[StBernard] The Canonization of Teddy Kennedy

[Westley Annis]

Subject: The Canonization of Teddy Kennedy RAT 

 

 Just to get your blood going......

 The Canonization of Teddy Kennedy

 As soon as cancer was found, I noticed the immediate attempt at
canonization of old Teddy by the main stream media. They are saying what a
"great American" he is. I say, let's get a couple things clear & not twist
the facts to change the real history.

 1. He was caught cheating at Harvard. He was expelled twice, once for
cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.

 2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up
for four years instead of two. Oops, the man  can't count to four. His
father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U. S. Ambassador to England (a step up
from bootlegging liquor  into the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled
the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to
ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging.

 3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of
Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person of
his "education" NEVER advancing past the rank of Private. Imagine any one
else being "re-admitted" to Harvard.


 4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was cited
for reckless driving four times, including once  
when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood
with his headlights off after dark. Yet his 
Virginia driver's license was never revoked. Coincidentally, he passed the
bar exam in 1959, amazing!!!

 5. In 1964, while piloting a private plane, he was seriously injured in a
crash, and hospitalized for several months. Test
 results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was
legally intoxicated. The results of those  tests remained a "state secret"
until in the 1980's when the report was unsealed.  Somewhat past the statute
of limitations.  (I don't recall any press coverage of this.... but it has
been a long time.)

 6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in
Massachusetts. At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his
Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a
campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail,
Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond.

 7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party, after passing several
houses and a fire station. Then two friends returned with him to the scene
of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he
already knew, that he was required by law to immediately report the accident
to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his
lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by
then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had
scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car.
The Kennedy family began "calling in favors," ensuring that any inquiry
would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family,
before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but
after the
accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue
Kopechne, and he didn't call police because he was in a state of shock. It
is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police in hopes
that his family could fix the problem overnight. Since the accident,
Kennedy's "political enemies" have referred to him as the distinguished
Senator from Chappaquiddick. He pled guilty to leaving the scene of an
accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. Kopechne's
family received a small payout from the Kennedy's insurance policy, and
never sued. There was later an effort to have her body exhumed and
autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and
Kennedy's family paid their attorney's bills. a "token of friendship"?

 8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years. Considering
his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He is most noted for his
ultra liberal voting record, but no special legislative agenda.

 9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every
expansion of and increase in immigration, up to and including the latest
attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the Pious
grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court Nominees, as if he were the
standard bearer for the nation in matters of right. What a pompous ass.

10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and
very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than "great
American".

 Let's not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero - how quickly the
American public forgets his real legacy. Certainly NOT a credit to his party
or his country.