Ted Kennedy

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Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Dallas Morning News has a piece slamming people who had the gall to mention Chappaquidick and other distasteful things in the comments section of the paper. And how they had to shut down comments as a result.

Of course, there is no criticism for the many laudatory pieces on Kennedy, that summarized his life without nary a mention of Chappaquidick.

The CNN piece yesterday was absolutely correct: if a politician today had done what Kennedy did then, there is no way he would be a Senator. Kennedy traded on his brothers' deaths to get past this "thing" (murder? manslaughter?). As far as I can tell, Kennedy NEVER adequately explained what happened.

Kennedy is reported to have said, before he died, that he would be able to see his brothers, and that he would tell them "I carried the torch." I think their reply would be "leave the torch, there is plenty of heat here already."

This made Farrah chuckle, evil person that she is. As far as I know JFK and RFK never killed anyone, so I'll suggest they are in balmier climes than the firey pit.

I'm not going to apologize one bit for never forgetting. Let the Orrin Hatches and the Mitt Romneys wax poetic about their love for Teddy. Good for them.

But what a sorry world this would be if not a single person can whisper out-loud "What about Mary Jo?"

If you vote properly all things are forgiven thee, young man.