Senator Ted Kennedy dies

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

A rare Kennedy who died of natural causes:

http://news.aol.com/article/sen-ted-kennedy-dies/639767?icid=main|htmlws-main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle %2Fsen-ted-kennedy-dies%2F639767

[Jester]

You forget Eunice Kennedy Schriver...seemed like a sweet lady.

Well there's another one. My condolences to the family.

[Anarky]

I can really feel your sorrow right through that very emotional post. I can tell that you thought highly of this man and opened this thread only to cope with your grief and shock.

I hope you pull through this hard time soon, Chi-Ha.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

I can really feel your sorrow right through that very emotional post. I can tell that you thought highly of this man and opened this thread only to cope with your grief and shock.

I hope you pull through this hard time soon, Chi-Ha.

I admit I'm not one of the members of the cult of the Kennedys. I don't know if anyone else here is.

[cqb101]

He was my senator, and I'm proud of it.

R.I.P, Ted.

[Raph's Girl]

Wow.. 2 Kennedy's gone within 2 weeks of each other. Eunice died Aug 11th.

There's still one left tho, Jean Kennedy-Smith. She was the Ambassador to Ireland in the 1990's.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Wasn't he in that aeroplane that crashed when some other of Kennedy family died?

[Raph's Girl]

Wasn't he in that aeroplane that crashed when some other of Kennedy family died?

You're thinking of JFK Jr and his wife.

[cqb101]

Wow.. 2 Kennedy's gone within 2 weeks of each other. Eunice died Aug 11th.

There's still one left tho, Jean Kennedy-Smith. She was the Ambassador to Ireland in the 1990's.

Since you like to spout off random facts so much...

Arnold Schwarzenegger is married to Maria Shriver, Ted Kennedy's (and therefor also JFK and Bobby's) niece.

[Anarky]

Oh, are we playing Raph's Girl? Can I play?

John F. Kennedy is the father of a tunnel in Belgium. That makes Ted M. Kennedy the uncle.

[Sewer Bull]

I still believe there will to be a Kennedy in the White House again. John was so handsome.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

I still believe there will to be a Kennedy in the White House again. John was so handsome.

It may take a generation or two more. None of the Kennedys around today seem particular interested in the job.

[BoggleKng]

Man, it has been a bad year, folks dying left and right... Teddy, despite his faults, was a great Senator for Mass and always got back to my phone calls and emails quickly and with a sense of understanding for those that he served...

[Jester]

Since you like to spout off random facts so much...

Arnold Schwarzenegger is married to Maria Shriver, Ted Kennedy's (and therefor also JFK and Bobby's) niece.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, under the name Arnold Strong, starred in the film Hercules Goes Bananas also called Hercules In New York or Hercules: The Movie.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_%28magazine%29

The accomplishment that put JFK Jr. (John-John) in the public eye for a while before his untimely death in a plane crash. (I remember reading the interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian in one issue.)

[Raph's Girl]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is married to Maria Shriver, Ted Kennedy's (and therefor also JFK and Bobby's) niece.

I meant that of the 9 children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy (Ted's father), there's only one still living.

[Anarky]

Jello Biafra, former singer of former punk band "Dead Kennedys" studied acting and the history of Paraguay before he went to be a punk rocker.

[ThirdMarioBro]

It figures. Just when the nation is on the brink of reforming health care and fighting off the corrupt insurance companies who spread lies and ignorance, the cause's greatest crusader passes away. Terrible.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

It figures. Just when the nation is on the brink of reforming health care and fighting off the corrupt insurance companies who spread lies and ignorance, the cause's greatest crusader passes away. Terrible.

Ted was already in a bad way for some time. And it so happens that Bill Clinton's effort to reform health care in 1993 also went down in flames. It's not the matter of one politician's making a difference; if the public isn't going to be behind health care reform, the politicians are not going to enact it.

[cqb101]

It figures. Just when the nation is on the brink of reforming health care and fighting off the corrupt insurance companies who spread lies and ignorance, the cause's greatest crusader passes away. Terrible.

This should give the Dems the kick in the ass they need to get it passed. Sadly, I can see this having a positive effect on the cause.

[whitemonkey]

Jello Biafra, former singer of former punk band "Dead Kennedys" studied acting and the history of Paraguay before he went to be a punk rocker.

He ran for some form of office in california, not sure what though.
I gotta say when I read this I didnt think I see Jello Biafra's name pop up.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Here's a project Anarky should love:

On another forum, someone mentioned trying to find a drawing showing a bullet, and a marker pen which had written the letter "T" upon it, and was poised to write the next letter. The caption on the picture was "Never mind." Can anyone find that drawing anywhere?

[Leo656]

Too bad Teddy wasn't more a crusader for laws against drunk driving... or waiting ten hours to notify anyone that you may have left someone behind in your car when it went off a bridge and into the water, for that matter. "How was your date, Mr. Kenneddy?" "Good, good. Hmm, now what'd I forget? D'OH, the f*cking GIRL!"

Just in the interest of fairness. I like to see a person remembered for their WHOLE record.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Too bad Teddy wasn't more a crusader for laws against drunk driving... or waiting ten hours to notify anyone that you may have left someone behind in your car when it went off a bridge and into the water, for that matter. "How was your date, Mr. Kenneddy?" "Good, good. Hmm, now what'd I forget? D'OH, the f*cking GIRL!"

Just in the interest of fairness. I like to see a person remembered for their WHOLE record.

Well put, Leo. So many liberals are saying what a wonderful big-hearted humanitarian he was, and they ignore Chappaquiddick or blow it off as a "youthful mistake." It wasn't a mistake, it was a crime, and Ted Kennedy got away with it! :x

Ironically there were plenty of other liberal politicians of far better character who died without even a fraction of the fanfare Kennedy received. Guess they weren't related to any celebrity families.