Kara Kennedy Not a Victim of a 'Curse,' but a Symbol of Resilience

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Ummmm, Susan:
Those quote from Clinton, Pelosi, etc., were from BEFORE Bush took office, like, a couple of years before.
Wonder how they cam to those conclusions?
Maybe because they were seeing the same intelligence that Bush saw a couple of year later?
Blaming Bush, and the accusation that "Bush lied" is getting rather old.

Junior of DC 4:08PM September 21, 2011

Bill Hedges, all of those Democrats were told false stories of WMD by the Dubya Administration. He led us to war based on a LIE.
But you guys overlook that and attack Ted Kennedy, even on a thread devoted to the death of his only daughter. What he did to Ms. Kopechne was horriffic, but he worked the rest of his life doing good in the Senate. Dubya has never apologized for his evil deeds nor tried to atone for them.

Susan of CA 1:00AM September 21, 2011

KENNEDY CURSE? NAH...
More like the Kennedy Ambition. Joe Kennedy Sr.'s Ambition. Unbridled and insatiable ambition for wealth, power, and fame.
Ambition like that tends to put you on a collision course with things not so good.
Joe Sr. reads like the original Gordon Gekko: The premier master of insider information in his day. At the time when insider information reigned unfettered as well as supreme. It seems Joe Sr. would be chief villain and most despised of Wall St. if he were operating today.
Or maybe that shoeshine boy that gave Joe Sr. all those wonderful stock tips wasn't just a shoeshine boy. Perhaps something else. Which holds Vanity as it's favorite sin. And exacts a heavy toll for its favors.
Regardless of Curse/Ambition/Faustian Bargain, seems the whole Kennedy thing -- along with all the Kennedy sycophant by-products such as Susan Milligan -- got started and unfolded because Joe Sr. was the epitome of today's greedy-evil-rich republican caricature.
Perhaps that explains why all of them, the Kennedys and their sycophants, work so assiduously to assuage the guilt which so obviously rules their lives.
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PS: Speaking of Catholicism, so long as Ted Kennedy's 'seat' remains under a republican's bum, T-K must be stuck in Purgatory, endlessly relieving Chappaquiddick over and over and over again.
This time with him trapped helplessly in the car, pounding furiously but futilely on the window for help, as he sees himself swim away. All of this while the car fills up with water, and sinks to the murky bottom. Blub... Blub... Blub...
And as continuance of the Kennedy Curse/Ambition/Faustian Bargain, Susan Milligan's new BFF from afar -- Liz Warren -- will lose the MA democrat primary, and the victor of that democrat primary will in turn lose to Scott Brown in the election. Just like Sestak beat out Obama and Obama-picked Specter the Defector in PA's democrat primary, then lost to Toomey in the election.
Looks like you won't be getting out of Purgatory any time soon Ted.

dom youngross of OH 6:53PM September 20, 2011

Susan of CA _ sAYS "Too bad you are not concerned about the millions of people Christian GW Bush killed over the last decade"...
ARE YOU NUTS ??? Why didn't you just pull kill a ZILLION out of your hat.
You act like we WENT at IT ALONG to war. We had Congress vote, UN resolutions, and Mid East partners as well as other Contries.
Democrats supported too:
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
-Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has ... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
-- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
"There is no doubt that ... Saddam Hussein has reinvigorated his weapons programs. Reports indicate that biological, chemical and nuclear programs continue apace and may be back to pre-Gulf War status. In addition, Saddam continues to redefine delivery systems and is doubtless using the cover of a licit missile program to develop longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies."
Letter to President Bush, Signed by:
-- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), and others, Dec 5, 2001
http://www.davidstuff.com/political/wmdquotes.htm

Bill Hedges of MO 11:17AM September 20, 2011

R.L. Schaefer:
Too bad you are not concerned about the millions of people Christian GW Bush killed over the last decade. Hypocrite.

Susan of CA 2:58AM September 20, 2011

RIP Kara and my prayers go out to the whole Kennedy family. I agree that there is no such thing as a Kennedy curse. They are an extrordinary family.
I have a question. Should somebody with her health issues have been exercising so strenously? Maybe a brisk walk everyday and that's it.

Susan of CA 2:54AM September 20, 2011

Can't comment on Kara - knew nothing about her. Sad, though, to hear of someone going before their time.
Ted, however, was the perfect poster child as to why, in some cases, abortion should be practiced with vigor.

junior of DC 3:49PM September 19, 2011

"The senator, (Ted Kennedy) who held a deep Catholic faith, prayed daily at a nearby Boston church..."
Deep Catholic faith? Where was that "deep" Catholicism when he left a young woman to die in the back seat of his car he drunkenly drove off a bridge, dumped his sick wife or promoted the killing of millions of unborn children in direct contradiction to fundamental Catholic teaching?
Just curious.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:57PM September 19, 2011