LOVE, TEDDY

“And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. … We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave-masters”.”–Ronald Reagan, 1964

Via Sweetness and Light, the head of the KGB discusses Ted Kennedy’s offer of collaboration with Chairman Yuri Andropov: :

SPECIAL IMPORTANCE
Committee on State Security [KGB] of the USSR
14.05. 1983 No. 1029 Ch/OV
Moscow

Re: Senator Kennedy’s request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party, Comrade Yuri V. Andropov

Comrade Andropov,

On 9-10 May of this year, Senator Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant J. Tunney was in Moscow. The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Center Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.

Senator Kennedy, like other rational people, is very troubled by the current state of Soviet-American relations. Events are developing such that this relationship coupled with the general state of global affairs will make the situation even more dangerous. The main reason for this is Reagan’s belligerence, and his firm commitment to deploy new American middle range nuclear weapons within Western Europe.

The Soviets had a huge, huge advantage in these missiles; leaving it in place only made war more likely and their continuing criminal occupation of Eastern Europe more tenable. (Funny how we rarely heard the Soviets described as an “occupier”, except perhaps in Germany.)

According to Kennedy, the current threat is due to the President’s refusal to engage any modification on his politics. He feels that his domestic standing has been strengthened because of the well publicized improvement of the economy: inflation has been greatly reduced, production levels are increasing as is overall business activity. For these reasons, interest rates will continue to decline. The White House has portrayed this in the media as the “success of Reaganomics.”…

Even Ted Kennedy and the Kremlin were unable to deny the success of Reaganomics, at least when speaking secretly among themselves. When you want to revive an economy, you do Reaganomics. When you want to keep an economy in crisis to reorder it, you do Obamanomics.

1. Kennedy asks Y.V. Andropov to consider inviting the senator to Moscow for a personal meeting in July of this year. The main purpose of the meeting, according to the senator, would be to arm Soviet officials with explanations regarding problems of nuclear disarmament so they may be better prepared and more convincing during appearances in the USA. …

2. Kennedy believes that in order to influence Americans it would be important to organize in August-September of this year, televised interviews with Y.V. Andropov in the USA. A direct appeal by the General Secretary to the American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention and interest in the country. The senator is convinced this would receive the maximum resonance in so far as television is the most effective method of mass media and information.

If the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y.V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interview. Specifically, the president of the board of directors of ABC, Elton Raul and television columnists Walter Cronkite or Barbara Walters could visit Moscow. The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side. …

Amazing; Kennedy wished to join in a propaganda campaign with the Soviets aimed at his own countrymen; a Radio Free Hyannis.

Kennedy is very impressed with the activities of Y.V. Andropov and other Soviet leaders, who expressed their commitment to heal international affairs, and improve mutual understandings between peoples.

Sounds like “Hope and Change: The Prequel”. Kennedy thought Reagan was a warmonger and Andropov a trustworthy peacenik. But then, Kennedy thought Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were right-wingers.

The senator underscored that he eagerly awaits a reply to his appeal, the answer to which may be delivered through Tunney. …

We await instructions.

President of the [KGB]
V. Chebrikov

The late Michael Kelly:

The last Kennedy had so few choices, really. He was born to be the baby of the family, not the patriarch; the fourth brother, not the only one; the also-Kennedy, not the President Kennedy. When he was a chubby-cheeked little boy, the family was packed with grown-ups. They all went away. Joseph junior died when Teddy was 12. Kathleen died when he was 16. Jack died when he was 31. Bobby died when he was 36. The king himself, Joe senior, died when he was 37.

“To be truly human,” Ted Kennedy once said, “is to shape your own world.” And he has, far more than most men dream of, done just that. He has made laws. He has been at the front of sweeping change, improving the lives of many people. He has helped perpetuate a dynasty. The truth is, however, the world shapes us far more than we shape it. The truth is, the forces of the world—the rules of primogeniture, the warp of genetics and the woof of environment, the killing power of bullets and the grip of alcohol—shaped Ted Kennedy and shape him still. It is the sad irony of his life that while he has wrought his will on the world at large he remains unable still to control his own life. He started out in this world dangling from strings held by his father and his brothers. They’re gone now, but Teddy dangles still, dancing to the echoes of an old and tired tune.

You can almost see the personal foibles–anybody would be messed up if their three brothers were killed by Nazis trying to conquer Europe, Communists trying to conquer Latin America and Palestinian terrorists trying to conquer Israel, a perfect trifecta of 20th-century evil.

But why then cave in to Europe-occupying, Communist sponsors of terror?

Perhaps Teddy soured on America after such a high price was extracted from his family. But Jack Kennedy would have never helped the North Vietnamese win, and he would have never, NEVER made such an offer to the Soviets. Never.

For example, as Baldilocks knows from her own family history, there is the JFK/Obama connection, via the Mboya airlifts:

The two men met at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass., on July 26, 1960. Kennedy later said that the family was initially “reluctant” to support [Mboya's] program because of other commitments but eventually agreed to provide $100,000 because it was impossible to raise the funds elsewhere. …

Vice President Richard M. Nixon, determined not to be outdone by his Democratic rival for the White House, persuaded the State Department to drop its long-standing refusal to fund the program. The head of the Nixon campaign “truth squad,” Sen. Hugh Scott, accused Kennedy of attempting to “outbid the U.S. government” in a “misuse of tax-exempt foundation money for blatant political purposes.” Kennedy responded by accusing the Nixon campaign of “the most unfair, distorted and malignant attack that I have heard in 14 years in politics.” …

The former executive director of the African-American Students Foundation, Cora Weiss, said some of the money provided by the Kennedys was used to pay off old debts and subsidize student stipends. Even though Obama Sr. arrived the previous year, he and other members of the 1959 cohort benefited indirectly from Kennedy family support.

Nixon hated the fact that those smarty-pants Eastern Kennedys could write their own check and thereby gain an electoral advantage. This resentment contributed to Watergate, where, rightly or wrongly, Nixon thought he was just getting even with all the dirty tricks played on him by the Kennedys.

But the point is, both Kennedy and Nixon liked the program. Why? Because it was an effort to exert a pro-American influence on the upcoming leadership of the Third World and STEER THEM AWAY FROM COMMUNISM! Not write them mash notes!

Unfortunately, Barack Obama, Sr. embraced Marxism before he even arrived in America and married a socialist college student, just the first two in a long, long line of influential socialists in Barack Obama’s life.

There has been much talk of Obama as the Fifth Kennedy brother–but Ted rejected the anti-communism of his own brothers, while recognizing a kindred spirit in Obama.

For example, after Reagan’s SDI speech, Teddy took to the senate floor and to the Soviet’s delight, denounced it as “misleading Red-scare tactics and reckless Star Wars schemes.”

Barack Obama is now in charge of that SDI program and wants to slash it by 15% while at the same time completely cancelling our F-22 program, practically the only government spending he has seen fit to slash. A kindred spirit, indeed.

The “fifth brother”? No way.

The “second Teddy”? Sadly, it looks like it. Buckle up.