Health care reform as a tribute to Edward Moore Kennedy?
The republic is better off because of the service of Sen. Ted Kennedy, whose signature graced every significant piece of liberal legislation over the last 40 years. (Yes, I used the “L” word. Kennedy never shrank from it.)
He pushed for the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is now so much a mainstream part of the culture that we take it for granted that persons in wheelchairs should have access to public buildings. He pushed for Title IX, which gave female athletes increased access to college scholarships. We now take that for granted, too.
But his signature legislation was always health care; he started pushing for increased access to health care in the 1960s.
Kennedy had significant flaws, of course. He was a drinker and a womanizer. He never publicly took responsibility for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in the way that he should have (a death that was probably related to drinking and womanizing.) He paid for her death with the loss of his presidential hopes.
Still, he bore tragedy — the assassinations of two brothers, the death of beloved nephew John Jr. — better than most, using his brothers’ deaths to refocus his service in the Senate. And his biggest accomplishment may be yet to come. Because he had so many friends in the Senate, Democrats and Republicans, it is quite possible that the Senate will find a way to pass significant health care reform legislation as a tribute to Kennedy.
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Buster
August 26th, 2009
10:00 am
I don’t think Ted Kennedy’s death is going to be what gets it done.
El Jefe
August 26th, 2009
10:15 am
The number of Blog entries says volumes about Ms. Tucker -
Why would a federal reform that negatively impacts the vast majority of people be considered a tribute to a Kennedy?
Only two federal programs actually worked.
The industrial build up for WWII and the Apollo project.
That is it. Everything else the Congress sticks their hands into is nothing but a drain on the economy.
Wayne Peltier
August 26th, 2009
10:26 am
His life and service should inspire us to find a compromise that will move the senate forward on heath care reform. Perhaps the president will offer a compromise on the capping of medical malpractice judgements. Conservative senators ask for a plan that can pay for itself. Also there is the larger problem of recruiting our brightest scholars to invest in a medical education. There must be economic incentive to move forward.
El Jefe
August 26th, 2009
10:47 am
Wayne Peltier,
Take away the incentive to earn a decent living and no one will want to be a Doctor. nationalizing the health care industry will do just that.
We need tax deductions for the cost of health insurance and tort reform to cap the awards handed out in malpractice suits.
We need the states to allow buying of insurance across state lines/
We need the states to enact grouping of the uninsured to negotiate group rates.
We need the system to be purely voluntary, no forced enrollments. Ask yourself, why would Bill Gates or Warren Buffet need health insurance?
We need insurance potability.
We do not need a government monopoly running the health care system, we have plenty of competition, but the states limit who and to what extent they can compete within the state.
We do not need another 2-4 trillion dollars added to the 9 trillion already posted as the deficit.
RealityKing
August 26th, 2009
10:48 am
“He paid for her death with the loss of his presidential hopes.”???
Progressive rationalization of manslaughter.., priceless.
maxine arrington
August 26th, 2009
10:48 am
Ms. Tucker,I vehemently concur; continue to “.cry loud and spare not”.
RealityKing
August 26th, 2009
10:50 am
Surely “greater than thou” Ted is now looking to opt out of Hell too..
Just because
August 26th, 2009
10:51 am
The health care system did not get to the place it is at overnight . . . so NO ONE should expect a solution overnight! First and foremost tweak the current system before embarking on an all-out plan that does nothing but for a small percentage of the population and one that will cost the taxpayers an arm and a leg (literally)!
Sean
August 26th, 2009
10:52 am
Republicans want health care reform to fail because they want Obama to fail. They will do anything to stop health care reform, including scaring old ladies half to death with fantastic lies. Why? Because they don’t want Obama to be the one to pass it. They want Romney to pass it in 2012. That’s their dream. (Make no mistake. Health care reform is inevitable. If costs continue to rise at the current rate, no one will be able to afford health care.)
Republicans used the same scare tactics (socialism, death panels, etc.) when the democrats were pushing for the creation of social security. They failed. social security passed and was, is, wildly popular. Democrats were able to bash republicans for years over their opposition to social security. Republicans don’t want that to happen again. That’s why they are pulling out all the stops. The question is, will it work, or will their disgusting behavior eventually turn the public against them?
maxine arrington
August 26th, 2009
10:54 am
Ms.Tucker, I vehemently concur; continue to ”.cry loud and spare not”. Much success.
El Jefe
August 26th, 2009
11:02 am
Question Boldly – oops no questions about Ted allowed
Seek the truth – ditto
Speak fearlessly – rant all you want, unless you are a conservative
Carter is a Fool
August 26th, 2009
11:16 am
No, a thousand times NO. Would it not be more fitting to have a good bill in memory of Mary Jo instead of this drunken murderer.
Pat Phelps
August 26th, 2009
11:19 am
Dear God…I pray you are wrong. To pass anything in this man’s name is a joke. He is a murderer, plain and simple. He should have been in jail not in the Senate.
Ron
August 26th, 2009
11:22 am
I think Ted Kennedy should have been asked if he would be willing to have his name included in the TITLE of any health care reform in its current form(s). I think something with a more likely success would be a real lasting tribute. However, who could argue the point considering how hard he has worked for such a plan?
Wayne Peltier
August 26th, 2009
11:24 am
I want my insurance to be portable and affordable. I would like to be able to stay with my private insurer when I retire. I do not have that right now.
Real
August 26th, 2009
11:27 am
“…it is quite possible that the Senate will find a way to pass significant health care reform legislation as a tribute to Kennedy.”
As usual, spoken from a subjective rather than an objective and rational viewpoint!!!!
Note that I posted this concern on Jay’s blog — see below –
Real
August 26th, 2009
8:39 am
An extreme liberal legacy including refusal to acknowledge the one key descriptive point about the illegal immigrants — they are here illegally, i.e., they are criminals!!!
On the postive (or negative) side — one can see PresBO, Pelosi and company will now push for Obamacare under the guise of “let’s do it for Ted” (shoot – let’s even now name it “TedCare”)!!
Robyn
August 26th, 2009
11:31 am
If any kind of liberal health care reform is passed into law, name the section on alcoholism after Teddy.
Peadawg
August 26th, 2009
11:31 am
Why should anything be a tribute to a murderer?
Kristin
August 26th, 2009
11:37 am
Yeah, that’s a great reason to pass legislation that directly affects the life and death of every American…to pay tribute to someone. Idiot.
Wayne Peltier
August 26th, 2009
11:41 am
Why can’t we as a moral people take the high ground? It is easy to judge the illegal alien. It is hard to treat him as a fellow human being. So the world is watching us and asking how moral are these people. Should the senate not incorporate these concerns into a new treaty with Mexico? Can’t our senators talk to their senators. The costs must be shared. There can be no other moral solution.
Sting 'em Buzz
August 26th, 2009
11:45 am
Rename a certain lake after him.
Mac
August 26th, 2009
11:56 am
Wayne, dude, you’re making too much sense. Partisan and international cooperation to achieve a solution for the common good? Pfft. Never gonna happen, crackhead.
BigJake
August 26th, 2009
12:00 pm
To honor the life of this spoiled, unrepentant murderer is a joke. With no regard to party politics, but simply a comment on one human being’s rise to power amid the scandals that he himself perpetuated, I find it appalling that anyone would regard this man in any positive light whatsoever. Any tribute to him would demonstrate the ability to ignore all of the facts of the crimes he has committed and through influence of his family, he has evaded all his life. I trust he packed a cooling fan for his journey.
Turd Ferguson
August 26th, 2009
12:10 pm
The drunken irresponsbile murderer is no more. Thank you God!
Gone off the Deep End
August 26th, 2009
12:11 pm
You can dress this healthcare up with a pig (Kennedy) and it will still look like a pig.
DK
August 26th, 2009
12:19 pm
HECK NO! You forgot to mention his amnesty bill in the ’80’s, that worked well! Since Kennedy has been in office, the Fed has grown by astronomical numbers and have taken away more of our personal freedoms then any other period of time.
Question- When Kennedy was diagnosed and had his surgery within a couple of weeks last summer, under Obama Care, would he have had the surgery that fast or would had he been given a “pill” (from O’s townhall”?
Cheers,
DK
El Jefe
August 26th, 2009
12:21 pm
DK, don’t forget Congress and the privileged are exempt from ObamaCare – good for us, but not for them.
R Cagle
August 26th, 2009
12:25 pm
Ms. Tucker
Mary Jo Kopechne paid for Ted Kennedy’s presidential hopes with the loss of her life, not the other away around as you suggest. He fled the scene. He enlisted others to concoct a story in order gain sympathy and minimize the impact to his presidential hopes. He got to live another 40 years and bask in the glory of people willing to rationalize away his criminal behavior simply because he was a Kennedy. Mary Jo Koepechne was accorded the honor of drowning in order to protect yet another Kennedy from damage to his public image. You make it sound as if it were just another one of those adolescent “drinking and womanizing” escapades for which those Kennedy boys are famous. One would think a woman would recognize him for what he really was. Perhaps you should talk with his first wife. She also paid a price for getting mixed up with the Kennedy’s.
Bud Wiser
August 26th, 2009
12:25 pm
Kennedy had significant flaws, of course. He was a drinker and a womanizer. He never publicly took responsibility for the death of Mary Jo Kopechne in the way that he should have (a death that was probably related to drinking and womanizing.) He paid for her death with the loss of his presidential hopes.
What do you think Mary Jo’s family thought about the “price’ Kennedy paid?
Most murderers do jail time, unless its a high profile racial case (OJ), or a rich boy’s daddy with political connections.
Even as a liberal, you should hang your head in shame at even the thought of ‘memorializing’ a murderer; but liberals never apologize or feel shame about anything or anyone…..that’s part of making them what they are.
At least now we can enjoy the fact that Teddy screwed up replacing his seat with another lapdog democrat, by changing the laws in Mass. in 2004, because he and his cronies just knew Mitt Romney (Gov at the time) would appoint a Republican to fill it, so now it has to be filled by an election instead.
Isn’t irony ironic?
I LMAO at the way you libs always think you’re getting away with something when in fact you’re just shooting yourself in the foot, again.
RealityKing
August 26th, 2009
12:26 pm
Clearly Ted’s greatest accomplishment is in his death. An fine example of an untimely death..
Rickster
August 26th, 2009
12:28 pm
Ted Kennedy denied Mary Jo Kopechne the life-saving health care this legislation would now deny many of us.
He may have been the “Liberal Lion” of the Senate… but he should not be lionized.
Pandora
August 26th, 2009
12:28 pm
I agree with Ms. Tucker on this one. Ignorance is the ONLY reason why people in this country are afraid of a change. The health care reform that President Obama is trying to pass is good for everyone. In Canada and other countries they have this…actually theirs is better. They have free health and dental care for everyone. The Republican Party is just trying to stir up ignorant people to believe that it’s a bad thing…think about it ANY AND EVERYTHING President Obama is for they are against. They could care less about anyone. We all should support President Obama and what he is trying to do. He is very concerned about the American Citizens getting the best health care.
El Jefe
August 26th, 2009
12:32 pm
Most liberal will be shocked that Ted Kennedy was not held in high regard by most folks.
There are not a lot of people that like his “No Child Left Behind” bill, championed by Pres. Bush.
His McCain-Kennedy amesty bill was shot down in flames.
He was just another highly ineffective Senator, sitting in a legacy seat.
A dad
August 26th, 2009
12:32 pm
Gee, poor Teddy paid for Mary Jo’s death by giving up his presidential aspirations. How terrible. Funny thing though. Most poeple I hear about who bring about another’s death usually end up in prison. Of course liberals like Ms. Tucker can always find a way to rationalte their viewpoint, no matter how absurd.
Pandora – what are you basing your comment that Canada and other’s countries socialist government run health care is better; ABC, NBC, CBS or CNN? I take it you don’t actually KNOW anyone from Canada or those other countries to have engaged them in discussions about their “better” healthcare. Nah, didn’t think so.
joe matarotz
August 26th, 2009
12:41 pm
A bum passed away. What better reason to pass a piece of legislation that will affect the whole nation? Cynthia, if you were paid to think, you would owe the company money.
I will honor Teddy tonight when I clean up after my dog. I will definitely be thinking of him at that moment.
dave
August 26th, 2009
12:44 pm
He paid for her death with the loss of his presidential hopes. – You keep outdoing yourself Ms. Tucker, I guess we could say the same about OJ?
R Cagle
August 26th, 2009
12:46 pm
Pandora,
Generally if you don’t agree with someone, and this someone has the potential of negatively affecting your life, then you oppose them. Did you agree with everything President Bush did? Did you speak up when you didn’t? Are you capable of independent thought? Did you need the Democrats to rouse you up from your igorance and scare you to action? What makes you think you are special because you agree with Obama and those who don’t are ignorant?
Ivan
August 26th, 2009
12:47 pm
Right.
After the “independents” are already bailing on Obama and congress after multiple bailouts, bigger government, higher taxes, and other far left liberal extremist visions, they’re going to name their massive health care overhaul after a…..umm….far left liberal extremist…..Awesome idea!!
El Jefe
August 26th, 2009
12:50 pm
dave,
You think Cynthia reads her own blog? Get real, she is crying her eyes out over Kennedy – to distraught to think clearly – oh, wait – thats normal – my mistake.
Wayne Peltier
August 26th, 2009
12:52 pm
Ted, it’s time to apologize to Mary Jo. Well, you have eternity – don’t be shy.
Mr. President, how will history judge the rest of us?
Mac, dude, Thanks.
Vinny
August 26th, 2009
12:53 pm
Good one Joe Matarotz – You pegged Cynthia on that one to a tee.
Gee, I have to go to the bathroom now and go take a Ted Kennedy.
Jake
August 26th, 2009
12:53 pm
Pandora – Please help everyone in America get that ‘free’ medical and dental care. Does anyone pay anthing at all or is it all just free like air up there in Canada?
Pat Phelps
August 26th, 2009
12:56 pm
Pandora…you are the poster child for why the government should not be involved in health care. The insurance is not free. I, along with most of my neighbors, will be picking up the health care tab for you.
Vinny
August 26th, 2009
12:57 pm
Oh, it’s “Lion of the Senate”. Stupid me, all this time I thought he was referred to as the “Lyin’ of the Senate”…
Turd Ferguson
August 26th, 2009
1:00 pm
“He paid for her death with the loss of his presidential hopes.”
And that is supposed to diminish his transgressions? Mary Jo of no he wouldve made a crappy President, even more so than the Crusader Bobby, if one can believe that.
Stupid Bobby went after the very crowd that helped get brother Jack elected. In so many words…Bobby killed Jack.
Turd Ferguson
August 26th, 2009
1:02 pm
Pandora.
Wow…did you play that tape over and over in your sleep until you memorized it?
“They have free health and dental care for everyone”
You either very naive or very stupid. Everything has a cost behind it…wake up little girl.
atlpaddy
August 26th, 2009
1:02 pm
I see that the angry extremist right wingers are out in full force today. How many of you are self-described Christians again?
Jack
August 26th, 2009
1:05 pm
Tucker didn’t write this tripe overnight. It’s been sitting somewhere in her computer waiting for Kennedy to die.
how you doing in HADES, Teddy?
August 26th, 2009
1:06 pm
this version of health care “reform” belongs in the grave with Kennedy. may it rest in his cold, dead hands.
extremerightwing
August 26th, 2009
1:07 pm
Kennedy’s defense in not contacting authorities for 10 HOURS after Marj Jo’s death was that he was tired after “trying to rescue her”. What joke. The man should have been tried for manslaughter. Guess it goes to show that with enough money you can get out of anything.
I wonder how Kennedy would have fared if Obamacare had been passed earlier this year. I can hear the conversation…”I’m sorry Senator, but we are unable to continue treating your ailment. You see, sir, you are 77 years old. You do not have many quality years of life remaining. We’ll make you as comfortable as possible.”
Yeah, like that would happen. Kennedy used every available means to stay alive as we all would. He would have had the obamocrat fired who tried to have that conversation with him which would have gone something like this….”Don’t you know who I am?? I am the lion of the Senate…now you go find a cure for my problem and don’t bring anymore of that bs about giving me a pain pill!!!!”
reservoirDAWG
August 26th, 2009
1:14 pm
Now Cyndi, Kenneday was a drunk, a murderer and a liberal sleezeball. If I behave that way in private business can I have something done in my honor?
E
August 26th, 2009
1:15 pm
One down, 6, off the top off my head to go!!
E
August 26th, 2009
1:16 pm
Just wish I could name the order in which they go… conservative in exile!
Cosby Smith
August 26th, 2009
1:21 pm
Passing a health bill allowing a government who is unable to operate cash for clunkers and name it in honor of a druken murderer who used his royalty to keep out of prison. only Miss Tuscker and the progressive, big government liberals could believe that is ok. I wonder what they will think when big government tells them how much they can make, whether they can live or die, where they can work, what type of car they can drive, whare they can live…
May Mary Jo kick Teddy, but then he is probably going the wrong way!
RealityKing
August 26th, 2009
1:21 pm
Lion!? HA!!
Ted Kennedy was obviously the Hyena of the Senate. Always looking to gorge himself on others hard work.
fromatl1
August 26th, 2009
1:23 pm
chappaquiddick, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne murdered. Does any of this ring a bell to you people. Forget his health insurance views, hope he has a good fire insurance policy.
James
August 26th, 2009
1:29 pm
I dont think Senator Kennedy would want this. This liberal Senator wanted to live. He had the finest Surgeon, the best hospital, the finest care. The bill being discussed has rationing and death panels. Kennedy at his age might not have made the cut and the government would have told him to take an asprin, go home, and die. No, Kennedy wouldnt want his name on this bill.
RepublicanBaptistMale
August 26th, 2009
1:41 pm
More interesting facts about Ted
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?
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
August 26th, 2009
1:42 pm
Perhaps Teddy was sent before a death panel that decided he was worth more dead than alive to the cause. Viva la death panel, I guess?
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
August 26th, 2009
1:46 pm
I love these liberals who lionize Teddy Kennedy as a great man, but want to send Michael Vick straight to h-ll for killing a few animals. Crazy!
Pennsylvanian
August 26th, 2009
1:49 pm
I think it would be more appropriate to pass a bill mandating guard rails on all bridges as a tribute to Ted.
JMH
August 26th, 2009
1:49 pm
You really are an idiot!
reservoirDAWG
August 26th, 2009
1:50 pm
Headline: Obama says Kennedy was greatest senator of our time. Further evidence Barack is a dolt.
Pennsylvanian
August 26th, 2009
1:56 pm
Boortz predicted this morning that someone would suggest just this very thing. Come on Cynthia, ‘fess up. You were listening to Boortz, weren’t you?
jconservative
August 26th, 2009
1:58 pm
RepublicanBaptistMale August 26th, 2009 1:41 pm
More interesting facts about Ted
Yeah most of us probably knew that from the early 90’s. Kennedy made a speech in early 90’s confessing his sins. This was right after a damaging tell all article in CQ magazine. Between the article & Kennedy admitting most of it there have been few secrets because of the press coverage.
Tired of BS
August 26th, 2009
2:02 pm
No to health care for Kennedy. Isn’t it strange that the senator dies when the president and his friends are so close by? I don’t know… just sort of reminded me of The Pelican Brief.
whatever
August 26th, 2009
2:06 pm
limo liberal, cynthia. he never missed an opportunity to give away our money. easy for him. his bootlegger father made them all millionaires. for the rest of us, not so much. guess those that follow the law will forever be the bank account drawn upon by the guilty liberals.
cynthia, you are a sucker if you think ted, obama, jesse, al, or any other person ever did anything for you. keep believing it. limo liberals and the suckers = democratic party.
the evil rich
August 26th, 2009
2:08 pm
AOL poll:
How important is Chappaquiddick to Kennedy’s legacy?
Very 85%
Somewhat 11%
Not al all 4%
Total Votes: 9,032
BigJake
August 26th, 2009
2:14 pm
From the Associated Press – The president called Kennedy “the greatest senator of our time.” Which senator are we talking about here? Oh, yeah, the one that used his family influence to escape prosecution for murder, helped get him out of the four year service in the army that he himself signed up for in favor of a two year assignment in Paris (tough work, but someone has to do it), and kept him out of jail for various and sundry violations like DUI. Oh, wait, Pres BO is from Chicago, where this kind of treatment is standard operating procedure. God help us all!
the evil rich
August 26th, 2009
2:22 pm
Sorry, America is NOT better off because of ANY Kennedy, PERIOD, EXCLAMATION POINT!
ADL
August 26th, 2009
2:25 pm
They should pass term limits as a tribute to Ted Kennedy.
Sunshine and Thunder
August 26th, 2009
2:27 pm
Maybe with Kennedy gone and the dems without a 60 seat majority we can finally put an end to the idea of universal health care. It is obvious that Kennedy was not aware that mainstream America did not want the government to lord over health decisioins.
TRUTH
August 26th, 2009
2:41 pm
You bigoted racist on this blog continue to amaze me with your incredulous statements. Even in death, your hate continues. There is a special place for all of you. You’re not right. You’re not even close to right. You despise the spirit of a man that saw to it that your parents had healthcare (Medicare), whether you ackowledge it or not, Grandma and Grandpa had a way to get treated on the government dime and not off your “money.” Hypocritacal idiots. Now that a poltician has come to Washington with a plan, you cower because the man does not look like you, although he has your best interests at heart. Youwant his birth certificate, he’s a Nazi, he’s this, he’s that. Don’t you know that we know what you want to say?? He’s Black. Say it. B-L-A-C-K. And your collective bigoted slips are showing. Look at the people who are saying this crap, I bet most of them look like the nitwits that are writing this drivel. Your own GOP’ers are lying to your face. Nuts?? Is this what we’ve become?? We have a former VP that has committed CRIMES. A former President that played the violin while OUR country was going under. He gave to the rich off our kids backs (using one of your euphanisms). He’s caused the deaths of thousands of those kids. We torture now? Yet, all you can do is say that this sitting President, who won the election, is this or that. Man the hell up and truly say what you know we already know, punks. Stop hiding behind your fear that is being pushed by the insurance companies and your weasley GOP party. This President has given your body ample opportunity to voice their concerns in open forum, and like you here they sit silently and then hide behind some other numbskull to state tehir position. PUNKS. Absolute, unmitigated, PUNKS.
Citizen
August 26th, 2009
2:43 pm
social security passed and was, is, wildly popular.
lol Are you the opening act at the Punchline this weekend?
A dad
August 26th, 2009
2:46 pm
Joe Biden tears up after eulogizing Ted kennedy as a man of ethics, morality, etc. Leave it to the Dems to idolize a man who, while drunk, drove off a bridge while in a car with a young woman who was not his wife, did nothing to save her from drowning while he swam away, didn’t report the incident for 10 hours, concocted a story and got others to lie for him all in an attempt to save his political career. And lest we forget brothers Jack and Bobby’s trysts with Marilyn in the White House. At least with Wild Billy all we got were a few stains on a blue dress and a ruined cigar. “Greatest senator of our time” and a model for our country’s leaders? God help us all.
ADL
August 26th, 2009
2:48 pm
The TRUTH is anyone who criticizes Obama is going to be called a racist. Get used to it.
And TRUTH, get used to your guy in the White House being criticized, because he isn’t doing a very good job!!!
A dad
August 26th, 2009
2:50 pm
Uhh, Truth. NO mention of race is involved with Kennedy. You must be one of those individuals who goes to great lengths to twist everything and anything out of context in attempt to ratiojalize your own mistaken, pathetic idiology. Apparently, anyone and everyone who says anything you disagree with is a racist. If I wanted to be a smart-alec, I’d asked if you know Prof. Gates up at haaavaaaard. Opps, just did.
Jackie
August 26th, 2009
2:52 pm
@TRUTH
RIGHT ON!!!!!
Citizen
August 26th, 2009
2:53 pm
Further Truth the right is commenting on Ted today who happens to be very white.
…and just for the record Condoleezza Rice could do a much better job than the guy in office now. A FEMALE and B-L-A-C-K the horror.
Pat Phelps
August 26th, 2009
3:02 pm
Truth…Why do people like you always cry racism. I can’t defeat you in the arena of ideas, so lets cry racism. Is that your thing.
I don’t like Obozo becuase he is an idiot, doesn’t know what he is doing, and wants to take more money out of my pocket. He has already amassed a deficit larger than all eight years of George W Bush.
By the way, I voted for Herman Cain and Dylan Glenn. Last time I checked they were black. Give it a rest.
the evil rich
August 26th, 2009
3:10 pm
TRUTH, Ted Kennedy was BLACK? Are you sure about that? Nimrod.
reservoirDAWG
August 26th, 2009
3:15 pm
“Grandma and Grandpa had a way to get treated on the government dime and not your money.” What in the he11 do you think the government dime is if not our money?
Rhino
August 26th, 2009
3:15 pm
Truth, you don’t get it. The government money is our money, we the taxpayers are the government. Whenever the government pays for something it is with tax dollars. Liberal Democrats have made their followers think that this money falls from the sky! I don’t oppose Obama because he is black, I oppose him because he is running up a tab that can never be paid back. You say we stood by when Bush let the country go under, we are standing up to a President who is spending more money than all past administrations combined. Social Security and Medicare are bankrupting our nation, add government run healthcare and you have the finishing blow. Something needs to be done about healthcare but this isn’t it. I have opposed many of Sen. Kennedy’s programs for years. Is it because of the color of his skin or because they were bad plans. Scream racism when it is called for, screaming it all the time makes you the racist.
Pennsylvanian
August 26th, 2009
3:19 pm
Pssst, TRUTH…. Take a deep breath. I have news for you. Barack Obama is 1/2 black, 1/2 white. He is a mulatto. Can we compromise? How ’bout if white folks only criticize him on odd numbered days?
Pat Phelps
August 26th, 2009
3:33 pm
Truth…last time I checked the Demogods had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. The liberalcrats have a voting majority in the house. Do you see were I’m going with this or do I need to explain it to you that is not us Republican weasels holding up Obozo’s health care bill.
R Cagle
August 26th, 2009
3:45 pm
When you speak of the racism, hatred, bile, intolerance, hypocrasy and ignorance of anyone who disagrees with you, deep down you are really speaking of yourself. How miserable and lonely you and the millions who voted like you must be.
Question
August 26th, 2009
3:47 pm
Truth — seems that chip on your shoulder has tilted you heavily to the left. Guess this means you don’t want to be confused by the facts and hold the ill-fated position that anyone who does not agree with The One must be racist. Thanks for confirming our notions about you!!!
Joseph Goebbels
August 26th, 2009
3:56 pm
Da Truuf and Slackie Jackie exposed as the hypocritical white-devil hating racists they are. Guess what – Lincoln didn’t care much for the black man, either. Plenty of quotes in that regard. But he’s still a hero like Teddie the lush and career politician, aint he.
Grub salad and rat stew in ya’lls future when China stops buying T-Bills. Know what I’m sayin’ dogs?
Joseph Goebbels
August 26th, 2009
4:01 pm
the “governement’s dime” – HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That has got to be the stupidest, illiterate, dumbazz thing I’ve heard since Cynthia Tucker made that Kennedy paid for his presidency statement. This ignorant, spineless attitude is killing this country. Truuf don’t have to worry about paying its mortgage or for its gas….no mo. It’s gonna shoot someone in the back for it.
Jackie
August 26th, 2009
5:48 pm
@Joseph Goebbels
Sounds like you are making LOTS of assumptions.
Secondly, you vain attempt at humor of laughable.
As for Abraham Lincoln, he had a racist attitude and his actions were designed to protect the union at all costs. Everyone that pays attention to history knows this, as you have aptly pointed out.
Now, tells us what your lame excuse is?
jt
August 26th, 2009
6:06 pm
“He was a drinker and a womanizer.”
Just like a liberal. Ms. Tucker demonizes Teddy’s ONLY attribute.
Everything else Ted did only spread misery.
The mind of a liberal is truly fascinating.
Roger
August 26th, 2009
6:18 pm
I totally agree with R. Cagle (12:25 post). Ms. Tucker should go back to writing about racism. That seems to be her bread and butter.
F. Sinkwich
August 26th, 2009
6:40 pm
I’m looking forward to another Luckovich “Pearly Gates” cartoon tomorrow where Teddy meets his maker with Mary Jo at His side.
reservoirDAWG
August 26th, 2009
8:19 pm
I saw where the Christmas tree has been ordered for the White House. I didn’t think muslims celebrated Christmas.
Joe Matarotz
August 26th, 2009
8:59 pm
Ted Kennedy was living proof that money cannot buy character.
Cynthia Tucker is living proof that having a Pulitzer Prize does not make you a good judge of character.
Sean Williams
August 26th, 2009
9:43 pm
First, we have to listen to eulogies honoring the child molester…now, we’ll have to stomach endless reports honoring Teddy the DUI killer. Normal people die every day. I could care less about celebrities or the political class.
How about we take a U turn on Obamacare in honor of Mary Jo?
Keep your bumper stickers. Can’t wait for the mid-terms you statist idiots.
Sean Williams
August 26th, 2009
9:48 pm
I’m hearing Kennedy-care, but I’m thinking Kopechne-Care would be more accurate.
Piso Mojado
August 27th, 2009
12:12 am
I love reading AJC Opinion Page comments. Regardless of the topic, I get a kick reading such mindless garbage from you right-wing rubes. You display your ignorance so proudly. Trying to sound so intellectual, like you really know what you’re talking about. Kind of like putting a hubcap on a tractor (bet that will keep you scratching your head for a while). Of course, the fact that Teddy Kennedy championed and drove civil rights legislation probably doesn’t endear him to most of you racist rednecks.
Hopefully, once the Dawgs start playing football, most of you brainiacs will have better things to do than read the AJC opinion page.
priorityplumbinc
August 27th, 2009
6:30 am
I hope the POS suffered just as bad as the lady he murdered. May he burn for eternity.
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