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Teddy Kennedy "Character Challenged" brother in the utter extreme

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Jack Kennedy went to war in a dangerous area of the South Pacific (Guadalcanal), to serve as captain of an 80-Ft., plywood Patrol Torpedo Boat and almost got killed for his trouble.

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His father was Ambassador to England so he could have obtained some cushy staff position at Pearl or in Australia. He didn't, he volunteered for Combat. And went BACK to duty after being wounded & rescued from a remote Island behind enemy lines with most of his crew. Heir Apparent Brother Joe, another Kennedy who DIDN'T have to Fight, was killed flying an experimental remote controlled B-24 full of Torpex high explosive. which blew up before he could bail out over the English Channel. Both were therefore brave men, who served America with honor and valor in time of war. If memory serves me, even RFK served briefly in the navy before war's end. John Kennedy was an early advocate of Military Special Operations becoming the father of the Navy SEAL Teams. He visited Ft. Bragg to review Army SF & then authorized Army Special Forces to wear the then unofficial headgear... the Green Beret. It is STILL called "The JFK Center for Special Warfare." JFK was very pro-military, and was a supporter of Adm. Hyman Rickover's Nuclear Navy. Yes he made mistakes (Bay of Pigs), but was not an appeaser of any stripe. Kennedy was Anti-Communist. He cut Capital Gains Taxes, and he understood the importance of Small Business success. But Jack went against the grain often, and it made him scores of powerful enemies. That in itself bespoke of a man of courage. Where and why the Kennedy family went off the far Left deep end has always been a puzzlement to me as Jack today would have ideologically been a Blue Dog. Reagan and Chuck Heston were once Democrats that changed party affiliation. Jack might have eventually as well. On the campaign train back from McKeesport Pa after a debate, father Joe Sr. allegedly told Nixon: " All Hell, Dick. if Jack wasn't running you know I'd vote for you." Teddy on the other hand, sadly seemed to have been the "Character Challenged" brother in the utter extreme. Letting Mary Jo Kopechne suffocate in three feet of water after an alcohol induced motor vehicle accident while Teddy went looking for Defence Counsel wouldn't have been an example in JFK's book "Profiles in Courage." His Amnesty of Illegals in the late 80s was a monumental disaster... and he desired to do it yet again with McCain / Kennedy, the Dream Act, or whatever else he could foist upon us. He was on the wrong side of virtually EVERY national security issue during his entire, lengthy, tenure in the US Senate. "Iraq is George Bush's VIETNAAAM!!" Last time I looked we prevailed there. If the Iraqis again descend into sectarian violence, that will be their doing, and not ours. Why Senator Kennedy is being lauded as a "Lion" is quite baffling. Sir Winston Churchill was a "Lion." Even Jack Kennedy might have qualified for the honorific had he survived. But Teddy? All I saw was a rather wrongheaded, venal professional politician with a substance abuse problem coupled with serious character flaws, and a poor understanding of the free market who saw the threat of Soviet Russia as really no threat at all. Kennedy appears to have been a good father to his children, but sadly again a poor husband to first wife Joan. His last marriage appears to have been a good one, and I feel badly for his family's loss. But to elevate him to some lofty status as "Lion of the Senate" appears to be The Liberal Left's last grasp at the long foregone halcyon days of the "Camelot Dynasty" and little more. The Liberal Press seems to have kept attempting to elevate him to the level of his more noble brothers, John, Joe, and Robert, with little success. It's almost as if all the "good" Kennedy genes were all used when Ted came along. Chris Matthews has now called President Obama "The Last Kennedy Brother", so they are still attempting to channel Camelot into someone who is not even now a Kennedy family member. Teddy simply did not possess the same virtues of public service that his older brothers did: Courage and commitment to things greater than their own aggrandizement. Joe and Jack did not shirk from lethal, risky combat, they VOLUNTEERED for it. Yes they were flawed people, as are we all. But they more than did their duty, and deserve credit for that. Teddy appears to have been committed primarily to his own ambitions and the Socialist Special Interests which kept him in the Senate for all those decades. There WERE really brave and noble men in the Kennedy Clan who selflessly fought and DIED for our country, and despite anyone's political affiliation, that cannot be ignored simply because they were registered Democrats. The Party back then was not a Marxist construct as it has been since 1972. But I'm not so sure the terms "brave or noble" can be apt descriptive terms applicable to the now late Senior Senator from Massachusetts. Ted Kennedy was more a "successful professional politician". Is that the type of self centered, self serving individual that we really desire to be governing our nation?


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Retired US Army, University Graduate, and Private Detective who does lots of undercover work ( I Did, Narcotics Investigations for Likes Bros. Shipping ) & wishes anonymity for Obvious reasons & therefore writes under a Pen Name.


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