No family in American history - not the Roosevelt, not the Adams, and certainly not the Bush families - have paid a higher price in the service of the people than the Kennedys. And to be perfectly honest with you, I'm sick and tired of listening to them get kicked around by the clueless right wing.
It was announced yesterday that Ben Quayle, son of the former vice-president, will be running for congress. We here, at this glorious moment in the history of our great nation, are proud and privileged to bear witness to the birth of the Quayle family political dynasty.
Mary Jo Kopechne really got "pushed around". Hugo Chavez will really miss the Kenndeys at the levers of power. The rest of us will not miss the last of the spoiled, dysfunctional children of privilege. They ruined many lives.
As for Qualye junior if he is guilty of even a smidgen of what can be put at the door of the Kenndeys, he should be disqualified from running.
The Kennedy Klan has been the largest source of embarrassment to Irish Americans than anything else. Sure, we can be proud that Jack was the first, and only, Catholic ever elected President, but his legacy is tainted by the womanizing and his foreign policy failures [our abandoning our allied in the Bay of Pigs is an underplayed national disgrace]. But remember this about Jack -- he wasn't Papa Joe's first choice to be President. And speaking of Joe, it sure warms my Irish heart that he came to his fortune through smuggling. Will this country ever show similar pride electing the son of a cocaine smuggler? I think not -- so why is what Joe did ignored by the glorious Left -- especially in light of the fact that he supported Hitler. And Joe, followed by his sons, certainly fulfilled the stereotypes of Irish men -- womanizers who had no shame in embarrassing their wives by being so blatant with their mistresses! And the current crop of Kennedy's -- the killers, the druggies, and RFK, Jr., who's in bed with a dictator, still trying to prop up the notion of "global warming," the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the public. As for the "Lion of the Senate," Ted Kennedy, let me ask you this, with the exception of the Boston Irish, especially in Southie -- some of the most notorious racists out there -- what did Teddy do for the average Irish-American? Nothing. His support for unrelenting immigration is leading us to Balkination. His support for "affirmative action" certainly cost some Irish-Americans jobs and college admissions in favor of less qualified persons, all in the sake of "diversity." Enough of the Kennedys. May we never hear of that bunch again, unless they announce they are giving up their billions and their estates to benefit the masses they hoodwinked for so long.
Patrick Hurley, formerly Skibbereen, West Cork lives in New York City. Active in GOP & Conservative politics, in the 2003 New York City council elections, he was a GOP/Conservative candidate. In 1987, Hurley, with other members of the County Cork Association of New York, founded the Irish Immigration Reform Movement (IIRM), an organization, which was dedicated to legalizing the Irish and to overturning the adverse, discriminatory 1965 Kennedy Immigration Act. The Kennedy Act effectively ended legal immigration from Ireland and other European countries. In the Immigration Act of 1990, the IIRM and AOH secured thousands of Green Cards for Irish and other Europeans. Hurley is the immediate past president of the County Cork Association, one of the most active Irish American organizations. He is employed in the security profession. From 1987 to 1991, Hurley worked at the New York Irish Echo. In recent years, he briefly wrote a regular column for the publication. A freelance columnist, Hurley has been published in the U.S. and Ireland. He has also made numerous appearances on TV and radio. Currently, Hurley writes an occasional opinion column for New York's Irish Examiner.
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No family in American history - not the Roosevelt, not the Adams, and certainly not the Bush families - have paid a higher price in the service of the people than the Kennedys. And to be perfectly honest with you, I'm sick and tired of listening to them get kicked around by the clueless right wing.
It was announced yesterday that Ben Quayle, son of the former vice-president, will be running for congress. We here, at this glorious moment in the history of our great nation, are proud and privileged to bear witness to the birth of the Quayle family political dynasty.
I need a drink.
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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
Mary Jo Kopechne really got "pushed around". Hugo Chavez will really miss the Kenndeys at the levers of power. The rest of us will not miss the last of the spoiled, dysfunctional children of privilege. They ruined many lives.
As for Qualye junior if he is guilty of even a smidgen of what can be put at the door of the Kenndeys, he should be disqualified from running.
You really do need that drink!
The Kennedy Klan has been the largest source of embarrassment to Irish Americans than anything else. Sure, we can be proud that Jack was the first, and only, Catholic ever elected President, but his legacy is tainted by the womanizing and his foreign policy failures [our abandoning our allied in the Bay of Pigs is an underplayed national disgrace]. But remember this about Jack -- he wasn't Papa Joe's first choice to be President.
And speaking of Joe, it sure warms my Irish heart that he came to his fortune through smuggling. Will this country ever show similar pride electing the son of a cocaine smuggler? I think not -- so why is what Joe did ignored by the glorious Left -- especially in light of the fact that he supported Hitler. And Joe, followed by his sons, certainly fulfilled the stereotypes of Irish men -- womanizers who had no shame in embarrassing their wives by being so blatant with their mistresses!
And the current crop of Kennedy's -- the killers, the druggies, and RFK, Jr., who's in bed with a dictator, still trying to prop up the notion of "global warming," the biggest scam ever perpetrated on the public.
As for the "Lion of the Senate," Ted Kennedy, let me ask you this, with the exception of the Boston Irish, especially in Southie -- some of the most notorious racists out there -- what did Teddy do for the average Irish-American? Nothing. His support for unrelenting immigration is leading us to Balkination. His support for "affirmative action" certainly cost some Irish-Americans jobs and college admissions in favor of less qualified persons, all in the sake of "diversity."
Enough of the Kennedys. May we never hear of that bunch again, unless they announce they are giving up their billions and their estates to benefit the masses they hoodwinked for so long.
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