Happy Belated Birthday Chappaquiddick

A bunch of you have pithy comments to make about Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, but I don't think any of you live in Massachusetts and have probably never had a chance to vote for Ted Kennedy.

Well I've voted for him in every election I've been eligible to and for a very simple reason... He's an excellent and extremely effective senator who, despite being very wealthy, cares deeply about the middle and working class in this country. As a matter of fact, Time named him one of America's best Senators in 2006, which is an honor that is well deserved.

Ted Kennedy: The Dogged Achiever:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1183965,00.html
 
Cainkane1 said:
I'd rather have Mary Joe Kopecne alive than dead. Theres a theory that she was murdered deliberately by Ted after he raped her and he wanted to silence her. Was she autopsied?
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That is not a theory, that is what is known as a "hypothesis". Theories have positive evidence to support them.
 
GreNME said:
Oh, and let's not forget the young Laura Bush running a red light and killing someone (and getting away with it) many a year ago (1963).

More wacky instances of politicians who have skeletons or horrible experiences in their past could be brought up, but as Tricky points out, the relevance is in the eye of the partisan hack fanatic.
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Laura Bush is a politician?
 
Darth Rotor said:
Then how did Mitt Romney win that race for Governor? He was running against a democrat.

Were there goats involved? Shemp lives in NH, not Mass, so please help me here. I are officially confused. :p
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While Massachusetts may inflict liberal politicians on the rest of us, they are not foolish enough to inflict liberal politicians on themselves. In fact, Deval Patrick is the first Democrat governor since... anybody? Anybody? Bueller? Since Dukakis.
 
Vic Vega said:
A bunch of you have pithy comments to make about Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, but I don't think any of you live in Massachusetts and have probably never had a chance to vote for Ted Kennedy.

Well I've voted for him in every election I've been eligible to and for a very simple reason... He's an excellent and extremely effective senator who, despite being very wealthy, cares deeply about the middle and working class in this country. As a matter of fact, Time named him one of America's best Senators in 2006, which is an honor that is well deserved.

Ted Kennedy: The Dogged Achiever:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1183965,00.html
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Is that the same TIME that had Hilter, Stalin (twice) and the Ayatullah Khomeini as their Man of The Year?

Since Ted (and his cousins) have lived off of Papa Joe's money for the last 50+ years, he can afford to be completely lacking in character and still be elected by short sighted voters.
 
Vic Vega said:
A bunch of you have pithy comments to make about Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, but I don't think any of you live in Massachusetts and have probably never had a chance to vote for Ted Kennedy.

Well I've voted for him in every election I've been eligible to and for a very simple reason... He's an excellent and extremely effective senator who, despite being very wealthy, cares deeply about the middle and working class in this country. As a matter of fact, Time named him one of America's best Senators in 2006, which is an honor that is well deserved.

Ted Kennedy: The Dogged Achiever:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1183965,00.html
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I'm from Massachusetts originally though I've lived in Rhode Island for several years.
 
Cicero said:
Is that the same TIME that had Hilter, Stalin (twice) and the Ayatullah Khomeini as their Man of The Year?
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Not to mention George W. Bush (twice), Rudolph Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan (also twice), and Kenneth Starr.

I'm sorry, did you have a point here?
 
KDLarsen said:
So? Read up on the criteria for Man of the Year and be enlightened.
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"Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an award or prize."

Perhaps it is you who is unenlightened.
 
Cleon said:
Not to mention George W. Bush (twice), Rudolph Giuliani, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan (also twice), and Kenneth Starr.

I'm sorry, did you have a point here?
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Did you have one other than to follow in the Louise Ciccone tired schtick that equates the above people with Hilter, Stalin and Khomeini ?
 
Cicero said:
"Despite the magazine's frequent statements to the contrary, the designation is often regarded as an honor, and spoken of as an award or prize."

Perhaps it is you who is unenlightened.
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:confused:

Perhaps I then missed whatever point you were trying to make, when you brought up the Time Person of the Year. Was it supposed to show Time as a far-left rag?
 
Vic Vega said:
Well I've voted for him in every election I've been eligible to and for a very simple reason... He's an excellent and extremely effective senator who, despite being very wealthy, cares deeply about the middle and working class in this country.
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Right... that's why he's so vociferously opposed wind farms near his family compound in Hyannis Port. It's an important issue to most middle and working class voters not to have the views from their beachfront mansions and yachts in Cape Cod impeded by such eyesores.
 
ravdin said:
Right... that's why he's so vociferously opposed wind farms near his family compound in Hyannis Port. It's an important issue to most middle and working class voters not to have the views from their beachfront mansions and yachts in Cape Cod impeded by such eyesores.
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He's been a senator for almost 50 years and this is the best you could come up with?
 
Vic Vega said:
He's been a senator for almost 50 years and this is the best you could come up with?
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Oh by no means. However, it's pretty funny that he wants to make people sacrifice for his resort view. Let's keep them coming. Next to discuss is the Dream Act and the numerous problems in No Child Left Behind.
 
The bottom line is the I like him and the job he does as do many other people who live here. You should feel free to move back here and vote against him (though with his health problems it is probably a moot point).
 
Vic Vega said:
He's been a senator for almost 50 years and this is the best you could come up with?
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Not even close. The best reason I would cite not to vote for Teddy Kennedy is that he's been a senator for almost 50 years.
 
ravdin said:
Not even close. The best reason I would cite not to vote for Teddy Kennedy is that he's been a senator for almost 50 years.
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That's absurd.

We don't have term limits in this state. We don't want them.
 
Vic Vega said:
That's absurd.

We don't have term limits in this state. We don't want them.
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Who said anything about term limits?

All I'm saying is that if I lived in your state, I wouldn't vote for Teddy Kennedy. Since I don't live in your state, it's a moot point.
 
ravdin said:
Who said anything about term limits?
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I did. We want to be able to elect Senators we like and keep them in office. If the voters here thought that it was a problem to have long-serving senators, we would have term limits.

ravdin said:
All I'm saying is that if I lived in your state, I wouldn't vote for Teddy Kennedy. Since I don't live in your state, it's a moot point.
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Exactly!
 
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