Looks like good ol' Name Removed brought up the Kennedys' treatment of one of their own...
The DUmp hates truth.
Yeah, it's obvious what was said there; filling in the blanks is easy.
Name removed (0 posts) Wed Feb-17-10 08:07 AM
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peacefreak (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-17-10 08:25 AM
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17. Joe Kennedy's treatment of his daughter was horrifying, but his children took the lead in the care of the mentally disabled in the 60's through reform & heightened visibility with the Special Olympics.
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The primitives obviously aren't up to date on their history, either.
Rosemary Kennedy, the third child and oldest daughter of Joe, was not mentally retarded, although it was convenient for the Kennedys to keep that facade for some decades.
She was apparently a tad little bit too high-strung, and not the competitive sort of personality, which displeased her father. There's lots of stuff (heretofore repressed) she wrote as a child and then a teenager, that reveals above average intelligence.
Because she displeased her father, he had her lobotomized.
It's no wonder all the other Kennedy siblings were terrified of Papa Joe, and did their best to try and please him.