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Sen. Ted Kennedy Dead

dudalb said:
To be fair, we had an awful lot of this when Reagan died. I remember not three hours after he had died, the Internet was full of dancing on his grave.
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And you know, I really don't have a problem with people criticizing Ted. Kind of like Orson Scott Card's "Speaker for the Dead", I think a person's life should be examined truthfully, whether minutes or years after their death. I obviously would not say these things to family members or make a press release like this that his loved ones might read, but here, with the relative anonymity of an obscure internet forum, I seriously doubt that anyone would be injured by speaking the truth as we see it.

But I think Kennedy's life should be viewed through the panoramic lens of everything he did, not the keyhole of Chappaquiddick.
 
kennedy should have been acquited for murder due to the 1979 incident, letting that poor pregnant woman drown
 
Hokulele said:
Ahem.

"They should have convicted Kennedy for murder 10 years after the event, as I believe Mary Jo was pregnant and deliberately left to drown."

Yeah, it makes more sense untranslated.
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What he did was not only sick and Irresponsible, but It also made myself redefine the definition of "Murder". I am not sad that he died one bit. The Kennedy's were not the typical american family, but more like a White-trash, abusive family.
 
A shock to see Bush #43 rear from obscurity, present at the funeral today. Strange how such a public face for the last 8 years can just vanish from the face of the Earth for the last 6 months.
 
It is a happy moment in American history that we have reached the beginning of the end of Democrats pretending Mary Jo Kopechne didn't die horribly and Republicans digging her bones up to shake them at Ted Kennedy.
 
boloboffin said:
It is a happy moment in American history that we have reached the beginning of the end of Democrats pretending Mary Jo Kopechne didn't die horribly and Republicans digging her bones up to shake them at Ted Kennedy.
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That incident really shows who the real Ted Kennedy was
 
Brainster said:
Ed Klein reports that Ted loved Chappaquiddick jokes:

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Klein somehow manages to make this seem endearing.
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:eye-poppi

Playing Devil's Advocate here. It was 40 years ago and it was as synonymous with his name as Richard Nixon's is with Watergate. Ted being self deprecating about it would be like Bill joking about Monica or Richard Nixon joking about wiretapping.

And he had already been punished quite a lot for it and the accident probably was an honest mistake on his part. He wasn't drunk, he wasn't driving recklessly, he probably did just drive the wrong way on an unlit bridge.

His behavior afterwards, now...
 
EeneyMinnieMoe said:
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Playing Devil's Advocate here. It was 40 years ago and it was as synonymous with his name as Richard Nixon's is with Watergate. Ted being self deprecating about it would be like Bill joking about Monica or Richard Nixon joking about wiretapping.

And he had already been punished quite a lot for it and the accident probably was an honest mistake on his part. He wasn't drunk, he wasn't driving recklessly, he probably did just drive the wrong way on an unlit bridge.

His behavior afterwards, now...
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What real punishment did he receive.
 
He never became President, as he wanted to. Never ran for higher office than Senator. Was a laughing stock. Had everyone in America speculating he was drunk at the time or having an affair with the woman or both. His marriage allegedly took a hit. He was haunted by this (reputation wise) to his dying day.
 
I'm someone who complained about the treatment given Reagan just after he died.

I'm not someone to "return to favor" and rip on Kennedy at this time.
 
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