Good old Teddy

[Andy]

Got a letter in the mail yesterday from good old Teddy Kennedy. Teddy?s asking for money and says, ?In the campaign ahead, the full resources of the Republican party will be unleashed against me? and so I must enlist the help of generous people like you to meet this threat.? He went on to say, ?I need you at my side because you've seen the kind of bare-knuckled campaign the Bush Republicans are capable of running.? (I was around in 1960. The Kennedy?s invented dirty tricks.)

He goes on to say some of the terrible things the president and his nasty cohorts want to do and that he needs to stop them.

1. Safeguarding Social Security from Republican privatization plans that would gamble retirees? savings in the stock market.
(But I thought changes in SS would only affect people born after 1950? Retirees? can?t move their money into stocks even if they want to.)

2. Rewarding the hard work and sacrifice of millions of Americans by raising the minimum wage.
(But thousands of small businesses have said they won?t be able to hire high school kids for summer jobs if the minimum wage is increased. Who else gets minimum wage except for illegal aliens?)

3. Building a fairer society by working for equal rights and guaranteed civil liberties for our citizens.
(In Massachusetts if a white man gets a 100 on a civil service test and a woman or minority gets a 70, the white guy {without military service} is put at the bottom of the list. Does that make our society fairer?) The letter goes on and on and on.

Sent him a reply saying I might think about a contribution but not until he votes for the confirmation of Judge John Roberts. (Yah know, I think I used the name John Roberts the first time Kathy and me rented a motel room.

Stay healthy,
Andy