Why is Senator Edward M. Kennedy called "Teddy"?
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Because he's like a big fat fluffy bear who's full of shit.
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EDWARD CHARLES ABBOTT was born in England in 1860. He came to the United States as a baby with his parents who settled in Lincoln, Nebraska. At that time, Nebraska was full of Texas cattle and Texas cowboys heading north. It was here that young Teddy Abbott joined the early trail-drives heading north to Montana.\n\nTeddy Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1980's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were intended to stock the northern ranges. He punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory. He later married a daughter of Granville Stewart, the wealthy and famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years, Edward Abbott was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue".
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seeing's how they are BOTH from Mass-of-two-sh**ts, it COULD be a tie.  Both "men" are from wealthy families and have NEVER worked a friggin' day in their sorry lives.  Teddy, WHEN he shows up for "work", is usually 3 sheets to the wind.  Just listen to an audio when he was on the house and no one was there, he kept saying "Hello?  Hello?  Teddy's inbred clan made their fortune dishonestly by being bootleggers.  They all get away with murder and we all KNOW they get away with murder. Soo, maybe NOT Teddy. AND he is NOT allowed on Nantucket anymore because of unpaid bills, yup he REALLY cares about "the people" Lets look at Live Shot Kerry....\n\nMmmm, marries money.  When a richer, crazier woman comes along, he dumps the frump and marries the nut.  He owns multi-million mansions through out the country, plays on Nantucket Island when he SHOULD be WORKING, he has one of the poorest attendance records for a Senator, his absent for his "party" when critical votes on things like GAY MARRIAGE come up.  Just so he won't look like a hypocrit that can't make up his mind " I was FOR it before I was AGAINST it" ( and they think GW sounds dumb!) He had a fire hydrant removed from his street in Boston so TERAZAAHHH could park her Mercedes or SUV, which ever she felt like driving that day....and DON'T get me STARTED on the Purple Heart story. Speaking of which, why di dhe NEVER allow his service record made public??? .So, actually it CAN'T be Live Shot..\n\nMust BE GORE!  We ALL know he CARES about ALL of us,  he wants to put us ALL in tiny little batery operated cars! They will be awesome vehicles here in Maine in the winter! Hoo boy, I can't wait!  So it would have to be Algore!
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Ted Kennedy is nothing but Politics.  I do not understand how Massachusetts keeps voting for him when he is nothing but a blowhard.  He should be in prison not running in the senate.
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No, they are of Irish descent (i think) but they are often compared to royalty in America. Jackie O was our first lady of style and is often likened to Princess Diana because of her elegance and tastefulness.\nThe Kennedy's also have their fair share of scandal and notoriety which leads to a certain "celebrity" status...\nOverall, they are very dignified for all that they have had to deal with: murder, drug and alcohol addiction, media bashing, and conspiracies (more against them than by them).\n\nRoyalty is often best seen in a persons handling of adversity and the Kennedy's continue to excel in that department. One of them (Ted, i think) just graciously accepted the fact that he is an addict and would need treatment for it to get better... something that his conservative counterparts would never dream of doing.\nI believe that is more admirable than blue blood.
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Teddy Roosevelt.\nJFK was the youngest President to ever be elected.  But Teddy Roosevelt was 6 months younger when he took office due to the President's assassination.
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It's more of a Bill Clinton/Ted Kennedy song
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In 1960, Kennedy declared his intent to run for President of the United States. In the Democratic primary election, he faced challenges from Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, and Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic nominee in 1952 and 1956 who was not officially running but was a favorite write-in candidate. Kennedy won key primaries like Wisconsin and West Virginia. In the latter state, Kennedy made a visit to a coal mine, and talked to the mine workers to win their support, as most people in that conservative, mostly Protestant state were deeply suspicious about Kennedy being a Catholic. Kennedy emerged as a universally acceptable candidate for the party after that victory.\n\nKennedy is also the first and only Roman Catholic ever to become President, the first president to serve who was born in the 20th century, the last to die while still in office, the last Democrat from the North to be elected, and the last to be elected while serving in the U.S. Senate. Kennedy died the youngest of any U.S. president, at 46 years and 177 days, when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
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Your right, I'm sorry to say.  Ted Kennedy who the American people have honored for so many years, it's coming out how he is selling us out by his fantasy politics.  Yes, it was he who in 1965 got the ball rolling for where we are today with the colonization of America.  He will be a powerful senator as long as he lives.\n\nWhen Ted stopped loving his country and others more, I don't know.  I'm sorry to say his legacy will not be that of his brothers.  Even if he dies somewhere between 20 to 50 years from now, he will be credited with our next civil war by colonization.  His brothers will be remembered for stopping communists from our shores and fighting crime for the better of America.  Ted will be remembered as the one who opened the door and fell asleep and America will have to fight for her independece once again.\n\nMexico should start erecting statues for him right now if they haven't already as the politician that welcomed colonization with open arms and will lead them to victory, not us.
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Teddy and his own wife,Eleanor.
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Most likely his celebrity status. Americans have shown a huge fondness for voting for famous people which is why a lot of sports people go into politics after their careers have ended. It's called 'name recognition'.
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You left out Ted Kennedy...he allowed a woman to suffocate to death in the back seat of his car.
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Even if you didn't turn in a terrorist, your name could be on the no-fly list.  A terrorist thought it would be cute to use the name Ted Kennedy until the feds started to close in on him.  Now Senator Kennedy must undergo a thorough screening before he is allowed to conduct business on behalf of America.\nMoreover, if you could have turned in a terrorist but didn't and their bomb killed children...\ncould you live with that?
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I don't get it.  You're running over my house with an army tank in hand?  How do you carry something that big?  How does Teddy Ruxpin step over a two story building anyway?  I've seen him, he's small.\n\nWhy would a small teddy bear charging over my roof on foot harm me?\n\nAre answers like this why Teddy is so obsessed with killing us humans? :p
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It's bigots like you that forget to look at yourself in the mirror in the morning, and say I really do suck. Ted Kennedy is a Saint compared to George Bush. Stabbing th Kennedy's isn't going to get you anywhere NEO_CON because your party is going down. The Latinos will have a stronger party than you will in America.
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Probably Kennedy, because he got the space race started and made it so that we can say that we landed on the moon.\n\nJust to give a little factual info, they have done studies and the open space for more figures on Mt. Rushmore are unusable as they are too unstable and would break off.
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This is an easy one.  It's because everything Dems portray themselves as is a facade, a Potempkin Village.  They're all about themselves and gathering further wealth and power.  If that's not true, then why does Teddy "Fast Swimming" Kennedy oppose the off-shore wind farm?  Cheap power, good for the environment.  But we can't have that because it would impede upon his yachting.  And if they're sooooo for the poor, why don't they pitch in some of their tens of millions of dollars?  Or at least stop sticking all their millions in off-shore tax shelters?  They're hypocrites.  At least the Republicans are living in reality and are more honest about who they are.