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It's not meant to be

MiddleClassBill — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:35:59 +0000

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It's not meant to be offensive. I simply think that Kennedy, while doing a lot of public good in Congress, is given a hall pass for all the bad things he did. The reality is that he never would have been in the position he was if it wasn't for his last name.

He got away with manslaughter, was kicked out of Harvard for cheating, drove his wife to become an alcoholic and screwed any woman who had two legs. And lets not forget about the night he was partying with his nephew down in Florida.

He wasn't the saint that people on here are portraying him to be.

Ya know, it would not upset

oleeb — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:07:02 +0000

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Ya know, it would not upset me if I never saw one of your objectionable comments polluting another post on this site whether mine or anyone else's. Every comment from you is repulsive and intentionally offensive. You should be ashamed of yourself but I know you aren't so please resist the urge don't respond. If you don't even have enough decency to refrain from this sort of puerile garbage I consider you even lower than I did before (and that's pretty low).

Sorry - I couldn't resist.

MiddleClassBill — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:10:24 +0000

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Sorry - I couldn't resist. Kennedy wasn't so classy either.

What a classy guy you are.

oleeb — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:59:44 +0000

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What a classy guy you are.

To quote one of my favorite

MiddleClassBill — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:40:04 +0000

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To quote one of my favorite Chevy Chase lines:

"Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment."

Thank you. Oleeb, for saying

wwstaebler — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:13:22 +0000

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Thank you. Oleeb, for saying so eloquently what so many of us feel.
No one who felt Ted's embrace, or glowed in the warmth of his smile, or sparked from the glint in his eye, or who felt safer because someone who was nominally in charge actually cared, will ever forget him. Or fail to honor him. And thank him, humbly, for ultimately being all he could be, and then being more.
A role model for all flawed beings to emulate.

I was an attempted Catholic:

JNagarya — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:56:13 +0000

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I was an attempted Catholic: my mother attempted to make us Catholic, but failed.

Paradoxically, though:

During high school, while separating myself from that particular brand of chain, by in fine examination of those values under pressure of reading Mark Twain, I ended up taking those values more seriously than the "good Catholics" I knew, who to this day go to church every Sunday -- then revert the next day to their weekday morals.

The values are portable; and thanks to moralist Twain, I came to know that everywhere is "church".

That is what is said to have

JNagarya — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:49:29 +0000

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That is what is said to have been behind Kennedy's good works. At the same time, it's said he shied away from attaching those values to "God". I think probably honoring separation of church and state.

I wasn't raised Catholic but,

oleeb — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:20:42 +0000

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I wasn't raised Catholic but, like you, took from it the same things Kennedy did.

Well being a cheeecken,

Overreach THIS! — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:13:49 +0000

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Well being a cheeecken, technically you're not eligible for the Catholic sacraments, so that parting of the ways probably was inevitable! Nice to see you took what Teddy did; I'd like to think the same of myself. Most days.