Let's face it, now that John-John is gone, who's left? Fat old uncle Ted in white shorts and cellulite? Imagine ....Teddy Kennedy holding the communion chalice full of wine at the family compound mass! How poignant and fitting that the millionaire whiskey heir, as Vin Suprynowicz calls him, should be elected to dole out the ceremonial vino ....You mean they actually trust him in this capacity?

Ted Kennedy's face is virtually corded with gin blossoms, and his image in white shorts and sunglasses standing by his slender young wife, is a study in incongruity which is almost offensive. This guy is a text book example of someone who has blithely led the unearned good life. Living high on the hog from a fortune accumulated by his late father in the bootlegging business seems as natural as pie to Ted Kennedy. This is something not generally dwelled upon by Dan Lather and other modern media types, those official government apologists, famous for telling half-truths and lies.

Teddy's exquisitely grotesque features and corpulent body are positively Rubinesque, revealing a long course of easy living and over indulgence. I think it safe to assume that in no instance during Teddy's public life has the privilege that accompanies great wealth ever been left unclaimed by this duly elected servant of the people of the state of Taxachusetts. Ted Kennedy has always enjoyed a great deal of inherited wealth and power, all the while working to ensure their exclusivity to a ruling elite.

The ranking patriarch of the Kennedy clan, with his well developed penchant for the politics of control and his finely honed skill at pork-barrel manipulation, might more accurately be considered an object of derision for many, rather than any symbol of a bright new era in American politics with which the Kennedy name may once have been associated.

It should not be construed that I am opposed to the accumulation and enjoyment of wealth, nor the fact that the Kennedy wealth came from pragmatic business practices contrary to misplaced and unconstitutional government edicts of the times, but only that I am opposed to the hypocrisy of any Kennedy supporting such things as prison terms for dopers and larcenous and criminal taxation policies in support of a welfare police state.

To continue ....Give me a break!

Frigging around-the-clock coverage of this latest Kennedy episode, with Jr. deep sixing it with the two girls off Gay Head, for all intents and purposes pre-empting a large portion of primetime third round live coverage of Saturday's British Open with my buddy Peter Alliss! ....Sheees!

Hey! If Joe Blow crashes and burns in East Bumf_&#, it gets three minutes on the local news.

If a
whole busload of old farts going to Atlantic City crashes and burns, it gets three minutes on the network news.

O.K., O.K. So it's a big story .....but every second, nothing but J.F.K. Jr. this, J.F.K. Jr. that?

Yes, ....after this one, there's not gonna be much left to the Kennedy story ....you see, if the 40 somethings like me don't give a shit if Joe-Bob Kennedy Jr. the 3rd, or whatever Kennedy ....is wiping his backside this way or that, then surely the X generation isn't interested either. It's O.K., though ....the media will catch on eventually.

And who in the hell is Peter Alliss? ....He's a golf commentator, from England, who knows how to make his modifiers agree with their objects in the course of a normal conversation in English.

Peter Alliss is also a funny, intelligent, and entertaining announcer who has played and beaten the greatest golfer in history, Jack Nicklaus, ....more than once.

....Peter Alliss also says things like this, describing a camera shot of a contented baby being pushed in a stroller at 128th Open Championship,

"Ahh ....to be in his shoes ....not a care in the world ....and occasionally someone pops something nice in your mouth! ....hmmm"

Please, .....please don't pre-empt anything else for any more Kennedy stories....

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