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| Ted Kennedy Collapsed At Obama Inaugural Luncheon |
| 2009-01-20 |
| Sen. Ted Kennedy has collapsed at a luncheon held for President Barack Obama at the Capitol, CNN and ABC News report. Paramedics arrived on the scene, and Kennedy was taken from the luncheon on a stretcher. "My prayers are with him and his family and Vicki," Obama said in remarks a few minutes after the incident. Kennedy was at a table with Sen. John Kerry and others, George Stephanopoulos reports. President Barack Obama went out of the room with him, but he returned. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) was also taken out of the luncheon earlier. According to MSNBC he was having trouble eating, but his condition was not serious. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #11 "Sen. Ted Kennedy has collapsed at a luncheon held for President Barack Obama at the Capitol..." ...and was immediately mistaken by buffet grazers as the smoked cod dip. |
| Posted by: Hyper 2009-01-20 21:33 |
| #10 14 martinis might just make you collapse |
| Posted by: rabid whitetail 2009-01-20 20:58 |
| #9 no matter how rough a go teddy gets out of this, it will come no where close to off-setting his karma |
| Posted by: Abu do you love 2009-01-20 20:16 |
| #8 Bad way to go but I'm pretty OK with it. |
| Posted by: Hellfish 2009-01-20 18:45 |
| #7 Maybe Caroline will move to Massachussetts. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2009-01-20 17:59 |
| #6 So was Mary Jo Kopechne (sic). |
| Posted by: illeagle 2009-01-20 17:03 |
| #5 I'm no fan of Kennedy, but to be brutally direct, the man's under a death sentence and a brain tumor is a nasty way to go. Somehow I can't bring myself to get all snarky about it. |
| Posted by: Mike 2009-01-20 16:07 |
| #4 Paramedics were puzzled by the way Senator Byrd had tied the white tablecloth around his head. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2009-01-20 15:57 |
| #3 When you have "trouble eating", it might be time to hang it up. Don't you think so, Exalted Cyclops? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-20 15:51 |
| #2 Luncheon of the long knives? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2009-01-20 15:35 |
| #1 Appears the only method one can be removed from politics in this country is to be carried out on a stretcher. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-20 15:30 |