a public feud with Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop over abortion and health care. The Democratic lawmaker spoke Monday at a panel discussion at Brown University. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397266/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 01:00:39 GMT