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I'm appalled by what I'm reading. Wow. I even saw one say, "Good riddance." Unbelievable.

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I remember the past.
The closest I got to Kennedy was seeing his house at night near Miami from the Intercoastal waterway. They had their nightly party and alcohol and drugs. I recall a rape event that was there and in the news.

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Randall Hoven pointed out that Barack Obama has insulted an amazing range of people. So it's no surprise to note that he insulted Ted Kennedy, too.

In late, 2003, this is what Barack Obama had to say of Ted Kennedy on Kennedy's efforts to pass a prescription drug bill:

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I dont morn his passing at all. My only prayer for the Kennedy clan is that they repent for the MANY sins and find Christ.

Teddy is now in the hands of his God and I for one would not want to be in Gods hands with Ted's record.

I wont be crass and make jokes. But in all honesty this man was a great mover in the senate for America's LOSS in Vietnam and he revivied that role when we joined the battle in Iraq. As a general rule Ted Kennedy belived that defeat and surrender was the path to victory in war. Thank God he was not in the senate in 1940.

Ted Kennedy played a primary role in creating the healtcare system that has currently failed us. in the 1970's he worked tirelessly to change healthcare and how it works. He succeeded and we now live with the mess.

Ted Kennedy did great harm to America as a politician. We all know what kind of man he was. in so many respects his name is a byword and a bloody joke.

The truely aweful part of all this is that some think he was a great man. That saddens me.

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What is Dr. Ezekial Emanuel's position on the late Ted Kennedy's treatments?

As Noemie Emery states in the Washington Examiner about Sen. Kennedy:


"According to the Politico, some of his drugs may cost $50,000 for one treatment, while the Obama plan relies on trimming back the expense and the scope of the end-of-life treatments given the elderly when they become very ill."

My more-than-rhetorical question for Dr. Emanuel is this: Do you consider these expensive treatments given to the late Sen. Kennedy a waste of the medical resources? Ted Kennedy's Senatorial medical insurance was funded by the federal government. These days few private institutions do not benefit indirectly or directly from the federal governments expenditures on medical education, Medicare or other programs.

So I ask again, we know Dr. Emanuel's general position against using extraordinary and expensive measures to extend the life of senior citizens. Does his position also apply to Sen. Kennedy's situation and is he willing to say that in public?

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...nedy_dead.html

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Senetor Kennedy was a great American patriot! He should be enshrined and beatified! I am appalled at what I am witnessing on nthis forum as insults, retribution and malignity are being hurled forth in the name of freedom of speech.

Hark my fellows do you hear the words of the Spirit...cans't thou not tell from whence many of you have benefitted from the soul of one, Edward Kennedy?

How is it that you can speak thus and thus of one so esteemed by his country men?




I must say I agree with you! :thumbsup

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Good post. The politically correct idea is that once someone dies, we forget everything bad they did, and pretend they are to be celebrated, even if they were purely evil.

I don't do that with Hitler or Saddam; I don't know why I would do it with Ted Kennedy. When I teach my kids about Hitler or Saddam, I fill them in on all the evil and horrors those men orchestrated. When I teach them about the Kennedy family, I show them how a pattern of immorality and an overall lack of character leads to great tragedy and loss.

In order for a death to have personal impact, there has to be some sense of loss. I have no sense of loss here, other than the sad idea that yet another evil man has met his maker.

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Saddam...Hitler...Kennedy....Yep! I agree with the progression...well said!

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Should I have stated a more politically correct, Rest in Peace? I could have been more crass with the twist on RIP - Rot in Pieces, but I didn't. Instead I bid his departure as good riddance.

I'd rejoice at the news of TK's repentence, baptism in the name of Jesus and being filled with the spirit ... regardless of his past. Sadly, I don't believe that happened. He's in the hands of his maker.

So again, good riddance to a drunken, date-killing, adulterous, liberal senator ... I shant shed a tear. Pity to those whom my lack of tears offends.

:2cents