Why do people glorify Ted Kennedy?

[tim]

> Teddy's accomplishments!

> 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 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 pled
> 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, and 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 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

[boyce]

Teddy is in hell and can do no more harm.

[chansomps]

Teddy is in hell and can do no more harm.

Mary Jo is a hero, kept that commie killer out of the white house. Why did the keep electing the person that tried to save Mary Jo, Kept diving till He was tired. What crap libs.

[thacher]

Teddy is in hell and can do no more harm.

Mary Jo is a hero, kept that commie killer out of the white house. Why did the keep electing the person that tried to save Mary Jo, Kept diving till He was tired. What crap libs.

Amazing how liberals glorify someone like Ted Kennedy and reelected him year after year.

[broehain61]

Every body loves the town drunk.

[adamka]

wow, I'm impressed, would you like a list of the "village idiots" miss deeds?