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September 1st, 2008 by Rich Szabo

Barry Sotero’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was underwhelming to say the least.

He referred to the Kennedy’s 4 times, Marty King once. His entire campaign thus far has been a clone of the Kennedy campaign of 1960 from the way he dresses, struts his stuff, acts like a rock star, giving a speech in Berlin and to cap it off, giving his acceptance sermon in a stadium just as Kennedy did in 1960.

What gets me is his first paragraph thanking everyone who helped him get to where he is:

“Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and especially the one who traveled the farthest — a champion for working Americans and an inspiration to my daughters and to yours — Hillary Rodham Clinton. To President Clinton, who last night made the case for change as only he can make it; to Ted Kennedy, who embodies the spirit of service; and to the next Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you. I am grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night.”

Let’s break this down:

Bill Clinton – here’s a guy who is an impeached president, was implicated in his brother Roger’s drug arrest. (Feb 2004) , gave Presidential Pardons to the following people in his last month in office: Department of Justice List of Clinton Pardons.

Hillary is just as bad. She has over the years lied about just about everything under the sun.

Hillary simply cannot tell the truth. Here’s her scorecard:

Admitted Lies

• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn’t cover the market back then.)

Lies She Won’t Confess To

• She didn’t know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn’t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn’t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn’t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the ’90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).

Ted Kennedy – a drunken murderer who has never held a real job in his life. Ted’s Father amassed a fortune through illegal activity (bootlegging) and unscrupulous stock market speculation; and how he used his money and connections with organized crime to influence both the media and the American political establishment.

Ted managed to graduate from prep school (Milton Academy) in 1950 with only a C average.
Teddy was never a scholar, and his brother Jack once referred to him as “the gay illiterate”.

Despite his terrible grades, Teddy (like brother Robert) was admitted to Harvard as a “legacy”, because his older brothers and father had graduated form there with such distinction.

Yet even at Harvard, young Ted floundered.
In his sophomore year he was expelled for cheating. He had been failing Spanish and feared it would keep him off the varsity football team.
He paid a friend to take the exam for him.
Ted’s friend, however, was recognized when he turned in the exam book.

Both lads were expelled, but were advised that they could apply for readmission in a year if they demonstrated responsible citizenship.
It was a shame and disgrace, but the family would manage to keep it a secret until Teddy ran for the Senate.

After his expulsion from Harvard, Teddy returned to Hyannis Port where he would sit brooding, sometimes for hours.
Finally, he enlisted in the Army.
Not surprisingly, he did not bother to read the enlistment papers and signed up for four years instead of two.
Ted’s father, the US Ambassador to England, was horrofied at the thought of his youngest son spending four years in the service, with a good chance of being sent into combat in Korea.
“Don’t you ever look at what you’re signing?” he shouted.

With one phone call Joe contacted a friend who managed to get hold of Teddy’s enlistment papers.
Ted’s enlistment period was shortened to two years, a maneuver that was nearly impossible for the average enlistee. Furthermore, Ted would do his service in Europe, not Korea.

Teddy never rose above the rank of private, and was discharged in 1952.
He returned to Harvard in the fall of 1953, as did his test-taking friend, and they graduated together.

Once back at Harvard, Teddy made the rugby team. During one match in 1954, Ted got into three fistfights with opposing players and was finally thrown out of the game. According to referee Frederick Costick, Teddy was the only player he had ever expelled from a game in thirty years of officiating. “Rugby is a character-building sport,” Costick said. “Players learn how to conduct themselves on the field with the idea that they will learn how to conduct themselves in life. When a player loses control of himself three times in a single afternoon, to my mind, that is a sign that, in a crisis, the man is not capable of thinking clearly and acting rationally. Such a man will panic under pressure.”

Of course, years later, in the crisis at Chappaquiddick, Teddy would do exactly that.

In 1957, Ted entered the University of Virginia Law School.
The warning signs of trouble would continue. While in law school, Ted would earn the nickname “Cadillac Eddie”. He was cited four times for reckless driving (three times in 1958 and once in 1959). These violations included running red lights and driving with his lights off at ninety miles per hour in a suburban area. Teddy was convicted of three violations and fined, but for some reason his driver’s license was never revoked.

And last but not least Joey “The Plagerist” Biden:

Biden was forced out of the 1988 presidential race — he officially dropped out on Sept. 23, 1987 — just when his candidacy seemed to be taking off in Iowa, the all-important first caucus, and just as he seemed to be gaining on Michael Dukakis, the eventual nominee.

A Dukakis staffer noticed and fed to Maureen Dowd, then a New York Times reporter rather than columnist, that Biden had lifted almost verbatim his closing remarks at a debate at the Iowa state fairgrounds in August 1987. The lines were lifted from a passionate speech delivered by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.

Biden got in trouble in 1965, during his first year in law school. He wrote a paper in which he lifted five pages verbatim from the Fordham Law Review. He was given an “F” in the course. He managed to avoid being bounced from law school, retook the course and earned a B.

• He claimed that he was “the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship.” He didn’t. He did have a half scholarship that was need-based.

• He claimed he graduated in the top half of his class. He did not graduate from law school in the top half of his class. He graduated 76th out of 85 — and he was near the bottom of his class all three years.

• He said he won the moot court competition — and he claimed at the time that he actually did — he did not put it on his resume, surprising for a man prone to so egregiously exaggerating his accomplishments.

• He did not win the award for being the outstanding student in the political science department at Delaware, and he graduated with one degree, not three. He had a “C” average and graduated 506th in a class of 688.

Here’s a ticket of Barry and Joey running for the two highest offices in this country. Where is the integrity? Do we really want people like this and the people they thank for getting them to where they are running our country?

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