One Guy's Opinion on the Political Scene By: Jim Herndon
Non-swimming hypocrite
After all these years, whenever I see Senator Ted Kennedy appear on television, I think of a drunken Kennedy driving off a bridge with Mary Joe Kopekne in the car, leaving her trapped and drowning, going home and not reporting it until the next day.
As a member of the ruling elite and Kennedy clan, he simply held a press conference the next day to clense his image with the public and, along the aid of the partisan press, has been free and a perennial member of the U.S. Senate ever since. Anyone else would have gone to trial, been convicted, and done prison time for manslaughter. His latest appearance was to once again join our enemies in the war on terrorism by trashing the CIA regarding prisoner prisoner waterboarding – a device to scare but does no permanent damage. He has failed to support our troops and fought against all congressional attempts to strengthen our security. From the start, Kennedy consistent lambasted the war calling it a quagmire, saying our troops should come home immediately, surrender Iraq to the terrorists, trashing the commanding generals, and demanding that Secretary Rumsfeld resign his post. At the Senate hearing, General Abizaid pointed out that Senator Kennedy and his like-minded colleagues such as Harry Reid have endangered the lives of our troops. The General asked Kennedy: if our troops do not have the support of their leaders, what does that say to the enemy? We are a very strong nation to be so successful in spite of such leaders as Ted, the non-swimmer, Kennedy - a bloated politician in a bloated bureaucracy.