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OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !"
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 756817 (OP)
8/26/2009 4:11 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
He was the greatest Senator ever, and the President of the United States acknowledged the obvious !
Someone please ask Mary Jo Kopechne about how great he was.... oh wait you can't.
God will judge how great a man he was.
You must be too young to remember. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 576799
Are you talking about the failed assassination plot to murder Ted Kennedy?
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LuckyLuciano said...
User ID: 590854
8/26/2009 4:16 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
Just one MONUMENTALLY Criminally Insane, Treasonous, Traitorous World Class Criminal talking about another MONUMENTALLY Criminally Insane, Treasonous, Traitorous World Class Criminal (NUFF Said...) 
Theyll ALL BURN IN HELL for all Eternity when their time arrives (I actually PITY the Devil - That Poor Bastard!)
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 756817 (OP)
8/26/2009 4:59 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
now that's UGLY! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 756817 (OP)
8/26/2009 5:37 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
Just one MONUMENTALLY Criminally Insane, Treasonous, Traitorous World Class Criminal talking about another MONUMENTALLY Criminally Insane, Treasonous, Traitorous World Class Criminal (NUFF Said...)
Theyll ALL BURN IN HELL for all Eternity when their time arrives (I actually PITY the Devil - That Poor Bastard!)
i ACTUALLY PITY YOU ! |
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intrigued by reinhardt
User ID: 516293
8/26/2009 5:41 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
Funny thing was, he had to read that from a piece of paper too! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 756817 (OP)
8/26/2009 5:50 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
That's Obama's style.
Better than fluffing the oath -paper serves an important function ! USE IT ! |
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ThreshingSword
User ID: 733971
8/26/2009 5:57 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
We should have a State funeral for him with horses knights and the like. Even the Queen will come and kiss him. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 756810
LOL! From one Lizard to another! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757145
8/26/2009 6:20 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
THIS CERTAINLY PLACES ALL HIS CRITICS IN PERSPECTIVE:
[link to betshort.com]
OBAMA HAS DEMONSTRATED REAL LEADERSHIP BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE KENNEDY LEGACY !
Love him or hate him, there's no way to say it isn't an amazing tribute ! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 756817 (OP)
8/26/2009 6:39 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
This is beautiful !
For five decades, virtually every major piece of legislation to advance the civil rights, health and economic well being of the American people bore his name and resulted from his efforts.
I valued his wise counsel in the Senate, where, regardless of the swirl of events, he always had time for a new colleague. I cherished his confidence and momentous support in my race for the Presidency. And even as he waged a valiant struggle with a mortal illness, I've profited as President from his encouragement and wisdom.
An important chapter in our history has come to an end. Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of his fallen brothers and became the greatest United States Senator of our time.
Vice President Joe Biden fought tears as he spoke suddenly reversed his planned speech to talk about his friend and colleague of many decades in the Senate, in the following words;
So -- and I had planned on speaking to the Clean Cities Program as one of the several initiatives we have to begin to reshape our energy policy, but as if Teddy were here, as we would say in the Senate, if you excuse a point of personal privilege, I, quite frankly, think it's -- would be inappropriate for me to dwell too much on the initiative that we're announcing today and not speak to my friend.
My wife, Jill, and my sons, Beau and Hunter, and my daughter, Ashley -- and I don't say that lightly because they all knew Teddy. He did something personal and special for each one of them in their lives -- truly, truly are distressed by his passing.
And our hearts go out to Teddy Jr. and Patrick and Kara and Vicki, with whom I spoke this morning, and the whole Kennedy family. You know, Teddy spent a lifetime working for a fair and more just America. And for 36 years, I had the privilege of going to work every day and literally -- not figuratively -- sitting next to him and being a witness to history every single day the Senate was in session.
I sat with him on the Senate floor in the same aisle. I sat with him on the Judiciary Committee physically next to him. And I sat with him in the caucuses. And it was in that process -- every day I was with him -- and this is going to sound strange, but he restored my sense of idealism and my faith in possibilities of what this country could do.
He and I were talking after his diagnosis, and I said, "You know, I think you're the only other person I've met who, like me, is more optimistic, more enthusiastic, more idealistic, sees greater possibilities after 36 years than when we were elected."
He was 30 years old when he was elected. I was 29 years old. And you'd think that would be the peak of our idealism, but I genuinely feel more optimistic about the prospects for my country today than I did -- have at any time in my life. And it was infectious when you were with him. You could see it -- those of you who knew him and those of you who didn't know him -- you could just see it in the nature of his -- the debate, in the nature of his embrace, in the nature of how he, every single day, attacked these problems.
And, you know, he was never defeatist. He never was petty. Never was petty. He was never small. And in the process of his doing, he made everybody he worked with bigger; both his adversaries as well as his allies.
Don't you find it remarkable that one of the most partisan, liberal men in the last century serving in the Senate had so many of his -- so many of his foes embrace him because they know he made them bigger? He made them more graceful by the way in which he conducted himself.
You know, he changed the circumstances of tens of millions of Americans in the literal sense; literally, literally changed the circumstances. He changed, also, another aspect of it as I observed about him. He changed not only the physical circumstance; he changed how they looked at themselves and how they looked at one another.
That's a remarkable -- a remarkable contribution for any man or woman to make and for the hundreds, if not thousands, of us who got to know him personally. He actually -- how can I say it? He altered our lives as well. Through the grace of God and an accident of history, I was privileged to be one of those people. And every important event in my adult life, as I looked back this morning in talking to Vicki, every single one, he was there. He was there to encourage, to counsel, to be empathetic, to lift up.
From 1972, as a 29-year-old kid with three weeks left to go in a campaign, him showing up at the Delaware Armory in the middle of what we call Little Italy, would never vote nationally for a Democrat, I won by 3,100 votes and got 85 percent of the vote in that district or something to that effect. I literally would not be standing here were it not for Teddy Kennedy -- not figuratively. It's not hyperbole. Literally.
He was there -- he stood with me when my wife and daughter were killed in an accident. He was on the phone with me literally every day in the hospital when my two children were attempting, and God willing, got -- thankfully -- survived very serious injuries.
I'd turn around and there would be some specialist from Massachusetts -- a doc I never even asked for -- literally sitting in the room with me.
You know, it's not just me that he affected like that. It's hundreds upon hundreds of people.
I was talking with Vicki this morning, and she said -- she said, "He was ready to go, Joe, but we were not ready to let him go." He's left a great void in our public life and a hole in the hearts of millions of Americas and hundreds of us who were affected by his person touch throughout our lives; people like me who came to rely on him. He was kind of like an anchor.
And unlike many important people in my 38 years I've had the privilege of knowing, the unique thing about Teddy was it was never about him. It was always about you. It was never about him. There was people I admire, great women and women, but at the end of the day, it gets down to being about them. With Teddy, it was never about him.
Well, today, we lost a truly remarkable man. To paraphrase Shakespeare, I don't think we shall ever see his like again. I think the legacy he left was not just with the landmark legislation he passed but in how he helped people look at themselves and look at one another.
I apologize for -- for us not being able to go into more detail about the energy bill, but I just think, for me at least, it was inappropriate today. And I'm sure there will be much more that will be said about my friend and your friend, but he changed the political landscape for almost a half of century.
I just hope -- we say it lightly, you know -- we'll remember what he did. I just hope we remember how he treated other people and how he made other people look at themselves and look at one another. That will be the truly fundamental, unifying legacy of Teddy Kennedy's life if that happens, and it will for a while at least in the Senate.
Mr. Secretary, you and your staff are doing an incredible job. I look forward to coming back as at a happier moment when you are announcing even more consequential progress toward putting this back into position. We will, once again, control our own economic destiny.
Thank you all very much. |
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chalcedony
User ID: 576799
8/26/2009 6:41 PM
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Chalcedony is not really known by its name...
Why be a hard rock when you really are a gem?
Get me out of here. |
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jnchisox1 
User ID: 753668
8/26/2009 6:42 PM
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I'm sorry he died but the fact remains, why did the man call his lawyer instead of 911 after his accident with the young intern?
There was no 911 back then ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 526297
you know that he/she meant police, 911 has become code for all types of calls to the police
"Im intolerant to your intolerance" |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 718402
8/26/2009 6:43 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
It's about fucking time he died, that piece of shit was the lowest of scum. Same with that illegal mother fucker in office right now. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 756817 (OP)
8/26/2009 6:59 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
It's about fucking time he died, that piece of shit was the lowest of scum. Same with that illegal mother fucker in office right now. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 718402
It's people like you who make him as popular as he is. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757219
8/26/2009 8:14 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
The Senate is still controlled by Kennedy. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757219
8/26/2009 8:16 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
He was the greatest Senator ever, and the President of the United States acknowledged the obvious !
Someone please ask Mary Jo Kopechne about how great he was.... oh wait you can't.
God will judge how great a man he was.
You must be too young to remember.
Are you talking about the failed assassination plot to murder Ted Kennedy?
[ link to betshort.com]
Both Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy were seen at Martha's Nineyard on the night that Mary Jo died.
What were they doing there, vacationing like a Liberal, or were they plotting the death of Ted Kennedy?
You know, these are the same losers who wasted their lives trying to kill Castro, so you would really have to be a dummie, to doubt the fact that they mistakenly killed Mary Jo. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757372
8/27/2009 12:34 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
THIS CERTAINLY PLACES ALL HIS CRITICS IN PERSPECTIVE:
[ link to betshort.com]
OBAMA HAS DEMONSTRATED REAL LEADERSHIP BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE KENNEDY LEGACY !
It's a wonderful tribute ! |
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DA DOG
User ID: 757367
8/27/2009 12:36 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
I'm sorry he died but the fact remains, why did the man call his lawyer instead of 911 after his accident with the young intern? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25
NO CELL PHONES NO 911(HAHAHAHA) |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757514
8/27/2009 7:51 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
Caroline's eulogy will be the best! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 752731
8/27/2009 9:17 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
THIS CERTAINLY PLACES ALL HIS CRITICS IN PERSPECTIVE:
[ link to betshort.com]
OBAMA HAS DEMONSTRATED REAL LEADERSHIP BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE KENNEDY LEGACY !
The mighty roar of the lion in the Senate will be greatly missed. Always loved and never forgotten... |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 752731
8/27/2009 10:53 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
This is what you call a MINISTRY OF PROPAGANDA !
[link to betshort.com] |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 752731
8/27/2009 11:09 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
Kennedys are a great role model.
[link to www.geocities.com]
Tremendous public servants. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757701
8/27/2009 1:47 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
THIS CERTAINLY PLACES ALL HIS CRITICS IN PERSPECTIVE:
[ link to betshort.com]
OBAMA HAS DEMONSTRATED REAL LEADERSHIP BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE KENNEDY LEGACY !
That speach by Joe Biden made me cry -I can\t stop.
Thanks for posting the link, I will treasure Biden's words.
Truth is really a powerful force. All the hatred that was directed towards Kennedy has disintegrated in the light of the real measure of the man.
Compare all the tributes for Kennedy with the silence regarding Dunne's death and everything should become clear.
Dunne attacked the Kennedys in effort to steal the spotlight, and even his death proved to be insignificant, compared to the love that Ted Kennedy inspired. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 757625
8/27/2009 4:33 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
Paris Hilton is more intellibgent than Dunne was -at least she is a celebrity in her own right.
He was a wanabe. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 758267
8/28/2009 10:12 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
THIS CERTAINLY PLACES ALL HIS CRITICS IN PERSPECTIVE:
[ link to betshort.com]
OBAMA HAS DEMONSTRATED REAL LEADERSHIP BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE KENNEDY LEGACY !
The thousands who are lining up to say good-bye prove that Kennedy is not a man. He is a legacy. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 758371
8/28/2009 8:28 PM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
John Kery is speaking at his memorial, as I type ! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 758868
8/29/2009 8:35 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
THIS CERTAINLY PLACES ALL HIS CRITICS IN PERSPECTIVE:
[ link to betshort.com]
OBAMA HAS DEMONSTRATED REAL LEADERSHIP BY ACKNOWLEDGING THE KENNEDY LEGACY !
Joe Biden spoke at his memorial as well. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 758846
8/29/2009 9:11 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
Obarkyfraud should have said, "The Greatest Pile of Traitorous Shit".
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 730381
8/29/2009 11:33 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
He was the greatest Senator ever, and the President of the United States acknowledged the obvious !
Someone please ask Mary Jo Kopechne about how great he was.... oh wait you can't.
God will judge how great a man he was.
You must be too young to remember.
Are you talking about the failed assassination plot to murder Ted Kennedy?
[ link to betshort.com]
Obama is set to eulogize Ted Kennedy at a Boston Church.
DON'T MISS IT ! |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 758951
8/29/2009 11:38 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
I'm sorry he died but the fact remains, why did the man call his lawyer instead of 911 after his accident with the young intern? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25
One reason might be because 'they' were trying to kill him, not Mary Jo. Would you linger around in a circumstance like that?
I know I wouldn't! I'd get the heck out of there and get some advice from others. |
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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 758951
8/29/2009 11:46 AM | | Re: OBAMA CALLS TED KENNEDY "THE GREATEST UNITED STATES SENATOR OF OUR TIME !" | Quote |
My question is who will be the royal family in the US now? Will the media try to jack another Keddedy into the spotlight to take Teddy's place or will they pick a whole new family to do their dirty work? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 289874
My sources say that everything is going to come out now that he is off the scene. Everything will be known, including the things the elite 300 made the Kennedy family do. |
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