Thanks for the crappy veep pick, Caroline!

I haven't been out for a swim this year.

She is lackluster.

just words...

re: #1 Sharmuta

Thanks for the crappy veep pick, Caroline!

Kennedy's don't marry for brains.

CARLY FIORINA FOR VP!

re: #3 buzzsawmonkey

Things are getting Ted-ious.

Not this Ted - ay.

I have sympathy for the Kennedy family but jeez, how much mileage can you get out of that tragedy? It just seems like they go back to that well over and over and over again.

Um, he wasn't there for Mary Jo Kopechen, beeyatch...

Why do these people hate Iraqis so much?

...and the best drinks.

My wife is watching the PRINCESS DIARIES less fictional than the DNC.

Wow - for being the daughter of a fine orator, Caroline sure is a flat speaker.

re: #2 The Other Les

I haven't been out for a swim this year.

Did you get your nap?

re: #6 The Other Les

Kennedy's don't marry for brains.

No, they marry for brawn. In fact, Maria Shriver married Ahnold to breed a bullet-proof one...

/sorry in advance

re: #9 baxtrice

It just seems like they go back to that well over and over and over again.

It's Teddy's favorite parking spot.

Caroline is a museum curator, married to an art collector.
That qualifies her to pick the vice president of the US.

Where does she live?
What office is open that she can run for?

Hereeeeeeessss TEDDY.....

"Er, ah, where are my pants?"

Holy crap. WATER

Uncle Teddy

/pass the rum

Mary Jo could not be reached for comment.

Brokaw really went easy on her yesterday on MTP.

a tribute to teddy - will it be a seagrams commercial?

OMG-starting with a water shot?

I wonder about starting Teddy's tribute with a picture of the water! Yikes!

Oh no he di-unt.......
evoke the Sea........

Lurch!

"The most renewing healing place" for poor Mary Jo

why do the Dems always honor killers, Fidel, Chavez, Kennedy etc etc etc etc etc.

Mary Jo Kopechne ain't impressed with them.

They are tone-deaf in all respects of the word...

re: #28 rw in san diego

I wonder about starting Teddy's tribute with a picture of the water! Yikes!

I'm listening on the radio, I thought he was taking a piss.

Will they cover the part where he drunkenly kills a woman?

Teddy, out on his boat.

"You see Mary Jo, throw her a life vest, ya hear?"

As I said on the last thread, I'm not even watching, and I'm suffering from Kennedy Fatigue.

How about a tribute for Mary Jo?

re: #9 baxtrice

I have sympathy for the Kennedy family but jeez, how much mileage can you get out of that tragedy? It just seems like they go back to that well over and over and over again.

The Kennedy's offered little support for Mary Jo's family in their time of need after Teddy had screwed then drowned their daughter. This is a publicity stunt by the DNC and I am not turning on my TV this week in honor of the Democrats gaming the media.

re: #15 Walter L. Newton

Did you get your nap?

Yes.

'Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.'
-The Tempest
Act 1, Scene 2

"The sea for me has always been a metaphor for "life".
Sen. Ted Kennedy

"...the sea is a healing place for him, and always has been".
Victoria Kennedy

I find those statements incredibly ironic. And kinda creepy.

/because of the MaryJo Kopechne tragedy....

Sailing as a family tradition.

/you could get a lot of rum in that boat

re: #41 Killer Tomato

'Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.'
-The Tempest
Act 1, Scene 2

It's hard to beat The Bard.

Now that the Deification of Teddy has begun, I'm really starting to feel the brain rot setting in.

And for the music as they introduce Teddy, "Riding Dirty"

re: #32 Vero

yet they don't honor Bush ;)

Will this moving tribute feature Ted Kennedy driving off a dock?

"Whether he's teaching us about sailing, or ... "

Uhh, McCain is supposed to be the out of touch one, right?

She blew it on Meet The Press Sunday....

Just like Obama she can read off a telemprompter. But when asked any sort of probing question she is all stutters and stammers and goobily gock.

jk obviously

Are they going to play a clip of him singing that Hispanic tune.?

Was I hearing things, or did Caroline make it sound like Teddy's going back to the Senate?

All that sea imagery kind of invoked seaweed-laden corpses.

Health care is not a right you asshole.

Thar' she blows! Prepare the harpoons!

This is so mawkish I can't stand it.

Patriot Ted Kennedy!

Grove City College professor Paul Kengor sheds light on a letter written by KGB head Viktor Chebrikov to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. The letter is dated May 14, 1983, right as the debate was heating up over Mr. Reagan's proposed deployment of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Western Europe to counter the Soviets' medium-range rockets in Eastern Europe.

Most Democrats and much of the left were universally opposed to Mr. Reagan's plan, which they argued would lead to nuclear war. Heading the list of critics was Mr. Kennedy, who had, according to the Soviet letter, sent former Sen. John V. Tunney to meet with Kremlin leaders. Chebrikov writes that Mr. Kennedy "charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to... Andropov."

According to the letter, Mr. Kennedy was concerned with "Reagan's belligerence," which he felt was in part the result of the president's popularity. "The only real threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," wrote Chebrikov, relaying Mr. Tunney's message. "These issues, according to [Mr. Kennedy], will without a doubt become the most important of the [1984] election campaign."

The letter goes on to say how Mr. Kennedy felt that the Soviets' peaceful intentions were being "quoted out of context, silenced or groundlessly and whimsically discounted." Conversely, Mr. Reagan "has the capabilities to counter any propaganda." In other words, if the letter is to be believed, Mr. Kennedy felt his own president was the real aggressor.

Ted's brother; that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

re: #49 Sayyid412

"Whether he's teaching us about sailing, or ... "

Uhh, McCain is supposed to be the out of touch one, right?

If he weren't so sick I'd fill in that sentence.....

re: #18 tradewind

Caroline is a museum curator, married to an art collector.
That qualifies her to pick the vice president of the US.

Considering that Obama was a community organizer, a back bencher in the Illinois Legislature, and a 1st term Senator, that's about as good as it gets.

The thing to keep in mind is that Ted Kennedy was one of Obama's biggest backers. He was pushing Obama to block Hillary at all costs. That's why the convention is showing the Kennedys all the love.

I saw people dancing to non-dance songs, and I saw a Kennedy talking about love. That was about the longest ten seconds I could spend watching.

re: #53 Sharmuta

Was I hearing things, or did Caroline make it sound like Teddy's going back to the Senate?

That's what she was implying.

Is Teddy going to serenade the crowd en Espanol?

Another Tribute "honoring" our Beloved Democrat Kennedy

re: #42 Intrepid

"The sea for me has always been a metaphor for "life".

Yeah, I wonder how the Kopechnes like that one.

re: #39 LoFlyer

The Kennedy's offered little support for Mary Jo's family in their time of need after Teddy had screwed then drowned their daughter. This is a publicity stunt by the DNC and I am not turning on my TV this week in honor of the Democrats gaming the media.

I think they offered the Kobechne's a lousy 10 grand hush money.

This is freaking nauseating...

re: #60 lawhawk

correct. good recall.

re: #63 buzzsawmonkey

What chapter is that in The Audacity of Hope?

Teddy is your senator to if you have enough money you can beat a rape rap.

Teddy is your senator to if you get drunk and kill an innocent passenger in your car.

Teddy is your senator to if you if rich and deserve more than others.

And most Americans can relate with Teddy's passion for sailing...something everyone does on weekends.

This is getting to be simply disgusting.

Damn,

already beat me to the punch with the MJK comments.

Ted Kennedy reads to you as part of an "Everybody Wins" program?

My G-d, what kind of prize is that?

Kennedy came to our base and his poodle shit all over the lawns. Yup, one of my buddies had to clean it up - his call sign is now "scoop".

He said "change," drink.

Sailing. Now there's a sport of the average joe.

re: #64 loppyd

Oh please, oh please. (Do they have a video from the last time or just audio?)

i want to say--DRINK- but i think i may puke up some good bourbon

Speed is life.

/overarmored Humvees are slow

Interesting to contemplate how Kennedy's world-view might have been all a reaction to his realization that he was just a cowardly asshole with Mary Jo.

'Pied Piper,' indeed.

Ted Kennedy and John Kerry are doing such a good job running Massachusetts that the state is actually losing population.

Teddy is your senator to if you're rich and deserve more than others.

PIMF

re: #60 lawhawk

You just know there's a fascinating backstory there, re how the Clintons must have ticked off the Camelot Clan to move them there.

re: #78 buzzsawmonkey

that rocks.

He's the pied piper in the family. Uh- yeah. I buy that.

No windmills in the way.

EEEEEWWWW

CBS’s Schieffer Shares How Daughter Was Conceived at ’68 Convention

File this one under "too much information." On Sunday’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer got very personal as he reminisced about attending the 1968 Democratic convention, the first convention he ever attended: “I have to say the first one for me was the most memorable -- not for political but for personal reasons. My first daughter was born nine months to the day after that one. As she later remarked, Chicago in '68 wasn't all fighting in the streets.”

Is Ted going to talk about his Nazi-symp smuggler father?

This is getting tedious. I 'hope' half time is over soon and then I'll 'change' the channel.

Holy hamster wheels, I predict smoky bearings soon. Watching live on the web and trying to keep up here, wow. Just wow.
Greetings all, from the Great White North.
Dana

When does Teddy get to talk about wind power?

Teddy believes in change...he changes is drink from one hand to the next.

"The year I was born President Kennedy announced that the torch has been passed..."

... and you grabbed the flame!

re: #93 buzzsawmonkey

hooka-da thought?

There are lots of average Joes who enjoy sailing across the nation, it's just that most of them aren't serial owners of million dollar yachts.

re: #75 Jetpilot1101

Kennedy came to our base and his poodle shit all over the lawns. Yup, one of my buddies had to clean it up - his call sign is now "scoop".

The Age of Crapelot.

If he's not retiring, why is there a tribute?

re: #95 wiffersnapper

When does Teddy get to talk about wind power?

Everytime he opens his mouth.

re: #90 loppyd

Schieffer..... you moron...... if she was born ' nine months to the day'..... then she was most likely conceived before the convention.
But it makes a nice story.

re: #9 baxtrice

I have sympathy for the Kennedy family but jeez, how much mileage can you get out of that tragedy? It just seems like they go back to that well over and over and over again.

The name "Kennedy" paired with the New England accent has put Dems in a zombie-like trance for the past 40+ years. They cannot resist.

Please, someone explain how the people of Taxachusetts can re-elect him and John F'in Kerry year after year?

Do cars double as sailboats, Tedward?

re: #84 rawmuse

Ted Kennedy and John Kerry are doing such a good job running Massachusetts that the state is actually losing population.

Indeed it is.

People here have had it with the hackorama pols. There is a question on the Nov. ballot to repeal the state income tax. The dems are scared to death it may just pass. And it may.

re: #99 really grumpy big dog Johnson

There are lots of average Joes who enjoy sailing across the nation, it's just that most of them aren't serial owners of million dollar yachts.

I wonder if he can tell us how many yachts he owns...

Well, I'll do a twelve-ounce curl in honor of a legendary drinker.

Looks great.

re: #101 Sharmuta

Potential for dirtnap imminent.

I have to admit, I'm baling my eyes out here.

/sarc

re: #101 Sharmuta

If he's not retiring, why is there a tribute?

We can always HOPE!

re: #103 tradewind

Schieffer..... you moron...... if she was born ' nine months to the day'..... then she was most likely conceived before the convention.
But it makes a nice story.

He may need to consult with Obama on the actual time of conception.

Teddy and Dodd are going to make an Obama sandwich in a minute.

Well, you got to admit, Teddy looks pretty good.

It may be all "fake it until you make it"... I've done that a few times myself.

re: #106 wiffersnapper

Do cars double as sailboats, Tedward?

She must not have had her sea legs yet...

Oh crap.

Not the give-us-free-healthcare-because-you-don't-want-to-
hurt-uncle-ted's-feeleings-and-he's-dying-you-know
pitch.

Ted has got the big C and for that I am sad for him but in politics it is policy and this one sucks.

re: #105 rightside

Please, someone explain how the people of Taxachusetts can re-elect him and John F'in Kerry year after year?

The commies put something in the water there in the 1960's.

re: #95 wiffersnapper

When does Teddy get to talk about wind power?

That's his stock in trade. Whether the subject is windmills, sailing, or his own lousy driving.

No matter the subject, Teddy blows.

cheers

eon

re: #94 Gislison

Welcome to Lizardia, wheer it is a balmy 72 at all times!

But gosh, that tribute was just glaringly incomplete without the whole drunken-murder thing.

quick someone give him a breath-a-lizer

re: #114 loppyd

along with the parents' of the chinese women's gymnastics team

But hey, Teddy is the Pied Piper of the family.

/pied for sure

Wow- he looks good for his condition.

I won't watch him. I just can't do it.

re: #105 rightside

Please, someone explain how the people of Taxachusetts can re-elect him and John F'in Kerry year after year?

They are counting the dead Indians as well as the dead Pilgrims.

re: #115 SeafoodGumbo

Teddy and Dodd are going to make an Obama sandwich in a minute.

That's an image I DID NOT need.

re: #124 wiffersnapper

along with the parents' of the chinese women's gymnastics team

LOL!

The kid with the missing baby tooth was priceless.

Ted's getting better health-care than Mary Jo Kopechne ever got.

re: #126 Sharmuta

Wow- he looks good for his condition.

Pickled?

Count the number of times he says "uh" - if you make it a drinking game you'll need to get your stomach pumped.

re: #131 christheprofessor

ouch.

Pretty progressive language.

re: #134 loppyd

that or "sailing"

re: #131 christheprofessor

{CTP}!

What's the good word?

Ted Kennedy, disgracing the Senate for almost 50 years. re: #90 loppyd

EEEEEWWWW

CBS’s Schieffer Shares How Daughter Was Conceived at ’68 Convention

Hey, Schieffer! Are you going to re-create '68?

Ted's gonna be there when McCain gets inaugurated!

That's a warm feeling!

re: #139 Paul

I almost barfed

re: #129 Colonel Panik

That's an image I DID NOT need.

Maybe Eva Mendes can cleanse your brain.

re: #135 bellamags

ouch.

That was intended to leave a mark...

re: #9 baxtrice

I have sympathy for the Kennedy family but jeez, how much mileage can you get out of that tragedy? It just seems like they go back to that well over and over and over again.

I don't have sympathy for Swimmer or his family. He is dying . . . mostly of old age. Lucky him. His life has not been a net gain for the planet. Starting with killing Mary Jo, he has gone on to support the ideas and philosophies of America's enemies.

I try hard not to wish ill on people, but since he refuses to retire, then his death will have to do.

"New hope"? He supports Star Wars now?

re: #95 wiffersnapper

When does Teddy get to talk about wind power?

Teddy IS wind power!

re: #121 rightside

Welcome to Lizardia, wheer where it is a balmy 72 at all times!

/PIMF

Bla bla bla. Commie psycho babel.

re: #18 tradewind

Sounds like the latest storyline of the Young and the Restless!

re: #101 Sharmuta

If he's not retiring, why is there a tribute?

Because this is likely the last one he's ever going to be involved in, with the brain cancer and all. Like or dislike the guy, he's been a fixture at the DNC since 1960.

re: #138 loppyd

{CTP}!

What's the good word?

{Lopps}!

The good word is Lightning! (click my avatar)

re: #142 SeafoodGumbo

Maybe Eva Mendes can cleanse your brain.

Aaaah....that's better!

Barack Obama will close the book on the US if we don't watch out.

I think Kennedy is hammered.

Teddy Kennedy, Whitewashing History since the 60's!

re: #142 SeafoodGumbo

Bless you, well deserved!

re: #145 Sharmuta

"New hope"? He supports Star Wars now?

Jabba the Lush.

I think Ted Kennedy just called Barack a Black Gay Woman.

Kennedy looks good. Although I don't like his politics, I pray he beats the cancer.

DRUDGE

NYT: Celebration of Kennedys an 'effort to take focus off Clintons'... Developing...

The people of Martha's Vineyard rose to the challenge and reinforced the bridge at Chappaquiddick so young women wouldn't get murdered there anymore.

the 3rd worst speach I've ever heard

Poor Teddy, I do feel for him that he is sick, and I hope he recovers. He did do a really remarkable thing with his son Patrick when he had cancer.... the treatment he found for him, and researched a great deal of himself, was lifesaving and groundbreaking at that time. Maybe he will pull this one out as well.
But I think he is driven by the miserable failure of John F'ing to win the WH, and is trying his best for redemption, in some weird way.

Iraq was a mistake Ted just said,,,,a mistake we won

His speech still won't do enough to save Obama.

what a bunch of bloviating non-sense

Did I just see Tom Hanks holding up a sign?

re: #159 truthhunter

Kennedy looks good. Although I don't like his politics, I pray he beats the cancer.

Enough Jamison's will cure anything.

Democrats attack John McCain for his 7 houses... But they go crazy for the Yachter.

I can't believe I'm watching this; I must be a masochist.

Ted was having trouble there at the end. His speaking and reading skills have obviously been affected.

More crappy cover music.

Caroline's daughter Rose looks a lot like Jackie..

Well, that asshole's been bloviating BS for 40+ years now, so he can't blame it on the brain cancer...

Mayor Quimby gives better speeches. Gawd, that was horrible.

(First post, I know, but .... ugh.)

re: #171 SteveC

what speaking and reading skills?

Caroline's tribute to "Uncle Teddy" had WAY too much water...
I kept hearing "Mary Jo...Mary Jo..."

Maybe it was the sound of the waves...

Uh....sounds like a speech Obama planned to use...just delivered by Kennedy. A whole lot of nothing. No plan, no specifics, just a lot of lofty look how wonderful Obama is nonsense.

Must. Turn. Off. Television.

re: #176 wiffersnapper

what speaking and reading skills?

Ok, they weren't that great to start with.... but they have gone downhill. I kinda felt sorry for him at the end.

re: #178 truthhunter

just words...

re: #177 desertbrat
Hell's bells... he has a Portugese Water Spaniel who follows him everywhere, and the pup's name is.. so help me... Splash.
You can't make that kind of arrogance up.

Why waste your time watching this drivel? Honor for a murderer? A traitor? Phhshaw. I changed the channel pronto- watching a hot movie on Encore. I'll make fun of it later maybe. But there is no fun in traitorous murderers.

this would be much more exciting with a rogue monkey on the loose

TEDDY on wind power N.I.M.B.Y. teddy killed the masshole wind plant because it was in his view.

Wolf Blitzer says this moment (with Kennedy) is one nobody would EVER forget. Men and women crying....

I have already forgotten what was said...

Does anyone else see this as a grandiose coronation? The Kennedy's bestowing their blessing on "the one". Obama is about to hold forth Excalibur"and will reclaim Camelot. Except "The Lady of the Lake, (looking a lot like Caroline Kennedy) her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Obama, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king, ...uh president" Anything with women in pools of water isn't the mental picture one would want to conjure up. I'm sure some youtube wiz could have a field day with that!

"Oh, king eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. "

From one of the greatest movies of all time.

I love how Kennedy said he didn't want to put one group against another. That is unless you are a successful businessman, then you are the enemy.

OooooOOOOOOooo! A city clerk!

re: #186 truthhunter

Wolf Blitzer says this moment (with Kennedy) is one nobody would EVER forget. Men and women crying....

I have already forgotten what was said...

Wolf's an idiot. The best thing that was ever said about his was during GW1, when Johnny Carson said that NBC execs, impressed by the cool sounding name of CNN war correspondent Wolf Blitzer, asked Irving R. Levine to change his name to Scud Shrapnel...

It was a long, dull speech. Halfway through, Ted Kennedy sent drinks over to the hookers back at the hotel.

save the country! ... hire a community organizer!

Karl Rove is coming up on Hannity - in case anyone needs a sanity check.

OMG, they're interviewing John Kerry? Please, Kerry, do the country (not mine since I'm Canadian but...) a favor and advise Obama on how to win an election.

Can someone enlighten as to why Teddy worked so hard to undermine Hillary.

re: #195 Capitalistincharge

He has a brain tumor.

This guy is illiterate

Senior Potatocabeza at the podium

re: #197 shug

Yeah- that was lame. And there was zero applause. LOL

the audacity of ignorance is on display at the dnc

obama saved my life ... I too can be a community organizer !

teddy kennedy is such a buffoon.
look what his life has come down to,
this moment, his finest hour, spent w/ these assholes.

Wonder if this Chicago community activist hangs with Ayers too.

I can't stand the fawning over Teddy. He is an asshole of the first order. It truly is a disgusting display.

Jim Leach.
What an aptly named pol.
The Dems' answer to Joe Lieberman, but he's no Joe Lieberman.

More original chanting from the "peaceful protesters" in Denver. Lasted about fifteen seconds - same as their attention span!

2 bowls of popcorn! 1 for the convention and 1 for Monday night football!
This is fun tonight lizards..can't wait till Michelle comes on..
I'm pretty sure that she will never say.. I hate you whitely America!'
But you never know when the Liar Liar curse will descend upon you..
It's must see TV...

Dems: "Look, look, we can trot out a republican to kiss our ass!"

Jim Leach: "Where's my $10 Grand, Soros?"

He sounds like Kermit.

Who was that duffus republican?

Now Online: 4,155

Quick, give those hamsters a treat!

Will CNN's coverage of the RNCC have the same enthusiasm and thoroughness as the DNCC coverage? There is a decibel meter and full graphic layout on the sidebars.

Where'd everyone go?

To the Zombie Update thread.

This is fundamentally a power struggle between the Kennedys and Clintons for control of the Democratic Party. Obama is a Kennedy guy.

At the moment, the Clintons are down, but not out. As Obama struggles, they regain their strength.

ted:"Barack, I won't be there to hear your acceptance
speech. But note I will cross that bridge when I come to it..."
/just kidding

re: #214 quickjustice

Shooting for 2012 by shooting down Obama. Didn't Bill say something derogatory about Barrack just yesterday?

re: #164 Zim

"Iraq" is not a war that we will ever win, as neither is the "War on Terror" or the "War on Drugs" or the "War on Poverty" or the "War for Unlimited Health Care".

"...Barack Obama will be a commander-in-chief who understands that young Americans in uniform must never be committed to a mistake but always to a mission worthy of their bravery."

All wars are a mistake on someone's part, and bravery is not a factor to judge mission worthiness. Apparently he has not taken the time to reflect on his brother's "mistake" during the Cuban missile crisis (either that or he feels that B.H.O. is a better man than his brother, which I would tend to doubt).

Senator Teddy proves once again that liberals either don't get it (as the deer-in-the-headlights Hollywood type), or worse, choose to ignore it.

he'll be there in January, come hell or high water

/better late than never

Teddy dissed his big brother!

"Obama will be a Commander-in-Chief who won't send our young men and women into harm's way for a mistake" -- or some such

Strange... I believe this image was missing from the documentary and from the entire Kennedyfest.