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2010-04-15 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2010-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Yet another example of the elitist mentality our career politicians and their families share. They have been above the law practically their entire adult lives; now they are above scrutiny indefinitely. More proof, in my eyes, that our government (congress in particular) has considered itself to be above, beyond, and over the people for generations. The words of, by and for only apply to their legacies; which are edited at the leisure of their families and colleagues to allow only for irreprehensible actions to be noted in the pages of history. Isn't it tragic that history, the one tool humanity has to build true wisdom, is so hastily edited by those who wish to fundamentally change the dynamics of our nation? More tragic still is that the free people of our nation are so willing to submit to historical editing; something I would expect of a people living under the thumb of a third world dictator. At least they dont have a choice.

Posted by Keeney 2010-04-15 08:43|| 2010-04-15 08:43|| Front Page Top

#2 According to theBoston Globe, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's family is to be given "a rare opportunity to raise objections" to anything in the late senator's 3,000-page FBI file before it is released to the public.

Well, that should cut it down to a handy one and a half page phamphlet...

Posted by tu3031 2010-04-15 10:06|| 2010-04-15 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I can boil the highlights of his career down to a few bullet points.

1) Demanding the US leave Vietnam and invade northern Ireland to fight the British.
2) Chappaquiddick.
3) Secretly conspiring with the Soviet Union to undermine both Jimmy Carter's and Ronald Reagan's nuclear deterrent in Europe.
4) His culinary contribution, with the help of Christopher Dodd, the "waitress sandwich", which elsewhere is called "gang rape".
5) Being the clan drug dealer to Kennedy children, so that wouldn't risk embarrassment to the clan by buying their drugs from outsiders.
6) Defending rapist William Kennedy Smith, and golf club murderer Michael C. Skakel, who just lost another appeal, and has two more pending.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-15 10:08|| 2010-04-15 10:08|| Front Page Top

#4 7) Poster boy for term limits.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-04-15 11:34|| 2010-04-15 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Anonymoose, I went to Duke with Willy Smith and was a good friend of his. He is a doctor, one of the only people in the whole clan that does not live off the government dole or his family name. He never, ever, gave a vibe that he would force himself on a woman and believe me, I saw him around women in an advanced stage of inebriation several times. I think he got played and was rightfully acquitted. But it was Teddy that woke him up and got him to go to Au Bar that night.

Posted by remoteman 2010-04-15 22:21|| 2010-04-15 22:21|| Front Page Top

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