Ted Kennedy, Part 5: "Why do you want to be president?"

From fumbled start to ringing finish, it was the one simple question by Roger Mudd that the senator could never quite answer in his failed 1980 campaign for the White House. Series produced by Ann Silvio; chapter by Ann Silvio and Scott LaPierre, Feb. 18, 2009

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[jksonny]

He didn't have an answer b/c he couldn't give his real answer: "Because I'm a Kennedy and I'm entitled to it."

[tubub]

im registered republican.

[mywotzone]

The only reason why anyone has made it is because Ted Kennedy continued to raise the minimum wage over & over otherwise you'd be a broke redneck living in Texas....

[otho crowbar]

just saw your amusing post..yes jr.. I'm very much self made. unlike your hero here. born into the Kennedy dynasty. He never did an honest days work in his life. I toast his demise as I did Arlin Spector.. I need no bureaucrat dictating to me on any level. I pay my taxes, my own health care insurance. I put three kids through college by PLANNING for it. Not planning on a hand out from anyone.. right wing bull shitter..amusing again..self made chump rich. done well ..owe nobody a thing.

[mywotzone]

If hitler was doing what was right for 99% of the country then yes... Unfortunately gasing 6,000,000 jews disqualifies him from that.

[wyomingmali]

You would have loved Hitler,Stalin, and Mao.

[wyomingmali]

Classic deer in the headlights look by Kennedy after he gets the question.

Bottom line: after Chappaquiddick, he had no business running for public office, let alone becoming president. It took the lemming-like, know-nothing voters of Mass. to keep sending this morally bankrupt man back to the Senate.

[mywotzone]

And i dont give a shit if he drove a car off the side of a bridge with a car full of whores in it.... I don't care if he was a nazi and gased jews , what are you doing on policy thats why hes in office... His history , past hasn't got dick to do with anything....

[mywotzone]

No his legacy is helping poor and working people.... You're not self made shit.... Its pretty easy to pickup that you're a right wing bullshitter...

[otho crowbar]

my life is better because a former incumbent rich boy senator made it that way??.. in your dreams pal. Unlike Kennedy, I'm a self made man. I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth as he was. I also didn't drive a car off a bridge and leave a woman to drown as he did.. that is his legacy.. facts are stubborn things. your comment tells me your the really stupid one for even defending the prix

[Steven Tan]

LIke fox news watchers are really informed.

[iceaxe56]

Well he said he was---i guess he knows