Ted Kennedy to be knighted

[Donald Buckbee]

This is ludicrous....:((((

Ted Kennedy to be knighted - Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5842904.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093)

From Times Online
March 4, 2009

Ted Kennedy to be knighted
Ted Kennedy, one of the leading members of the family dynasty that dominated American politics in the final decades of the last century, is to receive an honorary knighthood.
Gordon Brown will announce the award today when he becomes the fifth British Prime Minister to give a speech to both Houses of Congress.

Senator Kennedy, who has represented Massachusetts for nearly 50 years, will get the distinction from the Queen for his services to the US-UK relationship and to the Northern Ireland peace process.

The father-of-five, who was elected in 1962 after his brother John F. Kennedy became President, has had a long and illustrious political career in the United States. He has effectively been regarded as leader of America's most prominent political families since the assassinations of the President in 1963 and Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.

However, arguably America's best-known Irish-American will be best remembered in the UK for his involvement in mediating over the Northern Ireland dispute.

He held meetings with leaders from opposing ends of the spectrum on several occasions, although in 2005 he famously refused to meet Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader, after the killing of Robert McCartney, over which the IRA was accused.

The 77-year-old Senator's health took a dramatic turn for the worst when he was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour last May and has subsequently gone through a rigorous regime of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

The Prime Minister will announce the knighthood in a speech which will call on the United States to turn away from protectionism as it tries to lead the worldwide global recovery.

It comes the day after President Obama endorsed Mr Brown's call for a unified front in the run-up to the G20 summit in London.

In an interview held in advance of the speech on BBC Radio 4, Mr Brown set the tone for the speech when he emphasised that - although there was a need for "humility" from Number 10 over the economic crisis - the recession was a worldwide phenomenon.

"I think there is always a need for humility and there's always a need to accept collective responsibility," he said. "I don't think I would run away from responsibility for what happens."

He dismissed the theory "that somehow this is a British problem that was a British government mistake," adding: "Actually what happened is that round the world, as everybody understands, the whole global financial system seized up."

In speaking to both Houses of Congress today, the Prime Minister will follow in the footsteps of Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair.

[Tom D. Hershey PA]

I'd like to be the one holding the sword at the ceremony. "I dub thee Sir Weasel" and bend it around his neck. Sorry, can't stand the guy.
T.D.

[hognfrog]

Just don't let him drive anyone across a bridge after he has had a few drinks.

Just my 2 cents.

[0311Shooter]

We had many discussions about terrible ted back on the defunk Jouster Board. My thinking now has not changed from then. As I recall, it was about 50-50 as to sympathizing for teddy.

Me, I think he's scumm and I will think that way when he goes to his just rewards. Not just because he was a pr-ick in the 50's, and in the 60's, and in the 70's, and...... up to and including the 21st Century. Not just because his boot-legging dad protected him in college, in the Army, and.... Not just because he murdered a young girl to protect his sorry butt... Not just because he has been a rabid anti-gun nut all his years in Washington. (need I go on?)

But you just watch. When he passes the left wing media will glorify him to sainthood. The Leaker will have more tingles down his leg. Olberman will want to kiss him before they close the casket. And obammy will declare a day of mourning and request a new national holiday.

Guess I am just cold hearted.

[Jim K]

Especially interesting since his father was so pro-Nazi that Churchill told FDR to either recall him (as ambassador to Britain) or Churchill would declare him "persona non grata", the diplomatic term for kicking him out of the country. And Teddy himself was so supportive of the IRA Provos that there were rumors that he set up an arms smuggling operation to supply them with AR-18's (and then blamed the illegal trade on the American NRA).

Jim

[joem]

When is that old wine sot going to take the BIG DIRT NAP?? SOON I HOPE!! Good riddance I say!

[2571]

He'll accept, despite all that Irish background the K's claim.

Maybe he'll ask the Queen to make room for our 12M 'undocumented workers' in England.

[SSgt's Son]

But not a US Senator.

The only good thing about this is maybe he'll go to the UK to get knighted and he'll drop dead getting drunk in a pub.

The Brits can have him!

No, this is not charitable, nor kind, but I save my charity and kindness for those that have not tried to destroy my country!

[Ken C.]

Perhaps Teddy will be made the Knight of the (Chappaquiddick) bath? :sos:

[edlmann]

Ted Kennedy to be knighted

What's the problem?

Oh, I thought you said "indicted."

Never mind. :madsmile:

[7.62 NATO]

Going back to the saying, "If you can't speak well about a person, it's better to keep your lips shut".
On that token, About Ted...........................................

[Capt Quahog]

Who's going to knight that drunken reprobate subversive slob? The Socialists of America Party? Back in the day, I put up campaign signs for his brother, John and worked in Democrat party goings-on in Massachusetts for a few years there-after. Teddy was always the odd man out and not much seen or even known of in the early 1960s. He inherited JFK's seat in the Senate about the time the Kennedy family worship cult go underway. That one guy, Teddy Kennedy, has done more collective damage to the United States of America than any other force since the founding of the Republic. Like some sort of plague, Teddy boy will probably outlive all of us. As they say in Boston . . . "All the good Kennedys are dead." Wish that this guy would finally leave the stage and take a few more with him:banghead:

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[John Sukey]

It's only honorary. U.S. citizens CANNOT accept the office.
But I do think if the ceremony were to take place, the EDGE of the sword should be used, not the flat!
A poem about the current P.M Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown is my shepherd, I shall not work
He leadeth me beside the still factories
He restoreth my faith in the Conservative party
He guideth me in the path of unemployment
Yea, though I wait for my dole
I own the bank that refuses me
Brown has anointed my income with taxes
My expenses runneth over my income
Surely poverty and hard living
Will follow me all the days of his term
From henceforth we will live all the days of our lives
In a rented home with an overseas landlord
I am Glad I am British, I am glad I am free
But I wish I was a dog and Brown was a tree

[Mk VII]

I don't know why that worthless sack of s___ is getting an honorary gong. He should kept his damn' nose out of Ireland.

[Allen]

Who's going to knight him? Jane Fonda?

[P. Greaney]

Large families often have one member that the others point to as the "idiot child".

[Jim White]

Perhaps they will indoctronate him with a cain stick, in similar fashion the Micahel Fay got for vandalism several years ago.

[Critch]

Sir Ted of Cirrhosis, the Hero of Chappaquidick...

[dj*]

Well he is one tough bastard still eaten those clams..
You remember the bad clam scare.

[Tom D. Hershey PA]

Well he is one tough bastard still eaten those clams..
You remember the bad clam scare.

Take the "tough" out and you've got it. Drunken swine.:beerchug:

[airdrop]

When the old man was Ambassador to Britian no one trusted him. Neather Roosevelt or Churchill would pass secret material thru the embassy while he was there. So will I be in his fan club , not anytime soon. To bad she didn't swim away from the accident inside of him , the privileged peacock.

[Tom D. Hershey PA]

his impact on the economy.When the alcohol soaked buffoon finally cashes it in, 5 Gin distilleries will have to close their doors resulting in more job losses. However embalming expenses will be minimal since he's been pickled for the last 50 yrs. anyway.............. Still can't stand the guy.

[Johnny Peppers]

"Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law?
Or is there one system for the average citizen
and another for the high and mighty?"
- Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973 -

[Capt Quahog]

Well he is one tough bastard still eaten those clams..
You remember the bad clam scare.

Clams are serious business to many true New Englanders. Don't know how much Clam Eating fat boy Kennedy (as he's known in Boston) does. One thing for sure, with that grotesque cherry nose. he no doubt is a devotee' of amber colored adult liquid . . . . :cheers::cheers::cheers:



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[harry mac]

Now that has got to be the ultimate irony, a knighthood for a man so openly anti British. I remember TV coverage of a visit he made to Northern Ireland some years ago. His car was stopped at an army VCP and he told the NCO conducting the check point that he should leave ireland and go back to his own country. In not very polite terms AT ALL the corporal told him that seeing as he was in the UK "I'm in my own f'kin country. F'ck off back to yours!"

[Critch]

We need to stop comparing Kennedy to swine, pigs are nice.

[John Sukey]

Well, in a way you can't blame him as the family fortune was the result of rum runnning. While they caught Capone, Joe kennedy got away.

[Tom D. Hershey PA]

Yeah, at least Capone opened soup kitchens for the poor and regular people actually liked him...as to old Joe..well....you know.

[dj*]

Clams are serious business to many true New Englanders. Don't know how much Clam Eating fat boy Kennedy (as he's known in Boston) does. One thing for sure, with that grotesque cherry nose. he no doubt is a devotee' of amber colored adult liquid . . . . :cheers::cheers::cheers:



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I just thought it was ironic that he was eating clam chowder when he was put in the hospital. The clam scare (a couple of years) ago was said to give people brain cancer.
It was some kind of shellfish off the east coast anyway.

[SPEEDGUNNER]

The guy is a scumbag. He is a traitor to this country, his actions during the Bush Administration were tantamount to treason and on top of that he is a drunken windbag. Oh, and remember...one of my all-time favorite bumper stickers...

"More people died at Chappaquiddick than at Three Mile Island"

I know, you guys want me to tell you what I really think...

[Dan Wilson]

Only good Kennedy is a dead Kennedy!