by Donnie Boston
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Aug. 31, 2009
I knew it was coming any day.
That was the passing of Ted Kennedy. The hint came to me when he was unable to attend Eunice Kennedy Shriver's funeral. She was his closest sister.
So it came last Tuesday night while I was asleep. A text message had awoken me, indicating Ted had passed on. It was a sad moment indeed, but not shocking. So I stood up the rest of that night not being able to go back to sleep. In fact, I even shed a few tears remembering the human being Ted was. I was only being human myself. But that is where I drew the line.
A human being he was, but a good man as a senator he wasn't. Just because Ted died, I refuse to call Ted Kennedy a good man like the liberal media had called him during last week's marathon coverage of his death. I will not do it. But at the same time, if I had a magic wand, I would have went to his home immediately to wave it over his head to cure him. This is where you separate the issues from a person's life.
Indeed Ted was nice. He always was willing to help the needy, even if they were beating the system and even if they were in this country illegally. The problem was he did it all with our hard-earned cash.
He was always a tough talker on crime and wanted to enforce the laws, except the ones he and his own family committed.
Just early last week when Ted was in his deathbed, the embattled and struggling Boston Globe printed a story about how he wanted to change a Massachusetts law that would give our governor power to fill his vacancy seat in the Senate. The problem was the Globe never reported on how Kennedy stated that it would be the undemocratic thing to do when Gov. Romney suggested it back in 2004. You see, Romney was a Republican.
Another area where people got upset with Ted was his institution of the Immigration Reform Act in 1965, where he promised his fellow senators that it would not lead to a massive onslaught of immigrants in this country. Today illegals are amongst us everywhere, in which they have become a major contributor in making taxpayers pay a lot more to keep our country afloat.
I can write a lot more of the wrong doings of Ted Kennedy, but I won't. In fact, I don't stand alone on how others felt about the liberal lion on what he has done. The barrage of hated emails that were sent to me regarding the senator were astounding. Emails like, “Donnie, I thought you hated Kennedy, so why do you feel so bad for him now that he is dead? I don't for what he has done!”
I say, I never voted for Ted and never liked him for what he stood for, but I never wished him brain cancer either.
Now there's one more area that I should mention before I call it quits:
During last week's marathon coverage of Ted Kennedy's death, did you notice the words scrolling at the bottom of your tube continuously? Each year flashed indicating the memories of Ted's life and what he and his family went through. What about the year when he took an innocent life after he drove his car off a bridge? I never seen it. Maybe the liberal media might have missed it in error?
While everyone will miss Ted for all the “good” things he done, an innocent Mary Jo has been long forgotten.
As a human being, may you R.I.P., Ted.
It was the scandal that shook the world. In a July 1969 file photo,
Sen. Ted Kennedy’s car is pulled from water at the Chappaquiddick
bridge a day after his crash. The body of Mary Kopechne was
found in the rear seat.
In a July 25, 1969 file photo, Sen. Edward Kennedy is escorted
by troopers as he leaves court in Edgartown, Mass., after
pleading guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of the
accident which killed aide Mary Jo Kopechne.
Boston, Graham, O'Reilly, Carr, Siciliano
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