'Sharp ... Sharp Like a Bowlin' Ball, That Is'

Saturday, January 7. 2006

'Sharp ... Sharp Like a Bowlin' Ball, That Is'

The Washington Post's Dana Milbank notes some of the wisdom flowing from Sen. Ted Kennedy regarding Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, when he writes in this piece: (via PoliPundit -- emphasis added)

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), hosting a morning roundtable with reporters, had nothing nice to say about Alito. "We here in the United States are not going to stand for monarchial tyranny," he said, protesting Alito's support for "unfettered, unlimited power of the executive." He faulted Alito for belonging to a group that was "anti-black and also anti-women." Kennedy wondered if "the average person is going to be able to get a fair shake" under Alito.

Briefly, Kennedy rewrote the outcome of the 1964 election. "This nominee was influenced by the Goldwater presidency," he said. "The Goldwater battles of those times were the battles against the civil rights laws." Only then did Kennedy acknowledge that "Judge Alito at that time was 14 years old."

Would you like an olive a twist with that, Senator?

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Dana Milbank is not a political reporter; he's a propagandist for the DNC workig at the "Washington Post"...Why does anyone pay any attention to Senator Kennedy? and why doesn't someone in the Washington Press Corps ask him why he seems so out-of-it all the time; maybe that's why he ran of the bridge!

#1 Walter Funk on 2006-01-07 14:41 (Reply)

Also worth remembering that it was not the GOP that opposed civil rights legislation, but instead many Democrat senators and congressmen.

Goldwater himself supported the '57 and '60 Civil Rights Acts, but opposed the '64 act on principled grounds, as anyone knows. He was a big backer of Arizona civil rights legislative efforts and of the state's NAACP branch. His record on civil rights is less complicated than that of, say, Bobby Kennedy, who permitted Martin Luther King to be wiretapped.

#2 Sterling (Homepage) on 2006-01-07 14:50 (Reply)

And he personally desegregate the Arizona National Guard while federal forces were still segregated.

I think his position on civil rights was stronger than a lot of current democrats.

#2.1 Anonymous on 2006-01-07 16:24 (Reply)

Seriously, Kennedy must of had a few before that talk.
How else do you explain it? Either that or he is mentally damaged from drinking.

#3 Terry on 2006-01-07 14:53 (Reply)

You know that he didnt write that, one of his staffers did. Kennedy hasnt had an original thought in 15 years.

#4 buzz on 2006-01-07 14:55 (Reply)

where do you get the idea teddie had an original thought 15 years ago! how about never.

#4.1 Anonymous on 2006-01-10 06:14 (Reply)

It just proves one of two things. Teddy Boy is really from another dimension, or he's such a wet brain he can't remember what he had for breakfast this morning.

Pick you answer

algie

#5 Art Glasgow on 2006-01-07 15:10 (Reply)

""We here in the United States are not going to stand for monarchial tyranny," he said..."
Sayeth the Teddy.

Now tell me about the Bay of Pigs.

#6 TC@leatherpenguin.com (Homepage) on 2006-01-07 15:23 (Reply)

I remeber a certain November evening in 1964 when I suffered a crushing disappointment. Now, after all these years, the hero of Chappaquiddick is admitting LBJ stole that election and there was a Goldwater Presidency. Sigh.

#7 Ken Hahn on 2006-01-07 15:53 (Reply)

The funny thing is that the Goldwater loss was the only time the Democratic candidate won a majority of the popular votes for president since 1944. You'd think Teddy would want to hold on to the Dems only landslide since VJ-Day.

#8 dave on 2006-01-07 16:12 (Reply)

Don't forget that Jimmy Carter got a majority of the vote in 1976...

#8.1 Tom on 2006-01-07 16:33 (Reply)

You're correct, he got a majority by about 50,000 votes. I was mistaken, having thought the third-party vote was larger.

1964 was still the only dem landslide since the war.

#8.1.1 dave on 2006-01-07 16:47 (Reply)

You're absolutely right about the landslide part.

By the bye, since 1860, the Dems have fielded only four presidential candidates who achieved a majority.

#8.1.1.1 Tom on 2006-01-07 17:05 (Reply)

Ever since President Barry Goldwater nuked Hanoi in February 1967, and mounted his Global Challenge to the Soviets that resulted in meltdown preceding the Putsch of Fools by over twenty years, this country has been on Red Alert for attack by bipolar-disordered robots genetically engineered from Congressional Defecrats who never saw a mass-murderer they didn't like. We admit that President Goldwater was, like, forty years ahead of his time... but it is not too late to ensure that Bird Flu affecting the brains of Teddy, Nancy, Harry, Howard --the usual Lab Rats we deploy-- spreads only so far as the current Saudi depredistas and Iranian prophetologists.

As Ho Chi Minh said in 1971, "Jane and John, we'll point 'em your way." Fortunately for all concerned, President Goldwater proved immune to all entreaties. Ah, for the good old days when Walter Cronkite said it all!

#9 John Blake on 2006-01-07 16:20 (Reply)

It's time and past time for Edward Kennedy to retire.

#10 RebeccaH on 2006-01-07 16:33 (Reply)

But it was seared... seared in him!

#11 Korla Pundit (Homepage) on 2006-01-07 17:05 (Reply)

A world with a true memory of a Goldwater presidency would be a better place.

#12 Tia on 2006-01-07 19:07 (Reply)

My "Chappaquiddick Triathlon" tee shirt shrank when I washed it!

#13 LiZa Shadow on 2006-01-07 19:49 (Reply)

Possibly the Senator was having a flashback to this c. 1967 bon mot:

'They told me if I voted for Goldwater, the United States would end up involved in a full-scale land war in Asia. Well, I voted for Goldwater and damned if it didn't happen!'

#14 F451 on 2006-01-07 22:11 (Reply)

Would it be bad manners to point out that it was Ted's fellow Democrats filibustering the CRA?

#15 richard mcenroe on 2006-01-07 23:32 (Reply)

Dude, I already did that in #2.

#15.1 Sterling (Homepage) on 2006-01-08 01:39 (Reply)

http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=4128

#16 Clarice on 2006-01-08 13:07 (Reply)

Teddy and Charles Kennedy in England (Britian for the Politically Cowardice) should get together.
Singing in a great, dark stinky pub - Poooour another one, just like the other one. Kudos to the senior DemonRat spokesman. Will be interesting to see how silent his media will be on his latest short circuit.

#17 Gerry Blackthorne on 2006-01-08 16:42 (Reply)

ahhh, Sen. Kennedy on morals...did anyone just hear that splash off a bridge and a young woman drowning???
Just another reason I'm embarrased to say I'm from the People's Republic of Massachusetts...the other reason is Sen. Kerry...

#18 liquidiamonds on 2006-01-08 18:40 (Reply)

Teddy consulted with Osama Barak right before his speech. All that likker all those years seems to be having a lasting effect.

#19 ICallMasICM on 2006-01-09 08:08 (Reply)

teddy made a mistake, big deal, he isn`t
going anywhere, maybe after this coming re-election he`ll call it quits, by 2012 he will be 80. i`d cut him some slack, look at all the tragedy he has endured.most people who have gone through what the kennedy`s have would be heavy drinkers too!

#20 joel on 2006-01-09 11:01 (Reply)

The Kennedys were already heavy drinkers.

#20.1 Duncan on 2006-01-10 02:10 (Reply)

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