Department of Offense

Not to disrespect the dead but while we are hearing what a great man Ted Kennedy was…here is the “other” side…

              The  Last of The Kennedy Dynasty

              As soon as his cancer was detected, we noticed the immediate
attempt at the “canonization” of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media.
They are saying what a “great American” he is.  Better 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 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, 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.  Let’s keep
this going for truth, justice and the American way!
 

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