Obama to sign service bill on Tuesday

Be a "Community Organizer", you never know, you could get to be president.

As soon as cancer was found, I noticed the immediate attempt at canonization of old Teddy by the main stream media. They are saying what a "great American" he is. I 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 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, after passing several houses and a fire station. Then two friends 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 and 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 were the standard bearer for the nation in matters of 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…

uNEMPLOYED IN mICHIGAN

Bravo STILL!!!!

Let the truth be known.

to "unemployed in Michigan "

get a job!

To Big Jim:
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally. The Saint Teddy Act is too much to swollow for me too!!

well said big jim,the sad part is he and his ilk keep getting reelected,massachusetts is the laughingstock of the country and they do not even realize it,same self serving liberals keep coming back,they line their pockets and take care of their friends and then they proceed to screw the working man,all the while taking good care of the illegal immigrants.they say you get the goverment you deserve,hows that working out for you massachusetts.

Unemployed. Shut up the fact that his brothers were the most progressive
thing to happen to this country since the revolution is reason enough to give
him some credit. When your kids kids look back and the U.N. is the governing
body of this planet and public service is a requirement for being a citizen of the world, the Kennedys will have statues all over this planet, Thank god you live
in Michigan, oh, yeah your the jerk that gave us Mitt Romney, go suck an egg
you idiot. AND DON'T TAKE UP 3000 LINES OF TEXT TO GET YOUR POINT
ACROSS, WHY IN HELL YOUR ON A BOSTON PAPER WEBSITE IS BEYOND
ME GO BACK TO THE LAKE HURON DAILY AND SPEW YOUR VITRIOLE.
YOU D&*MB BASTARD!

I AGREE WITH STILL UNEMPLOYED IN MICHIGAN. TEDDY IS A WORLD CLASS TWO FACED PHONY AND IMPOSTER. HE SHOULD RESIGN IMMEDIATELY . THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN HAVING TEDDY AS A SENATOR IS HAVING HIM REPLACED BY HIS WIFE OR REPROBATE NEPHEW.

Geez unemployed you are obsessed with Mr. Kennedy - it is sad to see a life especially one of an individual from Michigan so focused on one man - I'm from Mass. and happen to be quite proud of Mr. Kennedy - now from Michigan we have had - hmmm - well lots of unemployment - but that mean ole Kennedy fought for more unemployment benefits - tried to stop the republican party from destroying any semblance of workers rights - fought for healthcare - but hey you know everything about the man and everything else - how's "your" legacy Mr. unemployed.

Just the interest on what Obama spent is 2 billion a day.
Bet the farm Congress is not done spending.

I have a feeling the Globe will erase all these comments in the next 24 hours...because they forgot that the 1st amendment is given to all U.S. Citizens

RE :"I have a feeling the Globe will erase all these comments in the next 24 hours...because they forgot that the 1st amendment is given to all U.S. Citizens"

While I greatly dislike Senator Kennedy and think he has caused irreparable harm to this country, this mesage board belongs to Boston.com (or perhaps the Boston Globe.) If they want to delete comments, that's their right as it's their message board.

We have a right to free speech, but that doesn't mean you can force someone to listen to you.

It would seem that a news site would not censor posts though as long as they are not offensive and are at least somewhat relevant to the topic under discussion.

None of you people really know what you're talking talking about - if you live in Massachusetts you have benefited for what he's done. On roads, bridges, schools, civil rights, the environment and most recently the medicaid waiver which saved us close to $400 millioon dollars. Along with the help our our Governor Deval Patrick. He's a legend - but has also made mistakes - I realize that. He's our Senator - and dare I say,,,, a damn good one.

Caps Lock is lame.

Thanks, for that, Big Jim. :)

Obumma isn't much better...abstract thinker with no solutions; no experience. He's already made things worse than he threatened they might get, if we didn't pass his stimulus packages. Of course, he's no economist; no experience in business...or the military...or foreign affairs. Isn't it a curiosity that people say this doesn't matter? Yet, we seem to need someone strong in all of these areas. BTW, Obumma isn't even a good public speaker.

It's no wonder that Kennedy backed him .

Pete forgot that the Globe has the Constitutional freedom to edit its own website as much as it wants, just as he's allowed to erase graffiti from his own house.

Pete, you have the freedom of speech, but the globe isn't required to provide you with a forum for it. The acidity and cruelty that arises in these forums, regardless of topic, is generally appalling, people delight in tearing down others, on both sides of the political aisle. The globe should do away with them.

The following is quoted directly from the (dis)Honorable Senator from Massachusetts as he helped shove the 1965 Immigration Act down our throats.

"Out of deference to the critics, I want to comment on … what the bill will not do. First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same … Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset … Contrary to the charges in some quarters, S.500 will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia. In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think. Thirdly, the bill will not permit the entry of subversive persons, criminals, illiterates, or those with contagious disease or serious mental illness. As I noted a moment ago, no immigrant visa will be issued to a person who is likely to become a public charge … the charges I have mentioned are highly emotional, irrational, and with little foundation in fact. They are out of line with the obligations of responsible citizenship. They breed hate of our heritage."

If you ask me, they shot the wrong Kennedy...

Hey pete, the words are spoken and people can view them. The Globe is under no obligation to use their servers to preserve them for all time. Yes, they will be subsumed one day, when they need the space.

Sen. Kennedy isn't perfect. And he shows a lot of the excesses to be expected from someone with more money than sense. In other words he grew up a poor little rich boy. Other than that he has done some good, whether intentionally or not, makes little difference. At least he wasn't tearing down the Constitution like Cheney and Bush.

What

re: Obama signs national service legislation

I have written to many folks, including most of those mentioned in today’s volunteer legislation articles, concerning a basic community based solution to both harness the renewed volunteerism and our home-foreclosure problem. Most nonprofits cannot hold assets however, a 509(a)1 can, and if it is also mission driven around housing, which means it can hold both the house asset and the mortgage paper, against houses.

This makes it a quasi-bank; it can hold the house going into foreclosure, “modify” the loan around the current owner’s ability to make monthly payments. The reduced dollar amount on the first mortgage would be held as a “soft” second mortgage, to be repaid through volunteerism (e.g. for every hour worked/volunteered, would reduce the second mortgage by $20).

There is only one organization which I am familiar with, that fits this bill, the Affordable Housing Center (AHC), 509(a)1; it has the potential to be the hub for HUD foreclosures and the vehicle for (a broader) volunteer coordination.
Duplicate postings of my response will be made to other articles, in hopes to begin a larger discussion.

By the way, I submitted AHC to Google’s project 100, the one for great ideas to change the world; perhaps the cyber world can create an online demand to sway voting, via Google inquiry/search.

PS (Some of you smart, network savvy and compassionate people must recognize the potential here and use your skills to promote.)

Yes, they will erase all evidence of any dislike of Senator Kennedy as this is a Libtard Rag! They want the sheeple to see only nice things.....nice meanig NO dissagreement with them, them being the Liberal Weenies of MA

"Sen. Kennedy isn't perfect. And he shows a lot of the excesses to be expected from someone with more money than sense. In other words he grew up a poor little rich boy. Other than that he has done some good, whether intentionally or not, makes little difference. At least he wasn't tearing down the Constitution like Cheney and Bush."

Kennedy is a fat, stupid, miserable turd of a human being. A proven murderer, cheat and all around scumbag. Don't compare him to stand up guys like Bush and Cheney. Thanks.

Plea

Kennedy is one of the worst things to ever happen to this country.