Posted on 06/18/2008 5:52:49 PM PDT by Libloather
NY's Triborough Bridge To Be Renamed For RFK
Reported by: Clyde Gray
Last Update: 6/05 4:01 pm
The bridge leading to New York's JFK Airport will soon be named for the former president's younger brother.
Governor David Paterson is set to sign a measure to rename the Triborough Bridge after New York Senator "Bobby" Kennedy.
At the time of his death, he was running for the democratic presidential nomination.
Hey, it could happen. They could call it the RR. Besides, 'Schwarzenegger' is just too long to put on the signs.
ML/NJ
Well,not *officially* named after him.
Next,we'll wait for a bridge to be named after Bobby's very "special" friend,Marilyn Monroe.
Personally speaking, I’m just about sick of the beautification of all things Kennedy.
That entire family has been a plague on America.
Yes, I am a card-carrying CYNIC!
It’s been known as the Triborough Bridge since forever, this will just confuse people. Why don’t they just name something new after RFK - like a toxic waste dump.
Well said!
So tired of the whole lot.
And what exactly did RFK accomplish in his life to earn him such an honor? Oh, that’s right, it says that he was running for the presidency at the time of his death.
The whole “Camelot” thing is a real hoot.
What did Americans do from 1960 through 1963? Dress up like a Monty Python skit? It’s a figment of the MSM.
Liberals would RE-name Golden Gate Bridge after Hugo Chavez or Mahmoud Ahmedjinidad, before they name it after Ronald Reagan.
Why is RFK getting all this love today?
Becasuse Hildabeast fantasized about his assasination?
Google Robert Kennedy Joe McCarthy and hunt around. You might wish he were running for President this year.
ML/NJ
If they are going to rename the Triborough Bridge after anyone, the two candidates would be Robert Moses or Othmar Ammann, without both of whom it wouldn’t have been completed.
Or better still, they could rename it the “Jane Jacobs Memorial Bridge”, and start Robert Moses spinning in his grave.
“Personally speaking, I’m just about sick of the beautification of all things Kennedy.
That entire family has been a plague on America.”
Thank you. I heartily agree.
There are a whole bunch of people I don’t need to see much of them anymore. The Kennedys, MLK, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Jimah Cahtah, Al Gore, Jon Carry, Schumer, Hillary, Bubba.
Enough already.
Well,he scored with Marilyn Monroe.But then,so did just about every guy with a net worth of $1,000,000 or more.
And another thing,.......
How about naming some things after artists, muscians, composers or scientists?
And there’s plenty of “ordinary” military men and women who served that could use a street, bridge or airport named after them instead. Much better than all the crooked, corrupt, Marxist S-bag politicians.
I was thinking the same thing about Marilyn Monroe.
Why don’t they rename the bridge, “The U.S. Senator who pounded Marilyn Monroe while his wife and kazillion children where at home bridge.”
Maybe they could rename a VD clinic in Greenwich Village the “Eliot Spitzer Horndog VD Clinic.”
Here they use different names - MLK Plaza, Cesar Chavez St, JFK elementary School - but the idea is the same.
We have the same problem here in Dallas, where the perfectly good and appropriate name "Industrial Boulevard," which is a major part of the history of Dallas, has to be renamed to make it all glittery and sparkly to go with the nearby lake/park/noisy tollway/flood-waiting-to-happen boondoggle that was most recently shoved down the taxpayers' throats. So now, we've got a bunch of people wanting to name it after either liberal idiot Eddie Bernice Johnson or Hispanic union organizer Cesar Chavez. At least Johnson is from Dallas; what possible connection we have with the godfather of lettuce boycotts is beyond me. All I know is that if I had a business on Industrial Blvd and I was about to have to change my address to Cesar Chavez Blvd, I'd start moving now before my customer base starting drying up. I'm sure the people who go to antique stores on Industrial would be really jazzed to visit a store they'd never seen before if it had that address.
Don't understand why any conservative would continue to live in that cesspool.
What's the toll on the CCCP/RFK, about $15.00?
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