Interesting Email i recieved today:


The  Last of The Kennedy Dynasty



As soon as his cancer was detected, I noticed the immediat e attempt at the canonization of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream 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 when he attended it.  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.  No preferential treatment for him! (like he charged that President Bush received).

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!

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, he was seriously injured in a plane 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.  Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we?

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, passing several houses and a fire station.  Two friends then 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 an d 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, but considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant.  He authored or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the "standard-bearer for liberalism". In his very first Senate roll, he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S. immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from third world countries.

9.    Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every expansion of an 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 was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of what's 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".  A blonde in every pond is his motto.



Let's not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero –– how quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is.  

Is brain cancer transmissible to family members?

all that and he kept on getting reelected. that whole family needs to be banned from office.

I saw an interesting show on PBS about the kennedies and they basically said he was borderline slow, and his dad knew he was too stupid to do anything else so they made him a senator. It was pretty funny.

It tells you how many scumbags there are in MA, and the same can be said for those scumbags that voted for commieboy.

Ted's gonna get his...

HH

  If I were him I'd be more scared of what lay on the other side rather than dying.

no. everyone with the last name kennedy is great. just ask.  i hope no one with the last name kennedy is ever in politics again.

The sooner he is gone the better off America is... Judgement day is just around the corner Teddy... Burn in hell

No.  Massachusetts liberals should be banned from voting

Good riddance....

I have wondered how in the hell he got the Catholic Church to "annul" his marriage of.....wasn't it around 40 years?...
How do you do that??