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ORIGINAL: tamaka

I just learned about this and wondered whether i'm the only one who had no idea about it.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/10/ted-kennedy-secretly-asked-the-soviets-to-intervene-in-the-1984-elections/

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

I just learned about this and wondered whether i'm the only one who had no idea about it.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/10/ted-kennedy-secretly-asked-the-soviets-to-intervene-in-the-1984-elections/

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

It'd bad if a Democrat does it, but perfectly acceptable if a Republican does it.
Like everything else...

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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods

It's certainly a bit late to punish Ted Kennedy now, put it that way.
But then this thread isn't really about that, is it? It's just another case of a Trumptooner screaming that the nasty Democrats did that first, so why can't they stop picking on the cheeto fuhrer?

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Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.

“On 9-10 May of this year,” the May 14 memorandum explained, “Sen. Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow.” (Tunney was Kennedy’s law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) “The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov.”

Kennedy’s message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. “The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations,” the memorandum stated. “These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.”

Kennedy made Andropov a couple of specific offers.

First he offered to visit Moscow. “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.” Kennedy would help the Soviets deal with Reagan by telling them how to brush up their propaganda.

Then he offered to make it possible for Andropov to sit down for a few interviews on American television. “A direct appeal … to the American people will, without a doubt, attract a great deal of attention and interest in the country. … 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 interviews. … The senator underlined the importance that this initiative should be seen as coming from the American side.”

Kennedy would make certain the networks gave Andropov air time–and that they rigged the arrangement to look like honest journalism.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

I just learned about this and wondered whether i'm the only one who had no idea about it.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/10/ted-kennedy-secretly-asked-the-soviets-to-intervene-in-the-1984-elections/

Oh, hell - alt left trash has always worked with our enemies. Remember Fonda in 'Nam? Then they get all bug-eyed and hypocritical over fake news of a Republican... What. Joking about having Russia help locate Hillary's illegally deleted emails

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

So wait... now collaborating with Russia is a bad thing?

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: tamaka

I just learned about this and wondered whether i'm the only one who had no idea about it.

http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/10/ted-kennedy-secretly-asked-the-soviets-to-intervene-in-the-1984-elections/

Oh, hell - alt left trash has always worked with our enemies. Remember Fonda in 'Nam? Then they get all bug-eyed and hypocritical over fake news of a Republican... What. Joking about having Russia help locate Hillary's illegally deleted emails

So Russia is an enemy again?

You guys change your mind every few hours.

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

So wait... now collaborating with Russia is a bad thing?

Only when it is a rumor about a Republican.
The evidence that Russia hacked the DNC when a 14 year old could have done it is shaky, the proof that Trump collaborated exists only in the paranoid delusions of the left. The very people who yell loudest are the ones who spent the last two years blocking action when Hillary was busy making national security info available to anyone who wanted it. If we had taken proper action when that happened it could have been fixed before the election began. Unfortunately the Democrats where too busy playing politics.

I find it amusing that the people who were so determined to protect Hillary that they put national security now pretend that they,and only they see what a threat the Russians are. Remember the way the press, and Democrats , ridiculed Romney for saying that Russiawas a threat?

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5 Times Liberals Mocked Mitt Romney For Warning About Russia (With video)

1. Obama Replays Sick Middle School Burn

In response, Obama mocked Romney’s statement: “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because…the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

It took from '84 until now for this to be news?

Wonder why.