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                BID FAREWELL TO TEDDY.. WHAT A MAN !

 As soon as his cancer was detected, I noticed the immediate attempt at the 
 "canonization" of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media.  They are 
 saying what a "great American" he is.  I say, let's get a couple things 
 clear & not twist the facts to change the real history. 
  
 1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was expelled 
 twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat 
 for him. 
  
 2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up 
 for four years instead of two. Oops! The man can't count to four! His 
 father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up from 
 bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled the 
 necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to 
 ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea , where a war was raging No 
 preferential treatment for him! (like he charged that President Bush received). 
  
 3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris , never advanced beyond the rank of 
 Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.  Imagine a person of 
 his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private! 
  
 4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was cited 
 for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 
 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off 
 after dark... Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. 
 Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959. Amazing! 
  
 5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash and hospitalized for 
 several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated.  The results=2 of those tests remained a "state secret" until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed. 
 Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we? 
  
 6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in 
  Massachusetts . At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his 
 Oldsmobile limousine and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a 
 campaign worker.  Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, 
 Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond. 
                                            

 7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party passing several houses and 
 a fire station.  Two friends then returned with him to the scene of the accident.  According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew - that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities.  Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep.  Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered.  Before dying Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car. 
The Kennedy family began "calling in favors", ensuring that any inquiry 
 would be contained.  Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family 
 before an autopsy could be conducted. 
 Further details are uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he 
 repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue Kopechne and he didn't call 
 police because he was in a state of shock.  It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and
 he held   off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the 
 problem overnight.  Since the accident Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him
 as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick.  He pleaded guilty to leaving the scene
 of an accident, and was given a 
 SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. 
 Kopechne's family received a small payout from the Kennedy's insurance 
 policy and never sued.  There was later an effort to have her body exhumed 
 and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy's
 family paid their attorney's bills.... a "token of friendship"? 
  
 8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years, but considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant.  He authored or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent, funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors, and is widely held as the "standard-bearer for liberalism".  In his very first Senate roll he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S.  immigration policy upside down and opened the 0Afloodgate for immigrants from third world countries.. 
  
 9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every 
 expansion of an increase in immigration up to and including the latest attempt to grant
 amnesty to    illegal  aliens.  Not to mention the pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme
 Court nominees, as  if it was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of "what is right"
   
 10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous, and 
 very disrespectful to ladies.  
  
 Let's not allow the spin doctors to make this jerk a hero -- how quickly the 
 American public forgets what his real legacy is. 

Before Mitt Romney QUIT his governor position, he had a worse approval rating than George W at his lowest point. So in that situation, would it really have been representative of the people of Massachusetts to have the completely incompetent Romney appoint a Republican Senator to a seat that hasn't been in the "R" column in 20+ years?

Keep talking, your complete disrespect is just proving my point further. My past comments about Christianity Today and Hustler were a joke, and I never defended drinking and driving. Perhaps you need to read those post again. If it still isn't clear enough, I'd be happy to explain it to you again in 3rd Grade level English if it helps you out.
 
Ted Kennedy pleaded guilty in court and faced the music related to the unfortunate automobile accident in question, that you guys are now making sound like premeditated murder and trying to make the only defining moment in the man's entire life. If Jesus had asked you, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," you guys would have all beaned him between the eyes.
 
You'd apparently like everyone to forget the fact that Ted Kennedy spent the next four decades improving the standard of living for millions of Americans, especially for disabled Americans like the apparently completely ungrateful Mminnoe. Ted Kennedy fought for and improved civil right legislation for minorities and women, he improved health care for millions, he supported the Meals on Wheels and Children Nutrition programs, improved education for handicapped children, created low-income energy assistance programs, sponsored the job training partnership act, played a key role in slowing down the nuclear arms race, led the effort to impose economic sactions against South Africa over President Reagan's veto, created the Defense Department's child care system, passed laws ensuring disabled people can't be discriminated against during a job search, strengthend early childhood education programs, helped pass the Family and Medical Leave act, and was a key player in countless other intitiatives. But none of that "earns the respect" of someone like KC Teaparty.
 
No, you guys would rather compare his death to Michael Jackson's - a child molester who pissed away millions of dollars on frivolous garbage like the Neverland Ranch, pet monkeys, constant plastic surgery, and the Elephant Man's bones. It's not even a close comparison here.
 
Ted Kennedy didn't argue for abstinence education while his teenaged daughter was getting knocked up, and then whine when the press pointed it out as an example of her own hypocrisy. And by the way, the record shows that I never defended David Letterman's joke. I just pointed out that defining Letterman as "the Media" is ridiculous.
 
As for any insinuation that I'd be out there disrespecting a Republican who died, create all the strawmen you want, because my record speaks for itself. When Nixon and Reagan died, I wasn't out there pissing on their graves. l showed respect for the men, despite the fact that I disagreed with many of their actions. But you guys go ahead and justify your actions however you want if it makes you feel better.