I certainly hope so. If ever there was an overrated and probably destructive family it was the Kennedy’s. The old man was a Nazi sympathizer, JFK was a reckless womanizer whose hyperactive libido and general ill health was covered up by a compliant media, Bobby was a ruthless Attorney General who wiretapped Martin Luther King, Teddy got away with manslaughter, many of the kids have been in trouble with the law, etc. Funny how JFK would be considered way too conservative now by the current Democrats.
by Phil Boehmke
The Kennedy clan has to be wondering lately, what the ____ (fill in blank) happened? The past year has not been kind to America’s Royal Family. With yet another brutal winter storm having virtually shut down America’s capital, our liberal friends in those snowy climbs will have ample time to pause and reflect on the demise of the Kennedys during the past year.
First Caroline met with unexpected criticism in her quest to fill Hillary Clinton’s term in the Senate, whereupon she withdrew from consideration. What the ____ (fill in blank) happened? She’s JFK’s daughter! She’s Teddy’s niece! Her uncle RFK was a senator from New York! Qualifications? For a Kennedy?Then came that dark day when Teddy passed away. The last Kennedy brother (with the exception of Barack Obama) was gone, and with him his political and family influence. As the Liberal Lion prepared to face divine justice for Mary Jo Kopechne and other lesser crimes, the family was preparing to lay claim to “the Kennedy seat.”
Joe Kennedy, Jr.’s name was floated as his uncle Teddy’s rightful successor. Joe Jr. had served in Congress and looked like the logical choice to maintain the Kennedy legacy in the Senate. Then out of nowhere came stories of Joe Jr.’s connection to Hugo Chávez. Mark Tapscott in The Washington Examiner wrote:
There are at least three reasons why Joe Kennedy should not be a U.S. senator from any state. First, he’s not only a defender of a declared enemy of the U.S., but is also guilty of shamelessly using that enemy’s resources in an unsuccessful attempt to polish his own image here in America. I refer, of course to Kennedy’s deal with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez under which the latter gives the former heating oil which is then sold to “the poor” in America.
What the ____ (fill in blank) happened? For the second time in a matter of mere months, a member of America’s Royal Family withdrew from consideration for a legacy seat in the Senate.
After Massachusetts Democrats had found a successor to “the Kennedy seat,” the clan came out to lend their family clout to the campaign. Patrick Kennedy, the only member of the clan still in Congress, joined his stepmother in support of “Marsha” Coakley, but to no avail. Republican Scott Brown won the special election for the Senate seat belonging to the people of Massachusetts.
Patrick Kennedy has recently referred to the election of Scott Brown as “a joke,” and like his fellow Democrats (former President Clinton and future former President Obama), he has placed the blame squarely on “Marsha” (really it’s Martha) Coakley’s shoulders.
[...]
Read the rest: Cooling The Kennedy Mystique
Tags: American Thinker, Phil Boehmke
And yet if John John were still alive I would much prefer him over Obama.
Not to mention John Jr. killing himself and two others flying a plane he was not familiar with and in less than ideal conditions. Or Caroline feeling she’s entitled to a Senate seat because of her name alone, and then coming across like a twit when she actually has to answer questions.
If JFK was alive to day, he’d probably be a Tea Partier!!!
If JFK was alive today, he’d probably be a Tea Partier!!!
@ teacake:
But yes, Teacake, I agree he would have been better than Obama.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Quite concur. JFK Jr had no business flying that plane in those conditions (he was inexperienced) and Caroline has not worked a day in her life.
WOW!! I got a double!!! I’m going to buy a lottery ticket right now!
Speranza wrote:
And obama has no business being president. Look how many lives he’s already ruined, as well as the entire nation’s well being. Thing is, I’d prefer John Jr over this asshole.
@ Speranza:
Someone once said “poor John Jr., etc.” re his plane accident, and Flyboy went off on them the way I do when someone mentions Hillary Clinton.
Breaking news to thread – should I push this back or overlay the new one anyway?
Ok people… I’m going to move this one back for 5 eastern. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Aside from JFK I never “got” the mystique thing.Bunch of spoiled brats living off ill gotten gains. I must say,bho makes JFK look positively right wingnut like.
The Scott Brown win in Mass. was a direct rebuke of Kennedy. The people of Mass must feel so exhilarated to be free of this vulgar disgusting bastard. He plopped his lard ass in that senate seat way too long.
chickadee wrote:
Actually I think it was more a rebuke of Obama and the high handed arrogance of the Dems in Congress
@ vagabond trader:
Brought about by proles who long to be proles – people who think that royalty is a great thing and thrive on gossip.
America doesn’t have a fucking Royal Family. We fought a small intramural disagreement with Britan over that (if this isn’t a War, neither was that), and the people on the Royal side of the arguement lost. Fuck the Kennedys and fuck their pretentions. They’re no better (I’d say considerably worse than) me.
They are a Royal pain in the ass.
And let’s not forget the Pope KOing caroline’s ambassadorship. I loved that one.
sorry to go ot but it’s important.
i thought obama had stepped up airport security.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8504667.stm
Japanese officials are trying to identify a body found on a Delta Airlines flight which arrived in Tokyo from New York on Sunday night.
Yes, whatever mystique the Kennedys may have had is fading.
Soon we’ll be all inundated with the mystique of the new dot-com slacker rich. I can hardly wait.
Ah I don’t believe in kicking a guy when he is down, and the Kennedy’s certainly are down. They should just fade away with all their money and leave us alone.
@ justin case:
Haven’t read about one of these in quite a while.Interesting.
justin case wrote:
If the markets keep tanking, that’s the only seat I’ll be able to afford?
@ buzzsawmonkey:
I never understood the Kennedy mystique.
When I want to watch a bunch of gangsters pretend to do good for their own well being I watch The Godfather!
@ Nevergiveup:
How stupid do you have to be to try stowing away in an unheated, and unpressurized, area of a plane that’s going to be flying halfway around the world?
@ Nevergiveup:
yeah it’s deltas new economy class, it gives a new meaning to the saying freezing your nuts off.
seriously while they are hearding every passenger thru body scanners some bozo jumps the fence and hides in the landing gear.
lucky he wasent an allah akbar boy.
Teddy Kennedy wanted his wife to win his former Senate seat but apparently she wasn’t interested in going for it.
The Dems most likely assured him that the whole country would want to move forward on health care in his memory, but it hasn’t worked out that way.
Most Americans definitely don’t want it and it’s a difficult sell to ask people to support it in his memory when MA voters just elected someone who campaigned on killing the health care bill.
Things have really changed since last summer.
lobo91 wrote:
Dead stupid?
@ Eliana:
His wife was at least better qualified for the job than his niece was.
I believe she was his chief of staff before they got married.
@ Nevergiveup:
That guy was probably unconscious 15 minutes after takeoff, and dead shortly thereafter. The autopsy will determine whether it was the cold or the lack of oxygen at 35,000 feet that killed him.
Hmmm…I was wrong about Kennedy’s widow.
She was an attorney specializing in banking.
Not sure why I thought she worked for him.
@ lobo91:
Curious to know where he is from and other details. Maybe a test run. Sorry, I’m cynical.
@ vagabond trader:
I suppose it’s possible.
If so, I’d say they failed that test.
@ lobo91:
Wonder if a bomb could go off under those conditions.
i pity the poor guy doing the autopsy having to use an ice pick, chainsaw, and a blow torch.
@ lobo91:
Maybe she specialized in sheltered accounts in the Cayman islands!
I understand that the compassionate Kennedy fortune is largely stuffed in compassionate offshore banks.
It’s for the children, y’no.
@ Eliana:
In the mob, you are chock full of soldiers, what you really need more of are politicians in your pocket, and lawyers on your payroll….can never have too many lawyers…
The Kennedys understood this.
lobo91 wrote:
Maybe because Fred Thompson wife used to?
Nevergiveup wrote:
I think it was hearty rejection of both of these jerks. Did you hear the applause Scott Brown got when he said, “It isn’t the Kennedy seat, or the Democrat’s seat . . . . it’s the people’s seat.”
@ vagabond trader:
Sure.
But you don’t have to get in the plane with the bomb, if you were able to gain access to the landing gear bay. You could just stick it in there and set a timer.
justin case wrote:
Maybe he was but he froze before he could detonate.
Not that I believe in such things but man looking at the history of this family,you gotta wonder about that old curse.
@ wolfie:
I did notice that she’s on the board of the Brady Campaign, speaking of things that claim to be “for the children.”
I wonder how many armed security people they have at the Kennedy compound?
This really should be on the downstairs thread, but it is too good to pass up:
ArchangelMichael
Mon, Feb 8, 2010 12:26:43pm replyquote 4downupreport
re: #49 thedopefishlives
I fail to see how people can feel right about celebrating the death of a life-long public servant. This man gave his entire life in service to his country. What have they ever done for it?
I fail to see how anyone can ever celebrate the death of anyone, even maniacal mass murderers, criminals, or tyrants (obviously not talking about Murtha here). Sometimes they need to be taken out, but death is never something to celebrate in this manner.
When someone dies who I didn’t agree with or like, such as Michael Jackson, Ted Kennedy, and now Murtha… “if you cant say anything nice, say RIP, wish the family well, and STFU” is my rule.
Yeah, sure is a damn shame that Chemical Ali is dead. HE WAS A HUMAN BEING PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And my heart breaks for all those who miss Saddam Hussein.
@ lobo91:
Guess he just wanted a free ride then. More likely to get those virgins if a stowaway went with the bomb tho.
vagabond trader wrote:
The sobering point is that some potential evil doer had easy access to a plane. The question is WTF is going on. He could have been a terrorist. It could have been devastating. That is the scary part.
@ NoThreat2U:
This is the blog that used to run threads celebrating car swarms.Now they revere “public servants.” Touching.
@ vagabond trader:
Utterly ridiculous over there.
@ chickadee:
Thats what I’ve been rambling about. The muzz have no limits when it comes to depravity.Crotch and shoe bombers, using children donkeys and the mentally ill to deliver mass casualties. Nothing would shock me.
And yet, we get hassled by TSA’ers for forgetting an iPod Nano tucked away in one’s shirt (not that I’m bitter or anything). Somebody coined the phrase “anarcho-tyranny” to describe how western governments are treating their citizens. I think this is a decent example…
@ lobo91:
Not only them but all the other libral luminaries who rail against gun ownership.
Several New York Times editors have engaged in a battle of opinions of late, after Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner son announced that he had recently joined the Israel Defense Forces.
In the latest of a slate of commentary over the situation, The Times’ Public Editor Clark Hoyt said he thought Bronner should be reassigned for the duration of his son’s army service.
It’s not like anyone reads that rag anymore anyway. But a big thumbs up to the son.
Sorry for OT but you will enjoy this
Lee Iacocca Says:
‘Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage with this so called president? We should be screaming bloody murder! We’ve got a gang of tax cheating clueless leftists trying to steer our ship of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even run a ridiculous cash-for-clunkers program without losing $26 billion of the taxpayers’ money, much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, ‘trust me, the economy is getting better..’
@ NoThreat2U:
Happy is not quite the right word, but I sincerly approve of murderers recieving justice.
@ NoThreat2U:
So, are we going to censor “Ding Dong the Witch is Dead” from The Wizard of Oz now?
Guggi wrote:
Am i wrong or I thought Iaccocca was a Democrat? Or has he had an ephinany?
wolfie wrote:
Good god. Now you’re mocking Pelosi’s mother.
@ Nevergiveup:
Yuh and all commie ;eaning journalists should be reassigned to the mail room.
@ vagabond trader:
l
vagabond trader wrote:
..And the Kennedys should be reassigned to the dishwashing detail.
PSGInfinity wrote:
That’s a good one.
(And I am bitter. I can’t even take plastic knitting needles on a plane.)
Nevergiveup wrote:
Better? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America , not the damned, ‘Titanic’. I’ll give you a sound bite: ‘Throw all the Democrats out along with Obama!’
@ justin case:
The description was really vague; could just be a clueless opportunist or thrill-seeker.
@ Guggi:
Damn, man, but that’s harsh! Why he be wantin’ to go dissin’ on our first post-American President like that? Yeah, I mean, Obama has no more qualifying experience to be President than I do (less, really), but you know, he had the right
skin colorqualifications, if you know what I mean.He’s done as well as we had any right to expect of him, really. I blame the people who voted for him.
@ wolfie:
http://online.wsj.com/video/how-israel-screens-for-terrorists/987D025A-145D-42F5-9756-7B43CC7613CE.html
@ Iron Fist:
There is more (out of his new book “Where have all the Leaders gone?”)
You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore..
The most famous business leaders are not the innovators, but the guys in handcuffs.. While we’re fiddling in Afghanistan , Iran is completing their nuclear bombs and missiles and nobody seems to know what to do. And the liberal press is waving ‘pom-poms’ instead of asking hard questions. That’s not the promise of the ‘ America ‘ my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I’ve had enough. How about you?
We’re immersed in a bloody war now with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. But our soldiers are dying daily.
We’re running the biggest deficit in the history of the world, and it’s getting worse every day!
We’ve lost the manufacturing edge to Asia , while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.
Gas prices are going to skyrocket again, and nobody in power has a lucid plan to open drilling to solve the problem. This country has the largest oil reserves in the WORLD, and we cannot drill for it because the politicians have been bought by the flea-hugging environmentalists.
Our schools are in a complete disaster because of the teachers union.
Our borders are like sieves and they want to give all illegals amnesty and free healthcare.
The middle class is being squeezed to death every day.
These are times that cry out for leadership.
But when you look around, you’ve got to ask: ‘Where have all the leaders gone?’ Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.
Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?
We’ve spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.
Everyone’s hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping the government will make it better for them. Now, that’s just crazy.. Deal with life.
Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when ‘The Big Three’ referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, look what Obama did about it!
Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debit, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.
I have news for the Chicago gangsters in Congress. We didn’t elect you to turn this country into a losing European Socialist state. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on NBC or CNN news will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don’t you guys show some spine for a change?
Had Enough? Hey, I’m not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I’m trying to light a fire. I’m speaking out because I have hope – I believe in America . In my lifetime, I’ve had the privilege of living through some of America ’s greatest moments. I’ve also experienced some of our worst crises: The ‘Great Depression,’ ‘World War II,’ the ‘Korean War,’ the ‘Kennedy Assassination,’ the ‘Vietnam War,’ the 1970’s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years since 9/11.
WrathofG-d wrote:
That’s why I always fly El Al
wolfie wrote:
Thanks for the compliment.
Don’t blame ya’ there. “Little old ladies” get hassled, but YoungSingleMaleMuslims are given carte blanche?! 
BTW, WikiPedia (standard disclaimers pointedly apply) credits the late Samuel T Francis with coining the phrase back in’92…
@ Guggi:
The Machine will not allow for any of that.
@ Guggi:
Preach it!
@ Nevergiveup:
I got 2 emails today with a sure fire way to screen potential terrorists. LOL It said, instead of a body scan, walk though something that can ignite explosives, problem solved. LOL
@ Iron Fist:
“our first post-American President”
I just wanted to see that again!
One quibble; that
epithethonor might also be bestowed on Jimmy Carter.@ Guggi:
I looked that up at snoope and it said someone edited his words. He hated Nixon (or someone) and was referring to the 70s.
Irony rocks.
@ WrathofG-d:
We are idiots.
Why can’t we learn from El Al?
Notice how the topic quickly shifted away from the Kennedys? What better epitaph than to have a bunch of fellow righties largely ignore them.
wolfie wrote:
Because we would rather be P.C. and dead, than slightly offensive and alive.
wolfie wrote:
We’re NOT idiots – the malicious Left has the clueless liberals believing the TSA’s the best we can do.
@ teacake:
I got it via email from a friend, so I can’t verify it.
Abu Mohammed bin Blowinshitup says the Great Satan is in for it:
Snort. Chortle. Guffaw.
Hold on a minute…Peaceful?!? Peaceful?!? Nobody really believes it is peaceful. Not even Abu Mohammed bin Obama, who is simply turning a blind eye and hoping that Iran just nukes Israel. Let me say that again, so there is no misunderstanding. Obama is hoping that Iran just nukes Israel. Not hoping that Iran nukes Israel, per se, but is resigned to that happening. He is hoping that, having smited the Little Satan, Iran will be content to leave the Great Satan unharmed.
In otherwords, he is a criminally insane fool.
My brain dead congress critter blames Boooosh for CT energy plant explosion.
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2010/02/dem-rep-joe-courtney-blames-connecticut-plant-explosion-on-bush.html
OT:ht
HAMAS SUPPORT GROUP AL AWDA PLANNING WEST COAST CONFERENCE AT SAN DIEGO STATE
Here is the link to the correction
Guggi wrote:
The machine doesn’t exist as a ready-to-purchase item; but I think it could be built – and should be prototyped.
@ Guggi:
All those emails can be checked at snopes.com It said the original text was from the 70s — I’ll find the link.
teacake wrote:
v.1.01, with apologies to Guggi and teacake.
The machine doesn’t exist as a ready-to-purchase item; but I think it could be built – and should be prototyped.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/iacocca.asp
Origins: The above-quoted editorial, offering a scathing condemnation of the Bush administration and condemning a lack of strong leadership in the U.S. government, hit our inbox mid-April 2007, attributed to
82-year-old businessman Lee Iacocca (best known for his tenure in the automotive business as the head of Ford and then Chrysler).
The attribution was correct, and the timing was no coincidence, as the text was an excerpt from the opening of Iacocca’s just-released book, Where Have All the Leaders Gone?, written with Catherine Whitney and published by Scribner.
However, e-mailed versions of this excerpt have since been altered to remove Iacocca’s criticisms of Republicans/conservatives and to insert denigrative passages about Democrats/liberals that were not written by Lee Iacocca and were not part of the original work. For example, variants that circulated a month before the 2008 presidential election included the following non-Iacocca passages referencing Democratic nominee Barack Obama:
NoThreat2U wrote:
Memo to Archangel Michael: Discussing someone’s life deeds, either pro or con, is not “celebrating” their death — we leave that to your blogmaster Snowball’s new pals at DU and KOS and Huffpo – the ones that happily cheered when it was erroneously reported that Rush Limbaugh had died, and wax rhapsodic at the news that a Republican or conservative has had a heart attack – THOSE guys. Do it here or at Freep and you’ll find yourself rebuked. I don’t know any conservative blog that had to remove threads because their posters had gotten so over the top that the blog was getting a bad name.
Oh, and while we’re at it, I’ll be looking forward to your upbraiding of Schmucko the Elder the next time he makes derisive and demeaning remarks against Sarah Palin and her son Trig, since you have such a high sensitivity meter.
Oh, and Snowball does know your nic is derived from a Roman Catholic Saint, correct? I’d look out if I were you – you might be exposed as a creationist.
@ vagabond trader:
Joe Junior (KIA – WWII) was the best of the lot.
@ Carolina Girl:
…Snowball? How’d Charles get that nickname?
@ Carolina Girl:
Radical Christianist Extremist. You know, the ones who are worse than the Taliban according to Rosie, Sully, and Snowball (and what do all three have in common…)
myselfandi wrote:
Roger that – we can be proud of his service, and his hypothetical political career might’ve also made us proud.
@ Iron Fist:
From the picked on character in Animal Farm – since Chaz sees himself as such a victim. And they’re turning into, as we say, the Blog Version of Animal Farm over there.
@ Carolina Girl:
Nice response
Sorry, Fist – that was meant for the post before yours.
OT:
sometimes you just use the wrong photo to protest your relatives arrest.
@ Carolina Girl:
@ NoThreat2U:
Thank you — once the soap box fingers get started……
Carolina Girl wrote:
No Problem, CGirl – it’s not like my posts are perfect.
vagabond trader wrote:
Bush put the hammer down on OSHA. yeah, those manufacturing plants that closed in the US. it was because Osha was too lenient. mm hm.
@ WrathofG-d:
Palis don’t see the irony. It is a woman with an AK-47, the ultimate unisex accessory. Bomb belts, OTOH, come in his and hers…
@ WrathofG-d:
Wow…nice picture of such a peaceful muslima. I’m sure she never plotted to kill anyone. Heck, doesn’t EVERYBODY pose with an automatic weapon these days? You’re reading too much into this Wrath.
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WrathofG-d wrote:
Priceless.
WrathofG-d wrote:
That there woman needs a spanking. And as for the prisoner…
@ Carolina Girl:
I quite enjoy your tubthumping.
@ myselfandi:
So absurd, gave up writing to the idiot,every single response had a Boooosh did…the last eight years… An Obowma flack.
@ Iron Fist:
Upding! Couldn’t have said it better myself.
WrathofG-d wrote:
Oh dear….that’ll give some Muzzie defense attorney some problems…
Because You Asked For It! The latest installment of “Meanwhile in Download City“, with special guests John Murtha and Ted Kennedy!
@ Macker:
[Dark, malevolent laughter]
OT:
Anti-Israel propaganda on Youtube exposed.
There are two videos on Youtube (and maybe more) claiming to be a “jewish settler”.
The problem is that (a) her acting stinks, and (b) she is seen in two seperate videos. What is the coincidence that the same Anti-Israel types would run into the same woman, who (not only doesn’t dress like a Jew) volunteers for an interview and spews some of the worst nonsense I have heard?
Not likely
Video One.
Video Two.
This would not be the first time the non-Jewish Anti-Israel types have dressed up like Religious Jews to slander, and ruin their name.
@ WrathofG-d:
These videos are definitely fake.
Most of the women I know in Israel are Orthodox Jews and they definitely do NOT dress this way. She looks like she’s going to a costume party.
Maybe this is where the idea came up to do these fake videos.
Here is the ultimate Kennedy Op/ed =
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20100206hey_patrick_kennedy_did_you_hear_the_one_about_/srvc=home&position=1
Hey Patrick Kennedy