Comments on: Political Culture: Ted Kennedy and Me http://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/ your daily dose of pop culture Fri, 25 May 2012 17:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: player pianohttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-55488 player piano Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:14:39 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-55488 <strong>player piano...</strong>[...] Good piano performance. Thanks heaps for this!... if anyone else has anything it would be much appreciated. Great website http://www.en.Grand-Pianos.org Enjoy!... player piano…

[...] Good piano performance. Thanks heaps for this!… if anyone else has anything it would be much appreciated. Great website http://www.en.Grand-Pianos.org Enjoy!…

]]> By: JonCummingshttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-51845 JonCummings Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:21:20 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-51845 Oh, for crying out loud. How pathetic are you? I am a liberal. I am proud as hell to be a liberal. You could do nothing that honors me more (particularly in comparison with yourself) than to call me a liberal.<br><br>You don't have a prayer of touching a nerve. It's cute that you think you do. Oh, for crying out loud. How pathetic are you? I am a liberal. I am proud as hell to be a liberal. You could do nothing that honors me more (particularly in comparison with yourself) than to call me a liberal.

You don't have a prayer of touching a nerve. It's cute that you think you do.

]]> By: Ashtonhttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-51844 Ashton Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:38:13 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-51844 No need to resort to namecalling Jon (Dunderhead.....that's a good one). I guess being offended by being called a liberal touched a raw nerve. No need to resort to namecalling Jon (Dunderhead…..that's a good one). I guess being offended by being called a liberal touched a raw nerve.

]]> By: JonCummingshttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-41369 JonCummings Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:21:20 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-41369 Oh, for crying out loud. How pathetic are you? I am a liberal. I am proud as hell to be a liberal. You could do nothing that honors me more (particularly in comparison with yourself) than to call me a liberal.<br><br>You don't have a prayer of touching a nerve. It's cute that you think you do. Oh, for crying out loud. How pathetic are you? I am a liberal. I am proud as hell to be a liberal. You could do nothing that honors me more (particularly in comparison with yourself) than to call me a liberal.

You don't have a prayer of touching a nerve. It's cute that you think you do.

]]> By: Ashtonhttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-41368 Ashton Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:38:13 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-41368 No need to resort to namecalling Jon (Dunderhead.....that's a good one). I guess being offended by being called a liberal touched a raw nerve. No need to resort to namecalling Jon (Dunderhead…..that's a good one). I guess being offended by being called a liberal touched a raw nerve.

]]> By: JonCummingshttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-35880 JonCummings Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:21:20 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-35880 Oh, for crying out loud. How pathetic are you? I am a liberal. I am proud as hell to be a liberal. You could do nothing that honors me more (particularly in comparison with yourself) than to call me a liberal.<br><br>You don't have a prayer of touching a nerve. It's cute that you think you do. Oh, for crying out loud. How pathetic are you? I am a liberal. I am proud as hell to be a liberal. You could do nothing that honors me more (particularly in comparison with yourself) than to call me a liberal.

You don't have a prayer of touching a nerve. It's cute that you think you do.

]]> By: Ashtonhttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-35876 Ashton Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:38:13 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-35876 No need to resort to namecalling Jon (Dunderhead.....that's a good one). I guess being offended by being called a liberal touched a raw nerve. No need to resort to namecalling Jon (Dunderhead…..that's a good one). I guess being offended by being called a liberal touched a raw nerve.

]]> By: JonCummingshttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-35823 JonCummings Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:34:33 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-35823 There is no excuse for Kennedy's behavior after he drove that car off the bridge. It was stupid, pathetic and negligent to the point of criminality.<br><br>It was not, however, the only event in Ted Kennedy's 77-year life -- a fact that apparently comes as a surprise to you and other dunderheads like you (I won't put a political label on you, because all the Republicans who ever worked with Kennedy are embarrassed by you). You may use it all you want, you may focus on it exclusively as the full measure of the man...but as I said about Name(less) above, doing so says a lot more about you than it does about Ted.<br><br>The Reagan presidency surely was a "dark time" for the cause of health care availability, primarily because the issue wasn't even on the agenda. If history indeed decides to record Reagan as the "greatest" president of the last 40 years, it will only be because the bar is extraordinarily low. There is no excuse for Kennedy's behavior after he drove that car off the bridge. It was stupid, pathetic and negligent to the point of criminality.

It was not, however, the only event in Ted Kennedy's 77-year life — a fact that apparently comes as a surprise to you and other dunderheads like you (I won't put a political label on you, because all the Republicans who ever worked with Kennedy are embarrassed by you). You may use it all you want, you may focus on it exclusively as the full measure of the man…but as I said about Name(less) above, doing so says a lot more about you than it does about Ted.

The Reagan presidency surely was a “dark time” for the cause of health care availability, primarily because the issue wasn't even on the agenda. If history indeed decides to record Reagan as the “greatest” president of the last 40 years, it will only be because the bar is extraordinarily low.

]]> By: Ashtonhttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-35817 Ashton Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:40:28 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-35817 I find it funny how liberals like the author diminish an inicident like Chappaquiddick by simply calling it a "blunder". So, it's just a blunder when the coward Ted Kennedy let's a woman die underwater? I'm also puzzled why the Reagan (greatest president of my lifetime) presidency is called a "dark time"? I find it funny how liberals like the author diminish an inicident like Chappaquiddick by simply calling it a “blunder”. So, it's just a blunder when the coward Ted Kennedy let's a woman die underwater? I'm also puzzled why the Reagan (greatest president of my lifetime) presidency is called a “dark time”?

]]> By: JonCummingshttp://popdose.com/political-culture-ted-kennedy-and-me/comment-page-1/#comment-35737 JonCummings Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:27:45 +0000 http://popdose.com/?p=26877#comment-35737 My point was that Kennedy was tremendously brave to overcome his own career-damaging mistakes (Chappaquiddick, the terribly executed run at the presidency in '80) and become such an extraordinary legislator in his later years.<br><br>However, to name one event that required some major cojones: Just a few hours after Reagan appointed Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, Kennedy flew in the face of (then) Senate tradition and gave a major speech decrying what life would be like in "Robert Bork's America." He had the courage to call Bork out as an extremist at a moment when the "proper" thing to do was to observe decorum and stay quiet until the nomination proceeded into the Judiciary Committee. Kennedy defined the entire Bork debate with that move.<br><br>As for anonymity, courage and character...to be unable to see anything beyond Chappaquiddick in the immediate wake of Ted Kennedy's death says a hell of a lot more about "Name" than it does about Ted. My point was that Kennedy was tremendously brave to overcome his own career-damaging mistakes (Chappaquiddick, the terribly executed run at the presidency in '80) and become such an extraordinary legislator in his later years.

However, to name one event that required some major cojones: Just a few hours after Reagan appointed Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, Kennedy flew in the face of (then) Senate tradition and gave a major speech decrying what life would be like in “Robert Bork's America.” He had the courage to call Bork out as an extremist at a moment when the “proper” thing to do was to observe decorum and stay quiet until the nomination proceeded into the Judiciary Committee. Kennedy defined the entire Bork debate with that move.

As for anonymity, courage and character…to be unable to see anything beyond Chappaquiddick in the immediate wake of Ted Kennedy's death says a hell of a lot more about “Name” than it does about Ted.

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