What Do the Kennedys Mean to You?

To me the Kennedy’s are a family who think they are elite American royalty. Above the law, they abuse alcohol, drugs, women with no penalty. Ted Kennedy killed a young woman for crying out loud! I’m glad to see this “dynasty” end. Good riddance.

Corruption…cover-ups…leftist wingnuts. Encapsulates all that is wrong in DC right now.

These are people who got rich on ill-gotten gains. They fill American political circles like sewage in a holding tank. Festering, degrading.
Ungrateful, uncaring while hiding behind a pretense of caring for the common people.
America will be a better place when all traces of them are flushed from the political system.

The Shrivers were nice.

I lived in MAss. when Chappaquidic happened. They had an atty. on the case at first and then he was replaced after a few months. He had a Greek sounding name. No reason given for the dismissal . Always wondered if he wanted to prosecute the Kennedy’s seriously so he was cut. This family is one of the many reasons I don’t live in Massachusetts anymore. Such a lovely state,such a political disaster.

Nothing, and one less is more of nothing!

I offer no comment

I have a feeling that the comments here won’t be reported on ABC News this evening – lol. However, if they had been about George Bush, they would have been the lead in story.

He reminds us that stimulus money needs to be diverted to building guard rails for bridges.

A family who used illegal alcohol in prohibition, to make their fortune, and then who bought the favors of the wealthy and powerful, to become wealthy and powerful, themselves.
Jack mishandled both Cuba and Vietnam.
Bobby was so idealistic, he wasn’t functioning in the real world.
Ted was also entirely too idealistic, and his personal life had many negative issues.
Many, many other issues surrounding this family, and it is best that this “dynasty” ends now.
There should be no appointment of another Kennedy, and no appointment of anyone else. There should be a special election to appoint a replacement, and that should be voted on by the citizens.
Maybe then, we can get somewhat away from the wealthy and powerful, having too much influence in government.

This is fun…the Kennedys (or more specifically, the death of the last of the Kennedys) represents a new dawn for America, a changing of the guard from the old ways of government by a privileged elite, out of touch with the common man and content to live off the spoils of Americans, unhindered by law or poverty or want. Now, let’s just kick the rest of the bums out and we’ll be on our way back.

I was taught, if you had nothing good to say about someone you said nothing at all.
“The Shrivers were nice.”

What Do the Kennedys Mean to Me?
Not so much since I learned that they weren’t really descended from the folks of Camelot. Talk about a let down. I mean, fool me once…………

God have mercy on his soul!
And the rest of the “pro choice” crowd.

Teddy went down doing what he always did best; trying to manipulate the law to his personal and party advantage.

I remember the clever Teddy writing to the KGB asking them to work with him to stop the re-election of Ronald Reagan. Teddy’s election camp was all inclusive even so far as to include our enemies.
I remember how Teddy raised funds to work with poor children in Ireland, er, maybe I guess my memory is a tad weak. He actually raised funds for Noraid who used the funds to blow up and kill children. Well, he was working with children anyway!
Or how about the time he took in and mentored the younger Kennedy’s, ahhh the knowledge he passed on to William Kennedy Smith regarding rape was INVALUABLE…just like Ted.
Memories… I am getting a little teary eyed just thinking back.

Good question. People of privilege with a father that made his money illegally. The family: Adultery (check). Murder (check). Rape accusations (check). Alcoholism (check). Drug Addiction (check). Cowardice (check). Tax cheaters (Check).
That is the Kennedy Family!

John Kennedy’s standing up to the USSR during the Cuban missile crisis is the only positive.
Teddy’s disgusting behavior the night he let Kopechne die tells me all I ever need to know about this self-indulgent hypocrite’s morality.
His politics were socialist…….allow the USA to be over run by illegals and use their votes to entrench the Dems socialist power.
In addition, he played a pivotal role in getting the only anti-American, anti-capitalist, black liberation theologist, marxist presidential candidate elected president.
No loss in the passing of Teddy.

Shame on these uncaring people with their negative postings in this middle of a family’s grief! This family has given their blood in service and for belief in the U.S. Could these commentators hsve done the same? I doubt it. We will never know the hope again that these three brothers inspired throughout this nation. Mine was so high that at the birth of a son 12/63 I proudly named him after John and would repeat this honor again and again. Who else could have inspired the Space ventures, the horrors of racism recognized with the Marchs in the 60′s and partnership with Dr. King, the negligence of inadequate health insurance for our population of the
needy? Where is even a modicum of respect for what this family has done? Again, shame for such ill comments!!

LOL He reminds us that stimulus money needs to be diverted to building guard rails for bridges.

I recall fondly the patriotism the Kennedys have regarding taxes. Their fortune is off-shored to avoid paying taxes.

Not long ago Ted realized he life was about to end. He wanted a bill changed to make it possible to have a replacement assigned to his senate seat by the governer. He had this changed earlier to prevent this so if Kerry got elected as president. Mitt Romney couldn’t do what he wanted now.
It still might get changed back because the liberals are out of control. They are against the wishes of us. Us are regular people no mater what party who are likeing freedom not communism.

The Kennedy’s?
Two words, Imperial Hubris

Just when the media was beginning to lose its focus in glorifying one criminal (MJ), here comes another one to rescue them…
Too much bandwidth, too little substance.

Correction: I meant Garathorn
Teddy went down doing what he always did best; trying to manipulate the law to his personal and party advantage.
Posted by: Garathorn | Aug 27, 2009 2:29:06 PM
DDG was right, however, “Camelot- they’re not”

The Kennedys have corrupted every institution they have been involved with, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Catholic Church. The Kennedy’s have been an unmitigated disaster for the United States.

I think the Kennedys represent some of the BEST of America and American values. They always have and they always will. Although Joseph Kennedy was a type of “robber baron” just like Ford or Carnegie or others in the beginning – on their way to wealth, his children always seem to have worked in politics for benfits for average Americans, not only the wealthy. They had personal faults and sins of course, but they always kept working in their political lives for health care, education, the environment, for all of us all the time. People who only look at their faults are sick I think. When the Bush presidents die I will remember all the brave Americans they are responsibe for killing without good cause, for their drunken behavior, and for their infidelities.

Strike one, ABC. Try again. Too many GOP “plants” here.

I remember JFK with respect; however, he did make some costly and embarrassing mistakes – ie Bay of Pigs.
He was instramental with the starting of the Vietnam War, nobody wants to say that but it was him.
BK, yes he was idealistic but he was a tough attny general – as far as I could see he didn’t give an inch even with the mafia.
Ted Kennedy was the worst. Totally committed to leftwing ideology and everyone seems to forget the damage to reputations he inflicted on honest hardworking conservative Americans, ie Bork, C. Thomas, and Alito. For that he was shameful but did he care? I guess that’s what you call arrogant, he could get away with it because the sissy press wanted to be part of “camelot”. Give me a break – But worst of all is his liason with the Communist Party during the re-election campaign of President Reagen, ie see Sweetness and Light blog to read the letter from the Chairman of the Communist Party of their meetings with Kennedy’s friend Towney. And nobody is talking about it on the news – I guess we have to wait a couple more weeks before all this stuff comes out. What a traitor – and still the press didn’t mention it and they still haven’t. It’s only a blurb in a book — of history.
They learned from their father. You know a Nazi sypmathizer – “the ends justify the means”. Too bad they didn’t learn from their mother. About the only person in that family that deserves respect is Pat Shriver. Her constant work for the disabled and especially the mentally challenged. God will bless her I’m sure.

I remember growing up in the tragic shadow of Jack and Bobby’s murders, alongside that of Dr Martin Luther King’s, and wondering what the world would have been like without Nixon & Watergate, Reagan & Iran/Contra, and Bush I and II & their gulf wars… See, I was born in 1963 so all I got to see were the rejects, the usurpers. The princes were already gone. And then John John, our favorite son, had to go. Teddy was the last male warrior of this great clan, fighting to his last for the people.As human as any man, flawed and complex, he remained steadfast in the noble work of the people. Caroline is left to carry the torch and keep the flames of hope alive. Thank you Kennedy’s, you are not perfect,but you come damn near close.

I pray that there are no more members of the Kennedy clan who decide to inflict additional damage on this country. Seriously, they have ‘done’ enough. Between the criminal activities that gained them their initial fortune, to the political power that allowed them to exercise their obvious contempt for the ‘commoners’; these narcissistic self-indulgent and arrogant fools have hurt us enough.
I grant that Jack was a true hero with regards to the incident surrounding PT-109, though beyond that I find little else in his adult lifestyle that could be of use as an example for any child growing up.
Bobby was so young that we didn’t even refer to him as ‘Robert’ most of the time. He did however seem to exhibit the charateristic poor judgement of all the public Kennedy’s when it came to personal ethics and self-gratification.
I really believe that if Ted had become President, he would have caused far less damage to this country. Excesses at the public trough (it’s not their money!) not withstanding, his tenure in the Senate was marked by many additional examples of abuse. He committed treason with the Soviets in an attempt to undermine President Reagan, unrepentantly manslaughtered a ‘date’, expanded the welfare state causing an entire generation of government-dependent people just as a means of gaining votes, etc.. His love of power and government far outweighed any consideration of his fellow citizens. His hypocrisy knew no limits. Whether it was blocking/restoring a Governor’s appointments, fighting to raise our taxes while hiding his in an Aruba tax-shelter, destroying our borders, blocking windmill farms while decrying the need for ‘clean’ power, aiding in the attempt to take over healthcare while exempting himself from using it, creating HMO’s and now vilifying them as evil today, the list goes on.
Hey, you asked…

I don’t give one rats patooty what his name was, how much money he had, or where he came from. The man did more to drive this country towards socialism through his contacts because of his name and his wealth. Not to mention all the other illegal crap he and his family were involved in.
And don’t even try to feed me that crap about all the good he did. What little he may have done does not come close to making up for all the BAD he did.
One more down, bunches more to go.

Lots of mean people posting here. But I’ll bet they weren’t mean when Reagan died. Funny, Reagan caused more death and misery in his 8 years,than Teddy in all his life.
Hypocrisy abounds.

Ted Kennedy’s memory deserves to be honored by establishing a health care system worthy of his personal record: no doctor who hasn’t been kicked out of school at least twice, no orderly who can wheel a patient over a bridge without dropping them in the drink, and no maintenance worker whose nose won’t light up a darkened hallway on a moonless night.

I hope he didn’t suffer or leave terrified as Mary Jo did.
That whole family behaves as if the laws of this country don’t apply to them. I bet the income tax they’ve paid is shockingly minuscule because their money is in Trust- they have little ‘income’ otherwise. Ted loved to spend other peoples money and then tell everyone how great he was.
After co-authoring the “No Child..Bill”, W acknowledged him in a speech one evening and the camera cut away to Ted shaking his head “NO”, as if he was now trying to distance himself from it.
I don’t wish anyone to die but this whole country will be better off without him near Washington.
He never had any Class and that was evidenced to the end, with his trying to hang on to his seat until death.
He was greedy and self serving to the very end.

I think it is a total joke that he is being allowed to be buried at Arlington. If his last name wasn’t Kennedy, it wouldn’t be happening. He has done good as well, but again, if his name wasn’t Kennedy he’d be in jail for murder. I just love the way the country praises a murderer because his name is Kennedy and not Smith.

Lots of mean people posting here. But I’ll bet they weren’t mean when Reagan died. Funny, Reagan caused more death and misery in his 8 years,than Teddy in all his life.
Hypocrisy abounds.
Posted by: Pauline | Aug 27, 2009 3:58:58 PM
i guess the new definition of “mean” is not glorifying one of the most despicable public figures of the 20th century, and yeah keep telling yourself that reagan’s memory was “honored” by the liberals, it DOES NOT make it true, nor your assertion that reagan was responsible for more death/misery than kennedy, tell that to the kids in ireland, mary jo, etc. hypocrisy thy name is Pauline.

Best read of the day, folks. You should all take a much deserved bow.

To me the Kennedy’s represent the pinnacle of hypocrisy among liberal politicians.

Corrupt american “royalty”.
At their best they were wrong headed ‘do gooders’, at their worst, a an unrepentant murderer.
They will not be missed.

I come not to praise Teddy, but to bury him…(quickly, please)

What is wrong with the citizens of this country …Ted Kennedy has done good for the USA then he did wrong … He help the lower class and poor then anyone else every did.. He will be missed
I will pray for his family and for all that said so so wrong about is family also

My mother always taught me, if you don’t have anything good to say, keep your mouth shut.
I guess I’m keeping my mouth shut about Teddy, the drunken, homicidal buffoon.

Americas largest crime family

It means that I won’t have to hear(hopefully) the words “Kennedy” and “Camelot” used in the same sentence . All for a family that got rich by daddys bootlegging.

So, ABC, see what we have been left with?
A bunch of mean, carnivorous vipers tearing at the remains of a man who did some real good in his life, but who made the mistake of manslaughter once and of being born into a family with a shady history.
Certainly not something Bush Jr every experienced. He was born to perfectly lovely family and never drank at all.Neither did his lovely wife ever drink and manslaughter someone either, or get off without charges for having “family” connections. Shame on you all.
ABC, these right wing conservatives are the monsters who would take over our country and turn it into a nightmare of hate and more meanness than you can even imagine.
And that’s why I miss the Kennnedys, as human and flawed as they were, and especially Dr King, also human and flawed, but wise. All were murdered by right wing conservatives…
Hate is a terrible thing to live with in your heart, and forgiveness is divine.

Corruption, adultery, dysfunction, elitism,…

Ted Kennedy is proof that a drunken slob who murdered a woman will be treated like a knight in shining armor by ABC providing he is liberal enough.

Good riddance.

It’s actually pretty interesting to see all the venom here, because it’s a great way to rally the rest of America (that’s actually working today and doesn’t have time to chat like us) against the right wingers who actually seem to hate America here.
I would love to see what the majority of Americans would say if they knew how vicious the invective was from such extreme right wing conservatives.
I hope ABC does show how mean you all are and disrespectful to the dead who have given us so many things to be thankful for, including civil rights, women’s rights,workers’ rights, disabled rights, etc. I’d like to see where Reagan and the Bushes fall in providing us with human rights of any kind.
Oh, that’s right, those knuckleheads didn’t provide anything like that.
Just wars and death and tax breaks for the rich and for corporations. And the Bushes had connections to Hitler and Nazis and the Bin Ladens, so I guess it’s okay now? Or will you conservatives hold that against the Bush girls and call them terrible names when they die? Doubtful.
Now that’s something conservatives can be proud of. Hypocrisy!

When Bobby Kennedy was running for the Democratic nomination, Ted Kennedy came to our neighborhood, door to door. It was an honor to meet him. We also saw him at a park in Palo Alto with his then wife. I’ve always admired and loved the Kennedys. It’s a sad thing and this nation is poorer for his passing!

Pauline, we surround you.

Too bad he never had a taste of the socialist medicine he would have foisted on the rest of us. Good riddance to rubbish.

Elitist corruption. The one thing I know for sure, wherever Ted Kennedy is now, he’s no longer a liberal leftist and couldn’t care less about the health care bill..

I think out of all the Kennedy’s, my favorite was Goober.

What can I say that the majority of the comments have already said.

“Who did some good in this life, but who made the mistake of manslaughter once and of being born into a family with a shady history.” Pauline
Since the Kennedy family’s shady history involved rum-running, corruption, murder, rape and pillaging, I guess old Teddy didn’t fall very far from the rotten tree.
Like many liberal terrorists including Obama’s pal William Ayers, he never felt he had to serve his sentence or give back to the community. Ted Kennedy couldn’t fix his own broken soul, yet he presumed to change this country. He was a traitor who volunteered his services to the KGB, and he should have hung long ago.

A lifetime of sacrifice and service.
This family has given their last measure to this country.
They had flaws– but my life has always had a Kennedy serving in D.C.
We shall never see those days again.
I hope some from the next generation pick up the torch..

I can think of two words that perfectly sum up the Kennedys’ legacy (particularly Ted’s) in American culture:
“Vote Quimby!”

oh and btw pauline, mlk was a REPUBLICAN!!

Arguably the irresponsible killer of Mary Jo. Certainly a socialist, bearer of false witness, over-indulger in food and drink, and moral leader of the democrat party.

I’d like to see where Reagan and the Bushes fall in providing us with human rights of any kind. (Pauline)
Reagan: Mr. Gorbachov take down this wall.
Bush: Saved millions in Africa from dying of AIDS. Kept all Americans safe post 9/11.
T Kennedy: ?

I think the childen of America will miss Ted Kennedy. There are many kids who are able to see a Dr. after his tireless effort to fund the Chips program. It’s not a partisan thing and by having health care for your children through these programs, both demo and repub families are able to keep their boats, guns, 4 wheelers, and travel trailors and SUV and still have free health care for the kids.

What do the Kennedys mean to me?
Liberals who mouth caring for the poor as long as it gets done with other people’s money through forced giving (taxation). If they and other liberals really cared, they would reduce their own living standard to that of the nation’s median income and give all the rest away. Charity begins at home … which it never does for liberals.

both demo and repub families are able to keep their boats, guns, 4 wheelers, and travel trailors and SUV and still have free health care for the kids.
Posted by: JL | Aug 27, 2009 6:16:50 PM
grow up, there is no such thing as a free lunch, taxpayers fund this “free” healthcare you speak of, and seriously should i have to work hard and pay taxes so that people luxuriating as you state are able to get “freebies”? grow up

The legacy of the Kennedy’s is that America is not immune to the dangerous idea of royal families whose members are somehow guaranteed a seat of power.

John-John is the only one that resonated with me. Something about the little boy saluting the flag draped coffin. His death saddened me.

Ted Kennedy’s life serves as a reminder that the laws of this country only apply to those that are not politically connected.

I was 14 when the “Chappaquiddick Incident” (as it is now called) occurred. And I never forgot it.Every time I saw a news story about Ted Kennedy, that’s what came to my mind. For those too young to know about it, look up the testimony and the full story. Nothing made sense or added up. It was obvious from witness accounts and his own words that he was lying. His death just reminds me of Mary Jo’s death. They believe she may have lived up to 2 hours, keeping her head above water in an air bubble in the car, scratching at the upholstery on the floor. He went back to his hotel room and went to sleep before reporting it 9 hours later. Horrifying. I don’t know how the man lived with himself. I watched a PBS special last night, transfixed. Their money was from maneuvering the stock market and associating with gangsters during Prohibition. Ill-gotten gains that were then used to by power and influence. Only in America.

To me, he represents the european model of royalty brought to America. He never worked for anything in his life. He was always given everything and because of his name, was never held accountable for his actions. His sister did great things with her responsibility. He peddled influence like no other. He gave crumbs to the poor so that he could secure his own lavish lifestyle.

“And that’s why I miss the Kennnedys, as human and flawed as they were, and especially Dr King”, uh, Pauline, do some homework, really. Dr. King was a registered Republican. He believed in judging people on the “content of their character” not on their social standing, like the Kennedys. And his killer was an apolitical career criminal.
You really need to do some basic research, Google is your friend.

I remember to much to mention. Don’t know why some people wont to make all these commments. I remember when JFK was killed, what a lost, Nov. 22, 1963.
I feel for the family for their lost. May Ted Kennedy RIP. Did a lot of good for out county.
We may not be here today had it not been for JFK keeping a cool head during the Cuba time of trouble.

The Kennedys represented all that is wrong with American politics. Style over substance. Privilege over experience. Wealth over wisdom.
I’ll never forget Ted asking (in regards to the pardon of Nixon), and without seeming to grasp the irony: Is there one system of justice for the elite and another for the rest of America?
May he rest in peace as all souls should. But it is for the best if his passing marks the end of the Kennedy dynasty. I believe it will, as the children, like Patrick, a generation further entrenched in privilege and entitlement, lack the intellectual heft and political skill to carry it on.

I wonder if they’ll claim that Teddy was a resident of Florida, to avoid the estate taxes. That’s what they did when Rose died. She hadn’t left the house in Hyannisport for 12 years, yet they had the GALL to declare she was a resident of the state of Florida, to avoid paying estate taxes on her estate and on the $millions they made auctioning off Kennedy memorabilia. What a disgrace. Of course, they were allowed to get away with it, being Kennedys.

PUBLIC RADIO, ABC, NBC, CBS nobody mentioned that Kennedy was responsible for the death at Chappaquiddick (sp) INSTEAD everybody has to hear what a GREAT guy the drunken bum has been. SOOO humanitarian, uh, except for Ms. Kopeckne, oh and don’t forget how he ruined his first wife’s entire life. What a fine statesman, uh, well, I guess that is true, at least. He was a good example of how most of our congressmen, behave behind the scenes. “he was so talented about reaching across the aisle” Too bad he couldn’t reach across the seat to save Kopeckne’s life. PHOOEY

AMEN

When I worked on Capitol Hill in the 80s, Ted Kennedy was famous for sending staffers out every afternoon to procure women for Ted to boink. And there were women who made themselves available for this degredation. Sick.

I don’t understand why the news media is so obsessed with the passing of Ted Kennedy.
He was a very flawed individual begotten of a very flawed family.
OK, so he was a long standing member of the Senate.
But would he have ever come to that position had it not been for his family money and influence?
The news coverage of his supposedly wonderful life and subsequent funeral is WAY over the top.
Enough!!!

Well, the fact that Ted Kennedy was trying to cheat and select his own replacement and AGAIN change the rules to his own/the DNC’s own advantage EVEN WHILE HE LIED THERE DYING tells you all you need to know about the Kennedy character and the Kennedy legacy. Seen one, you’ve seen them all.

more booze for the regular guys!

I don’t see much Love here for Teddy.
Are you sure this is an ABC News site?

For once he’s set a good example. Now if only Obama, Pelosi, Reed, etc, would all emulate him at this, his finest moment.

Isn’t it ironic that the Dems want to name the healthcare bill after a man who denied Mary Jo the healthcare she needed so that she might live?

He worked against Nixon to block Healthcare reform and then worked for it because of Clinton. He was a communist sympathiser who worked against America by dealling with the soviets to hurt Regan. He worked against America to flood it with illegal imigrants. He is a two faced liar who supported the war inteligence and then cursed the troops and the president later.
Ted is an abusive loudmouthed drunkard.
The entire Kenedy family disgusts me, Jackie was the ONLY one who had any class.
I’m happy he is gone.

A normal human being does not stand by idly and let another human being die.
Except a liberal, maybe.
I am deeply worried about our men and women in Afghanistan for the very same reason.

Great comment,Joe Wright.
Legislating charity has always been a favorite of the left. Their hearts will always reside in collectivism.

He had poor values.
He had a poor decision making process.
He had a poor voting record.
He had a poor ability to hold his liquor.
He had a poor ability to drive (while ‘toasty’)
He had a poor ability to support and defend the country he swore to defend.
He was an idiot.
I. won’t. miss. him.
Goodby and thank gawd and greyhound, he’s gone.

Has any Kennedy obtained an actual job in the last 50 years?

The words Teddy can now say to Mary Jo Kopechne, from his eternal abode in a place where “global” warming actually means something pertinent:
“But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
“Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv’d virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.”
Because you see Teddy, there is, finally, a judgement you can’t buy your way out of.

The Kennedy’s, Ted in particular, have given meaning to so many of my daily activities of life that it is difficult to quantify, but I will try.
When I see a dog defecating on the sidewalk in front of my house, I know these things: There is feces to be cleaned up; someone other than myself is responsible for it being there; yet I will have to go clean it up myself, because Ted has helped the US sheeple to abdicate all personal responsibility.
Likewise, when I flush the toilet, I think of Teddy, as the swirling water reminds me of the last thing seen by Mary Jo as she clawed the floorboard in fear and agony of knowing she was about to die, and the yellow tinge of the water reminds me of Ted’s yellow streak, plus the fact that he spent 47 years urinating all over the US.
Naturally, I think of Camelot when I think of the Kennedy clan, but I always think more of the Lady in the Lake than of Sir Syphilis the Depraved.
Returning to dogs, when I see two dogs mating in the yard, I think of Ted and his leg-humping ways. I don’t think ‘sly-dog’ of Ted, but ‘nasty dog who can’t control his urges because, after all, he is only a dumb beast.’ That the dogs are mating right beside the area they just recently befouled with their own excrement reminds me that Ted not only had the ability to defecate on those with whom he ‘knew’ in the biblical sense, but amazingly, also had the ability to eph up a good dump.
Ted gives me hope. Although I don’t have the family connections to the mafia that years of rum-running can garner, or the political connections that years of mutual congressional masturbation can garner, or the sexual conquests that only…
uhm.
Ok, I gotta admit it, I’m stumped on this one. How did this bloated disgusting piece of whitefish manage to schtup the babeage he did? It boggles the mind. Fortunately, he only sullied democrat skanks; not a pool of eligibility in which I am interested. But still, c’mon!
Back to my point: he gives me hope, because despite the bizarro world in which we live giving a troll like him so many breaks, while folks like you and I toil on, I am confident that now is OUR time. We will take charge, and live by our honor and code of ethics, expelling those who claim to be our peers who are instead RINO to their rotten worm ridden cores, and showing the door to these Marxist rapists of freedom, restoring our country to the Constitutional form of government envisioned by its creators.
So, that is what Ted Kennedy — rapist, murderer, drunkard, cheat, and (this is the best part) DEAD GUY — mean to me.

To me Ted Kennedy was special. He was a person to be studied. I wanted to know everything about him just like I had his brother, John and his father Joe. It always amazed me that a family of criminals, womanizers, murderers, traitors, drug addicts and drunkards became America’s Royal Family according to the media. If it is true what does it say about us? If not, what does it say about the media that they were allowed to pawn this pablum on us for so many years without us fighting back. Rosemary never had a chance thanks to Joe. Mary Jo never had a chance thanks to Teddy. It is sort of strange that Joe’s son would die of brain cancer after Joe lobotomized his daughter. He did more to ruin this country than most of the presidents that have served and his Catholic votes for abortion were just like him disgusting.

The Kennedy’s only conjure up thoughts of greed and coruption. I was a baby when JFK was killed, and because he was killed while he was in office he has been worshipped by the media and the left. I don’t think he really did anything worthwhile. The rest of them were more of the same only worse. I am sorry for the family that Ted is dead becuase no matter what we love our family, but as a country hopefully this will be a new beginning and new blood in Washington.

If I had to use one word it would be hypocrisy. For the pain you caused to many and the irreparable harm you unleashed on our great nation, I hope you are restless and without peace for eternity Teddy. It is a further insult that you will be laid to rest at Arlington among our country’s real heroes.

Corruption, power mongers, elitists, manipulators; the high water mark of all that is bad with politics.

I remember when even after the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam the South was still managing to defend their country.
Kennedy introduced legislation to completely cut off all aid to the South in order to facilitate the eventual overrun of the country and the genocide that followed both in S. Vietnam and Cambodia.
5 million deaths! Not counting Mary Jo Kopeckne.
I’ve always regretted that he could swim.

I admire their ability to commit crimes from driving drunk to the point they cannot see all the way up to murder and receive only a token punishment that they won’t remember by the time the hangover wears off. I admire their ability to elevate themselves to royal status despite Joseph Kennedy being a rum-runner during the alcohol ban in the 1920s. I also admire their ability to deny that the family money originally came from breaking the law. I admire how they can use their name to debase women and get away with it. I admire how they can demand green energy as the way to go and then turn around and prevent a wind farm from being built offshore because it “would ruin the view” from the Kennedy Compound. I admire Jack Kennedy’s ability to turn getting his PT boat (PT-109) run over by a Japanese Destroyer into a best selling book that made him look like a hero, even though the Navy attempted to have him cashiered for negligence that led to the loss of his boat. I admire Joseph Kennedy strong arming the senators from his state to help cover up family indiscretions and assorted indiscretions. I admire Ted’s ability to get elected for decades despite having a record that would put a non-Kennedy away for multiple lifetimes in various lock-ups.
There is just so much to admire about our “royal” family.

That family has been through unbelievable tragedies. That said, they meant very little to a guy who lives and have lived in the South all his life. They may be royalty for the NY/DC crowd but folks down here really do not give them much thought.

The Kennedys show the maxim “Do as I say, not as I do”. All of them are trust fund liberals who don’t mind spending your money for someone else but hide thiers in Tax Havens. They want Windmills powering your life but god-forbid if you place near any of thier homes. They escape brushes with law that would send the normal person to jail.

One shameful, cowardly, pedophiliac, alcoholic, dishonest, spoiled brother who never spent one minute investigating the suspicious murders of two other brothers.
I think we should sneak his casket over the border of Mexico and bury him there as a tribute to his love of breaking the illegal immigration laws of the United States.
Say “hi” to Walter Cronkite and Beezlebub Teddy.

They are a media creation. Without media coverage,they would have been nothing. The women were always on magazine covers when I was growing up. So the question is, ” what do you think of the Kennedys, ABC news? And what do you want us to think?” It’s disturbing to see what the media “lionizes” in our culture.

Spoiled, rich, boozing, drug-abusing, womanizing, immoral family that lived life recklessly and had the media convince the people they were for the “common” man. They definitely were treated like royalty. Lawmakers themselves who were above the law.

Ted Kennedy was the Lion of the Senate?
I guess that makes US the prey.

HMM they mean to me…a Family who “bought” their power. Not unlike most Democrats. A “name” does not a great man make. Just because he died, does not make him suddenly a hero. He was a coward.

What Do the Kennedys Mean to Me?
Well, I just remember pictures of that car in the water and the endless Kennedy family scandals.
Let me put it this way:
Think of all the women Ted Kennedy bedded down and his drunken escapades.
He actually KILLED a woman while drunk, endlessly cheated on his wife(s) and could care less what anyone thought. He was insincere and only cared about re-election by any corrupt means possible.
In the press, Kennedy is being lifted up as some great LION – a virtual Prince, a Martyr.
Just like Kennedy, the media in this country is offically dead.
They are no longer Watchdogs but Lapdogs; a propaganda machine for the Democratic party.
Bye-Bye Teddy!
Bye-Bye Press Credibility.
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish!

The Kennedys are all average people who luckily were born into extreme wealth. They are not particularly intelligent or gifted. The family name and wealth has propelled them to heights of power they would have never attained otherwise, and they are all ill-equipped to handle it. The blind adoration of some of the public and the media has kept this arrogant family of leeches on a pedestal for years. They hide their wealth while expecting real working people to hand over more and more of the money they actually earn. They are clueless rich people who have no idea how real people make it in this world.

They had Camelot … and all they left America was the Lady in the Lake.

I remember our class was on a field trip to DC years ago and we saw all sorts of famous people, Senators and the like, that we had only caught on the nightly news back home.
A group of us were in the Capitol when one friend said they saw Tip O’Neal. No sooner had she said that, that out of the corner of my eye I spotted a man who’s face was somehow familiar. He and two other men in suits walked by me whereby he looked me in the eye, smiled a bit, and said “Hello.” I can’t recall if I replied but a close friend asked me if I knew who that was and I shrugged. He said “That’s JFK’s brother, I think his name is Ted.”
I’ll always remember that.

the above comments are too complimentary

Pauline said: I hope ABC does show how mean you all are and disrespectful to the dead who have given us so many things to be thankful for, including civil rights, women’s rights,workers’ rights, disabled rights, etc. I’d like to see where Reagan and the Bushes fall in providing us with human rights of any kind.
Pauline, did you know that John F. Kennedy, while in the House, voted against all civil rights legislation while Eisenhower was President? It is the Republicans who are responsible for your individual liberties — their party consistently had 90+% vote support in both the House and Senate for civil rights legislation even under Democratic Presidents. You should look up what the Democratic percentages were; you’d be amazed.

What do the Kennedys mean to me? Higher taxes, bigger deficits, and social engineering programs that breed dependency on big government. Just the things to make the lap dog media wag their little tails.

I pray for the family and friends of Ted Kennedy, but not for the man.
Ted Kennedy was, as many have said, the definition of what is wrong with American politics. From Chappaquiddick to his support for ObamaCare, his political career has been one big disaster.
P.S. Pauline, seeing how you are still ignorant on the facts…
JFK killed by the communist Lee Harvey Oswald.
RFK killed by Sirhan Sirhan, a radical Palestinian.
MLK Jr, a Republican himself, killed by the racist convict James Earl Ray.
Wrong on all accounts. Pretty pathetic that a Canadian have to correct you.

Ted Kennedy arrives for his final judgment.
He asks God for a waiting time (preferably 9 to 10 hours) so he can present a detailed briefing of how much he did for children and the elderly and immigrants and pro-choicers, etc.
He asks for a cell phone (couldn’t bring his own) to call his aides so they can give him pointers on how to present his case and write his speech.
He generously offers to wire back to Earth for money to give to God promising to build hospitals for all those aborted children, etc., (consummate politician that he is, all in exchange for good time served).
He calls asks to see his good friends in the media who preceded him in death (Walter Conkrite, etc.) so they can plead his case with fulsome praises, what a lion of the Senate he was, Mother Teresa was nothing compared to him, etc, etc, etc.
He explains his demeanor to women stating that he admired women so much that he felt compelled to love each and every one.
Unfortunately none of this works – he stands before God without any of the trappings of power. Teddy Kennedy will face God on his own.

I am looking forward to the day that I don’t have to hear the Name Kennedy.

I grew up in the 40′s and 50′s when you could trust your neighbor and your Politician.Then here come the Kennedy’s and there has been a degeneration of trust in Washington ever since.I’ve said for years the moral decay in this country started with the election of John Kennedy.

Kennedys remind me of the elite that is running our Country now. Indeed, President Obama is the really first product of such elitism. Ted Kennedy was glad to see the day that we had such a president. Our Country will not be able to bear such leadership and they will rebel like we have not seen in a long time.

I understand Teddy’s manners could have been better. He once took several hours to open a car door for a woman.

1. Kennedy escalted what Eisenhower started in Vietnam.
2. We came so close to war over the bay of pigs that the planes on the flightline in Greenland where running.
3. Robert kennedy when he took on Hoffa, bit the hand that feed him
4. Much revisionist history is going on now it was LBJ, not Kennedy that got most of the civil right legislation passed.
So what did they mean to my life, an interesting study how power is bought, used and misunderstood.

Some people see taxes and ask “Why?” I see things that have never been taxed and ask “Why not?”
- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

What do the Kennedy’s mean to me? What any band of power-lusting, system-gaming, blood-sucking, parasitic looters means to me — a constant threat to my freedom, an impediment to my right to the pursuit of my own happiness, an endlessly expanding mass of regulations strangling my business and a black-hole of welfare-worship that sucks the funds out of my life so that the Kennedy’s can bask in the praise liberals always garner for practicing charity with other people’s money.
The Kennedy’s are the perfect illustration of the essential lie of liberal legislation, which is always justified on the basis of the alleged benefits it creates for “the little man”. In reality, all it accomplishes is to invite millions to exist as parasites on a shrinking base of struggling productive people, so that the Kennedys of the world can maintain power by buying the votes of some constituents with the extorted funds of other constituents.
Traitors to their country, they’ve worked tirelessly to destroy America from within while weakening her to the dangers she faces from without. I’m glad the last of these leeches is dead.

I like the JFK branch of that family. The rest can get lost.