Ted Kennedy, dead at 77
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But he is a US Senator that got away with murder so yes sad faces all around.
What the crap?
What the crap?
Dave
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Get over it. That was 1969. If all you guys have is Chappaquiddick then he must have done some good since then.
Dave
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Actually this is major news, not political discussion. Of course, it could get there very, very fast.
With Ted Kennedy as the subject? I don't see how.
Zappit
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Teddy was asking that Mass amend the law so a new senator could be appointed quickly if anything happened to him last week, so it looks like he really knew he was at the end.
It's sad - not too many politicians really fought as hard for people as he did.
And maybe the news will shut up about Michael Jackson for a while. I doubt that, though.
It's sad - not too many politicians really fought as hard for people as he did.
And maybe the news will shut up about Michael Jackson for a while. I doubt that, though.
you know who else is dead?
most people that have been alive
most people that have been alive
Its the top story on all 3 websites. Though, its kinda similar to when Jack Kemp died, Fox New was the only one that gave him the big headline.CNN - Top story
MSNBC - Top Story
Fox - Has it on the crawl but their top story is how the Cash for Clunkers sucks and that colleges are getting ready for H1N1.
Geez, I was being facetious. I guess I don't post enough about politics for that to have been obvious.
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Andromache
"senator Kennedy died because Obamacare killed him!"
Sorry. I've just been reading all the shitty back and forth on facebook.
Sorry. I've just been reading all the shitty back and forth on facebook.
I'd also like to think I'm cutting off any of those people here at the pass.
Dave
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I hear ya, man. I was surprised it was you but I fully expected to see it.
That's nothing more than political positioning. It was his own push that made it so the Governor couldn't appoint a Senator in the first place, so that Mitt Romney (R - MA) couldn't appoint a Republican Senator if John Kerry won the 2004 Election.
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Hyimi
I just hate seeing people go this way. Cancer is one of the worst ways you can go. I just hope the end was peaceful.
Yeah, Good Morning America only waited 30 minutes before bringing up Chappaquiddick. I think they waited a day before talking about Micheal Jackson's legal troubles with children.
GasBandit
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Major news about a politician. It should have been in the political subforum, if we're going to sequester that all off to spare the eyes of the poor, fragile non-political posters.
Rest in peace, Teddy, son of a prohibition bootlegger, Harvard exam cheat, dedicated nepocrat, coat-tail rider of JFK, Hero of chappaquiddick, drunk, enabler of rapists, cosponsor of No Child Left Behind, warrior against individualism, sand in the political gears. Rest assured, your compatriots will name the health care bill after you to further attempt to ramrod it and stifle any opposition.
I just lost the respect I held for you.
Are you going to drive to MA and dance on his grave after he is buried?
Look, I chose to put it here because it was about a man who died that was a politician. It's no different than when Michael Jackson died- that doesn't go in Media Madness.
All of you who are turning this into a big political bitch fest make me a little sad. A man who spent his life serving society even after his brothers had been assassinated has passed away.
Go ahead though. Be petty. it shows your colors.
All of you who are turning this into a big political bitch fest make me a little sad. A man who spent his life serving society even after his brothers had been assassinated has passed away.
Go ahead though. Be petty. it shows your colors.
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Cuyval Dar
Did it get changed? Because if so, that basically allows Massachusetts to give the Senate seat to someone who will rollover for the next Kennedy. I really wish that whole family would die and go away.
GasBandit
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Look through this scanning/tunneling electron microscope and you can see something that is about the size of my care for the respect you or any other forumgoer holds for me. No, I won't be dancing on his grave, I'll be one of the millions trying for generations to undo the damage he has wrought on this country, which leaves too little time for such fleeting indulgences.
That you equate Michael Jackson and Ted Kennedy goes far to illustrate the inanity and immaturity of your political thought process. "They say the evil that men do lives after them, and the good is interred with their bones," ... Teddy's going to be lonely in there.
Well, given the mortal condition, it's an inevitability, but only after the damage has been done. I'm just glad we dodged the bullet when Teddy tried to foist his neice upon us.
Dave
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Sins of the father? Really? Weak, weak, weak.
Yup. Expelled when he was a freshman. But readmitted later and finished distinguished. Imagine that. Someone cheating in college. Oh, and someone learning from their mistakes.
Strawman.
Strawman the Sequel.
1969. Guy has an accident while driving drunk and panics. Gets charged & pays for it. Yes, I think the punishment was light. That's his fault how?
NOBODY in Washington drinks. Nobody. He's the only one.
Agree with you that he went overboard trying to protect his nephew from this.
The bill proposed by Bush and voted overwhelmingly by both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate and House? That bill? Bad, Ted! Bad bipartisan guy!
Strawman III - Rise of the GasBandit Idiocy!
*pfaw* You say that like it's a bad thing.
Pretty weak, Gas. All around pretty weak. Dude served 9 terms as a Senator and that's all you got?
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Cuyval Dar
No, I believe that he enjoys the fact that only people who have a genuine interest in politics post in his threads.
Dave
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I read his threads, I just seldom post in them.
I really have no clue why anyone here ever replies to anything gasbandit posts.
And this definitely isn't subforum material. It's gonna be front page news on most websites and papers.
And this definitely isn't subforum material. It's gonna be front page news on most websites and papers.
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