Ted Kennedy: Forty Years after Chappaquiddick

Human Events ^ | 2009-07-20 | John Gizzi

[JoeProBono]

[sheik yerbouty]

When asked if he would still run for office, Kennedy stated: “I’ll drive off that bridge when I come to it!”

[Born Conservative]

“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age” - Charles Pierce of the Boston Globe, 2004

[Quiller]

“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age” - Charles Pierce of the Boston Globe, 2004

'Cause she would be too old for Clinton to paw.

[nathanbedford]

A PBS documentary from the series American Experience in a two-part presentation about the Kennedy family features an on interview with Clark Clifford the consummate Washington insider who was enlisted to neutralize any problems which might arise out of potential revelations that Teddy had been expelled from Harvard for cheating.

Clifford assured the Kennedys that there would be no electoral problems for Teddy in his first run for the Senate because, in effect, boys will be boys. The better tactic he confided to the Kennedys would be to release the information rather than wait to be exposed. So Teddy appeared on television for the first time, but not the last, to explain away a scandal.

Boys will be boys.

[Arthur McGowan]

Kennedy went on to kill over fifty million babies. MaryJo Kopechne was little more than a practice run.

(BTW: The name is “MaryJo” on the stone that stands over the graves of Joseph, Gwen, and MaryJo.)

[This_far]

When asked if he would still run for office, Kennedy stated: “I’ll drive off that bridge when I come to it!

(para) It's spring in Mass when (----) Kennedy is driving on the sidewalk.

[Gurn]

I hope the brain cancer is excruciating. Scumbag.

[hershey]

He paid Mary Jo’s parents $86,000 to keep quiet for a specific number of years, so at least they were able to bury her and put up a nice headstone. When he did put a toe in the water about running, the five? years were up, and they had a press conference during which they said they blamed Fatso for their daughter’s death. This got some attention from the media, but not much.

[Slump Tester]

Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile killed more people than any of my guns.

[DeaconRed]

TED:
Lucifer is waiting for you.
You and your family took his bootleg money.
It's time to pay your dues.
Most of your famly has paid already. Now its your turn.
If this were anybody else this would be a cruel thing to say. But to Fat, Lying, Stealing, Murdering TED it's NOT

[Leisler]

A sign inside a Hyannis Bar.

[P8riot]

[ArtDodger]

If the Dems had had today’s love-in relationship with the media and questions about Mary Jo banned from the debate, he probably could have won the presidency.

BTW, if the Kennedys had her body disposed of without an autopsy, how was it known she was pregnant?

[Vaduz]

Why wasn’t he prosecuted? ABOVE THE LAW HACK.

[Rummyfan]

He’s done enough damage to the country as senator for the last forty odd years, I’m glad we never had to suffer him as president.

[Venturer]

I have often wondered why Mary Jo’s parents didnt raise more havoc than they did for Kennedy and always thought they were bought off.

Your post states an amount that is rather small and I wonder where your info comes from, not that I doubt it’s veracity.
Since the Kennedy’s have always been cheap.

It is amazing to me that a family could lose a child such as Mary Jo in the manner she was lost, and be quietly bought .

A lot of cash was spread around to make this dissappear and Kennedy should have spent jail time for it, any normal person would have gone to jail

[Sig Sauer P220]

I figure its taking Satan 40+ years to prepare a special place in hell for this bat fastard.

[SES1066]

A PBS documentary from the series American Experience ...

There was a piece on the Kennedy Family, "Kennedys: The Curse of Power", this weekend on the History Channel had this blurb, "Politicians, reporters and historians recount the tragedies that have beset the politically prominent American family."

The passive tone of 'beset' implies that the Kennedys were innocents 'beset' by tragedies. Yes, there were some of these but there were also actions that caused self-inflicted tragedies worthy of Greek Drama. Teddy is the nadir of the Kennedy Brothers and I have NO SYMPATHY for him, WHAT-SO-EVER!