RIP Edward Kennedy

[Scipio]

Post reported to the Democratic party machine enforcers.      

Thank you, we were already aware of it.

Wow, you guys move fast!   

Unfortunately, they all move in different directions, twirling, twirling, twirling toward freedom.

[jimmy olsen]

Shut up, Tim. You are worst than Jaron.

I haven't posted on this page. 

[Ed Anger]

Shut up, Tim. You are worst than Jaron.

I haven't posted on this page. 

You only think you didn't.

[DGuller]

Have there been any confirmed acts of trollery with JR's piece yet?

[Neil]

I'm glad that Obama called him the greatest senator of our time.

Who else even comes close?

Depends on how you define "our time" but Mitchell and Dole were contemporaries with pretty good claims.

Mansfield certainly accomplished a fair bit as majority leader.  And LBJ deserves credit for his dominance over a fairly short Senate term.

[dps]

He was a despicable human being and a coward, and I will remember him as such.

Damn, Berkut, I don't have anything good to say about the guy, except maybe that he showed a bit of dignity during his battle with cancer, but it just ain't right to shit on him in a memorial thread like that.

[Neil]

Last of the "Greatest Generation of Kennedys" RIP

The last generation of Kennedys, really.  They were certainly greater than their father.  Their children are so contemptible as to be beneath attention.

[Razgovory]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/26/littlest.refusenik.kennedy/  He saved this chick apparently.

[lustindarkness]

Let's try to remember the positives.

Ted Kennedy's life was about a driving need to cross bridges to make connections.  It was about plunging deeply into the river of experience and leaving the dead weight behind.  It was about drinking in fully the heady brew of politics, speeding widly into the hurly-burly without a care, taking some hard knocks, picking oneself up and heading into the twilight with no regrets and without looking back.  Sure Ted was a big spender, but he had a big heart, and he knew you can't get anything worthwhile done without spending a few Kopechs.  Who knows - he might have been President, if only he had hit the breaks.

[Hansmeister]

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

[Siege]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/26/littlest.refusenik.kennedy/  He saved this chick apparently.

Amazing how a single article in the web can change the opinion one have of a politician.
I mean, is that article for real?

Now it is your job to change it back to where it was.

[Martinus]

The Chappaquiddick incident certainly wasn't his brightest moment, but don't you think it is a bit harsh to judge the man and his legacy based on an isolated act 40 years ago, especially if you take into account the amount of good he has done politically?

[Fate]

The Chappaquiddick incident certainly wasn't his brightest moment, but don't you think it is a bit harsh to judge the man and his legacy based on an isolated act 40 years ago, especially if you take into account the amount of good he has done politically?

Why? Grandstanding about the life of some worthless white chick is so much more fun.

[Eddie Teach]

The Chappaquiddick incident certainly wasn't his brightest moment, but don't you think it is a bit harsh to judge the man and his legacy based on an isolated act 40 years ago, especially if you take into account the amount of good he has done politically?

What did you have in mind?

I've been following politics the past decade and think of him in connection to two bills- an innocuous education bill that probably changed little, and an immigration bill that didn't manage to pass.

[CountDeMoney]

He was a despicable human being and a coward, and I will remember him as such.

Damn, Berkut, I don't have anything good to say about the guy, except maybe that he showed a bit of dignity during his battle with cancer, but it just ain't right to shit on him in a memorial thread like that.

Berkut hates commie pinko libruls.