Comments on: Senators collapse during luncheon

By: Mandelay

Mandelay — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:28:37 +0000

All true. And I can’t bring myself to forget either. Last year’s actions opened my eyes and changed my heart. It’s a big, big hurt.

By: trixta

trixta — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:54:53 +0000

The tainted primary election–the undermining of the democratic process–is part of Teddy’s legacy. I will never forget.

By: trixta

trixta — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:50:35 +0000

Sure I have. I walk in my husband’s ratty old slippers all the time.

By: trixta

trixta — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:47:55 +0000

Judge Judy, perhaps. Now that woman rules her domain!

By: trixta

trixta — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:45:01 +0000

Kennedy helped thwart what could have been the first woman president of the USA. He was vicious, rude, and a cad in the way he treated Hillary (and Bill) throughout the primaries and, most recently, in the Senate when he blocked HRC from leading the charge on Health Care. And now he wants to shove the unqualified Princess Caroline down the throats of NY-ers and to prop her up for a possible run for the presidency in 2016. I’m soooo over Teddy and the rest of the Kennedys!

BTW, he also has blood on his hands when it comes to Mary Jo. How is it that he was the only one who escaped from the submerged vehical in that accident? How is it that right after the accident he swam for hours to a near-by island to report it, but didn’t bother to help her escape?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:43:32 +0000

“he was just overcome with emotion seeing his good friend Kennedy take ill.”

As I was when I saw Cheney in his wheelchair. Still smiling…..

By: beebop

beebop — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:40:28 +0000

What a fabulous idea. Both of them have over served.

By: Texas Playwright

Texas Playwright — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:35:08 +0000

These guys need to stay home and spend the rest of their time with their families.

By: Ringo

Ringo — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:53:22 +0000

Many of us published both videos and quotations from those great speeches because we knew he was right, and we were thunder-struck that people didn’t see that Bush was hellbent on going to war with Iraq, no matter what the Senate or the U.N. did.*

So much of what we see on the news is simple propaganda, it takes a little while for the public to understand the reality does not match the print.

By: gregoryp

gregoryp — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:05:00 +0000

Good things should happen to good people.

Bad things should happen to bad people.

The questions really are: Who are the bad people and who are the good people? What determines that? Is someone bad because they don’t think like you? Are people who think like you actually good?

I don’t know whether or not Kennedy or Byrd are evil or not. I don’t think they are good though. I just wish that there really was a heaven and a hell so that people like them could get what is due. Whatever that may be.

Kennedy has for years been the guardian at the door keeping real health care reform from taking place. Through his actions or inactions possibly millions of Americans may have died premature deaths or suffered needlessly because they had either no access or limited access to proper health care.

Just because someone makes a frilly speech or claims they are for something doesn’t really make it so. It is their actions that tell the tale. If the Dems would have really wanted health care for all of us we’d have had it decades ago. Decades. The reality is we can’t blame those evil corporate republicans for everything. At least they tell us where they stand. If Kennedy wanted any sympathy he should have delivered just a little more.

By: BlueTopaz

BlueTopaz — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:53:32 +0000

Yep, I need proof of the ONE judge. The One……….. OMG

By: What goes around

What goes around — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:16:18 +0000

Some of you people go way beyond any reasonable definition of mean spirited. I’m glad your lot has been marginalized. Much as I dislike some on the right, I’ve never wished personal misfortune on them.

By: Realist

Realist — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:59:19 +0000

Another one about to ‘bite the dust’. I see a smile crossing Mary Jo’s face in Heaven. Now, cross your fingers (America) that Caroline gets hit by that “mythical taxi”..she supposedly hails all by her lonesome. Enough of “Camelot” already! Give me a F*cking break.

By: rw

rw — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:35:58 +0000

-Byrd “overcome” by the events of the day. Don’t want to do any interpreting there-

lol

By: I'm a Linda too

I'm a Linda too — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:30:07 +0000

it seems Byrd is OK. And apparently he was just overcome with emotion seeing his good friend Kennedy take ill.

“Sen. Robert C. Byrd, 91, also left the luncheon early, but his office and others said his health was not the reason.

Byrd “is currently in his own office…and is doing fine, though he remains vcery concerned about his close friend, Ted Kennedy,” said Mark Ferrell, a spokesman for the West Virginia Democrat.”