Uncle Teddy (Kennedy) has a cancerous brain tumor

Posted on | May 20, 2008 | 52 Comments

If you’re a neocon and you’ve wanted to see Ted Kennedy suffer in one way or another, well, you’ve got your wish, Assholes. All negative, hateful, and vile comments about Ted Kennedy, his family, or their life will be deleted.

Anyways…

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What a day! Gawd! *kicking tin can* I was so saddened and upset to hear the news about Ted Kennedy today. As soon as I saw the “Breaking News” banner on the tv and read the headline, my eyes immediately teared up. As you now know, his doctors found a tumor in his brain and it’s the kind of brain cancer that is very aggressive and difficult to treat. His prognosis is grim, but if we all know Ted Kennedy like we all know him, he will fight until the end and it doesn’t matter if the end is weeks from now or two years from now, Uncle Teddy will make us proud…as usual.

I love it when Caroline Kennedy calls him, “Uncle Teddy”. And yes, I know he truly is her Uncle and that’s why she calls him that, but it’s her facial expressions when she talks about him that is most poignant to me, even if he’s near her at the time. She seems to be saying, “If they only knew how much fun he is and how silly he was 4 minutes ago!” or something like that. They have a strong bond and a bond like that, especially between a niece & Uncle, is made over time where there’s lots of laughing, trust, and mutual respect. It’s obvious she loves Ted the same way we all love our Uncles and for the same reasons. Of course, the reality is…Ted Kennedy has been like a father to Caroline and the other Kennedy kids throughout the years. I’m sure Caroline and the rest of the cousins are grateful for his caring, compassion, laughter, humor, and for being the glue that has kept the family together throughout all the tragedies this family has had to endure.

From what I’m reading & hearing on the radio, Ted has quite the road ahead of him. What a tragedy. I think it’s an honest reflection of who Ted Kennedy is when one of his last major decisions in his lifetime was to back Barack Obama. Nope, not surprising at hall. His life will end with the respect he fully deserves. As Obama pointed out today about Ted Kennedy, it was the work of Ted and others like him (passing civil rights legislation etc.) who have made it possible for Barack to be where he is today. What a beautiful tribute to Ted Kennedy by Obama. Honestly, both make me so proud to be a Democrat.

My heart aches for Ted and the rest of the Kennedy’s. As a family, they will get through this. I’m sure Ted will be the one cracking the most jokes as he goes through this difficult time and we’ll know he is…just by the look on Caroline’s face when she gives us an update on his condition if she’s asked to.

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52 Responses to “Uncle Teddy (Kennedy) has a cancerous brain tumor”

Chris from Maine
May 20th, 2008 @ 6:41 pm

very sad. I hope Ted Kennedy makes a full recovery, however that seems quite unlikely, most experts says 2 years is the life expectancy with this kind of tumor.

Anyone who doesnt feel sad about this news is a very disturbed person.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 7:08 pm

It is sad, Chris. I dated a guy years ago whose father died of brain cancer. Not sure what type it was, but he lived a little less than 6 months after the diagnosis was made. Awful to watch. The thing about brain cancer is it causes other symptoms as the tumor grows (especially if it’s in an inoperable area of the brain). Ted Kennedy will probably have more seizures as time goes on (his seizure was the result of the tumor putting pressure on his brain), he could become paralyzed, or lose all bodily functions. Not sure what he’ll go through, but it’s not going to be pretty no matter what he does go through.

Truly a tragic way to go for an icon such as Ted Kennedy. I suppose…had he died in a drunk driving accident, the neocons would have gone haywire for sure. Ted Kennedy is going to die with the dignity and respect he deserves instead of in a way for the neocons to continue the smear against this family.
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 7:08 pm

I was so glad Sen. Kennedy had endorsed Sen. Obama. I see that Hillary was checked as “victorious” immediately after the Kentucky polls had closed. She got 75% of the white vote, even more than in West Virginia. Thankfully, Kentucky and West Virginia don’t represent the USA I care about and love.
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 7:13 pm

A family friend had brain cancer that hung around for many years and he slowly went downhill, suffering much, and spending his last year as if he had Alzheimer’s not recognizing his family. If death is inevitable, give me “quick”, any day!
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 7:20 pm

I agree, Grant. Give me a quick death! Cancer sucks ass. It has no ‘heart’ on it’s victims.

Why do I always have the urge to strangle Terry McAuliffe whenever I see & hear him on my television? Gawd! That man is as irritating as Hillary is! He’s no different than Karl Rove. Two peas in a pod.
Ox
May 20th, 2008 @ 7:33 pm

A brain tumor is not lethal because my dad had two removed many years ago supervised by the best surgeon in the world while he was smoking a pipe. The brain is very easy to operate upon, and the recovery process becomes instant, and Kennedy might be ok.
May
May 20th, 2008 @ 7:38 pm

Would Edward Kennedy’s ADVANCED BRAIN cancer treatment be allowed by the British Health System? My buddy in the National Health Service says probably not.

Given his age and advanced cancer, I’ll bet the socialized medicine machine certainly would not have paid for that $10000 helicopter ride that Mr. Kennedy got from his private island paradise to the hospital.

Let’s let Ted go over to Great Britain to have the doctors at the National Health Service treat his cancer.

Of course, I would think that he’d be denied cancer therapy as Ann Marie Rogers (a breast cancer patient) was denied an anticancer drug by the British court. Too bad she was not allowed to buy private health insurance by the socialized medicine folks in England.

Sorry, Ted, no cancer treatment for you. Health care rationing, you know. Just read the fine print in Mr. Obama’s health plan. It will all be clear then.

Also, Ted Kennedy is going to have to eventually answer for Mary Jo Kopechne, in this life or after. Ted, it’s getting about time to fess up to your past.
clif
May 20th, 2008 @ 7:51 pm

Thoughts and prayers for Ted Kennedy and his family.

The Kennedy family have done much more for this country both in and out of uniform then either the Bush or Reagan families let alone the chicken hawk neo-cons.
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:06 pm

Terry McAuliffe is as slimy as Karl Rove. Joe Scarborough says that Obama made a fatal mistake of not spending more time in WVA and Kentucky to try to get to know the people there. Growing up in far northern Indiana, I went to school with kids from Appalachia whose parents had moved north back in the 1940’s for jobs just as did many southern blacks. The blacks mostly went to the cities, whereas the folks from Appalachia tended to move to the smaller towns. My dad was a deputy sheriff and often was called to help close down a moonshine still or stop a domestic fight among these folks. All I have known from Appalachia (except some folks I met from Morgan State U here in Houston) were quite racist. They also were fundies and LOVED Jesus!

There was divide in my high school where the Appalachian kids refused to listen to rhythm and blues, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, etc., calling it “nigger music” and they held fast to their bluegrass and the Grand Ole Opry. We native Hoosier kids liked jazz and black music so there were arguments what records to play at our sock hops. We native Hoosiers even rejected Elvis in the late 50’s because we thought he was a “hillbilly!” I didn’t get to appreciate Elvis for several years afterwards, due to my prejudice towards the kids I identified with him.

When I was a young supervisor at Youngstown Steel in East Chicago in ‘64 and ‘65, I had to supervise men mostly older than myself which was a problem in itself…a white “college kid”! About a third of the employees I supervised were black, another third were Hispanic (Mexican and Puerto Rican who didn’t like each other much either), and the rest who were mostly from Appalachia who thought they were better than the browns and blacks and thought that I, as a white boss, owed them something like giving them a cushy job and then looking the other way. The West Virginians had a tendency to take off many Friday evenings and drive 500 miles all night to West Virginia, then drive all night Sunday (Monday a.m.) and come to work tired and sleepy on Monday morning not worth a damn to me. They liked to put down the blacks and Hispanics but I couldn’t see where they were superior. Many of these “rednecks” tended to “sleep around” with women, too, beat their wives, get drunk, get DUI tickets, go to jail, as much as my other employees. They also were not as hard workers as the Hispanics, who were my most loyal employees.

We had a joke about West Virginians. Seems that St. Peter held “open house” in Heaven for those alive on Earth to come up for the weekend to check out the place. Leading a group of visitors down a hallway, they passed an open door where folks were chained to the walls. St. Peter quickly closed the door and walked on saying nothing. One of the visitors then called out, “St. Peter. If heaven is such a great place, then why are those folks chained up?” St. Peter answered, “They are West Virginians and if we don’t keep them in chains, they will go back home!”

MSNBC just reported an exit poll that 41% of Clinton white voters in Kentucky said they will vote for McCain rather than have to vote for Obama…the half-black man! So I guess that rules out John asking Condi Rice to be his running mate!

Racism has played a big part in WVA and Kentucky and the Clintons have done nothing but fan the flames. Not saying that they caused the racist attitude ingrained for many generations, but they haven’t helped to squelch them, either.
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:08 pm

So May. Why don’t you just come out and dance a jig for us??? I knew this post would bring out the haters!
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:14 pm

Ox, the problem with the kind of brain tumor Ted Kennedy has is it’s not a solid mass, meaning, it has “fingers” that stay in the brain if the bulk of the tumor is removed. Recurrence is expected after tumor removal and death could come quicker because of it.

I thought I heard today that Ted will not be having surgery to have the tumor removed. That tells me the tumor is in an inoperable place or the cancer is so far advanced it doesn’t make sense to have surgery at this point. I could be wrong, but it was expressed that no having surgery is not a good sign.

Some tumors in the brain, Ox, can be removed (non-cancerous ones usually) as a whole and the person can live his or her life out as if nothing happened. Not the case with Ted, unfortunately.

But wouldn’t it be something if he licked this cancer! It would be a testament to who he is for sure.

May, your comment is ridiculous. If you’re in a hateful mood, hang out with the right wing Xtians over at Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, and Coulter & Malkin’s sites.

Clif, a few republicans today were saying Ted was the one Senator they liked working with. Well, isn’t that something! I’m not surprised. Kennedy was loved by his peers. It’s the Right Wing Neocon Hate Base that hates him and his family.

Grant, I can’t stand McAuliffe. He makes my skin crawl which is the same reaction I get when one of the Bush Regime Nazis appears on my television!
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:18 pm

FYI. The Kennedy compound in Hyannisport is NOT on an island and there are no palm trees. My partner was air evacuated from Corpus Christi to the Baylor head trauma unit in Dallas in 2002 and he was only an E7 sailor, not a U.S. Senator. That is a much greater distance, 500 miles, and no way did it cost $10K.

I had a high classmate from Indiana who had his appendix rupture while fishing in far northern Manitoba. He was flown out by float plane to Winnipeg just in time. When he returned to the USA, he still hadn’t received a bill and finally, after trying to pay Canada something, gave up. So even an alien gets treatment in Canada’s socialized medicine system.
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:26 pm

Hillary gushing over Sen. Kennedy, hitching her wagon to all of the bills he introduced since she has been in the senate. He didn’t endorse her but she is trying to make it sound like they are on the same team. I cannot stand her. Bill said today that she has taken hard hits because she is a woman. BS!!! It’s not because she is a woman but because she is HILLARY…a consummate liar and panderer.

If the Kentuckian racists can refuse to vote for Obama, then I can not vote for Hillary who along with Bill have divided the Democratic party as badly as it was divided at the disastrous 1968 convention which fractured the party for 40 years.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:28 pm

Hillary is NOW saying Kentucky has a history of picking presidents. She’s said the same thing after every “win”! That’s the mark of a person losing…she’s holding onto fake optimism which is exactly what George Bush did!
Ox
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:29 pm

Kay you might be right as am not following the details carefully, but am wondering how this could happen with all the medical care at his elite disposal for scans on occassion.
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:31 pm

I hate Shillary because she is destroying the Democratic Party with her selfishness and raw ambition. She is doing more to inaugurate John McCain next January than any Republican could. I do think she has her eye on 2012 and I won’t vote for her then, especially after what she has done to our party.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:31 pm

By the way May….our soldiers get socialized medicine. That must piss you off, huh May. What are you doing to end their coverage, May?
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:35 pm

Ox, brain tumors can be in the brain for a long time as long as they’re small and are not up against a part of the brain that will give symptoms of it being there. It’s only when they have a major growth spurt that it can trigger a seizure if I’m not mistaken, which is what happened to Ted (apparently he was walking his dog when the seizure happened).

I can’t remember the name of the killer at the moment, but he was the guy who was shooting students from atop one of the buildings on campus…

Before he died he asked to have his brain looked at after his death for a brain tumor. Sure enough! He had one. His tumor apparently made him go batshit crazy and he knew something was up. I doubt it was cancerous…just a growth inside the brain.
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:37 pm

Kennedy’s type of brain tumor, glioma, comes on very quickly. Folks don’t get a thorough physical every month. I only get a colonoscopy every five years and with the five I have had since 1985, they always find some polyps. I have had so many removed that I have now lost part of my colon length.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:38 pm

Grant, I think you’re right about Hillary & 2012. Last Thursday when I was meeting with other Obama delegates, one guy at the meeting made the comment that Hillary wants to be the next Ted Kennedy where she’ll keep running for office and will lose, but will use her loses as a positive for herself. Ted Kennedy has a ton of respect and didn’t need to lose his bids for the presidency to get it, but apparently if this person is correct, Hillary thinks it will be a great benefit for her!

I say…..Hillary will annoy us and will completely ruin any good reputation she once had. SHE IS NO TED KENNEDY! NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:40 pm

Kay, you are talking about the ex-Marine, Charles Whitman, who shot many U of Texas students and bystanders, killing 14 from his perch on the top of the U of Texas “Tower”. It was discovered in the autopsy that he had a glioblastoma brain tumor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:40 pm

Wow, Grant, about your colon! Yikes. Well, that’s good you’re on top of it, because otherwise, all those polyps would still be in there. No telling what it would do to you had they not been removed.

That’s what I thought, Grant, Ted’s brain cancer is a rapid growth tumor. Scary. Even little babies can have this kind of cancerous tumor. Sad.
clif
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:42 pm

Yes “May”, ever since I was wounded during Desert Storm I have received US Government medical care, whether thru the US Army medical system run by the US government and the Veterans Administration run by the US Government …. I guess you don’t like that either do ya, I guess you want ME a disabled US combat veteran to go to Britain right?
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:42 pm

My last posting got blocked. Kay you are talking about Charles Whitman who shot up the University of Texas, killing 14.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:43 pm

Clif, I’m happy you have socialized medicine. You deserve it. May, apparently, believes you shouldn’t have any insurance because you’d be better off. *rolling eyes*

Maybe all neocons have benign growths inside their brains? I think so!
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:44 pm

Yes Grant! I was talking about Charles Whitman (just found your comment)! That was “weird” wasn’t it? That he would know he had a tumor in his head? He must have been experiencing symptoms that he did not treat. Wow.
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:46 pm

Talking heads said that even if Obama selects a VP who is NOT Hillary, she may have enough strength yet that they DEMAND he replace his choice with Hillary at the Democratic Convention. The Clintons love themselves much more than they love the Democratic Party.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:46 pm

It does make you wonder if the tumor was causing him enough pressure that he would go on a rampage. Yikes. Scary to think about.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:50 pm

Are you serious, Grant? She said that? What the hell is wrong with her! I agree with you….she would have Obama killed if she was his VP. It would be no different than George H.W. Bush hiring the brother of one of his son’s friends to kill Ronnie Reagan!

I can’t stand the DC Insiders such as the Bush family, the fascists, and now….the Clintons. They don’t care about this country at all. All they care about is power. What the hell!!! Our country has become so screwed up and this is why Obama is doing so well right now, because he’s a clean slate and he’s inspiring us in a positive direction. No one else at this point can!

If we end up with Hillary as the Democratic nominee, then that has been the choice of those who have loved the last eight years of Bush & Cheney. Traitors!!!! Every last one of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And don’t come running to me when Hillary becomes as secretive as George has been over the last eight years! You can bet your sweet bippy she will protect her husband’s records along with the Bushes. Traitors!
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:54 pm

Whitman was being treated by anti-depression drugs before he went on his shooting rampage. Since drugs weren’t helping him, he figured out there was something wrong with him. Supposedly, his father was an abuser, too, so wonder if there might not have been an inherited genetic factor, too.
clif
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:57 pm

Wanna see the real reason we “can’t” leave Iraq?

read this;

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/natural_resources/article3964957.ece
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 8:58 pm

Hillary didn’t say that exactly but Pat Buchanan has interpreted what she said that if she cannot become president then she deserves to be the Vice.
clif
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:03 pm

Kay “askinet” ate a comment, please feed it something.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:05 pm

Sorry Clif. I’ve released from the death-grip of Akismet! LOL
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:07 pm

Wow Clif. I wonder if they’re inflating this information to benefit themselves or something. What’s your take on it? Will this piss off the Saudis or will George Bush use it by saying, “See? Iraq was worth it because we’ve got control of the largest oil reserve in the world!”? Not sure. It stinks like fish, though. *fanning nose*
Ox
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:17 pm

Actually, Iraq has oil, but Iran has huge oil fields that have never been drilled and they are bigger than Saudi.
clif
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:18 pm

If you check out the judicial watch website which forced Dick Cheney to give up the maps from his secret energy task force before the drum beat to attack Iraq had begun, you’ll see they were exploring areas of Iraq which hadn’t been explored before, also there is a list of foreign oil corps which was doing business in Iraq in 2001, Russia, China and France were on that list but Cheney’s greedy oil asshole buddies and their corps were not.

I don’t know whether Iraq is inflating their reserves here like the Saudis have done since the early 1980’s. (They claim a continuous 260 billion barrel reserve even though they have pumped 32 billion barrels out of their reserves since they first claimed they had 260 billion barrels.)

I don’t know what they have used to base their projections of reserves and whether they are using 5% possibility or 95% possibility of actually producing oil from the new reserves, (this is a oil industry set of possibilities, which tells somewhat the numbers are based on).
clif
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:23 pm

Sorry but the maps and lists are not available at Judicial watch any more but are available here;

http://www.apfn.net/Messageboard/04-12-05/discussion.cgi.46.html

It appears the PNAC goal was to attack Iraq and grab all this oil which very few knew about back then.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:24 pm

I wonder if Dick Cheney was exploring Iraq from Iran when Halliburton was in there until 2 years ago when Georgie started talking about attacking Iran? I bet ole Dick sent in spies to Iraq to check it out.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:29 pm

Clif, we knew the PNAC wanted to get BACK into Iraq for the oil, because they knew they lost their chance when George H.W. Bush pulled out in 1991. That was the whole reason why the PNAC was on the sidelines of the Clinton Admin trying to pressure him to go full-blown-war with Iraq.

I bet ole Dickie had CIA spies posing as Iraqis (or had Iraqi Americans in there). They’ve told us that Iraq is the Central Front, which basically means it’s the window to the rest of the Middle East’s oil.

And guess who will pay higher prices now WITH ALL THIS OIL BEING HOARDED FROM THE MARKETS? We will!

I agree with Uncle earlier that Bush, Cheney, and the rest of the fascist pigs have people all around this planet (including al-Qaida) causing disturbances to benefit the PNAC & their New World Order. Whoever controls the oil controls the planet….
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:32 pm

True Ox, but I think the rundown has always been…

Saudi Arabia has the most oil,
Then Iran has the 2nd largest reserve,
And then Iraq is 3rd in line.

With the Saudis backing the Sunnis in Iraq, they’re prepared to defend to the death to get their hands on the oil too!

Okay, I may be jumping the gun here. In fact, I think my head is going to explode. There are so many angles to all of this that how can a girl like me keep up? LOL

Okay, I’m going to bed. Nite nite everyone!

(If your comment goes into Akismet, I won’t be able to release it until morning. Sorry about that!)
clif
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:37 pm

Kay add this to the mix;

Not Enough Oil Is Lament of BP, Exxon on Spending

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aXRmMNvuTd5U&refer=worldwide

Never have so many oil and gas companies spent so much to produce so little.

That’s the challenge facing Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc, BP Plc, Chevron Corp., Total SA and ConocoPhillips, which will spend a record $98.7 billion this year on exploration and production, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. estimates. Costs more than quadrupled since 2000 as explorers targeted more challenging reservoirs and demand rose for labor and material.

The oil under the middle east is still some of the cheapest to produce.

Oil there costs 5-10 dollars a barrel to get out of the ground in todays prices,

While drilling 5-6 miles under deep water or facing the extreme weather conditions of the Arctic raises costs sometimes up to 45-50 dollars a barrel to produce.

US and British oil corps need the oil to rebuild their reported reserves, other wise their stock prices fall, plus they make a hell of a lot more when they can get it for $5 a barrel (instead of $45-50)and sell it for $126 a barrel.

Pure unadulterated greed and if a few poor folks who are economically forced into the army lose their lives in the deal most of the greedy asshole oil big wigs and their political whores think that is an acceptable cost.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:37 pm

Oh wait, one more thing before I go to bed…

I thought it was so sweet when Chris Dodd was talking about Ted Kennedy at the press conference this morning. You could tell he and Ted are very, very close friends, because he could hardly speak. So sweet. Only a true friend would react to the news a friend has a horrible cancer and could take their life.

Okay, going to bed! Nite all.
kayinmaine
May 20th, 2008 @ 9:40 pm

Clif, a friend over on FireDogLake sent me an email recently about how oil/gas is sold to our country. It’s sold by temperature, which means, if the oil/gas is sold at a higher temperature at the higher price, we get very little benefit from that. I can’t remember which state is doing it (maybe Texas?), but there are some outrages out there about this. We are being screwed all the way around.

The best time to buy gas for the car is during the coolest time of the day (usually early morning), because you get more gas for the price you’ve paid. The gas is denser when it’s colder and vice versa.
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 10:11 pm

Gas at the pump is sold by volume. So at higher temperatures, you pay more even though the amount of gasoline “energy” coming through a pumps meter is the same as that same weight of gasoline at a cooler temperature. However stored in the ground it should be colder unless it was just delivered by a tanker truck. So it may be wise to buy gas very early in the morning to get more “bang for your buck.”

The rate at which a product expands and contracts in response to temperature is referred to as its â€œcoefficient of expansion.â€ For reference, the widely accepted coefficient of expansion for gasoline is 0.00069/Â°F and for diesel is 0.00050/Â°F.

For example, “a purchase of 13.401 gallons of gasoline at 95Âº F could result in a total overcharge of $0.62.”

http://www.users.qwest.net/~taaaz/AZgas.html#SOME%20NUMBERS%20TO%20THINK%20ABOUT
grantinhouston
May 20th, 2008 @ 11:16 pm

How about the Clintons getting advice from Karl Rove?

McAuliffe turned to no lesser an authority than Karl Rove, President George W. Bush’s long-time counselor and a hate figure for most Democrats, to burnish his arguments about electability.

An electoral map prepared by Rove’s consulting firm and leaked to the press showed Clinton beating McCain easily in November. The race with Obama as the Democratic nominee was suggested to be much tighter.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gbb-DcZSkFNcxPfALcPFIOCgq-Jg

Sure Rove wants Hillary to be the Democratic nominee as she will bring every Republican out of the bushes to vote AGAINST her!
gage
May 21st, 2008 @ 12:56 am

may, go fuck yourself.
gage
May 21st, 2008 @ 12:57 am

may, go fuck yourself.
maggie
May 21st, 2008 @ 10:10 am

FORTY-SIX YEARS in the Senate fighting the good fight for the people whose interests and needs don’t seem to cross the radar screen of the Bushes and Cheneys of the world. Every now and then, along with the monsters, history gives us a truly fine leader–still human and flawed, naturally–but huge of heart and mind. Ted Kennedy is certainly one, in my opinion. And I get the distinct feeling that Barack Obama, with the hate machine nipping at his heels, is such a person on the rise. Even moreso now I love that video of TK doing that little Obama dance when he endorsed him some time ago. There’s a man.
Uncle Fester Lurks
May 21st, 2008 @ 11:13 am

May Says:
May 20, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Would Edward Kennedyâ€™s ADVANCED BRAIN cancer treatment be allowed by the British Health System? My buddy in the National Health Service says probably not.
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There are three things wrong with this comment. First off I think it is pretty safe to assume that May doesn’t have any buddies or friends in this world and if May did they are most likely unemployed, self loathing, hateful, meth addicted trailer trash.

Secondly, his/her buddy apparently works for the National Health Service which could mean his/her buddy could possibly be an ill-informed janitor or a biased orderly or ambulance driver.

Thirdly, May is a republican. This most likely means if he/she actually has a friend or buddy, they most likely are republican and we all know how they will lie to defend Bush and or the failed policies or systems of our government.

When I read this comment I immediately thought of that dumb as stump troll Jenn and her comment claiming that her hubby who rides shotgun in an 18 wheeler told her it only costs $100.00 to fill up the trucks gas tank. This comment alone tells you all about the lengths these morons will go to make themselves look stupid and defend the neocon policies that are destroying our country and economy.
Claire Girard McManus
August 26th, 2008 @ 6:05 pm

It’s so sad about Ted Kennedy.He’s one of the last great Irish Democrats.They don’t make them like that anymore.Just went to his website.You can send emails,wishing him well, directly to him.
I’m not voting this year.This will be the first time,as an adult,that I didn’t vote.
Grant in Texas
August 26th, 2008 @ 6:29 pm

It is most important we all vote and make the correct choice. This is the most important election in my lifetime and I have been politically active since 1960, when I was a straight ticket Republican voter.

1968, when I supported third party candidate Sen. Eugene McCarthy, was a critical election year due to whether or not we wanted to continue the Vietnam War. I wasted my vote and probably helped by omission to elect Richard Nixon, like others upset with Humphrey being selected by the DNC and left the party that year (”to show THEM, nyah, nyah, nyah!”). However, I believe in hindsight that Humphrey would have stopped that war way before Nixon did and the memorial wall in Washington would now be much shorter.

I wasn’t as aware of the creeping fascism in 1968 as I worry about it now. I have cousins in Germany, and had a good German drinking buddy in college. I learned first hand from Germans how fascism crept up on the good German people. When most Germans realized they had helped to create a monster, it was too late to oppose the Nazis as martial law had been firmly put in place. I have been most upset seeing the same things, described once to me about the takeover of fascism, now happening here.

We need Barack Obama in the White House and REAL Democratic majorities in the Congress. If McCain gets to appoint even one more right-wing Supreme Court justice, say goodbye to the U.S. Constitution.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

GLENN BECK AT CPAC 2010: ‘Hello, my name is the Republican Party, and I’ve got a problem. I’m addicted to spending and big government…I’m addicted to spending and I just don’t want to spend today.’ (CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO QUOTE)

"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal,” then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal.” ~ John F. Kennedy, 1960