I got no love for Ted Kennedy

[Easy-E]

Kennedy also had major roles in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act and the Kennedy-Hatch law of 1997.

In 2001, Kennedy helped President Bush craft and pass education legislation with the No Child Left Behind Act.

Also, check out this article. A little irrelevant, but still speaks to his character.

[Bendigo]

Didn't he ruthlessly drown a ***** with his bare hands?

[Easy-E]

The police report says that but also notes "NO TESTS WERE EVER PERFORMED"
keyword to cover up the drinking.. again, she lucky she from a well off family that's very known in town.



No tests were ever performed on Ted either.. you can't tell me the mother****er wasn't drunk though.


Again... another backwards hick trying to justify someone on the home team getting away with killing someone.

Was Kennedy drinking? Probably.
But there is not evidence that he was, and you are someone who heavily relies on evidence when you argue a point with another poster, yet you have none in this particular instance.
Either way, the point is irrelevant. Kennedy was a great Senator who shaped US policy in the last 50 years, whether you want to admit it or not.

[Easy-E]

Right on, yeah I read My Ishmael first and it was a little confusing, much better to read Ishmael first. Hope you enjoy them. Sounds like you've got your work cut out for you.

I just started reading again, Elephant Song, by Wilbur Smith. Not as good as When The Lion Feeds, but pretty decent. My hope is to move on to some more educational stuff, like what you've picked up.

I read both of those (in proper order) and thought they were excellent. Helped reshape the way I percieved and thought about mankind and its relationship with the earth. Great stuff.

[Jim Jeffries]

I read both of those (in proper order) and thought they were excellent. Helped reshape the way I percieved and thought about mankind and its relationship with the earth. Great stuff.

Right on, yeah they were a couple of books that I remember fundamentally changing the way I felt. I still have them (bookstore didn't pay crap back for paperbacks) and am considering giving them another read.

[PBDS]

Hey Sintard, no one gave a damn about Bill Clinton smoking pot, or even really ****ing his intern. It was the lying about it, especially under oath, that people had a problem with. Though I didn't expect you to notice the difference.

I have to admit, pretty funny for this fool to come in here screaming about people being partisan and then bring up something that happened to an ex president's wife 46 years ago when she was a minor, to even the score. You owned me man, you owned me good. Fcking kids these days.

....ha ha ha The fact that he has no clue about the Kennedy kin raping and murdering women is pretty funny.


Initial investigation

Thomas Skakel was the last person known to have been seen with Moxley the night of the murder, and had a weak alibi. Thomas Skakel became the prime suspect, but his father forbade access to his school and mental health records. Kenneth Littleton, who had started working as a live-in tutor for the Skakel family only hours before the murder, also became a prime suspect. No one was charged, however, and the case languished for decades. In the meantime, several books were published about the crime, including Timothy Dumas's A Wealth of Evil and the novel A Season in Purgatory by Dominick Dunne, a fictional account of the case.

Over the years, both Thomas Skakel and Michael Skakel significantly changed their alibis for the night of Moxley's murder. Michael Skakel claimed that he had been window-peeping and masturbating in a tree beside the Moxley property from 11:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Two former students of a drug rehab center, which Michael Skakel attended in 1978, testified that they heard Skakel confess to killing Moxley with a golf club. According to then Elan resident Gregory Coleman, Skakel then bragged, "I'm going to get away with murder. I'm a Kennedy."[2]

[edit] Investigation re-opened

When William Kennedy Smith was tried for **** in 1991, a rumor surfaced that he had been present at the Skakel house on the night of the Moxley murder, with the clear insinuation that he might have been involved. Though this rumor proved to be unfounded, it resulted in renewed investigation of the then cold case.[3] In 1993 author Dominick Dunne, father of murdered actress Dominique Dunne, published A Season in Purgatory, a fictional story closely resembling the Moxley case. Mark Fuhrman's 1998 book Murder in Greenwich named Skakel as the murderer and pointed out numerous mistakes the police had made in investigating the crime. During the years before the Dunne and Fuhrman books, work had been done by Greenwich Police detective Frank Garr and police reporter Leonard Levitt, that named Michael as the killer.

[PBDS]

Was Kennedy drinking? Probably.
But there is not evidence that he was, and you are someone who heavily relies on evidence when you argue a point with another poster, yet you have none in this particular instance.
Either way, the point is irrelevant. Kennedy was a great Senator who shaped US policy in the last 50 years, whether you want to admit it or not.

....lol lol He was a douche. Nothing more and nothing less. His brothers were also douches as was 90% of the entire Kennedy klan.

[ericsantos]

I got no love for him either

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no "politician for life" pol is a good pol....

the longer they are in, is a sign of how bad they are.... being a politician was never meant to be a long term career...

[Vuze]

From anonymous source…

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 and 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 ******ia, 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 ******ia 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 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?


Mary Jo Kopechne

6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquid**** 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 sank 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. Kopechne was able to stay alive for a while breathing a bubble of air inside the car.

One source notes “A diver was sent down and discovered Kopechne’s body at around 8:45 am. The diver, John Farrar, later testified at the inquest that Kopechne’s body was pressed up in the car in the spot where an air bubble would have formed. He interpreted this to mean that Kopechne had survived for a while after the initial accident in the air bubble, and concluded that: ‘Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring, and was able, as I was the following morning, to be at the victim’s side within twenty-five minutes of receiving the call, in such event there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged 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 Chappaquid****. He pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS.

Kopechne’s family received a small pay out 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, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the “standard-bearer for *******ism.” 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 floodgate 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 he was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of “what’s right.”

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than “great American.” “A blond in every pond” should be his motto.

Let’s not allow the spin doctors to make this disgraceful drunk and whore of anti-American special interests a hero. It’s shameful that more people don’t know what his real legacy is.