Kennedy was a coward with low morals who was willing to secretly undercut his country with the Russians for political gain. He deserved jail several times over.

It’ funny when grandpa tries to speak like the kids.

Well done, Daddy-O!

At the end of the day, Ted Kennedy was a flawed man who did a lot of good. He did a lot more good for America, and a lot less bad, than another child of privilege George W. Bush, that’s for damn sure.

Teddy Kennedy for Dummies (e.g., william):

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2003/01/05/kennedy_unbound/

More here from the same awesome source:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/altercation/467618

“When President Reagan chose to confront the Soviet Union, calling it the evil empire that it was, Sen. Edward Kennedy chose to offer aid and comfort to General Secretary Andropov. On the Cold War, the greatest issue of his lifetime, Kennedy got it wrong.”

http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/ted-kennedy-soviet-union-ronald-reagan-opinions-columnists-peter-robinson.html

Follow the thread. People are saying that Ted Kennedy basically killing a woman by leaving her to die while he saves his own privileged ass and doesn’t report it until the following day after she’s found is no big deal when compared to the horror of the Bush administration.

I’m a little sick and tired of people merely writing off Kennedy’s moral, legal and political failures as nothing but “flaws.” It was nothing more than Kennedy’s name, privilege and political clout of his family that allowed him to skate on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident rather than a charge of at least manslaughter. Then to make it worse, you have nimrods like Nimrod trying to say, “Well nobody really knows what happened” when everybody knows exactly what frigging happened.

Wrong.

Um, little Dennis needs a lesson on what hypocrisy is:

It’s when you advocate something for others that you don’t act on for yourself. For example, there are a number of Republican politicians who want to deny gays the right to marry since they say homosexuality is “evil.” However, in their own lives, they like like to suck hard throbbing cocks or text male teenagers about what they look like with their shirt off.

That’s hypocrisy, and it’s only one example among many that define your dying party.

Guys like Frank bitch and moan about “socialism” when in fact they are beneficiaries of “socialist” things like government provided health care and veterans’ benefits. (Not to mention roads, hospitals, a power grid, the internet, universities, and countless other things that we all benefit from.)

Me? I’m very much for government health care and veterans’ benefits. I don’t go around screaming about other people getting something I get since that would be really hypocritical of me. More to the point, I don’t receive government benefits and never have, at least not directly. (The benefits of hospitals, roads, and universities are of course hard to quantify.)

This issue actually has nothing to do with me paying taxes into the Fed or not (another hint: I do). It has to do with the bizarre number of wing-nuts who bitch about things like Social Security, Medicare, or the VA, and who happen to be unemployed losers and/or recipients of Social Security, Medicare, or VA benefits.

There’s nothing hypocritical about continuing to point out that some of the more prominent trolls here who bitch about “Socialism” are, as far as I can tell, Socialists (by their own definition). Me? I work for a living. I’ve never heard you congratulate me for that Dennis, and that makes me oh-so-sad.

Sad and funny at the same time. Like your whole life, Dennis.

Tons. What’s your point? That Democrats can also get us into wars we have no business being in? This is news?

Yeah and how many thousands upon thousands of deaths are JFK and LBJ responsible for? After all, they got us into Vietnam. I guarantee we won’t hear any talk from you about them being “complicit in the deaths of thousands more innocent people.” If you want to start talking war policies, innocent deaths and the Presidents involved, go right ahead.

And not just for the sake of not being the biggest hypocrite ever to post on a liberal blog. I mean, you know, you could do it for the sake of other Americans.

That way, when you chastise someone for receiving federal assistance in some form, you wouldn’t be lying through your teeth when you say you paid for it.

Wait, so you can’t call other people “selfish” if you don’t live under a bridge and eat garbage off the street? Huh?

Right. Best to ignore the racism. Maybe it’ll go away on its own.

It’s not always about ideology – it’s about the fact that you’re a liar, a phony, and a hypocrite. You raise issues about the United States and its tax burden, but you don’t pay any. You talk about people being selfish, but you take home a paycheck for teaching.

If everyone around here would stop calling other people racist, the amount of comments would be reduced by at least 50%, I’ll wager.

Fucking bigots to the core.

With regard to Chappaquidick, neither can I (and I do have speculations). I watched the CBS special last night. Jeff Greenfield said he remembered watching Kennedy’s TV address and essentially thinking, “I’m not buying any of this.” As I’ve said, you have to judge someone by their whole record. But this will always be a large part of his.

All I meant in the first place was, if Ted Kennedy was a despicable coward, what on Earth is mass-murdering draft dodger Bush?