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Mon Jan-12-04 12:37 PM
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When does Ted Kennedy get vindicated? |
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I wish someone would step up and publicly vindicate Ted Kennedy, who was absolutely savaged by the right wing for claiming that the whole Iraq War "was cooked up in Texas long before 9/11".
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Mon Jan-12-04 12:40 PM
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Mon Jan-12-04 12:59 PM
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It's kind of hard to get past TK's credibility problem. He's never really been able to talk about vindication with the death of that woman on his hands. It's too bad, really.
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Mon Jan-12-04 01:03 PM
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3. Ted Kennedy has no credibility problem. |
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You have jumped to an incorrect conclusion based on right-wing propaganda.
George Bush has a real credibility problem.
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Mon Jan-12-04 02:08 PM
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9. The Chappaquiddick insinuation is absurd. |
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People who value their lives do not drive off bridges into rivers for any reason. It's that simple.
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Mon Jan-12-04 02:27 PM
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12. It's not how he drove off, |
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It's what he did after the fact. I'm fascinated by the Kennedys, they do have a lot of skeletons in their closets. Albeit they aren't teh only ones.
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Mon Jan-12-04 02:49 PM
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Or rather, what do you "believe" he did?
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Tue Jan-13-04 12:46 PM
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18. One thing he failed to do was act decisively. |
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That cost him the eventual presidency. Do you believe every word of his speech cooked up in a post-accident Kennedy pow-wow? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kennedys/index.html
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Mon Jan-12-04 01:17 PM
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don't even know he got thrown out of college for cheating either.
I'm not a big fan.
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Mon Jan-12-04 01:34 PM
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don't know Bush went AWOL, and lied about war and taxcuts.
now who's got the credibility problem?
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Mon Jan-12-04 03:50 PM
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17. No doubt Bush is pretty awful |
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The defense of Kennedy is to say Bush is worse? I guess I'll agree with that, though talk about faint praise.
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Mon Jan-12-04 02:13 PM
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10. There's alot of you guys around today. |
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Mon Jan-12-04 02:25 PM
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11. too true you are right. |
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Mon Jan-12-04 02:29 PM
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13. I would suggest there is a credibility problem |
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and it isn't with Senator Kennedy.
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Mon Jan-12-04 03:03 PM
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16. Maybe your young enough never to have made a serious mistake |
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or to have been close enough to one to get hurt. If so, beware, 15 seconds and stupid a stupid choice or careless statement can change your life.
Personally, I think its a terrible thing that she didn't survive the crash. Its also a terrible thing that Laura Bush killed her boyfriend. At my advanced age (I am now measuring based on whats left rather than on how far I've come) I am able to see that in the aftermath he still did some good with his life.
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Mon Jan-12-04 01:04 PM
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4. Well, about the same time Bill Clinton does, which I estimate |
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to be about the 12th of Never. They won't let it happen.
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Tue Jan-13-04 01:22 PM
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Mon Jan-12-04 01:32 PM
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6. with him being more concerned about 14,000,000 children in the US.. |
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being hungry every night, then the nomination of 4 far-RW judges.
it's about time he got vindicated.
/end sarcasm
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Mon Jan-12-04 01:55 PM
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a debate on Ted's character or overall credibility.
It's just that I recall him saying last summer that the whole Iraq War deal was a concocted plan by the administration well before 9/11. I believe he was referring to the "f*** Saddam, we're taking him out" story in Time magazine. Which is also vindicated by O'Neill's revelations.
I was on a board where they called him mentally ill as a result of alcoholism for saying that - and now it turns out, he was right all along.
I guess standing up for Ted Kennedy isn't a popular pasttime amongst progressives anymore.
Chappaquiddick or not - if he was right about Iraq, he was right. EOS.
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Mon Jan-12-04 02:51 PM
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15. It doesn't matter what happened in Kennedy's past. |
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He was RIGHT about Iraq. It's that simple.
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