http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8221686.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8221686.stm)
Senator Edward Kennedy, 77, dies
breaking news
Veteran US Senator Edward Kennedy, the brother of ex-President John F Kennedy, has died aged 77 after a long battle with cancer, US media say.
The Democratic Massachusetts senator was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour in May last year.
He became a member of the Senate in 1962 to replace his brother when he resigned to become president, and was re-elected seven times.
He has been an active supporter of current President Barack Obama.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20090826harry_reid_senate_has_lost_its_patriarch/srvc=home&position=recent (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20090826harry_reid_senate_has_lost_its_patriarch/srvc=home&position=recent)
Harry Reid promised that Congress, while mourning Kennedy's loss, would renew the push for the cause of Kennedy's life, health care reform.
"Ted Kennedy's dream was the one for which the founding fathers fought and for which his brothers sought to realize," Reid said in a statement. "The liberal lion's mighty roar may now fall silent, but his dream shall never die."
:puke: I'll bet they name the new "Health Care" bill after Teddy.
Oh man their gonna be lionizing this Jackass for weeks now.
I wonder if they'll cremate him? Won't need much fuel with all the ethenol sloshing about his disgusting frame.
if there is a god, he has put him in a perpetual state of fearing for his life in an oldsmobile underwater. That guy can rot in hell for all I care.
Damn! I just heard this on the radio! I wish I had heard about it before I went to bed so, I could have enjoyed it sooner.
We're on a nice streak of scumbags dying :) First Michael Jackson, now this...
Quote from: Jim Johnson on August 26, 2009, 01:36 AM NHFT
"Ted Kennedy's dream was the one for which the founding fathers fought and for"
Funny. I don't remember reading anything about socialism in any of the founders documents. What a pile of *@#&$&
One thing teddy showed people was that a alcoholic could hold down a job for over 30 years. ;D
Good riddance to ol' Pumpkin Head... man they got big heads in that family. ;D
I'm glad he's unable to do any more harm, at least not personally, though plenty will continue to be done in his name.
I was a little disturbed by the implication somewhere that Mary Jo Kopechne can now rest in peace, as if the death of a murderer will bring peace to the victim who is already dead. I know it's an old idea and I shouldn't be surprised to see it. I guess I'm just looking at it in a new light and it doesn't seem healthy.
To mark Teddy's passing I'm trying to compile a list of bills he put up. I'm trying to show his real record for what it was.
Anyone have any note worthy bills he put up one way or the other.
I know he was one of the key people responsible for the min wage hike in 2007 and one of the key figures in the horrendous no child left behind act. But what else did he do?
Quote from: Kat Kanning on August 26, 2009, 06:51 AM NHFT
We're on a nice streak of scumbags dying :) First Michael Jackson, now this...
40 years too late for both of them!
Here is a nice summary of his "legacy." http://www.metroedit.com/2009/08/quite-a-legacy/
I must say his death at 77 reinforces the idea that the good die young.
:party-smiley-020: you can only run so long before karma catches up!
They'll have to update his theme song.
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiTEDKENED;ttIRISHWSH.html
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/unknown-ted-kennedy-song-lyrics.html
Quote from: jerryswife on August 26, 2009, 11:40 AM NHFT
I must say his death at 77 reinforces the idea that the good die young.
I'm not sure how to take this. I'm sure Jerry is wondering too!
I am so sad a greedy, fat, drunk, murder died. Not!
lloyd, I only said it reinforces the idea, not that I believed it.
And to me, Jerry will always be young.
;D
He is hanging around with Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler.
You know, once a treasoness freak like him gets to hell, he'll probrably get a promotion to head brimmstone lighter.
We all knew that Teddy was the fat stupid brother...useless and moronic...never relevant...
Noone ever cared to waste a bullet on him too!
ding dong the scumbag socialist is dead!