Ted Kennedy's Real Legacy: 50 Years of Ruinous Immigration Law

by KATIE MCHUGH

On Monday, President Barack Obama gave an emotional speech commemorating the $79 million replica of the Senate chamber at the Edward M. Kennedy Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

The thrust of Obama's speech condemned America as an unimaginative, prejudiced, unambitious country whose only hope lies in liberals who selflessly dedicate their lives to leading it out of the darkness.
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Kennedy declared:

"First, our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually. Under the proposed bill, the present level of immigration remains substantially the same...

Secondly, the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset... Contrary to the charges in some quarters, [the bill] will not inundate America with immigrants from any one country or area, or the most populated and deprived nations of Africa and Asia...

In the final analysis, the ethnic pattern of immigration under the proposed measure is not expected to change as sharply as the critics seem to think... The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."

How have Kennedy's promises stood up to the passage of time?

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The beginning of the end for this country thanks to Teddy 'The Drunk' and his cohorts in CONgress.

Does this same place with the Senate replica also include the Oldsmobile in which Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown, as he spent 10 hours getting himself immunized from any repercussions?



I want the beer concession at Arlington, so visitors to Teddy's grave can be topped-up for the occasion. Let the sod over his hole remain brown for eternity. May this sodden disgusting reprobate roast in the fires of Hell.

As I sit here reading all of the comments, I am hard pressed to find ANYTHING of a positive nature that ANY democrat has contributed for the betterment of America.

What makes me sick is just one after another program or book or news article, building dedication or monument towards these devils.  Ties to the mobs, clandestine relationships plus their own wives and children to bear them, any and all manner of dirty politics, all add up to a zero legacy for any of them that have served in my lifetime.  I believe in calling it like I see it and I'm usually not wrong.  These kinds of folks leave a trail and it's destructive.  Case in point is the Clintoons, all the way back to Arkansas and they didn't let up with that one, just progressed worse.  Why do we give stuff like this a pass?

Quote from: quiller on March 31, 2015, 05:21:55 AM
Does this same place with the Senate replica also include the Oldsmobile in which Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown, as he spent 10 hours getting himself immunized from any repercussions?



I want the beer concession at Arlington, so visitors to Teddy's grave can be topped-up for the occasion. Let the sod over his hole remain brown for eternity. May this sodden disgusting reprobate roast in the fires of Hell.

I've lost count of how many times I've gotten down on my knees and offered a pray of thanks to the memory of Mary Jo Kopechne for keeping that drunken SOB out of the White House!

She deserves the effing Presidential Medal of Freedom!

Quote from: keyboarder on March 31, 2015, 06:44:57 AM
These kinds of folks leave a trail and it's destructive.

Ted Kennedy can rot in hell after sponsoring a bill to stop American Air strikes as part of the Vietnam "peace" process, we often didn't have air support while NVA mortars rained down like hailstones. Lots of GI's got killed thanks to this asshole.

I can't add to the absolutely accurate responses so far...   But I can dredge-up the non-answer that arguably sunk his Presidential-candidacy:

Ted Kennedy: Why do you want to be President?

Go drink another one, rummy...

Quote from: quiller on March 31, 2015, 11:30:11 AM

DANG! That's almost as ugly as the real thing!

Quote from: zewazir on March 31, 2015, 05:17:43 PM
DANG! That's almost as ugly as the real thing!

That mold has been broken, thank God.

I agree with the thread title, but would add that the Ted Kennedy immigration legacy fits into a greater legacy, which I propose we understand as the "real" one.  I have three suggestions -- 1)  the legacy of the victim. 2) The politics of divisive social issues. 3) Politics as the art of deceit -- although I am sure there are more, probably even better ones.

1)  Victim Syndrome. It is known, immigration policy over the years Ted ranked and then headed Senate immigration did a 180 degree flip. The common thread is contained in the notion of  "The Democratic political machine versus the white, Protestant Republic."  The Democratic machine is rooted in the idea of "immigrant as victim," organizing for power.  Note how the victim concept permeates. The current President is one kind of victim, the next Democratic nominee is another, the VP is another, as are the liberal justices, each one of them.  Note how often each invokes victim status without even seeming to be aware of it. It is in the political genes.

2)  Divisive Social Issues.  Be it the glass ceiling, Keynesian Economics, gay marriage, or you name it, the Democratic gang initiation is to take down your pants and swallow the pill. By far, the boldest initiative came under the JFK presidency, in the form of forced integration of the American south.

3)  The Art of Deceit.  A caller smarter than I am recently made the point on Hannity radio that no matter what the issue or initiative on the table happens to be, the end result always seems to be the same: a bigger, more powerful, and I might add more intrusive, federal government.  With respect to deceit, it is more common now to hear the question, "What is this really about?"

Quote from: red_dirt on April 02, 2015, 11:42:42 AM
2)  Divisive Social Issues.  Be it the glass ceiling, Keynesian Economics, gay marriage, or you name it, the Democratic gang initiation is to take down your pants and swallow the pill. By far, the boldest initiative came under the JFK presidency, in the form of forced integration of the American south.

There was no forced integration of the American South. The South was simply forced to obey the laws of the United States. And to not write their personal prejudices into the law of the land. The South lost the Civil War and they shouldn't have been allowed to act as if they won, or even tied.

 
If it were that simple, we would have an explanation as to how that same law was not enforced in South Boston. Sorry, Giles, I know it is an emotional issue, but history will write that both sides were played in a Washington power game.  My opinion, biased as it may well be.
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Funny, Ann. I was just thinking the same thing:
http://freedomsback.com/ann-coulter/hands-up-dont-discriminate-against-gays

Quote from: mdgiles on April 02, 2015, 11:52:22 AM
There was no forced integration of the American South. The South was simply forced to obey the laws of the United States. And to not write their personal prejudices into the law of the land. The South lost the Civil War and they shouldn't have been allowed to act as if they won, or even tied.

For some people the Civil War is on going.  They will keep passing it on to their kids.

Quote from: walkstall on April 02, 2015, 12:02:39 PM
For some people the Civil War is on going.  They will keep passing it on to their kids.

That's right, and you don't have to look very far to obtain the facts, always skewed, not surprisingly, towards the evil nature of the whites. I don't think we are back where we started, by any means, but I question that the northern Democrats will find it as easy to raise a black lynch mob now as they did in 1967.

http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/integration-the-civil-rights-act-to-present.html

Although a number of blacks have achieved real prominence in business, education, government, and other fields, and many more have achieved solid, though less stunning successes as a result of integration, race remains one of the most intractable problems in the United States, in large part because personal biases and racial stereotyping (by and of all races) cannot be altered by legislation or lawsuits. This lingering prejudice fosters interracial tension and other social problems that are often ignored by the larger society unless a public outcry or worse results, as in New Jersey in the late 1990s when public controversy erupted over the use of racial profiling by the state police. Even in the last decade of the 20th cent. and the first years of the 21st, race riots have occurred; the most violent was in Los Angeles following the acquittal (1992) of the police officers accused of brutality in the Rodney King case.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/20/race-us-not-improved-some-believe

According to research recently conducted by ProPublica, "black children across the south now attend majority-black schools at levels not seen in four decades."

http://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-now-full-text

These racial inequalities have been compounded by class entrenchment. In many areas – income, wealth, incarceration, employment – the gaps between black and white are the same as 50 years ago or worse. In a 2012 report, UCLA's Civil Rights Project noted: "Nationwide, the typical black student is now in a school where almost two out of every three classmates (64%) are low income."

Quote from: red_dirt on April 02, 2015, 12:28:51 PM
That's right, and you don't have to look very far to obtain the facts, always skewed, not surprisingly, towards the evil nature of the whites. I don't think we are back where we started, by any means, but I question that the northern Democrats will find it as easy to raise a black lynch mob now as they did in 1967.

http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/integration-the-civil-rights-act-to-present.html

Although a number of blacks have achieved real prominence in business, education, government, and other fields, and many more have achieved solid, though less stunning successes as a result of integration, race remains one of the most intractable problems in the United States, in large part because personal biases and racial stereotyping (by and of all races) cannot be altered by legislation or lawsuits. This lingering prejudice fosters interracial tension and other social problems that are often ignored by the larger society unless a public outcry or worse results, as in New Jersey in the late 1990s when public controversy erupted over the use of racial profiling by the state police. Even in the last decade of the 20th cent. and the first years of the 21st, race riots have occurred; the most violent was in Los Angeles following the acquittal (1992) of the police officers accused of brutality in the Rodney King case.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/20/race-us-not-improved-some-believe

According to research recently conducted by ProPublica, "black children across the south now attend majority-black schools at levels not seen in four decades."

http://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-now-full-text

These racial inequalities have been compounded by class entrenchment. In many areas – income, wealth, incarceration, employment – the gaps between black and white are the same as 50 years ago or worse. In a 2012 report, UCLA's Civil Rights Project noted: "Nationwide, the typical black student is now in a school where almost two out of every three classmates (64%) are low income."

"According to research recently conducted by ProPublica, "black children across the south now attend majority-black schools at levels not seen in four decades."

And why would this be?

The "dividers" would like for all to believe it is racist. As one who sent his kids to private school in the South I feel I have some insight into the situation. My wife and I made the decision, and funding sacrifices, because of quality of education. In fact the school my kids attended offered scholarships to kids from inner city schools in order to provide a more real life experience. It was necessary from our viewpoint because the schools system was run by democrats who had ruined the public education system. A perfect example is just what happened in the ATL school system. It was Black "educators" damaging  Black kids for their own personal betterment.