GOP’s Scott Brown Could Win Teddy Kennedy’s Senate Seat—If He Plays Immigration Card *BUMPED*

A very timely post from http://www.vdare.com/ on the special election to replace Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. For more interesting articles like this click here.

GOP’s Scott Brown Could Win Teddy Kennedy’s Senate Seat—If He Plays Immigration Card
[See also: The Coming Defeat Of Deval Patrick And The End Of Massachusetts’ Minority Rule Experiment, by Matthew Richer]
By Joe GuzzardiOn January 19th, Massachusetts will elect a new U.S. senator to fill the seat held for nearly half a century by patriotic immigration reform’s long time, recently deceased adversary, Teddy Kennedy. [Dodd and Dorgan Aside, Senate Election Focus Should Be on Massachusetts, by Chuck Raasch, USA Today, January 6, 2010]After Kennedy’s death, Governor Deval Patrick appointed Paul. G. Kirk, Jr. as an interim so the Democrats could cast a "yea" vote for the Senate health care bill.Regarding Kennedy’s remarkably long term of service, I can only say that time doesn’t fly when you’re not having fun. Patriotic immigration reformers were most definitely not having fun during his ceaseless subversion of America.The Senate contest that will pit Republican State Senator Scott Brown versus Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley kicks off with an interesting coincidence: In 1962, Kennedy also was elected via a special election after his brother John vacated the seat on being elected president.Before analyzing Brown’s chances, remember that he’s a Republican running in Massachusetts, where his party’s registration is a microscopic 11 percent.But, despite obviously long odds against him becoming the first Republican Massachusetts senator since Edward W. Brooke 32 years ago, Brown has a chance—if he plays it right.Brown’s task is to appeal to the anti-Establishment mood that helped Republicans defeat Democrats in the November gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.Brown, according to Philip W. Johnson, a former Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman, is"...an attractive, articulate, moderate Republican who could tap into some of the unrest among voters. It would be a terrible mistake for Democrats to assume that this election is in the bag on January 19. These are not normal times. There are treacherous winds blowing and Democratic candidates have to be aware of that." [Scott Brown Wins GOP Primary, Readies for Race vs. Coakley, Michael Levenson, Boston Globe, December 8, 2009]Translations:"Attractive" means Brown is a fit triathlete so confident in his appearance that he once posed nude (with his limbs strategically placed) for Cosmopolitan Magazine."Articulate" is a nod to Brown’s career as a military lawyer in the Massachusetts Army National Guard where he has served for nearly three decades and holds the rank of Lt. Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps."Moderate Republican" refers to Brown’s position as an anti-big government, anti-federal stimulus and health care legislation, fiscal conservative who during his three terms as a state representative never voted for tax increases."Not normal times" is a thinly disguised reference to Coakley’s standing as an unpopular staff member on the exceedingly disliked Deval Patrick’s gubernatorial team.Of most importance to VDARE.COM is how the two candidates stack up on immigration. While Massachusetts isn’t a border state, its foreign-born population is more than 14 percent.That total brings with it enough immigration-related problems like crime to make it an issue in Brown’s campaign.MS-13, also known Mara Salvatrucha, has a well established presence in East Boston and has been linked to al-Qaeda terrorist networks. [Off-Duty Boston Firefighter Stabbed Outside Station, by Laurel J. Sweet, Boston Herald, December 3, 2007]Education has been adversely effected by excessive immigration. According to a Federation for American Immigration Reform report, in 2004 Massachusetts ranked twelfth in the U.S. for numbers of illegal alien students and U.S.-born children of illegal aliens enrolled in K-12 schools. That cost Massachusetts taxpayers $494.5 million—back in 2004, remember.The same FAIR report referenced above confirmed that Brown’s stance to keep illegal aliens from discounted college tuition would save Massachusetts between $7.7 and $10 million.With Massachusetts facing a $1 billion budget deficit, any fiscal conservative worth his salt would draw the cost correlation between educating illegal aliens and the revenue shortfall. [State Deficit May Hit $1 Billion Again, by Frank Phillips, Boston Globe, March 12, 2009]As pointed out by our Matthew Richer, Brown (unlike Coakley) has posted his immigration positions on his website. Included are his opposition to amnesty, driver’s licenses and instate tuition for aliens and their children.Brown’s stances on driver’s licenses and tuition have special significance because Patrick has wavered on both.Publicly, the governor has indicated support for the "New Americans Agenda," Massachusetts’ so called "comprehensive blueprint for integrating immigrants," but also stalled it fearing voter retribution by referring it to his Cabinet for an "action plan" [Tuition, Driver’s Licenses Urged for Illegal Aliens, by Maria Sacchetti, Boston Globe, November 17, 2009]Democrat Senate hopeful Coakley, in contrast to Brown, supports a "path to citizenship" via "comprehensive immigration reform" a.k.a. amnesty.Said Coakley, sounding frighteningly like Teddy:"We need a policy that makes sense for 12 million people who are stuck in a purgatorial status quo. It doesn't do us any good to do nothing." [Coakley Says She Would Support Immigration Reform, by Julia Spitz, MetroWest Daily News, November 25, 2009]Brown has linked himself with President John F. Kennedy by calling for tax cuts to stimulate the economy. A more important Kennedy comparison for Brown: that he is not and never will be the Senator that he’s seeking to replace—the legislator whose votes increased levels of legal and illegal immigration while destroying the America that we all grew up in and love.With Massachusetts unemployment at nearly 9 percent, Brown has nothing to lose by pointing out that Kennedy’s pro-immigration votes put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of their middle class jobs as their occupations vanished either because of illegal alien labor, foreign workers flooding American markets or job outsourcing.Kennedy voted for increases in every Congressional bill that would create or increase more non-immigrant H-1B visas.In addition to immigration, Brown’s biggest selling point, even in predominantly Democratic Massachusetts, is the Senate math: 58 Democrats, 40 Republicans and two Independents. Since the Independents, Bernie Saunders and Joe Lieberman, caucus with the Democrats, the tally is effectively 60-40.Brown’s election would make it 57-41-2 or adjusting for the Independents, 59-41A Rasmussen poll conducted last week firm placed Coakley ahead of Brown by 50 percent to 41 percent—not bad for Brown in the state Obama carried by 26 points.More interesting is that 21 percent of those likely to vote in the special election have a very favorable opinion of Coakley while 22 percent have a very unfavorable view.Brown’s numbers are strikingly better: 25 percent very favorable and 5 percent very unfavorable.A certain momentum is building in Brown’s favor. Curt Schilling, Boston Red Sox pitching hero, recently endorsed him as did former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and John McCain. [Curt Schilling Endorses Brown in Mass. Senate Race, by Andy Barr, Politico.com, January 4, 2010]This has drawn predictable scorn from the Coakley camp, who dismiss Schilling as a superficial jock and Romney and McCain has political hacks.But as far as athletes and politics go, it’s worth noting that Kentucky U.S. Senator Jim Bunning (Immigration Grade A-) didn’t suffer from his Hall of Fame career. And former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley almost rode his basketball prowess to the White House.Bay State residents do love their Red Sox, so Coakley should be concerned about Brown’s publicity—and even more worried about Barack Obama’s conspicuous absence from her campaign.Although Massachusetts has elected wild-eyed liberals like Kennedy (Teddy and Patrick), John Kerry, Barney Frank, to Congress, since 1990 it has also elected Republican Governors William Weld and Paul Cellucci as well as Mitt Romney.Brown’s gender may work in favor of Brown, too. Only four women have held statewide offices in Massachusetts, none of them governor or senator.A cold post-New Jersey and Virginia wind continues to blow over the Democrats. This week, Connecticut and North Dakota Senators Christopher Dodd, Byron Dorgan and Colorado Governor Bill Ritter announced their retirements.Actually, that’s not quite right: they’re leaving voluntarily before being voted out, possibly in primary challenges. [Abrupt Democratic Retirements Show Tough Landscape, by Liz Sidoti, Associated Press, January 6, 2009]The Senate doesn’t reconvene until January 19th, the day of the special election. And then its only official business will be a pro forma session.If Brown can pull off a long shot win, he’ll give Republicans the one crucial vote they need to kill the Democrats’ agenda that includes Obamacare—and possibly despite the mid-year election threats it poses, “comprehensive immigration reform”.
Joe Guzzardi [email him] is a California native who recently fled the state because of over-immigration, over-population and a rapidly deteriorating quality of life. He has moved to Pittsburgh, PA where the air is clean and the growth rate stable. A long-time instructor in English at the Lodi Adult School, Guzzardi has been writing a weekly column since 1988. It currently appears in the Lodi News-Sentinel.

HARRY REID'S NEGRO PROBLEM

An interesting post from http://www.anncoulter.com/ about relations in America and you can continue to get interesting posts like this by subscribing here and you can get the book here from your library or by clicking the link in this previous article to get it from amazon. However the key point is who Harry Reid RELLY needs to apologize to, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that!

HARRY REID'S NEGRO PROBLEM

by Ann Coulter

January 13, 2010

The recently released book "Game Change" reports that Sen. Harry Reid said America would vote for Barack Obama because he was a "light-skinned" African-American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."

The book also says Bill Clinton called Sen. Ted Kennedy to ask for his endorsement of Hillary over Obama, saying of Obama: "A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee."

And we already knew that Obama's own vice president, Joe Biden, called Obama "articulate" and "clean" during the campaign. (So you can see why Biden got the vice presidential nod over Reid.)

Democrats regularly say things that would end the career of any conservative who said them. And still, blacks give 90 percent of their votes to the Democrats. Reid apologized to President Obama, and Obama accepted the apology using his "white voice." So now all is forgiven. Clinton also called Obama to apologize, but ended up asking him to bring everybody some coffee. Now the only people waiting for an apology are the American people who want an apology from Nevada for giving us Harry Reid. Reid will be the guest of honor at a luncheon in Las Vegas this week hosted by a group called "African-Americans for Harry Reid." That's if you can call two people a "group." They used to be called "African-Americans for David Duke," but that was mostly a social thing. Now they're doing real political organizing. If this gets off the ground, "African-Americans for Harry Reid" will be a political juggernaut that cannot be denied. Their motto: "We Will Be Heard -- As Soon As I Get This Gentleman's Coffee." Reid has also picked up an endorsement from the United Light-Skinned Negro College Fund. And Tiger Woods is considering endorsing him. He is the one light-skinned half-black guy right now who's thrilled with Reid's comments. Reid's defenders don't have much to work with. Their best idea so far is that at least he said "Negro" and not "Nigra." Liberals are saying that since Reid was pointing out Obama's pale hue in support of his run for the presidency, it was OK to praise his skin color and non-Negro dialect. (Reid is denying reports that in 2007 he said to Obama: "You should run. You people are good at that.")

In fact, Reid didn't endorse Obama until after Hillary dropped out of the race. It turns out, he also admired Hillary for her light skin and the fact that she only uses a Negro dialect when she wants to. In the alternative, liberals are defending Reid by claiming he said nothing that wasn't true, though he may have used "an unusual set" of words -- as light-skinned Reid-defender Harold Ford Jr. put it.

As long as we're mulling the real meaning of Reid's words and not just gasping in awe at the sorts of things Democrats get away with saying, I think Reid owes America an apology for accusing the entire country of racism. A country, let us note, that just elected a manifestly unqualified, at least partially black man president.

On the other hand, Reid couldn't have been expecting Republicans to vote for a Democrat, so I gather Reid was accusing only Democratic voters of being racists. I don't disagree with that, but I'd like to get it in writing. I think the Democratic platform should include a statement that the Democrats will not vote for dark-skinned blacks with a Negro dialect. Check with Harry Reid on the precise wording, but something along the lines of "no one darker than Deepak Chopra." The "whereas" clauses can include the Democrats' history of supporting slavery, segregation, racial preferences, George Wallace and Bull Connor -- and also a precis of their treatment of dark-skinned Clarence Thomas.

BREAKING NEWS: Hoping to curry favor with the African-American community, Sen. Reid was arrested late this afternoon after breaking into his own home. Democrats couldn't win an election without the black vote, but the Democratic Party keeps treating blacks like stage props, wheeling them out for photo-ops and marches now and then but almost never putting them in charge of anything important.

President Bush appointed the first black secretary of state and then the first black female secretary of state. Meanwhile, the closest black woman to Bill Clinton was his secretary, Betty Currie. The one sitting black Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, was appointed by a Republican.

The head of the Republican National Committee is black -- medium-skinned, but liberals treated Michael Steele like a dark-skinned black when they threw Oreo cookies at him during the Maryland gubernatorial campaign in 2002.

After the 2000 election, Democrats had a chance to make one of the rare smart Democrats, Donna Brazile, head of the Democratic National Committee. Brazile had just run a perfectly respectable campaign on behalf of that bumbling buffoon Al Gore. She also happens to be black. Again, blacks give 90 percent of their votes to the Democrats. But the Democrats skipped over Brazile and handed the DNC chairmanship to the goofy white guy in lime green pants, Howard Dean.

UPDATE: Harry Reid has just apologized to the light-skinned people of Haiti for the 7.0 earthquake that hit them Tuesday afternoon.

The single most insulting remark made about blacks in my lifetime was Bill Clinton's announcement -- after being caught in the most humiliating sex scandal in world history -- that he was "the first black president."

He did not call himself "the first black president" when liberals were dancing and singing to Fleetwood Mac at his inauguration. He did not call himself "the first black president" when he was feeling our pain and being lionized by the media. He did not call himself "the first black president" when he was trying to socialize health care or passing welfare reform. Not until he became a national embarrassment did Clinton recognize that he was "the first black president." At least he could finally get his own coffee.

Martha Coakley: The Voice for Fat Cats and Corruptocrats

A timely post from http://www.michellemalkin.com/ about Ted Kennedy's replacement Senate election in Massachusetts. For more interesting articles like this click here.

Martha Coakley: The Voice for Fat Cats and Corruptocrats

By Michelle Malkin
Democrat Martha Coakley is the voice of the "little people" the way Ted Kennedy was the voice of sobriety. If Massachusetts voters want another privileged liberal who talks a good "social justice" game while ignoring public corruption, pocketing gobs of money from Beltway fat cats and pandering to corporate special interests, Coakley’s the one.
Coakley, the Bay State’s attorney general, has campaigned to replace the late Sen. Kennedy on a law-and-order platform. But she has consistently turned a blind eye to both. When a top aide to Boston Mayor Tom Menino was caught deleting thousands of e-mails in violation of public records law last fall, Coakley punted. Democrat Menino was in the middle of a re-election bid; Coakley was wrapped up in her own senatorial bid.
Instead of expressing any concern about the City Hall information black hole, Coakley refused to investigate. She accused her critics of playing politics: "(W)e get lots of complaints from folks who are adversaries who have a particular agenda."[Martha Coakley cyber-steps Menino controversy, BostonHerald.com, September 16, 2009]
But who’s got the agenda? After undertaking Herculean technical efforts to recover the trashed e-mails, Boston city officials discovered e-mail fragments related to an ongoing federal probe of former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson. Wilkerson attained national infamy as the lawmaker caught on film stuffing thousands of dollars of bribes from an FBI informant down her bra in exchange for her help securing a liquor license for a nightclub. She is currently awaiting federal trial.
Coakley cut an immunity deal with Wilkerson last year, protecting her from prosecution for campaign finance violations. But according to the Boston Herald, the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance reported last month that Wilkerson had failed to comply or only partially complied with 11 of 51 conditions. Coakley allowed Wilkerson to pay a measly $10,000 fine to avoid any legal action. She has failed to make those payments, failed to file ordered paperwork and failed to answer information requests from state campaign finance officials.
Coakley’s response? Meh. Instead, she used the power of her office to herald her new, taxpayer-funded $750,000 cybercrime lab initiative—a picture-perfect, campaign-ready moment—without an ironic pause, and has launched a crackdown on ladies’ gardening clubs for failing to file financial disclosure forms related to their dues and plant sales.
Perhaps if they were in the lingerie business, they might have gotten a pass. Or if they had volunteered for Coakley’s campaign.
While she’s a stickler with the gardeners, Coakley has been mighty sloppy practicing what she selectively enforces. She has siphoned $25,000 out of her state campaign fund for a poll on her federal Senate bid; used another $24,000 from her state account to pay Beltway political consultants advising her on the Senate campaign; and reportedly used a secret asset sale pact between her state and federal campaign committees to use state campaign funds to purchase a fundraising database, redesign her website and obtain $6,000 worth of campaign paraphernalia with her Senate logo.
Then there’s Coakley’s relationship with Massachusetts’ corrupt former House Speaker Sal DiMasi. Bay State records show that Coakley sent annual donations to the beleaguered Democrat over the past three years worth just under $1,000. But the obeisance Coakley has paid to the Democratic machine has been priceless. Last June, DiMasi was indicted on seven counts of mail and wire fraud related to pay-for-play schemes worth tens of thousands of dollars in monthly payments. "Where’s Martha?" asked Republican lawmakers.
Coakley let the feds take on the powerful DiMasi. Only after months of foot-dragging did Coakley’s AG office initiate an investigation into the indictments of one of DiMasi’s top cronies, Richard Vitale, on lobbying and campaign finance crimes.
More recently, Coakley’s GOP opponent Scott Brown blew the whistle on campaign finance shenanigans involving her deep-pocketed supporters at the SEIU. The radical labor organization, saddled with nationwide embezzlement scandals and political thuggery, is "pulling out all the stops" for Coakley, and has dumped more than $200,000 into her campaign for radio ads. In mid-December, SEIU Local 509, which represents public employees, sent two e-mails to 7,500 state government employees at their government e-mail addresses over public computers endorsing Coakley and urging union members to vote for her. The use of state resources for politicking is forbidden under state ethics laws and subject to both civil and criminal penalties.
Coakley’s office has not responded to the complaint. She’s probably too busy writing thank-you notes to all of the fat-cat lobbyists and donors who threw her a high-priced fundraiser in Washington, D.C., this week. Host committee members each raised $10,000 or more for her coffers. They included representatives from drug companies, health insurers and hospitals who joined the Demcare protection racket. (And Coakley has the nerve to attack "shadowy out-of-state organizations" for running ads supporting Brown.)
Washington is already teeming with Democratic foxes guarding the Cash for Corruptocrats henhouse. Isn't there a nice gardening club in Massachusetts that can take Coakley in?COPYRIGHT CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.Michelle Malkin [email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild and the just-released Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies.

The Most Important Election of the Year!‏

A timely post from http://www.teapartyexpress.org/ about Ted Kennedy's replacement Senate election in Massachusetts. For more interesting articles like this click here.

The Most Important Election of the Year!‏

COAKLEY ON THE RUN! SCOTT BROWN IS ON A FUNDRAISING RAMPAGE! THANKS TO ALL MAF PAC DONORS WHO ARE MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS MAF’s Freedom PAC just announced our endorsement of Scott Brown for U.S. Senate yesterday, and hot on the heels of that announcement we are hearing encouraging things coming out of his campaign. In a whirlwind of fervor over this candidate, Scott raised a whopping $1.3 M in a 24 hour period through an online drive. The tactic is designed to cause shock and fear in his opponent Coakley, who has historically raised more than Brown, but that could be changing thanks to all the excitement building around the former National Guardsman turned political candidate. MAF is proud to support Scott Brown for Senate and are happy to report that we too have seen a massive outpouring of response from our membership! Thank you to all those who donated and let’s keep it coming! The time is now, there are only SEVEN days left until the election! Send this email to your friends and let them know how important it is for not just Massachusetts but for the whole COUNTRY!
Donate today and strengthen our nation! Support our troops by electing a candidate who supports them! THIS COULD BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY ELECTION IN 2010, INCLUDING HARRY REID OR CHRIS DODD’S SEAT A lot of conjecture and analysis has gone into people’s projections about 2010 midterms. Many conservatives are waiting for it as a time to take back seats lost in 2006 and 2008, but we still have many months until November. Scott Brown would represent the 41 Republican vote and would brak the super-majority held by the Democrats. There are critical votes coming up before November such as the Obama Healthcare Bill, and this upcoming special election has the possibility of changing those votes well ahead of the November General Election. We can’t afford to save up our strength or our money for the end of the year when this election coming NEXT WEEK could have a staggering effect on legislation for the next several months. There is too much at stake! Even if liberal democrats LOSE BIG in November (which they will!) they still have the power to do a lot of damage from now until then...

UNLESS we STOP THEM with SCOTT BROWN! The Democrats have the votes they need to ram healthcare through the senate, but the margins are razor thin, with Scott Brown, it might be possible to block legislation, healthcare for example, that would otherwise be imposed upon the American people. Conservatives cannot take any chances! We can’t afford to look at elections as local anymore. The classic maxim “all politics is local” has a whole new meaning in the internet age. Americans across the nation have the ability to effect this election, and they have a good reason to care! The outcome of this special election in Massachusetts will undoubtedly affect us all. So we all have a reason to get involved!
MAKE A DONATION TODAY AND KEEP MARTHA COAKLEY OUT OF OFFICE! SHE IS BAD FOR OUR TROOPS AND FOR OUR COUNTRY!

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Political Shocker for Republican in Massachusetts Possible‏

A timely post from http://www.teapartyexpress.org/ about Ted Kennedy's replacement Senate election in Massachusetts. For more interesting articles like this click here.

Political Shocker for Republican in Massachusetts Possible‏

As Chief Strategist of the Tea Party Express I am pleased to announce our endorsement of Republican Scott Brown for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. This will be a critical race, a Special Election that takes place on January 19th, and one that could stop the Democrats from passing through their government-run healthcare monstrosity.
Read below for details on how we here at the Tea Party Express are taking action...
This Special Election will fill the seat of the late Senator Ted Kennedy.
Initially, pundits expected an easy win for the liberal Democrat candidate, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.
But new polls out this Tuesday showed the race has narrowed to a 9-point margin! And Election Day is just 12 days away!
Republican Scott Brown opposes the government-run healthcare plan now being debated by Congress. He launched his campaign on the platform of lower taxes and reduced government spending.
He has earned the support of many within the Tea Party movement, and we here at the Tea Party Express want to deliver that message to the people of Massachusetts.
With polls showing the Tea Party movement more popular than either the Democrat or Republican ads, we here at the Tea Party Express want to run positive ads announcing our support for Brown's candidacy.
But we have to act fast. The Special Election is on January 19th - just 12 days from now! This is an important election - and will be an uphill battle for us to prevail given the leftward slant of Massachusetts, politically.
But we must take action, for if we can pull out a victory we stop the Democrats dead in their tracks in their effort to secretly ram through their socialistic healthcare plan.
You can contribute any amount you can afford, from as little as $5 to the maximum allowed $5,000.
We're trying to raise and spend over $100,000 on this race by Election Day. Therefore, we are hoping 500 of you can afford a contribution of $100 or more so we can quickly meet our goal and get up on the airwaves with the Tea Party Express's endorsement of Scott Brown.

If you prefer you may also mail in a contribution to our finance headquarters:
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Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America (Paperback)

An interesting book which explains the double standard in racism. This book shows that racism is used as a tool in the path of a means to an end by these leaders. You can continue to get interesting posts like this by subscribing here and you can get the book here from your library or by clicking the title of the article to get it from amazon.

Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America

In a word.... OUCH!,
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D. A. Martin "Avid Reader" (Morocco) - See all my reviews(REAL NAME)
This review is from: Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America (Hardcover) In the early 20th century, Booker T.Washington had a premonition:
"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs - partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose their grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."
Sounds like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, and Louis Farrakhan to me.
Thus opens the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson's new book, "SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America" (WND Books). Peterson, founder and president of the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND) and author of "From Rage to Responsibility," lays into the modern day civil rights establishment in ways that would make even Rush Limbaugh wince. He shows the ways in which this "other class of coloured people" profits from black misery and racial strife just as Booker T. Washington described almost a century ago. In exposing modern day black "leadership" for what it truly is, the author's main thesis is that the problems of the black community are due to a lack of moral character and not racism. In other words, we no longer need leaders - we need change.
Peterson devotes an entire chapter on the abysmal failing of the NAACP and why that organization should be boycotted, showing how "the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization" is completely out of step with the needs of black America. Over 90% of black homicides in America are committed by other blacks, but instead of addressing the root causes of black-on-black crime, the NAACP absurdly blames gun manufacturers. The average black public high school graduate has in reality only an eighth-grade education, yet the NAAPC vehemently opposes school choice - a policy overwhelming supported by black parents. Over 70% of black babies in America are born out of wedlock, yet Julian Bond and Kweisi Mfume would prefer to tackle "more important" issues - such as the supposed lack of minorities on popular television shows. Peterson sums up his critique by concluding "If the NAACP were truly concerned about black issues, it would focus most of its attention on black-on-black crime, restoring morality in black men, and supporting policies that strengthen black families... But as these moves would increase the real-world welfare of blacks... the NAACP wants nothing to do with them." Ouch!
"SCAM" addresses how the fear of publicly being labeled "racist" causes many whites to hold their tongues when they see things run amuck in the black community (yet black liberals are given virtual carte blanche to publicly spew all manner of invective at whites and/or black conservatives). This fear prevents Americans from engaging in honest dialogue about race (think of the recent fallout over Rush Limbaugh's comments about NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb and you'll get the idea), and serves the interests of self-appointed black "leaders" and their liberal white sympathizers. As the average white person would rather be labeled a child molester than a racist, Peterson urges whites to no longer fall prey to such psychological bullying. (To wit, there is nothing wrong with the word "niggardly.")
BOND puts on the annual National Day of Repudiation of Jesse Jackson, so it is no surprise that the author saves the lion's share of his venom for the self-proclaimed "heir-apparent" to Dr. Martin Luther King. Citing investigative reporter Kenneth Timmerman's best-selling tell-all "Shakedown" (I still can't believe Jackson was brazen enough to take his pregnant mistress with him to the White House for a photo-op with then-President Clinton!), Peterson rips into this improperly ordained minister like a buzz saw. The author also discusses why he is presently suing Jackson and his associates for an alleged assault in December 2001 in Los Angeles. Peterson is not afraid to publicly challenge the black establishment, sometimes at considerable risk to his own safety.
To be sure, "SCAM" is more than just a stinging indictment against the modern-day civil rights establishment. The book is also a critically compassionate look at what is really plaguing the black community, in particular the plight of the black family, and what can and must be done to reverse the downward spiral in which many black men, women, and children find themselves. Peterson's concluding ten-point plan on how the black community can truly realize its full potential and achieve true spiritual freedom is worth of a full-length book in and of itself.

Direct and to the point,

By content_of_character "content_of_character" (Mid-Atlantic) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America (Hardcover) First off, I am black and proud to be so. Rev. Petersen's book is a breath of fresh air. He exposes black "leadership" as being in it for themselves. The past civil right leaders made sacrifices and weren't concerned about themselves, but looked to the future. Petersen points out how the current "leaders" really put their own self-interests first. My dad taught me that "you don't pull yourself up by putting someone else down" -something these "leaders" have not learned.
He is gives strong evidence for stating that the lack of real leadership by black men is one of the key reasons for the problems in the black community (which unfortunately may be a foreshadowing of general American society). He identifies that racism, though it exists (and frankly will never go away) is not the cause of the black man's plight, but rather used as an excuse for our moral failings. I'm tired of seeing these leaders rush to defend criminals, and define bad behavior as part of "black culture", while putting down blacks who have achieved leadership but have different political views. I always though that a true sign of how black people have advanced is our ability to be believe in different things and respect each others beliefs.
The writing style, while not outstanding, is easy to read. Petersen may seem too repetitive on some points, but many of them need to be repeated. In summary, I think Petersen makes a strong case for not only exposing the hyprocrisy of these "leaders", but showing how we as a people can better improve our lot by first taking responsibility for our own actions, and then working to improve them.

GOP’s Scott Brown Could Win Teddy Kennedy’s Senate Seat—If He Plays Immigration Card

A very timely post from http://www.vdare.com/ on the special election to replace Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. For more interesting articles like this click here.

GOP’s Scott Brown Could Win Teddy Kennedy’s Senate Seat—If He Plays Immigration Card

[See also: The Coming Defeat Of Deval Patrick And The End Of Massachusetts’ Minority Rule Experiment, by Matthew Richer]

By Joe Guzzardi
On January 19th, Massachusetts will elect a new U.S. senator to fill the seat held for nearly half a century by patriotic immigration reform’s long time, recently deceased adversary, Teddy Kennedy. [Dodd and Dorgan Aside, Senate Election Focus Should Be on Massachusetts, by Chuck Raasch, USA Today, January 6, 2010]
After Kennedy’s death, Governor Deval Patrick appointed Paul. G. Kirk, Jr. as an interim so the Democrats could cast a "yea" vote for the Senate health care bill.
Regarding Kennedy’s remarkably long term of service, I can only say that time doesn’t fly when you’re not having fun. Patriotic immigration reformers were most definitely not having fun during his ceaseless subversion of America.
The Senate contest that will pit Republican State Senator Scott Brown versus Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley kicks off with an interesting coincidence: In 1962, Kennedy also was elected via a special election after his brother John vacated the seat on being elected president.
Before analyzing Brown’s chances, remember that he’s a Republican running in Massachusetts, where his party’s registration is a microscopic 11 percent.
But, despite obviously long odds against him becoming the first Republican Massachusetts senator since Edward W. Brooke 32 years ago, Brown has a chance—if he plays it right.
Brown’s task is to appeal to the anti-Establishment mood that helped Republicans defeat Democrats in the November gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia.
Brown, according to Philip W. Johnson, a former Massachusetts Democratic Party Chairman, is
"...an attractive, articulate, moderate Republican who could tap into some of the unrest among voters. It would be a terrible mistake for Democrats to assume that this election is in the bag on January 19. These are not normal times. There are treacherous winds blowing and Democratic candidates have to be aware of that." [Scott Brown Wins GOP Primary, Readies for Race vs. Coakley, Michael Levenson, Boston Globe, December 8, 2009]
Translations:
"Attractive" means Brown is a fit triathlete so confident in his appearance that he once posed nude (with his limbs strategically placed) for Cosmopolitan Magazine.
"Articulate" is a nod to Brown’s career as a military lawyer in the Massachusetts Army National Guard where he has served for nearly three decades and holds the rank of Lt. Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps.
"Moderate Republican" refers to Brown’s position as an anti-big government, anti-federal stimulus and health care legislation, fiscal conservative who during his three terms as a state representative never voted for tax increases.
"Not normal times" is a thinly disguised reference to Coakley’s standing as an unpopular staff member on the exceedingly disliked Deval Patrick’s gubernatorial team.
Of most importance to VDARE.COM is how the two candidates stack up on immigration. While Massachusetts isn’t a border state, its foreign-born population is more than 14 percent.
That total brings with it enough immigration-related problems like crime to make it an issue in Brown’s campaign.
MS-13, also known Mara Salvatrucha, has a well established presence in East Boston and has been linked to al-Qaeda terrorist networks. [Off-Duty Boston Firefighter Stabbed Outside Station, by Laurel J. Sweet, Boston Herald, December 3, 2007]
Education has been adversely effected by excessive immigration. According to a Federation for American Immigration Reform report, in 2004 Massachusetts ranked twelfth in the U.S. for numbers of illegal alien students and U.S.-born children of illegal aliens enrolled in K-12 schools. That cost Massachusetts taxpayers $494.5 million—back in 2004, remember.
The same FAIR report referenced above confirmed that Brown’s stance to keep illegal aliens from discounted college tuition would save Massachusetts between $7.7 and $10 million.
With Massachusetts facing a $1 billion budget deficit, any fiscal conservative worth his salt would draw the cost correlation between educating illegal aliens and the revenue shortfall. [State Deficit May Hit $1 Billion Again, by Frank Phillips, Boston Globe, March 12, 2009]
As pointed out by our Matthew Richer, Brown (unlike Coakley) has posted his immigration positions on his website. Included are his opposition to amnesty, driver’s licenses and instate tuition for aliens and their children.
Brown’s stances on driver’s licenses and tuition have special significance because Patrick has wavered on both.
Publicly, the governor has indicated support for the "New Americans Agenda," Massachusetts’ so called "comprehensive blueprint for integrating immigrants," but also stalled it fearing voter retribution by referring it to his Cabinet for an "action plan" [Tuition, Driver’s Licenses Urged for Illegal Aliens, by Maria Sacchetti, Boston Globe, November 17, 2009]
Democrat Senate hopeful Coakley, in contrast to Brown, supports a "path to citizenship" via "comprehensive immigration reform" a.k.a. amnesty.
Said Coakley, sounding frighteningly like Teddy:
"We need a policy that makes sense for 12 million people who are stuck in a purgatorial status quo. It doesn't do us any good to do nothing." [Coakley Says She Would Support Immigration Reform, by Julia Spitz, MetroWest Daily News, November 25, 2009]
Brown has linked himself with President John F. Kennedy by calling for tax cuts to stimulate the economy. A more important Kennedy comparison for Brown: that he is not and never will be the Senator that he’s seeking to replace—the legislator whose votes increased levels of legal and illegal immigration while destroying the America that we all grew up in and love.
With Massachusetts unemployment at nearly 9 percent, Brown has nothing to lose by pointing out that Kennedy’s pro-immigration votes put hundreds of thousands of Americans out of their middle class jobs as their occupations vanished either because of illegal alien labor, foreign workers flooding American markets or job outsourcing.
Kennedy voted for increases in every Congressional bill that would create or increase more non-immigrant H-1B visas.
In addition to immigration, Brown’s biggest selling point, even in predominantly Democratic Massachusetts, is the Senate math: 58 Democrats, 40 Republicans and two Independents. Since the Independents, Bernie Saunders and Joe Lieberman, caucus with the Democrats, the tally is effectively 60-40.
Brown’s election would make it 57-41-2 or adjusting for the Independents, 59-41
A Rasmussen poll conducted last week firm placed Coakley ahead of Brown by 50 percent to 41 percent—not bad for Brown in the state Obama carried by 26 points.
More interesting is that 21 percent of those likely to vote in the special election have a very favorable opinion of Coakley while 22 percent have a very unfavorable view.
Brown’s numbers are strikingly better: 25 percent very favorable and 5 percent very unfavorable.
A certain momentum is building in Brown’s favor. Curt Schilling, Boston Red Sox pitching hero, recently endorsed him as did former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and John McCain. [Curt Schilling Endorses Brown in Mass. Senate Race, by Andy Barr, Politico.com, January 4, 2010]
This has drawn predictable scorn from the Coakley camp, who dismiss Schilling as a superficial jock and Romney and McCain has political hacks.
But as far as athletes and politics go, it’s worth noting that Kentucky U.S. Senator Jim Bunning (Immigration Grade A-) didn’t suffer from his Hall of Fame career. And former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley almost rode his basketball prowess to the White House.
Bay State residents do love their Red Sox, so Coakley should be concerned about Brown’s publicity—and even more worried about Barack Obama’s conspicuous absence from her campaign.
Although Massachusetts has elected wild-eyed liberals like Kennedy (Teddy and Patrick), John Kerry, Barney Frank, to Congress, since 1990 it has also elected Republican Governors William Weld and Paul Cellucci as well as Mitt Romney.
Brown’s gender may work in favor of Brown, too. Only four women have held statewide offices in Massachusetts, none of them governor or senator.
A cold post-New Jersey and Virginia wind continues to blow over the Democrats. This week, Connecticut and North Dakota Senators Christopher Dodd, Byron Dorgan and Colorado Governor Bill Ritter announced their retirements.
Actually, that’s not quite right: they’re leaving voluntarily before being voted out, possibly in primary challenges. [Abrupt Democratic Retirements Show Tough Landscape, by Liz Sidoti, Associated Press, January 6, 2009]
The Senate doesn’t reconvene until January 19th, the day of the special election. And then its only official business will be a pro forma session.
If Brown can pull off a long shot win, he’ll give Republicans the one crucial vote they need to kill the Democrats’ agenda that includes Obamacare—and possibly despite the mid-year election threats it poses, “comprehensive immigration reform”. Joe Guzzardi [email him] is a California native who recently fled the state because of over-immigration, over-population and a rapidly deteriorating quality of life. He has moved to Pittsburgh, PA where the air is clean and the growth rate stable. A long-time instructor in English at the Lodi Adult School, Guzzardi has been writing a weekly column since 1988. It currently appears in the Lodi News-Sentinel.

Dear Massachusetts Voter

A very timely post from http://www.hughhewitt.com/ on the special election to replace Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. For more interesting articles like this click here.

Dear Massachusetts Voter:
Long ago and far away, I was one of you.
I actually campaigned for Gerald Ford in Fall River, so I know what it is like to try and get an old JFK Democrat to even listen to an appeal from a Republican.

But especially if you are an old Democrat, you should be listening.
A vote for Scott Brown in the upcoming special election to fill Teddy Kennedy's seat for a brief period of time will save your Medicare.
You don't have to tell your family. You can pretend to have voted Democratic again. But if you want to save Medicare from the massive cuts that President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have planned, you need to vote for Scott Brown.
It isn't forever. In fact you can vote Scott Brown out very soon, and perhaps a Kennedy will even run in the next election and you can get the seat back into the family's hands. Sure, all the Kennedys are dutifully endorsing her, but you know they feel this is very wrong. This is the Kennedy seat, and if it passes out fo the family to another Democrat there's no telling when another one of the family will get back to the chamber which was once home to JFK, Bobby and Ted.
You don't really admire Coakley now, do you? She is part of Team Patrick, and they have done a worse job in the Bay State than President Obama has done nationally.
She hates the Red Sox. Well, maybe not, but she still is setting the worst example of any candidate in modern Massachusetts history by refusing to campaign and ask for your vote.
The key though is the message you can send to the D.C. Democratic elites. if you vote for Scott Brown, the message received in Washington will be loud and clear: The D.C. Democrats have gone to far to the left and are threatening FDR's legacy and the senior citizens the Democrats used to protect and serve.
Democrats are fleeing D.C. with Senators Dorgan and Dodd quitting just this week. But the hard left leadership simply won't listen, simply won't push the president back to the center.
To make that happen and stave off disaster for Medicare and for Democrats in the fall, the party needs a sharp slap in the face.
You can give them just that. Massachusetts can send a message heard not just in D.C. but around the world. Again.
Scott brown. Think about it.

THE PERFECT ALIBI ... I'LL DRINK TO THAT! (PART II) **BUMPED DUE TO ELECTIONS**

A timely insightful archived article from http://www.anncoulter.com/. Get the book that is referenced here http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17953392&referer=brief_results For more interesting articles like this, subsribe to this blog here.

THE PERFECT ALIBI ... I'LL DRINK TO THAT! (PART II)
September 7, 2005
In light of the fact that Sen. Teddy Kennedy feels lawyer-client privileged materials should be produced in the case of a public servant — such as John Roberts — we now continue with my imaginary version of Teddy's confidential communications with his lawyer the day after he drove Mary Jo Kopechne off a bridge at Chappaquiddick.
Interview with client Teddy Kennedy, July 19, 1969 (based on the facts in Leo Damore's book "Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up":
Lawyer: Let's get back to the night of the accident. Why didn't you call the police?
Teddy: Stop nagging me! Mary Jo was driving. I wasn't even in the car.
Lawyer: No, Teddy. People saw you leave the party together.
Teddy: I had spurned her sexual advances and the poor girl was distraught. That's probably why she drove off the bridge.

Lawyer: A police officer saw you behind the driver's wheel speeding toward the bridge with a blonde in the passenger seat shortly before the accident.

Teddy: I asked Mary Jo to take the wheel after realizing I was too drunk to drive.
Lawyer: Now I know you're lying. Teddy: How would that cop like a new NASA facility named after him?
Lawyer: You were soaking wet when you got back to the cottage.
Teddy: I went for a swim.
Lawyer: Fully clothed?
Teddy: I like to go for a little dip after a night of drinking and attempted extramarital sex. It clears my head.
Lawyer: There were any number of houses with lights on near the bridge. These are people who like you, Teddy — but they can't understand why you didn't ask them to call for help.
Teddy: I can't remember anything that happened that night! It seems like I was wandering for days, dizzy from the loss of oxygen after my heroic attempts to rescue Mary Jo. If you think about it, it was a lot like my brother Jack's rescue of his men on PT-109. He was driving when the ship got hit, and he didn't save all of them either. (Teddy singing now) The car was in, the Chappaquiddick bay, fearless man, who jumps and swims, a man who means, just what he says ...
Lawyer: What are you doing?
Teddy: It's a song I'm writing. I call it "The Ballad of Mary Jo."
Lawyer: You already told your confidant Paul Markham and your cousin Joseph Gargan the truth.
Teddy: Yes, get those names. They'll back me. Mary Jo was driving.
Lawyer: You're going to ask all these people to perjure themselves for you?
Teddy: I already have. They're balking of course, but I left them no choice.
Lawyer: What do you mean you've left them no choice?
Teddy: When they dropped me at the dock after they tried diving for Mary Jo, I told them I would report the accident the moment I got back to my hotel. But they knew I was lying. An hour went by and no police had come by to question them? They knew I hadn't reported it. They're as guilty as I am!
Lawyer: Well, arguably, you are more guilty, inasmuch as you drove off the bridge —
Teddy: Mary Jo was driving. And I've been drowning my sorrows ever since. Get it? "Drowning my sorrows"? Can I at least have a beer?
Lawyer: — and then you went to absurd lengths back at the hotel to create an alibi for yourself — drying off and changing clothes, making a point of complaining to the hotel owner about the noise from the next room even though everyone was sound asleep at that hour, asking the hotel owner to tell you what time it was.
Teddy: That was a nice touch, wasn't it?
Lawyer: How can you explain that behavior as anything other than trying to create an alibi? Teddy: Are you listening? I'm a married man! Mary Jo was a babe! I was drunk, speeding toward a secluded beach with her. Do you think we were going to look for seashells? Now how would that look?
Lawyer: Hey — what are you doing with that neck brace?
Teddy: Look! Now it's a hat! Hey — there aren't any cameras in here, are there?
Lawyer: I don't know how I'm going to get you out of this ...
Teddy: Do you know who I am? I am a Kennedy! JFK, Jackie O, Camelot, Prohibition-era rum-running Kennedy clan — any of that ring a bell? The judge is a Democrat, and the weenie DA keeps sending me mash notes promising not to prosecute. Ha ha! He must think I need a new chauffeur!
Lawyer: You are in a lot of trouble, Teddy. Teddy: I've got it all in hand. Hey, I'm feeling a little loaded. Which side of this neck brace is up? My press conference is in 10 minutes.

"Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up":

Part one was here http://brianleesblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/ted-kennedys-private-parts-part-i.html

TED KENNEDY'S PRIVATE PARTS: PART I ** BUMPED DUE TO ELECTIONS*#

A very interesting archived post from Ann Coulter at http://www.anncoulter.com/. I encourage read this since his former Senate seat is up for election and for you to click the links! For more interesting articles like this, subsribe to this blog here.

TED KENNEDY'S PRIVATE PARTS: PART I

August 31, 2005

Sen. Teddy Kennedy has demanded that the Bush administration waive attorney-client privilege and release internal memos John Roberts worked on while in the solicitor general's office 15 years ago, all of which were supposed to be held in the deepest confidence. Apparently, Kennedy thinks public officials have no right to keep even their attorney-client communications secret.

This surprised me because the senator is such a strong advocate of the (nonexistent) "right to privacy." And not just in the way most drunken, Spanish quiz-cheating, no-pants-wearing public reprobates generally cherish their own personal right to privacy. I mean privacy in the abstract.

I know as much about the "right to privacy" as I know about any other made-up, nonexistent right, but I would have thought that any "right to privacy" would protect confidential attorney-client conversations at least as much as, say, abortions in public buildings.But I'll have to defer to the expert.

Consequently, applying the principle even-handedly to members of the executive branch as well as the legislative branch, I demand that Kennedy immediately waive all attorney-client privilege relating to his communications with his lawyer after he drove Mary Jo Kopechne off the bridge at Chappaquiddick. It's time to clear up, once and for all, the many questions that have swirled around Kennedy since Chappaquiddick.

Oops — "swirled" may have been a poor choice of words there. How about "floated"?

Nope. "Surfaced"? Oooh — even worse, in terms of irony. "Come to light"? OK, now I'm just being obtuse. "Beset"? Yes, that's better. Youth is no defense. John Roberts was 26 years old when he wrote the documents that Kennedy demands on behalf of the Senate. Kennedy was 36 when he drove Mary Jo Kopechne off a bridge. If the Senate needs to know what Roberts thought about the law at age 26, then the Senate certainly needs to know what Kennedy thought about the law at age 36, when he drowned a girl and then spent the rest of the evening concocting an alibi instead of calling the police.

This isn't a "rehash" of Chappaquiddick; it's never been hashed. The Senate needs to know whether Kennedy was guilty of manslaughter. How else can the Senate be expected to carry out its constitutional duty to expel Kennedy unless Kennedy makes these key documents available?We'll pick them up in the same van we send to collect John Kerry's military records and Bill Clinton's medical records. While we wait, here's my guess as to what those attorney-client conversations sounded like, based on the facts in Leo Damore's book "Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up":

Interview with client Teddy Kennedy, July 19, 1969:

Teddy: May I approach the bench?

Lawyer: It's not a bench, Teddy. It's my desk. And no, you can't have another Chivas Regal. Teddy: (Hiccup)

Lawyer: Let's start at the beginning.

Teddy: I'm going to say you were driving.

Lawyer: No, you are not saying I was driving.

Teddy: OK, someone in your family was driving.

Lawyer: They weren't even in Massachusetts that week. Can we move on? Why didn't you call the police after the accident, Teddy?

Teddy: I had to protect my political career, obviously. But this wasn't just about me! I was thinking about future drunk, philandering U.S. senators who may or may not have just drowned some chick they met at a party.

Lawyer: But what about Mary Jo —

Teddy: Yes, precisely! How would it look if I, a United States senator, were driving off to a secluded beach at midnight with a beautiful, nubile female after a private party? How would that look?

Lawyer: But Mary Jo was still alive for two hours —

Teddy: Did I mention my wife was pregnant? You think I should have reported the accident now, Mr. Smartypants?

Lawyer: She was trapped in that car, struggling to breathe!

Teddy: Do you know that two of my brothers were assassinated?

Lawyer: She was still alive! You could have saved her!

Teddy: Yeah, and say goodbye to my presidential ambitions. There was the future of the country to consider — as well as the future of the Chivas Regal company and all their employees. I am a Kennedy. I have a divine right to the presidency. I had to put that ahead of my lawyer's conscience. Anyway, Mary Jo was driving.

Lawyer: Teddy, we can't say Mary Jo was driving.

Teddy: What if some phony witness claimed that the driver stopped to ask for directions. Wouldn't that prove it was a woman driving?Lawyer: But what about the witnesses?Teddy: We'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Hey, what's so funny? Did I just say something funny?

To be continued ...

Continued here http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=75

In Memoriam Senator Edward M. Kennedy—Joe’s Early Obituary **BUMPED DUE TO ELECTIONS**

Since Ted Kennedy's seat is up for election, it is good to remember his legacy. This article from http://www.vdare.com/ was published just before his death. To get more interesting stories like this, click here.

In Memoriam Senator Edward M. Kennedy—Joe’s Early Obituary

By Joe Guzzardi

When word leaked out that the Associated Press wrote Britney Spears’ obituary in December 2007, the news caused a minor debate among journalists. [Exclusive: The AP Has Written Britney Spears’ Obituary, US Magazine, January 17, 2008]

While writing early obits about famous figures like Frank Sinatra or Ted Williams who are old or in poor health is common, the feeling in some quarters is that premature death notices about young personalities like the 26-year-old Spears is ghoulish.

AP defended its action by correctly saying that the singer was an emotional wreck who could at any moment commit suicide or, given her terrible driving record, pile her car into a telephone pole.Obviously, Spears’ obituary was never published.

But I’m not going to let the risk of bad taste accusations stop me from posting my obituary of the still-living Edward M. Kennedy. I’m quite certain our loyal VDARE.COM readers will not be offended.Kennedy, of course, was the floor manager of the 1965 Immigration Act, which unleashed mass immigration again after a forty-year lull in which there was virtually no immigration at all. He gave the most explicit assurances that this would not happen, but it did, and he has never shown the least remorse. In fact, he was a key ally of the Bush Administration in its efforts to amnesty illegals and further expand legal immigration.

And over the span of several years, our letter writers have been at least as critical of Kennedy as VDARE.COM’s editorial collective.
Here’s a sampling.

A California lawyer recalled when Kennedy cheated on a basic Spanish test while a Harvard undergraduate.

A Maryland blogger reminded us that as much as Kennedy loves refugees, you won’t find any on Martha’s Vineyard.

A Colorado photographer found Kennedy’s philandering with women half his age disgusting

A New Jersey programmer speculated that Kennedy is one of few Americans who don’t have to wait in emergency rooms. His beloved illegal aliens have overcrowded hospital waiting rooms making delays inevitable for citizens

A Massachusetts reader confirmed that Kennedy didn’t have to wait—but her sister did.

A Michigan Roman Catholic wondered why Kennedy’s immigration enthusiasm wasn’t dampened when Sirhan Sirhan killed his brother Bobby.

An Arizona senior citizen doesn’t understand why Kennedy’s Senate colleagues admire him.

A Nevada reader thinks that Kennedy has little influence outside New England.

An Alabama reader called Kennedy a "bloated leech" and a "limousine liberal."

A Texas Reader said the Irish illegally in America who can’t get amnesty should blame Kennedy for his role in the 1965 Immigration Act that gave preference to the Third World residents over white Europeans.

By all accounts, Kennedy is near his end. The tabloids, chillingly accurate in their death predictions, give him a few weeks at the most.

One year ago when the announcement came that Kennedy’s inoperable brain tumor put him on the death watch list, immigration reform patriots found themselves in the awkward position of having compassion for a fellow human suffering from terminal cancer and quiet relief that one of our worst enemies would no longer take his Senate seat to vote in favor of keeping the alien floodgates open.

Not many of us, I’m sorry to surmise, prayed for Kennedy’s miraculous and speedy recovery.As I wrote in my May 2008 column, Kennedy has lived a blessed life that began at birth and continued right up to his last days. No matter Kennedy’s sexual, boozy transgressions, most Americans always found a way to forgive him.

Kennedy’s first political opponent, 1962 Senate candidate Edward McCormack summed up Teddy best: "If your name was simply Edward Moore instead of Edward Moore Kennedy, your candidacy would be a joke." [The Ascent of Ted Kennedy, Time Magazine, January 10, 1969]Only five years after Kennedy trounced McCormack, the new Senator’s wealth, fame and connections allowed him, infamously and unjustly, to avoid a vehicular manslaughter charge related to Mary Jo Kopechne’s tragic death. Kennedy’s plea to a lesser charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulted in a suspended sentence.During the four decades since Chappaquiddick, Kennedy has never been able to convince the public or investigative reporters to believe the hole-filled story he told the day afterwards. [Fortieth Anniversary of Mary Jo Kopechne’s Drowning at Chappaquiddick...Kennedy’s Story Still Doubtful, by Dave Gibson, Examiner.com, July 17, 2009]

While Mary Jo Kopechne is the female most often associated with Kennedy, she is not the only woman whose life he ended. His first wife Joan, an accomplished pianist with a master’s degree in education, also fell victim to Kennedy’s destructive ways.

Joan was part-time model used in television commercials by Coca-Cola and Revlon. Kennedy men nicknamed Joan "The Dish" because of her striking looks. But her sheltered upbringing in upscale Riverdale, NY did not prepare Joan for her future life as a Kennedy.

During her 24-year marriage, Joan miscarried three times including one child in the aftermath of the Chappaquiddick tragedy.

The cause of her third loss may have been that Joan, confined to bed during her latest pregnancy, nevertheless dutifully attended Kopechne’s funeral and Teddy’s court appearance three days later.Summarizing the Chappaquiddick experience that she believes started her deep personal decline, Joan told Laurence Leamer, the author of The Kennedy Women, "For a few months everyone had to put on this show, and then I just didn't care anymore. I just saw no future. That's when I truly became an alcoholic." [The Fall of Joan, by Michelle McPhee and Dave Wedge, Boston Magazine, August 2005]

What followed for Joan were several public incidents of drunkenness and DWIs. As a result of her ongoing struggles with alcohol, her three children were eventually granted legal guardianship.Since Joan’s parents had also been alcoholics, no one can determine with certainty what role Teddy may have played in Joan’s tragic downfall. But we can be sure that life with Teddy might have precipitated Joan’s decline from a young woman who was once described by Leamer as "a total innocent" to a falling-down street drunk.

I have written a frank account of Kennedy’s failings which mainstream posthumous tributes will gloss over.However, I must warn you that maudlin Kennedy obituaries have already started. Last month, HBO broadcast it 90-minute documentary titled Teddy: In His Own Words. In its promotion for the special HBO advertised it this way:"...deftly combines the Senator's own voice culled from past commentary, speeches and public and private sources with archival newsreel and television footage, iconic photographs and rarely seen archival footage, such as home movies and photographs, to tell the sweeping saga of Teddy Kennedy.

"What emerges is a portrait of a crusader who has kept his eye on the most important public goals, from civil rights and desegregation to minimum wage and health reform, despite a series of personal tragedies and crises."As the film shows, none of these setbacks derailed his career, and the rejuvenating bonds he shares with members of his illustrious family continue to this day."

If you share my interest in presidential political history, you’ll enjoy HBO’s perspective especially as it pertains to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.

And you’ll get a timely laugh out of Kennedy’s 1978 prediction that the Democrats under his leadership would bring national health care to Americans.

But to call Kennedy a "crusader," or a "minimum wage" and "civil rights activist" is ridiculously far off the mark.

Kennedy "crusaded" for illegal immigration (he promotes it in two different clips in the HBO special) which directly conflicts with the interests of working Americans and keeps the minimum wage at artificially low levels.

Illegal immigration also hurt black Americans by limiting their access to blue collar jobs. That’s hardly the route a true civil rights "crusader" would take.

In addition, Kennedy voted for every non-immigrant worker visa bill put in front of him.

And as far as Kennedy’s "illustrious family" goes, VDARE.COM readers have weighed on this subject also.

A retired New York government worker found Caroline Kennedy sorely lacking in all respects in her thwarted Senate bid.

A New York accountant pointed out that Caroline’s cousin Patrick, an eight-term Rhode Island U.S. Representative, has an F immigration grade.

As Kennedy nears the end of his life, our objective is first to steel ourselves against the mawkish propaganda that will follow his death.

The task will be challenging. But we can take comfort in knowing that while Kennedy may have fooled Massachusetts voters and his Democratic Senate cronies, we’ve known the truth all along.

Joe Guzzardi [email him] is a California native who recently fled the state because of over-immigration, over-population and a rapidly deteriorating quality of life. He has moved to Pittsburgh, PA where the air is clean and the growth rate stable. A long-time instructor in English at the Lodi Adult School, Guzzardi has been writing a weekly column since 1988. It currently appears in the Lodi News-Sentinel.