rip

RIP Mary Jo Kopechne.

And Vince Foster, too, right NYCMatt?

Indeed.

I can't believe Kennedy drove this..

http://www.avonhill.com/thumbnails/sedan_domestic/1967_Olds_Delmont_88.jpeg

sorry...

http://fatboy.cc/images/Ted%20Kennedy%20Delmont%2088.jpg

The Kennedy family has suffered great losses this month my prayers and condolences go out to them during their time of mourning.

Where else but in America can you commit manslaughter as a result of drunk driving and go on to be revered as a Great Statesman? How about walking around without your pants drunk while you cheer for your nephew to manhandle the neighbors daughter. (go willie go, no means your not try'in hard enuf!)
Great Americans...living above the law, without the law of reason at their disposal.

RIP Teddy, I'll miss your antics.

Don't you just love America!

This is admittedly a bit of a tangent, but there is a Kennedy family angle so I'm going to go with it. Further on falco's theme of America's promise of renewal and opportunity, when Ah-nult was elected Governor of CA a blogger back the old country (Austria) opined as follows: "Schwarzenegger can't speak German. Schwarzenegger can't speak English. Schwarzenegger can't act. Yes, America must truly be the land of unlimited opportunity."

If you are with the right family, and your commit manslaughter, and you are in Massachusetts, then you can be a U.S. Senator. So you are for the poor and working class ... well, as long as it won't hurt your pocketbook or fame.

Land of the Spree, and the Home of the Knave!

matt, you love a legal system that makes it difficult to prosecute. ted kennedy, love him or leave him, guilty or not guilty, did a tremendous amount for the working class people of this country.

of course, you don't really care for the working class.

falco, america? have you taken a look at south and latin america? europe? the baltic states? asia? we just publicize it more (except for the english, they like to proclaim their sins as well). we don't hear much about australian sins, probably because they're down with them.

If you murder, but you help other people, then it's ok.

what was the decision? and what is manslaughter? and what is moral relativism, which i'm not so fond of, but really, here and now, we have a long, long career to consider.

nurse your anger about a youthful and tragic and possibly jail-deserving criminal folly. but at the end of the day he kept on getting reelected, and he did a shit load of good. maybe he should have just written lovely tomes from behind bars, but i'd rather put mozillo behind bars today. very old news. i'm glad ted kennedy served this country.

let's not forget his famous waitress sandwich with the honorable Chris Dodd..

Kennedy was age 37 at the age of he murdered someone.

youthful?

lol

re-elected because Kennedy family was royalty.

No saint
Murderer
Divorced
Drunk
Womanizer
Egoist thought he'd change George Bush
and then backstabbed the Clintons, no Democratic family should ever approach the Kennedy legacy. Always family first

How was Kennedy the Lion of the Senate? Perhaps because our country has no standards. Even if elected by Mass, why didn't the Senate disqualify because of his behavior?

Also expelled from Harvard

Father was involved in insider trading through the bull market of the 1920s.

Effectively stealing money from the general public.

The people who Ted was trying to help.

The Kennedy entitlement is one of the greatest reasons for American disenfranchisement.

Isn't this all water under the bridge?

I can't believe I just went there!

riversider, not pc but funny nonetheless.

Yes, if you achieve a certain level of power, it nearly doesn't matter what you do.

Thank goodness for the Christian Right. If it weren't for them and their values, Ted Kennedy's family power would have propelled him to President of the United States, regardless of his murdering and his womanizing and his divorce and his alcohol problems. Massachusetts was able to elect him as is their perogative, but the rest of the United States didn't have to go along with this person who would have ben more destructive as a leader of our country than Richard Nixon or GW Bush ever could have been.

Thank goodness for the Christian Right!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5McSEU48Y8

ronnie was divorced, and his children despised him, bush w. had horrible alcohol problems. hell he might have killed a few people and just not remembered it or gotten caught since a whole decade seemed to disappear from his memory. the memory that reported that he had reported for military duty when he hadn't. newt told his terminally ill wife that he wanted a divorce. bush the elder was just a bad president and a horrible sexist.

but thank god for the christian right.

morgue, you are a jackass. Your political views date from the middle ages. Where did you come from? A townhall witch hunt? An abortion clinic where you were trying to murder a doctor? Geez

Teddie, give mergeh a lift home....

interesting and troubled guy. Have always been suspect of those that support abortion rights but oppose capital punishment. Hmmm, its ok to kill innocent babies, but protect old criminals.