Posted on 08/30/2017 6:30:18 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — They’re America’s white-trash blue bloods.
The Kennedy clan has been famous over the years for limitless political ambition, immense wealth, excruciating tragedy — and seemingly constant scandal.
Their storied family tale began with an immigrant Irish family-done-very good and rose all the way to a US presidency, only to go from Camelot to trailer park.
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Yes, IIRC, father Joseph was a bootlegger. So yeah, in a sense he "done very good" by breaking the law.
By boot-legging alcohol during Prohibition, if I recall.
That ragged flag they’re flying says it all.
[Yes, IIRC, father Joseph was a bootlegger.]
and class A whoremaster. The kids had the money by then so they were just whoremasters.
Wow...if the two most famous members of my family were assassinated, I don’t think I’d brag about being “untouchable”.
That sort of stupid braggadocio often runs up against someone who just doesn’t give a damn.
and shorting the stock market during the crash ...
Another famous family member had an “accident” flying a private plane—I say “accident” because at the time he was thinking about challenging Hillary for a U.S. Senate seat for New York.
The patriarch was a low life unethical mobster. He didn't do "very good", he did reprehensible things to get ahead. He had no compunction about violating laws whenever necessary, and he lied, cheated and stole at every opportunity.
He and his family were trailer park trash from the beginning.
“The patriarch was a low life unethical mobster. He didn’t do “very good”, he did reprehensible things to get ahead. He had no compunction about violating laws whenever necessary, and he lied, cheated and stole at every opportunity.”
Yeh, old Joe Kennedy, along with Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, others, were Hitler admirers during the run-up to WWII. In fact, JFK contributed $100 to the American Nazi party prior to the war.
One thing the Kennedys have NEVER been is “blue bloods”.
Exactly what I was thinking.
He’s America’s Devil. Spawning all that evil
yepper
If Trump were to say that, he would have hell to pay.
Funny, a family friend just had dinner and went sailing with Ted Kennedy’s son (the one who had cancer, Ted???) last week. Saw the pictures.
Kennedys—bootlegging mobsters.
That’s OK by me. A shit law and the more defiance of it the better on the grand scale of things. Same as cigarette bootleggers today.
Don’t forget Prescott Bush
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