The most surprising thing I found out about Ted Kennedy this week...

[Freeper]

Bucky  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Aug-30-09 11:35 AM
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The most surprising thing I found out about Ted Kennedy this week...   Updated at 1:45 PM
   
I had no idea he turned down a job starting with the Green Bay Packers. This would've been before the Lombardi years, when the Packers were a notoriously losing team barely hanging onto NFL membership. Head coach Liz Blackbourn apparently scouted Teddy personally, trying to save his team in an increasingly professional & sales-conscious league. He was the most athletic of the Kennedy brothers, Robert being a bit scrawny and Jack having lifelong back problems (he was rejected by the army in WW2 and had to pull strings to get his navy gig). But he wasn't just the happy jock type, of course, Ted was a real renaissance man.

What's surprised you most about Kennedy this last week?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6424471

Well lets see a small list, I learned from DU
1 He invented sliced bread
2 He invented post it notes
3 every good thing that has ever happened was his doing.

 

Seriously though I did learn that when Reagan was in office he was working with the soviets to try to bring down Reagan.
Some would call that treason.

[GOBUCKS]

Well lets see a small list, I learned from DU
1 He invented sliced bread
2 He invented post it notes
3 every good thing that has ever happened was his doing.

I think you have him confused with Algore.

[Freeper]

I think you have him confused with Algore.

I dunno the DUmp is convinced that Uncle Teddy is the one to thank for everything under the sun.
Guess he's an anti Bush or Rove. They get blamed for everything bad under the sun. 

[Rebel]

Bucky  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Sun Aug-30-09 11:35 AM

What's surprised you most about Kennedy this last week?

That he joked about killing a woman.

[jukin]

That he joked about killing a woman.

BINGO!!

[JohnnyReb]

He couldn't swim?

[Airwolf]

He couldn't swim?

Doesn't matter . Shit floats in water.

[MrsSmith]

The most surprising thing I found out was his estimated net worth...especially for a guy that was supposedly truly compassionate about the poor and did so much work to help them out...with Uncle Sam's money.

The report placed the net worth of his publicly traded assets somewhere between a low of $15 million and high of $72.6 million.

Just a year earlier, Kennedy reported somewhat rosier totals that placed his publicly traded assets somewhere between a low of $46.9 million and a high of $157 million.

Kennedy has other sources of income, including $1,995,833 in royalties he received from Grand Central Publishing a division of Hachette Group Book, publishers of his memoir True Compass scheduled for release in mid-September.

Just imagine how many houses/cars/dinners/ponies he could have purchased for all those poor people he was so concerned about.  

It's too bad the DUmmies don't expect as much from their heroes as they do from the Christians they hate...

[GOBUCKS]

Kennedy has other sources of income, including $1,995,833 in royalties he received from Grand Central Publishing a division of Hachette Group Book, publishers of his memoir True Compass scheduled for release in mid-September.

That isn't the same deal DUmmy Mythsaje got when he self-published "Freak City".

Even DUmmy Pitt's self-published royalties came in a tad short of $2 mill, and he's a "New York Times and
international bestseller".

Well, more than a tad. Way less than $2 mill. Actually, his mom stil owes the publisher.

[ScubaGuy]

That he joked about killing a woman.

He probably regrets that now.

[GOBUCKS]

I hope all you grave pissers and jig dancers have worked it out of your systems.

By now, Dead Ted, roasting next to Killer Tiller, is a juicy medium rare, ready for the first of an infinite number of bastings.

So let's show a little respect and restraint.

[Ree]

I hope all you grave pissers and jig dancers have worked it out of your systems.

By now, Dead Ted, roasting next to Killer Tiller, is a juicy medium rare, ready for the first of an infinite number of bastings.

So let's show a little respect and restraint.

Ding dong Fat Teddy's dead.....

[The Village Idiot]

The most surprising thing I found out was his estimated net worth...especially for a guy that was supposedly truly compassionate about the poor and did so much work to help them out...with Uncle Sam's money.

Just imagine how many houses/cars/dinners/ponies he could have purchased for all those poor people he was so concerned about.  

It's too bad the DUmmies don't expect as much from their heroes as they do from the Christians they hate...

He certainly put a lot of assets in someone else's name during the last year of his life to avoid those awful taxes, and notice he probably never gave a dime to poor people

[MrsSmith]

He certainly put a lot of assets in someone else's name during the last year of his life to avoid those awful taxes, and notice he probably never gave a dime to poor people

Close...

Kennedy’s tax returns are obviously a closely guarded secret. But when he chose to run for President in the 1970s, he released some of them. With a net worth of more than $8 million in the early 1970s and an income of $461,444 from a series of family trusts, Senator Robin Hood gave barely 1 percent of his income to charity. The sum is about as much as Kennedy claimed as a write-off on his fifty-foot sailing sloop Curragh.

Typical lib...charity is for GOVERNMENT money not PERSONAL money.   

http://tsfiles.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/charity-donations-and-liberal-hypocricy/

[The Village Idiot]

Close...

Typical lib...charity is for GOVERNMENT money not PERSONAL money.   

http://tsfiles.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/charity-donations-and-liberal-hypocricy/

I had no idea. With wealthy leftwing politicians, you just know