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    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TedKe...ory?id=6692022

    Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.

    The man known as the "liberal lion of the Senate" had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son had lived longer with the disease than his doctors expected him to.

    "We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism, and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," the Kennedy family said in a statement. "He loved this country and devoted his life to serving it."

    Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy brother who was left to head the family's political dynasty after his brothers President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated.
    This really does sadden me despite not being an American. Truly he always seemed to be a man with his heart in the right place who legitimately wanted to help people. I'm sure he will be sorely missed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
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    This really does sadden me despite not being an American. Truly he always seemed to be a man with his heart in the right place who legitimately wanted to help people. I'm sure he will be sorely missed.

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    A formidable politician.

    RIP.

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    The left in the US loses one of their finest spokesman.


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    even Hannan was a fan of sorts -

    "Ted Kennedy was wrong about most things, but he was a great parliamentarian":
    http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/da...rliamentarian/
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    While i may personally not like the man, i mourn his death as an elder statesman.

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    My shotgun has killed less people than Ted Kennedys car.

    There I said it and now I bow out of this thread.
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    He was a jerk who is now a part of history because he had popular brothers. Never liked him anyway.

    He barely got a page, that's how you know he sucked. On tuesdays I not only insult the dead, but I fight corpses as well, i'll be here all week.
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    According to Chris Matthews, Kennedy passed the torch to Obama and now Obama is the last brother. Seriously
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    I could never respect that...'man' after he drove a woman into a river and left her to die several hours after the crash, trapped in the underwater car, breathing from an air pocket. Instead of even calling the police or someone, anyone, he left and went about trying to cover his trail.
    is this true?

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    Yes it is; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Ken...ddick_incident

    It looked as if she were holding herself up to get a last breath of air. It was a consciously assumed position. ... She didn't drown. She died of suffocation in her own air void. It took her at least three or four hours to die. I could have had her out of that car twenty-five minutes after I got the call. But he [Ted Kennedy] didn't call.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump View Post
    According to Chris Matthews, Kennedy passed the torch to Obama and now Obama is the last brother. Seriously
    He really did, in a political sense.

    Kennedy's early endorsement of Obama and his very active support of the Obama candidacy were key early components of Obama's success. Kennedy did not side-step while waiting for the primary results as did so many, he came out for Obama and put his connections to work on his behalf at a crucial phase of the campaign. Following that endorsement, Obama was pulled progressively further and further ahead of Clinton.


    I also think that Kennedy did see, in Obama, a political figure who would continue the fight for a number of issues about which Kennedy had very specific objectives. Obama campaigned as center-left (which is fairly close to the base views of a goodly percentage of the electorate), and has followed a center-left approach on legislative issues during his term thus far, but his executive orders and foreign policy efforts have been much closer to the left wing side of the spectrum.


    So, however silly Matthews is being on one level -- and he's prone to such silliness in phrasing -- there is a grain of truth to what he says.
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    Still, he left her to die?

    I dont care what else he might have done... a man who leaves a woman like that....

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    Not to mention he was one of those Americans that like to think they're Irish and gave support to the likes of the IRA. Never mind connections with Gaddafi or the PLO when a brother of the leader of the free world funds those

    So he supported terrorists and let a women drown in the bottom of a lake... yeah, top guy.
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    More hypocrisy, IMHO. Every American leader supported "terrorists" at one point or another. Especially Reagan: see Reagan Doctrine. The Taliban too was supported, most prominently, including Osama Bin Laden. America has created the very evil that attacked it.

    At that time, the Taliban were portrayed as gallant "freedom fighters" back then - even Reagan called them exactly that. Or all those Hollywood films featuring them. Hehe, I do not think I even remember any Soviet propaganda that was as bad... Taliban was never subtle about what it stood for: a totalitarian Muslim-extremist theocracy which enslaved all women and kept the men in fear with violence. Really, very few regimes were as negative in the beginning in the Western eyes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
    More hypocrisy, IMHO. Every American leader supported "terrorists" at one point or another. Especially Reagan: see Reagan Doctrine. The Taliban too was supported, most prominently, including Osama Bin Laden. America has created the very evil that attacked it.
    These things happen when two superpowers are striving for dominance though. The only reasoning behind the decisions of certain Americans to fund the IRA seems to be they had a great-great-grandad called Paddy and decided they had something in common with the 'freedom fighters' oppressed by the British. The most ironic thing is a lot of the Americans that think they are Irish are in fact of Ulster-Scots and not Irish descent.

    Anyway, supporting the Taliban was the usual global influence thing, not nice but that's how the big powers do things. With the IRA though it was completely pointless, they were supporting a terrorist campaign against their allies, with certain branches of the terrorists like the OIRA even stating that they take orders from Moscow!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
    These things happen when two superpowers are striving for dominance though. The only reasoning behind the decisions of certain Americans to fund the IRA seems to be they had a great-great-grandad called Paddy and decided they had something in common with the 'freedom fighters' oppressed by the British. The most ironic thing is a lot of the Americans that think they are Irish are in fact of Ulster-Scots and not Irish descent.

    Anyway, supporting the Taliban was the usual global influence thing, not nice but that's how the big powers do things. With the IRA though it was completely pointless, they were supporting a terrorist campaign against their allies, with certain branches of the terrorists like the OIRA even stating that they take orders from Moscow!
    Yeah, you have a point. Well, stupidity I suppose... That and misplaced nationalism. Really imbecilic it was though. Even if the Micks were morally right, I would rather be friends with an entity the likes of UK, and not a poor, uninfluencial start-up such as Ireland.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aemilius Paulus View Post
    More hypocrisy, IMHO. Every American leader supported "terrorists" at one point or another. Especially Reagan: see Reagan Doctrine. The Taliban too was supported, most prominently, including Osama Bin Laden. America has created the very evil that attacked it.

    At that time, the Taliban were portrayed as gallant "freedom fighters" back then - even Reagan called them exactly that. Or all those Hollywood films featuring them. Hehe, I do not think I even remember any Soviet propaganda that was as bad... Taliban was never subtle about what it stood for: a totalitarian Muslim-extremist theocracy which enslaved all women and kept the men in fear with violence. Really, very few regimes were as negative in the beginning in the Western eyes.
    That's a little bit of an overstatement. The US supported many warlords and resistance groups during the Soviet invasion- but the Taliban didn't even exist yet. Further, it wasn't just a US enterprise, many countries were interested in seeing the Soviets fail. That's not to say you don't have some shred of a point there, but you're definitely overstating it.
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