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Subject: 909
Posted: Jan 28 2009 at 5:18pm

As soon as cancer was found, I noticed the immediate attempt to
canonize old Teddy by the mainstream media. They are saying what a "great
American" he is. I say, let's get a couple things clear and not twist the
facts to change the real history.

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 U.S. 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
President Bush receiving.

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, after passing
several houses and a fire station. Then two friends 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
role, 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 and increase in immigration, up to and including
the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the
pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court Nominees, as if he were
the standard bearer for the nation in matters of right.
10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud,
boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description
than "great American".

Let's not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero -- how
quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is...]]> Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:18:45 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=909&PID=4021&title=end-of-the-ted-kennedy-dynasty#4021