Honoring Kennedy: Eulogies or Campaign Speeches?
In his eulogy for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick quoted at length from a “private” communication that Kennedy had sent to Pope Benedict XVI. Given its enormous importance, this letter had, of course, to be hand-carried to the pope by President Obama during his audience some weeks ago.
At a time for sorrow and mourning over the loss of a father, husband, and family leader, the publication of this forthrightly self-serving and hubristic letter was stunning and, even for one who was not a great fan of the senator, embarrassing. For those who did not hear the excerpts quoted, I commend part of them to you in full:
I want you to know, your Holiness, that in my nearly 50 years of elective office I have done my best to champion the rights of the poor and open doors of economic opportunity. I’ve worked to welcome the immigrant, to fight discrimination and expand access to health care and education. I’ve opposed the death penalty and fought to end war. Those are the issues that have motivated me and have been the focus of my work as a United States Senator.
I also want you to know that even though I am ill, I am committed to do everything I can to achieve access to health care for everyone in my country. This has been the political cause of my life. I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health field and I’ll continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national health policy that guarantees health care for everyone.
I would hope that, were my death imminent and if I had the opportunity to write a personal letter to the pope, I would be moved to some greater degree of humility. The knowledge that I would soon enter into the great unknown and, I believe, meet God in that ultimate encounter would, I pray, bring me to my knees seeking forgiveness and redemption. Along with a ritual expression of “deep humility” and acknowledgement of his shortcomings caused by his “human failings” and that he was “preparing for the next passage of life,” the late senator proceeded to provide the pope with a litany of his lifetime of good deeds and intentions.
If this drunken, traitorous, cowardly, bully of a man is what the PC MC ‘libtard’ DEMS think is a hero that that tells us so much about them.
‘..to amend Massachusetts state law so as to permit the (now Democratic) governor to appoint a replacement rather than to have the seat filled by an election as current law provides.’
The ‘make it up as you go along’ regarding politics and its laws is astounding.
Are folks from MA this dense to allow this to happen? Then again, Romney & company pushed through the universal health care initiative 3 years ago whereas it’s burning through money. Oy..
I have come to view the extended Kennedy clan as a large Public Relations firm with only one client – themselves. Nobody markets the Kennedy’s better than the Kennedy’s.
The Roman Catholic Church is for all practical purposes a socialist institution. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and too many other American prelates tacitly gave Ted Kennedy a pass on his adamant pro-abortion political efforts. They only cared about the anti-capitalist legislation he was pushing through Congress. I am very well aware that Catholics like Michael Novak disagree with the majority of their fellow church members. But that’s the point—they are now the remnants of their ancient Church. They are usually on the outside looking in. The Catholic Church may explicitly be on the side of truth and justice, but unofficially it advances the secularist agenda. Karl Marx is deemed more important than Jesus Christ.
Honestly, does the fact that Kennedy’s letter was self-serving and intended to be published come as a surprise to anyone – supportive of him or not? Everything was about him, which is a very poor attribute of a public servant. He was a walking (stumbling) advertisement for term limits.
I’m sure it was just an oversight due to his illness that Sen. Kennedy forgot to mention his determined actions to provide for the abortions of millions of babies who otherwise would have had the great misfortunate of being born.
4. David Thomson…ever since Mother Theresa faced down Bill Clinton about abortion at a banquet, I’ve been more aware of the split between theology and secular reality that you describe. On one hand the Catholics have always taken a stand on significant moral issues, but on the other hand, there are more and more illustrations of how those stands are compromised when asserting them would be too messy. (Think Nancy Pelosi with the Pope recently–yes, he “addressed the issue”, but I doubt very much anything has changed in her standing in her local parish.)
The Dems believe their own propaganda so why should we be surprised when they use their lap dog media to make a drunken, selfish, cowardly killer look like a hero saint. Real Americans, the ones who are paying attention (and there are millions now) know the real Ted and no one is buying this Demo crap!
Ponderous spectacle. The directors shold have followed the Braodway dictum, ‘keep it light, keep it bright, keep it fun’. And certainly not asking Ms. Streisand to belt out Bridge Over Troubled Waters was an egregious mistake. I was also disappointed that the body only bounced from Bean Town (and that decrepit Catholic church situated witin that squalid slum of Roxbury) to Arlingon. Would it have taken so much more effort to cruise the casket by San Francisco and LA? The weather hasn’t been too hot, and anyhow, we live in an age of modern refrigeration. Keeping the whole show on the East Coast strikes me as a bit of a slap in the face of LaLaLand. By the way, did anybody bother to count and determine whether or not an adequate number of minorities were represented and whether or not they got a fair share of the bests seats in the house?
7 Listen up . . . Simple question: Tell me, are the people who loved and admired and supported ted Kennedy NOT real Americans?
The Roman Catholic Church was targeted by the KGB decades ago for destruction from within. If you can find it, a revelatory read is School of Darkness by Bella Dodd, a former communist who organized for the Teacher’s Union in NYC and then saw how she was being used, saw the evil she had been working for, and converted to Catholicism. The Church was seen by the International Communists as a threat to their worldwide expansionist plans and had to be covertly destroyed. That is why people can view the church as “socialistic” because it has adopted many of the false concepts of Marxist Liberation Theology, a perversion of Christianity for Communist goals. Like the Reverend Wright, Obama’s “spiritual advisor”. There’s a laugh. Teddy’s laundry list of accomplishments so patently transparent in his attempt to sanitize his malevolent influence and behavior reminds me of some of the most egregious parts of the Church’s history: the selling of “indulgences”. I think he still thought he, a wealthy and self righteous man, could appeal to the Church and be granted absolution because of his power and connections. It was almost as if he thought His Holiness could personally intervene with the Lord in his defense. That was not a letter to the Pope. It was a Bill of Particulars in preparation for a reckoning. Actions that even he knew had no defense.
A macabre farce, Ted Kennedy’s funerals – yet an useful one since it deflected again, for more than one week the people’s attention from Obama’s incompetence.
Ted Kennedy mortuary frenzy – my ass, and in the mean time:
1) the Helth Care reform debacle is again on ressuctitation table;
2) the Lockerbie scandal in which Obama WAS consulted by Brown (if he wasn’t actually the one initiating the deal);
3) the sick, grossly anti-American act of investigating the CIA;
4) dumping the Eastern European allies and so erroding America’s standing in the world (remember, we are liked again!), and in the long run placing our troops in serious predicaments…
Four major acts of inept (if not seditious) statemanship muffled by the cacophony caused by the death of a coward drunkard with contemptible past… this is the moralizing power of Kennedy’s funeral.
Since it looks like a serial thing, Kennedy’s deification coming just a few weeks after the beatification of another dreck (Michael Jackson), I wonder whose cadaver will be used by Obama to hide behind for new mischief during the next weeks.
Is there any proff that Kennedy actually wrote those two letters? Were they dictated by him from his death bed or were they written by someone else and given to him to sign? What was his mental and physical condition at the time the letters were composed? There is so much politics involved in the two letters to raise a very red flag about their authenticity.
Isn’t “crass” almost like a synonym for the Democrats?
The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.
It brings me to tears to see Ted Kennedy has died fifty years too late.
The only problem with eulogy/campaign speech is: those who are against Obamacare only regret that Mary Jo instead of Kennedy was in that car 40 years ago.
Those who are for Obamacare believe that Mary Jo was martyred for a “good” cause, and now wish we would martyr ourselves for the sake of a Kennedy too.
I hate to tell you america haters this, but if im right-JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist who even lived in the Soviet Union and was married to a Russian wife. RFK was killed by one Sirhan Sirhan, one of the early moslem wackjobs. Wonder where these guys met Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh?
“now and Then”-I for one will GLADLY tell you those who supported the fat drunken murderer were just as stupid as the fat drunken stupid Ted Kennedy was. By the way “now and then”-werent those all Union thugs and ACORN types lining the roads for his “funeral”? Funny, I remember 5 hour long waiting lines for Reagans wake, not to mention THOUSANDS passing his casket as he lie in state. So stupid, watcha gonna do when you get egg(or some other “gift” from you pal Barney Fwank) on your face again?
… and, even with all this false piousness staged around the funeral of the (to pick the least disparaging qualifier), majestic fornicator that Ted Kennedy was, Obama’s numbers continue to fall. As of two hours ago, Rassmunssen placed him at %46 approval – and this is LIKELY VOTERS, not bums from Madison U or other elightened cesspools inhabitants.
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I felt cheated. No naked dancing girls.
13. Kurt: ‘Isn’t “crass” almost like a synonym for the Democrats?’
No, Kurt, it isn’t. But don’t be afraid to speak up in class and ask questions. That’s the only way you’ll learn.
How to honor Kennedy? Rape a young woman,drown her, and contact the Taliban as part of a PR campaign to whitewash their terrrorism and smear the US.Oh, I almost forgot, get obnoxiously drunk, and rape a waitress.We would need to recruit a democrat.
This is too funny! The rich try to buy indulgences from the the Pope, isn’t that what started the big protest in the first place.
Mingus, I am sure Ted would have appreciated the dancing naked girls, but not after trying to buy indulgences. Ted was playing everyone for a fool right up to the end, including the guys in their bath robes. In the end, Old Satan had a grin as he and Ted crossed the river Styx with the boatman Charon, straight to Hell, no one swam away this time. I’m sure the church will enjoy the indulgence funds.
Gee, bibio44, I wonder why not. Most of what I’ve observed over the course of my life (including 25 years in academia) suggests that the two are almost interchangeable.
Can’t buy your way into or outta this one — or can you, Ted? See The Godfather Part III. Gonna send a rebuttal to da Pope.
Its like a cancer, already spread, on his death march, spreading more and using the Church for political after his death, are we suprised. The note was delivered by the anti christ and written by one of Pavlov’s Messangers. May God help the rest of us not them. The dem’s don’t believe in god anyhow, they want it removed from everywhere. Its time they are all put to bed and lined up for the shooting gallary, they are all traitors and should be shot, Ted got away easy as usual. Our land is lost , hopefully not forever. God please help Us not them.
It’s a never ending saga from then til now, it amazes Me how the Gen Pop can be so nieve and let these self centered animals run and gain favor. Ted tried spreading his Cancer even apon his death, his letter was delivered by SATAN himself and from one of Pavlov’s dogs. One of the Dogs came thru already and the Bitch hound is not far behind. Will every American Please wake up and put an end to loosing our Country and our ways? We can’t afford another to loose another day with these animals running our top spot/spots.
Now and Then the people who loved and supported and in death eulogised the drunken COWARDLY traitor Kennedy might well be Americans naive, deluded, uniformed, uneducated, ‘libtard’, moonbat, moronic Americans but maybe still Americans
NOW AND THEN:
Of course they are real Americans. Just dumb real Americans. See?
BIBIOT 44 RE: KURT.You are right BIBIOT,Kurt was wrong when he described the Democrats as “crass”it’s a simple spelling error, he meant to say “ass”,although “crass”is also applicable.Keep posting, BIBIOT:it’s the only way you’ll learn how truly”BIBIOTIC” you are.