Aug 27
As Washington fetes Edward Kennedy it says more about the low state our capitol and its elected inhabitants have sunk to than about him.
My thoughts turn, instead, to someone who won’t have lavish praise this week – someone who had her life cut short many years ago
I place Edward Kennedy with OJ as someone who got away with murder. And I don’t understand people like our Utah Senators and other folks purporting to “represent” us can value his political accomplishments above his criminal and moral failings.That backwards thinking is why they don’t really “represent” us – they are creatures of DC and it is time they are called home.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:21 am
If Kennedy had been just the average drunk without the family name, etc. society would have punished him appropriately and he would have been seen for the pariah he was.
It is horrible that we excuse the kind of behavior in our politicians that we wouldn’t accept in our neighbors.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
My question was what qualifies him to a military honor squad, flag on casket and buriel in Arlington. I ask Ken and no knowledge. I called a friend and she said she heard that he was in the army and his father, joe Kennedy, invoked the “brother” clause and got him discharged. Don’t see how that qualifies him but we also discussed the possibility that the Senate passed a bill (Fri night, after midnight) that allows the Senate those priveleges without earning them.
Enough to make you gag, what a complete joke our “leaders” are. Vote them out in next election and put in some true Americans in office.
August 27th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
“His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, 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. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.”
He doesn’t qualify by the standards given at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery
August 28th, 2009 at 10:56 am
But, I was right. If you are a member of Congress, Supreme court, or a diplomat, you are entitled to be buried in a National Cemetary. It was on another web site. ASK/ANSWERS I tried to send it to you but unsuccessful.
Entitled by what right other than politics. Midnight legislation