Teddy Kennedy RIP

DdC · 08-25-2009, 10:41 PM

Teddy Kennedy RIP
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patriot · 08-26-2009, 02:19 AM

The following is from "I AM SANTA CLAUS" by Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio.

Teddy the red-nosed senator
Had a very shiny car
And if you ever saw it
You were probably at a bar.
All of the other senators
Wondered how he got his dames
They thought he drank too many
To play in any bedroom games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say:
"Teddy with your nose so red,
Won't you help me guide my sled?"
That's how the police found them
Wrapped around a maple tree
Teddy the red-nosed senator
He's a drunken S.O.B.

Peace seeker · 08-26-2009, 02:22 AM

one of the last old school politicians

RIP Teddy

**ResidualEnvy** · 08-26-2009, 03:32 AM

Let us not forget despite everything Ted has done he still drove a car off a bridge with a woman inside and let her drown for 24 hours before reporting it.

**~~stateofkane~~** · 08-26-2009, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by ResidualEnvy

Let us not forget despite everything Ted has done he still drove a car off a bridge with a woman inside and let her drown for 24 hours before reporting it.

He was a drunken fool, but he was one of the few democrats with a spine. He voted against the Iraq war and for that alone he deserves respect.

scottishbastard · 08-26-2009, 09:17 AM

How can you drown for 24 hours? haha...Besides, I think it was 9 hours.

I don't agree with 95% of what he stood for, but he was a balls out politician who was quite charitable. He was one of the only politicans that seemed to actually believe in what he was preaching. And yes...He was one of the last old school politicians.
Either way, despite his politics or his personal life - he died from a fucked up disease and that totally sucks for him and his family.

John F. Kerry · 08-26-2009, 09:20 AM

i wonder if that bitch in the car was waiting for him and was like sup ted long time no see thanks a lot for the ride home.

Peace seeker · 08-26-2009, 11:54 AM

i think he paid the karma (later on in his life) for that car accident in the lake and i m sure he regreted it big time later on in his life

such things leave scars

all his brothers died, his son got cancer and lost his leg, wife became alcoholic, then few years ago he lost his nephew.

may he RIP

he did oppose the Irak war after all and wanted to change america for the better

kitch · 08-26-2009, 12:27 PM

I met Teddy a couple times when I was younger, very nice guy.

adventure · 08-26-2009, 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ResidualEnvy

Let us not forget despite everything Ted has done he still drove a car off a bridge with a woman inside and let her drown for 24 hours before reporting it.

And when you pass, lets smear you before thanking you.
You are disgusting!

wellfleation · 08-26-2009, 07:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patriot

The following is from "I AM SANTA CLAUS" by Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio.

Teddy the red-nosed senator
Had a very shiny car
And if you ever saw it
You were probably at a bar.
All of the other senators
Wondered how he got his dames
They thought he drank too many
To play in any bedroom games.

Then one foggy Christmas Eve,
Santa came to say:
"Teddy with your nose so red,
Won't you help me guide my sled?"
That's how the police found them
Wrapped around a maple tree
Teddy the red-nosed senator
He's a drunken S.O.B.

And you're an ass-hole for saying such a thing the day of someone's death. You are white trash.

It was nothing malicious. It was an accident that Kennedy then freaked out about and did the wrong thing by not calling the authorities ASAP. (I think he waited 9 hours?) I think a lot people think that Kennedy did not do enough to save her. The car obviously filled quickly with water and most probably Kennedy was not able to get her out. There were no cell phones. Once the car went under he she was not out he knew he could not get her out. Being a rich kid, after he was able to get to family, he was probably advised by his lawyer to wait, probably because he was drunk. Or maybe he just freaked; you don not know what you would have done in his situation, what was going through his mind.

He did more for the poor, civil rights, the disadvantaged, the disabled, the homeless, he gave more back to society to make up for this lapse of judgement two fold in my opinion. Ted didn't have to but he did. He could have just been a rich brat but decided to use his inherited wealth to better human-beings. He was respected by both parties in the government (not the public) as that is where he was best known. What does that tell you? He was able to get things done - the last of the true Dems.

Ted said this about Jack:

Quote:

 "My brother need not be idealized or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it" - Ted Kennedy, June 1968.

This is how I will remember Ted.

wellfleation · 08-26-2009, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ResidualEnvy

Let us not forget despite everything Ted has done he still drove a car off a bridge with a woman inside and let her drown for 24 hours before reporting it.

She was dead already. He made a mistake - IT WAS AN ACCIDENT. Are you saying she could have been saved some how? The lack of judgement is the time it took to report it. I guess that should be his legacy, right?

stoneric · 08-26-2009, 07:47 PM

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Originally Posted by wellfleation

Ted said this about Jack

I thought he said that about Bobby. I remember his voice cracking and it was 5 years after Jack had been killed.

wellfleation · 08-26-2009, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Peace seeker

i think he paid the karma (later on in his life) for that car accident in the lake and i m sure he regreted it big time later on in his life

such things leave scars

all his brothers died, his son got cancer and lost his leg, wife became alcoholic, then few years ago he lost his nephew.

Don't forget the plane crash he survived.

scottishbastard · 08-26-2009, 09:54 PM

I think most of his ideas were pretty assanine, but I respect him for his dedication to what he believed in. He was very straight forward about what he believed.
And seriously, what he did with that woman was horrible. He should have been legally prosecuted for it. But the fact is he wasn't and it's not your job to judge him (may he who is without sin cast the first stone).
And seriously, that "karma" comment was dumb as fuck. His brothers died before that woman did, and I doubt karma, or god or whatever would punish his son for something he did.

msicidron · 08-26-2009, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by stateofkane

He was a drunken fool, but he was one of the few democrats with a spine. He voted against the Iraq war and for that alone he deserves respect.

ummmmmmm i'd vote against the iraq war... AND i'm not a politician.

i deserve twice the respect he does!

**ResidualEnvy** · 08-27-2009, 03:56 AM

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Originally Posted by adventure

And when you pass, lets smear you before thanking you.
You are disgusting!

Woah woah woah easy killah. I'm a liberal democrat from MA. I love the Kennedy Family.

Ted did a lot in his life time to be proud of. However people seem to forget that incident.

wellfleation · 08-27-2009, 08:26 PM

Here is part of the man who his character:

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It is a small part of his great legacy but it should not go unmentioned that Ted Kennedy was one of the few senators who rarely, if ever, yielded to the pressure to join the Israel-is-always-right caucus. The mindless jingoism of his colleagues was not his way (nor is it John Kerry's) and when he addressed the Israeli-Palestinian issue, he was compassionate and even-handed. He was not your standard "liberal on everything but Israel" type.

Professor Leonard Fein from Boston (of Americans for Peace Now) -- who has spent a lifetime struggling for Middle East peace -- offers this beautiful remembrance of Ted Kennedy today. He describes a small incident in Kennedy's long life but one that tells us a lot about the man.

"On the morning of the day before the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, Senator Ted Kennedy called the White House to inquire if it was appropriate to bring to the burial some earth from Arlington National Cemetery. The answer was essentially a shrug: Who knows? Unadvised, the senator carried a shopping bag onto the plane, filled with earth he had himself dug the afternoon before from the graves of his two murdered brothers. And at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, after waiting for the crowd and the cameras to disperse, he dropped to his hands and knees, and gently placed that earth on the grave of the murdered prime minister.

No spin, no photo op; a man unreasonably familiar with bidding farewell to slain heroes, a man in mourning, quietly making tangible a miserable connection."

Miserable it is. But how much more miserable it would be if we never had these heroes at all?

He rarely looked for a photo opp. He did things because he felt a wrong needed to be righted. He was one of the rare politicians who actually cared and did things because he cared, not for photo opps, like the rest of them

scottishbastard · 08-27-2009, 11:17 PM

I seriously don't see why we're constantly backing up Israel. They recently released records of their military activites and let me tell you they're just as insane as the Jihad folks.

Peace seeker · 09-04-2009, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by wellfleation

Here is part of the man who his character: He rarely looked for a photo opp. He did things because he felt a wrong needed to be righted. He was one of the rare politicians who actually cared and did things because he cared, not for photo opps, like the rest of them

i wish the world had more Ted Kennedy politicians.

People with values who feel the

weight on their shoulders from life and do things to make peoples lives better

Just to mention a few, he opposed, Vietnam, war in Iraq (when only a handfull of senators were against it), passed several very important health laws, work laws, made health centers available to neighborhoods.

Old skool stuff. What many conservatives today would call "socialistic".

But if it means calling me a socialist to have better health care and living conditions, then yeah i m a sosialist too.

He had vision.

RIP Ted Kennedy

you will be in History

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patriot Liar,Cheat,and Fraud Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: United States of Saudi Arabiaa Posts: 1,679 Thanks: 34 Thanked 154 Times in 103 Posts	Reminds me if a good Christmas song The following is from "I AM SANTA CLAUS" by Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio. Teddy the red-nosed senator Had a very shiny car And if you ever saw it You were probably at a bar. All of the other senators Wondered how he got his dames They thought he drank too many To play in any bedroom games. Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say: "Teddy with your nose so red, Won't you help me guide my sled?" That's how the police found them Wrapped around a maple tree Teddy the red-nosed senator He's a drunken S.O.B. __________________ A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government. We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church. The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009

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scottishbastard ARGH! FUCK! KILL! Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Castaic/Los Angeles California BITCHES! Posts: 1,954 Thanks: 32 Thanked 69 Times in 60 Posts	How can you drown for 24 hours? haha...Besides, I think it was 9 hours. I don't agree with 95% of what he stood for, but he was a balls out politician who was quite charitable. He was one of the only politicans that seemed to actually believe in what he was preaching. And yes...He was one of the last old school politicians. Either way, despite his politics or his personal life - he died from a fucked up disease and that totally sucks for him and his family. __________________ Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do No matter what I ask of you You think you hold the high hand I've got my doubts I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts ..... And even if I have to go to Claremont Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont Let me go Let me lie low Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do No matter what I ask of you And you send your dark messengers to tempt me I come from Chino so all your threats are empty - the mountain goats

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scottishbastard ARGH! FUCK! KILL! Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Castaic/Los Angeles California BITCHES! Posts: 1,954 Thanks: 32 Thanked 69 Times in 60 Posts	I think most of his ideas were pretty assanine, but I respect him for his dedication to what he believed in. He was very straight forward about what he believed. And seriously, what he did with that woman was horrible. He should have been legally prosecuted for it. But the fact is he wasn't and it's not your job to judge him (may he who is without sin cast the first stone). And seriously, that "karma" comment was dumb as fuck. His brothers died before that woman did, and I doubt karma, or god or whatever would punish his son for something he did. __________________ Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do No matter what I ask of you You think you hold the high hand I've got my doubts I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts ..... And even if I have to go to Claremont Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont Let me go Let me lie low Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do No matter what I ask of you And you send your dark messengers to tempt me I come from Chino so all your threats are empty - the mountain goats

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scottishbastard ARGH! FUCK! KILL! Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Castaic/Los Angeles California BITCHES! Posts: 1,954 Thanks: 32 Thanked 69 Times in 60 Posts	I seriously don't see why we're constantly backing up Israel. They recently released records of their military activites and let me tell you they're just as insane as the Jihad folks. __________________ Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do No matter what I ask of you You think you hold the high hand I've got my doubts I come from Chino where the asphalt sprouts ..... And even if I have to go to Claremont Well I guess I'll just have to go to Claremont Let me go Let me lie low Yeah but you're going to do what you wanna do No matter what I ask of you And you send your dark messengers to tempt me I come from Chino so all your threats are empty - the mountain goats

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Peace seeker free the herb Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 6,844 Thanks: 773 Thanked 551 Times in 385 Posts	one of the last old school politicians RIP Teddy

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ResidualEnvy Community Manager Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 361 Thanks: 7 Thanked 142 Times in 72 Posts	Let us not forget despite everything Ted has done he still drove a car off a bridge with a woman inside and let her drown for 24 hours before reporting it.

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John F. Kerry Weiner-stache Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 3,734 Thanks: 1,831 Thanked 497 Times in 355 Posts	i wonder if that bitch in the car was waiting for him and was like sup ted long time no see thanks a lot for the ride home.

08-26-2009, 11:54 AM	#8 (permalink)
Peace seeker free the herb Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 6,844 Thanks: 773 Thanked 551 Times in 385 Posts	i think he paid the karma (later on in his life) for that car accident in the lake and i m sure he regreted it big time later on in his life such things leave scars all his brothers died, his son got cancer and lost his leg, wife became alcoholic, then few years ago he lost his nephew. may he RIP he did oppose the Irak war after all and wanted to change america for the better

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