Sen. Ted Kennedy Dead

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Teddy helped pass "No Child Left Behind."
"Oh yeah? He was expelled from Harvard twice for cheating.

What is the connection between being expelled from Harvard and No Child Left Behind?

 

[Darth Rotor]

What is the connection between being expelled from Harvard and No Child Left Behind?

School. Students. Education.

 

[Cicero]

Cringe in shame? I didn't kill her or cover up her death for a day. I have no personal stake in the incident at all. I have no shame in this act.

That really depends on whether you consider Kennedy to be worthy of lionization knowing about his decades of horrendous behavior.

Clearly for Kennedy detractors, if Chappaquiddick didn't exist, it would have been necessary to invent it. Yes, Ted Kennedy was responsible for her death. Yes, Ted Kennedy didn't report the accident for hours, and not until the car was discovered did he own up to it. All of this is awful.

Why would it have to be invented? You really think that Chappaquiddick exists as the only example of egregious behavior committed by Teddy?

But to my mind, it's just as awful for people who wouldn't have given two drops of blood for her otherwise to use her as political fodder against Ted Kennedy for decades. Who was Mary Jo Kopechne to you?

That is just imbecilic. I need to have a personal attachment to crime victims in order to condemn the criminal for their actions? Teddy is the one who made the name Mary Jo Kopechne famous for how an average citizen's life shrinks to insignificance when compared to the political aspirations of a Kennedy.

 

[Lonewulf]

That's funny. Seriously. I find myself often coming to revelations around here with certain posts, and how certain people on the left rationalize things to themselves.

You see the Chappaquiddick comeback as some kind of vicious attack and attempt to ignore other fine work he may or may not have done. We see it as "wow, liberals insist on bending over backwards to point out every possible "good" thing about Kennedy, sincerely believing that they outweigh or dismiss the entire Chappaquiddick incident entirely." And that is startling. Honestly.

None of what he has done otherwise has any bearing on the incident in question. Either he did something wrong, or he didn't. And if he did in any way allow this woman to die, then I don't care if he's going around giving money to every poor person in the county, giving his blood to everyone who needs it.. I don't care if he's personally doing charity work with the blind. I don't care if he's was the next Mother Theresa. None of that would forgive or outshadow that crime. And you know damn well you'd never be so forgiving of anyone on the other side of the isle in the same circumstance.

We may never know the truth about this incident, but it's fascinating the way those on the left just go "ho hum, BORING!" to the entire idea, as if it was loooong ago shown to have been completely innocent and Saint Ted walked away from the thing smelling like a rose. Talk about self-delusion.

That's funny. Well, I guess it's only the fundamentalist right that believe in stuff like forgiveness, repentance, and making up for one's sins.

Oh wait.

 

[Skeptic]

Yeah. Grave dancing is only appropriate for evil people. Ted Kennedy, whilst possessed of certain ****head qualities, was not evil.

"The Onion", while not dancing on his grave, have their usual hit the nail on the head reporting.

Amazingly, by the way, some people (like those in the link I posted) seem to have completely missed the point of the Onion's satire.