HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A nephew of the late President John F. Kennedy is asking Connecticut’s Republican candidate for Senate to pull her political advertisement featuring the former president talking about tax cuts, saying it is misleading to voters.
A two-page letter from Edward M. Kennedy Jr., obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, says Linda McMahon “distorts the legacy of President Kennedy in order to mislead voters into thinking” that he would have supported her position on tax policy.
Kennedy, the son of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, lives in Connecticut. A message left at his office seeking comment were not immediately returned.
McMahon’s 30-second spot features grainy footage from 1963 of Kennedy discussing the importance of tax cuts. A message seeking comment with McMahon’s campaign was not immediately returned.
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wingedwolf
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:46amView this link, you won’t be sorry. Please pass it around, people need to hear this young conservative Black man.
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SummerB
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:08amWingedWolf, I apologize for calling you Wingnut in an above reply! lol! That‘s what happens when I’m rushing.
Anyway, your links are superb! I just subscribed to this channel as this guy is WONDERFUL. What a wealth of info. he supplies. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Report Post »pgkwiltr
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 12:22amYou’re right, SummerB – What a great guy!! Thanks, Wingedwolf for the referral! FABULOUS!!!
Report Post »staythecourse
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:42amDon’t see what the problem is … Kennedy called for tax cuts … what’s “Ed’s:” problem. This is historical fact…maybe he needs to brush up on his political history.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:27amIf Ms. McMahon is telling the truth, if her plan is substantially similar to what Pres. Kennedy says in the video, then she is well within her or any American’s right to use it. I love and respect the Kennedys for their service to this country, but the fact that John F. Kennedy was a president gives him to ALL of us, There is nothing about President Kennedy’s name or image which belongs solely to the family, with all due respect, concerning any PUBLIC statement he made, or private moment he allowed us to see. (like John-John under the desk in the oval office.)
Report Post »Amerigo Vespucci
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:00am“Every dollar released from taxation” is the perfect way to say this. What BHO says is that we are “giving manoey back to the taxpayers” with a tax cut. WRONG, you can’t give us what is already ours. You are simply taking less money (at the barrel of a gun I maight add) from us by extending the Bush tax cuts.
Report Post »jcessna
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 6:50amIf it’s working I guess they believe you have to blast it.
Report Post »AndrewOH
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 6:11amWhy are all the Kennedys so against liberty?
Report Post »DagneyT
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 5:49amThis guy has caused both his dad and his uncle to spin in their graves, I’m sure. He will have to answer to his Maker for his life of substance abuse, and corruption. For him to be given any credence is a waste of band width.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 5:19amThe young Mr. Kennedy apparently doesn’t want anyone to see what a physical conservative his uncle was. I say physical conservative because his personal lifestyle was definitely NOT conservative.
Report Post »t00nces2
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:46amMarylou7… I don’t want to be branded a grammer policeman, and I don’t want you to take this the wrong way, but, the word is “fiscal”… relating to money.
Report Post »Mahna Mahna
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 4:46amThat pesky Kennedy and his radical, right-wing conspiracies.
Report Post »mailman
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 3:49amYeah,the truth is misleading.
Report Post »diesel71dan
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 3:35amI wonder if the Dems think JFK sounds like a racist, homophobic, nazi right wing extremist for saying the same thing we have been saying.
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 3:02amOne of America’s greatest Presidents was right then as he would still be right today.
Report Post »To think that this impostor, this phony, this fraud Obama, and it sickens me to even type or mention his name, to think that this criminal, played on and ran in the primaries on the back of the Kennedy’s even allowing himself to be compared to JFK and MLK. This weasel was even compared to Gandhi and Mandala along with Jesus Christ, by a left winged media that colluded through the group of what was called Politicol to push by persuasion Obama into the White House. they got their wished for Messiah, and the United States of America got the shaft. Barack Obama you are no John Fitzgerald Kennedy, you aren’t even worthy of the title President let alone a civic organizer.
ladybass
Posted on September 24, 2010 at 7:21amRight on Brother!
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 2:42am…how do you distort a speech like that?
I want to vote for JFK now.
Today JFK would be THROWN OUT by the Democrats as a radical extremist.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 2:30amAsk not what your video can do for you,
Report Post »ask what you can do with a video
usualsuspect
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:17amlol very well put thanks for a good laugh the best I have heard today
Report Post »Sunnyr
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 2:19amTell the nephew to go suck eggs. JFK was the first Democrat to use tax cuts to stimulate the economy. It worked for JFK and for Reagan and for Bush. It will even work for this insufferable Bozo if he’s smart enough to extend the Bush tax cuts to EVERYONE.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 2:14amObama’s spin , tomorrow morning on MSNBC, mouthed by Mika and her Mr Big : :
” That clip of Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday to JFK ? Never happened . It is a vast right wing conspiracy. Thats not even Marilyn Monroe. Its Anna Nicole Smith in that video . Fox news put that vid out because they lie ”
What ? Think it can’t happen ?? Watch Morning’s Flo tomorrow ..
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MAD COW
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 2:05amVideo facts will save the republic.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 2:05amSo the new Kennedy is saying that the old Kennedy was a “ tax and spend” liberal ?
Report Post »Can he prove it ?
Damage6
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:50amIf JFK were an aspiring polititian today with the same policy views he held then he would be ran out of the DNC with pitchforks and torches.
Report Post »Smith357
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:30amSort of like what the progressives (aka socialists) did to Joe Lieberman
Report Post »Skwerl E. Muckenfutch
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 3:31pmHe would be called Ronald Reagan.
Report Post »av8trx
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:55pmSadly, I believe with all my heart that the DNC had him killed to start implementing their marxist plans that Kennedy didn’t support.
Report Post »VJ
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:37amDear Ed,
Uhhh… Ed.
McMahon approved of “Unck’s” message.
Love Homer
Report Post »NotaLemming
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:36amHow ti must boil their blood. The Liberals and progressives hate it when history and facts get in the way of their LIES, Propaganda and Democrat disinformation.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:35amHow is that misleading?? The words did come out of his mouth and I believe them to be a good idea. (Except the part about “right tax cut”, I would have like to hear what he meant.)
Report Post »DMD
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:47amThey are going to say he mispoke because it lets the hot air out of their ballon.
Report Post »R U Kidding Me
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:32amJust goes to show you how far Dems have move toward socialist when one of their own (past presidents) speaks like a Tea Party Candidate.
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:20amI don’t think anyone can say t better than that! LOL
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:15amOh my, Regressivees tried so had to find that last JFK clip, but thank GOD it fell into the hands of a republican!
Report Post »O my how times have changed “demoncrats”, and you too sold out “Republicthugs”. Anyone on the sell out America platform, wake up America has.
wingedwolf
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:20amBLAZE PEOPLE: Go to BQI’s blog and watch the video entitled: “Tea Party Member Stuns Crowd.” It is absolutely guaranteed to warm your heart and make you proud to be an American (even prouder.) You go BQI!
Report Post »wingedwolf
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 8:24amSORRY BLAZE PEOPLE!! LOL BQI’s blog is http://www.blackquillandink.com
Report Post »SummerB
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 9:51amWingnut, that’s so much for this sterling link!!! I’m gonna save it for future use as an example in response to White Tea Party members being rascist (as the speaker is black with a whole white audience listening to him) & the fact that the speaker is a black man. :)
Report Post »HONORQUEST
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 10:02amWingedwolf–
That was AWESOME!!! Thanks for making my morning!
Report Post »carol m
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 1:10amGood ! It’s about time they a**holes god their words shoved down their throats.
Report Post »PostProgressiveAmerican
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 2:38amKennedy was right, as was Reagan and every other president who ‘got it;’ lower taxes, smaller government and less regulation are the way to fix the economy.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 4:38amUmm….. how is this message distorted? Im not following the nephew Kennedy on this one.
Report Post »PostProgressiveAmerican
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 5:10amIn fairness, Kennedy did say “…in the absence of an economic crisis today…” (see the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEdXrfIMdiU)…but of course, we are told that the recession was over in June 2009 , so I guess his comments applly :)
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 7:07amThe point is he would do tax cuts. There is always a crisis, whether real or manufactured, in this administration.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 11:13amI am pro choice when it comes to my earnings, I choose to spend them as i see fit. others do like the government taking my money and spending it on them. That is the fight at its’ simple terms. Most people on this site can’t believe there are people out there that like government control , but the truth is there are huge numbers of people that love government nanny control
Report Post »Compete or Lose
Posted on September 23, 2010 at 6:07pmI remember JFK—Many of you do not, but act as if you voted for him. THe reality is that JFK would probably be a Rebublican in todays environment. He hated communism and socialism and was nearly willing to go to war against Cuba/Soviets to prove his belief. He ordered a naval blockade to make his point. He supported legislation to lower tax rates………
Be careful young people when you speak of democratic leaders from the past.
RGS
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