Posted on 07/27/2005 6:38:35 PM PDT by bannie
Edited on 07/28/2005 5:33:32 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
On Hannity and Colmes, While discussing the requirements of a Supreme Court nominee, Ann just sarcastically noted that it was ok to kill a girl at Chappiquiddic. Colmes said that was a low blow and that comment was below her.
WHY??? WHAT is so darned SACRED about mentioning the truth???
Ann said, "Why..."
Colmes didn't answer, and the set was quiet.
Hannity and Reagan (another guest) should have spoken up.
This is another example of "The Emperor is NAKED!"
Megga, gigga-dittoes. EXACTLY RIGHT.
I think it's despicable.
Well it would have been tragic, if he hadn't been drunk and stoned and cheating with an intern. However he was drunk and stoned, and when he ran his car off the bridge, he spent the next couple of hours figuring how to 'spin' it and avoid legal responsibility, while leaving Mary Jo to suffocate to death.
If he had shown a shread of decency, she would have made it out of the car alive, but Teddy was too busy trying to save his ass (sucessfully as it turned out.
The tormenting he is taking from critics is nothing compared to what awaits him when he meets his maker (leaving alone his cupibility in the deaths of millons of babies from the policies he so rabidly defends.
Sorry if you don't get it. People who defend this killer are despicable IMO.
Was she drunk? Did she leave her best friend at the scene to die? Did she wait till the next day to report the accident? hmmmm cheap shot
You aren't serious, are you? Ted was drunk. At the very least is was manslaughter or negligent homicide. Since little investigation was done, there is even the possibility it was outright murder.
Just curious - during your moments of being "frozen with fear", did you walk into town, get a ride home, and take a nap before doing anything?
This cousin later objected to kennedy trying to implicate him. This is where he said, "Even Kennedy's don't [crap] in their own back yard."
There is nothing decent in kennedy. He was the spoiled baby of the family; and he expected everyone else to take his falls for him.
Sorry, Jorge.
Did Laura leave the scene of the accident, leave him to die in the street and not report it until the next day? I've not heard that, have you? If so, then yes, he could have responded that way. There's a huge difference.
Kennedy waited more than 12 hours to report the "accident".
How can you stand up for that lying piece of garbage?
yeah like the guy in vegas who prevented a RAPE
He changed his mind
Correction:
It's a settled law cover-up.
I simply refuse to believe that you are defending Teddy Kennedy on this.
Stop the joke now, please? it's not funny.
One day he will meet his maker and be judged. It's really to bad it couldn't had been here on earth.
You have a big problem with the concept of personal responbibility, don't you?
It's not his fault he was out partying without his wife...
It's not his fault he was trying to nail some chick who wasn't his wife..
It's not his fault he took her back home to his place...
It's not his fault he was drunk..
It's not his fault he got in the car with the girl anywa...
It's not his fault he drove off the bridge...
It's not his fault he ran away..
It's not his fault there was an air pocket that kept her alive for ate least 30 minutes...
It's not his fault he didn't flag anyone down for help..
Can you see John Wayne doing these things?
Can you see your average man doing these things?
WTF is wrong with you?
- On cue at 7:30 PM, Senator Kennedy began reading from a manuscript gripped tightly in his hand:
My fellow citizens:
I have requested this opportunity to talk to you, the people of Massachusetts, about the tragedy which happened last Friday evening. This morning I entered a plea of guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident. Prior to my appearance in court it would have been improper for me to comment on these matters, but tonight I am free to tell you what happened and to say what it means to me.
On the weekend of July 18th, I was on Martha's Vinyard Island participating with my nephew, Joe Kennedy, as for 30 years my family has participated in the annual Edgartown Sailing Regatta. Only reasons of health prevented my wife from accompanying me. On Chappaquiddick Island off Martha's Vinyard, I attended one Friday evening, July 18th, a cookout I had encouraged and helped sponsor for a devoted group of Kennedy campaign secretaries. When I left the party around 11:15 PM, I was accompanied by one of these girls, Miss Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was one of the most devoted members of the staff of Senator Robert Kennedy. She worked for him for four years and was broken up over his death. For this reason and because she was such a gentle, kind and idealistic person, all of us tried to help her feel that she still had a home with the Kennedy family.
There is no truth whatever to the widely circulated suspicions of immoral conduct that have been leveled at my behavior and hers regarding that evening. There has never been a private relationship between us of any kind. I know of nothing in Mary Jo's conduct on that or any other occasion - and the same is true of the other girls at the party - that would lend any substance to such ugly speculation about their character. Nor was I driving under the influence of liquor.
Little over a mile away the car that I was driving on an unlit road went off a narrow bridge which had no guard rails and was built on a left angle to the road. The car overturned into a deep pond and immediately filled with water. I remember thinking as the cold water rushed in around my head, that I was for certain drowning; then water entered my lungs and I actually felt a sensation of drowning; but somehow I struggled to the surface alive. I made immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Jo by diving into the strong and murkey current, but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm.
My conduct and conversation during the next several hours, to the extent that I can remember them, made no sense to me at all. Although my doctors inform me that I suffered a cerebral concussion as well as shock, I do not seek to escape responsibility for my actions by placing the blame either on the physical and emotional trauma brought on by the accident, or anyone else. I regard as indefensible the fact that I did not report the accident to the police immediately. Instead of looking directly for a telephone after lying exhausted on the grass for an undetermined time, I walked back to the cottage where the party was being held, requested the help of two friends, Joe Gargan and Paul Markham, and directed them to return immediately to the scene with me ( it then being sometime after midnight ) in order to undertake a new effort to dive down and locate Miss Kopechne. Their strenuous efforts, undertaken at some risk to their own lives, also proved futile.
All kinds of scrambled thoughts - all of them confused, some of them irrational, many of which I cannot recall, and some of which I would not have seriously entertained under normal circumstances - went through my mind during this period. They were reflected in the various inexplicable, inconsistent and inconclusive things I said and did - including such questions as whether the girl might still be alive somewhere out of that imediate area, whether some awful curse actually did hang over all the Kennedys, whether there was some justifiable reason for me to doubt what had happened and to delay my report and whether somehow the awful weight of this incredible incident might in some way pass from my shoulders. I was overcome, I am frank to say, by a jumble of emotions - greif, fear, doubt, exhaustion, panic, confusion and shock.
Instructing Gargan and Markham not to alarm Mary Jo's friends that night, I had them take me to the ferry crossing. The ferry having shut down for the night, I suddenly jumped into the water and impulsively swam across, nearly drowning once again in the effort, returning to my hotel around 2 AM and collapsed in my room. I remember going out at one point and saying something to the room clerk. In the morning with my mind somewhat lucid, I made an effort to call a family legal advisor, Burke Marshall, from a public telephone on the Chappaquiddick side of the ferry, and then belatedly reported the accident to the Martha's Vinyard police.
Today, as mentioned, I felt morally obligated to plead guilty to the charge of leaving the scene of an accident. No words on my part can possibly express the terrible pain and suffering I feel over this tragic accident. The last week has been an agonizing one for me, and for the members of my family; and the greif we feel over the loss of a wonderful friend will remain with us the rest of our lives.
- Kennedy put aside the prepared text. He folded his hands, looked directly into the camera and appeared to continue the speech extemporaneously. However, large cue cards picking up the text of the speech were held up out of camera range. The Senator continued:
These events and the publicity and inuendo and whispers which have surrounded them, and my admission of guilt this morning, raises the question in my mind of whether my standing among the people of my state has been so impaired that I should resign my seat in the United States Senate. If at any time the citizens of Massachusetts should lack confidence in their Senator's character or his ability, with or without justification, he could not, in my opinion, adequately perform his duties, and should not continue in office.
The people of this state - the state which sent John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Henry Cabot Lodge, and John F. Kennedy to the United States Senate - are entitled to representation in that body by men who inspire their utmost confidence. For this reason I would understand full well why some might think it right for me to resign.
This would be a difficult decision to make. It has been seven years since my first election to the Senate. You and I share many memories. Some of them have been glorious, some have been very sad. The opportunity to work with you and serve our state has been much of what has made my life worthwhile.
And so I ask you tonight, the people of Massachusetts, to think this through with me. In facing this decision, I seek your advice and opinion. In making it, I seek your prayers. For this is a decision that I will have finally to make on my own.
It has been written:
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis for all human morality. And whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul."
I pray that I can have the courage to make the right decision. Whatever is decided, whatever the future holds for me, I hope I shall be able to put this most recent tragedy behind me and make some future contribution to our state and mankind whether it be in public or private life. Thank you and good night.
If this POS simply sat in a corner of one of his big houses and got wasted, I guarantee you would never hear of it.
As long as he continues to be "in our face" cuz he can spend millions to get elected and the Mass Morons keep biting, I will bring it up at every opportunity.
We are not talking about the accident.
We are talking about Kennedy's conscious decision not to immediately go to the authorities and save the girl's life. Not the accident.
What happened AFTER the accident is what we're discussing, Jorge.
The PART WHERE SHE DIED SLOWLY, JORGE. NOT THE ACCIDENT, JORGE.
THE PART WHERE KENNEDY LEFT A LIVE GIRL TO DIE SLOWLY. THAT PART JORGE.
NOT THE ACCIDENT. THE PART WHERE HE LEFT HER TO DIE, JORGE.
Try to get it into your head. I don't know what your issue is, but hiopefully you never left someone to die when you could have so easily saved them (Kennedy was an EXCELLENT swimmer at the time)
I've read some of your other posts. You seem fairly rational in everything except your defense of a man who ran and left another human being to die when he could have saved her life. I assume therefore that you're projecting some of your own better nature onto one of the mose selfish bastards in the country for reasons of your own.
One more time:
We're not talking about the accident, Jorge.
We're talking about what Kennedy did AFTER the accident which caused a young girl to die.
Succinctly put, thank you.
Accident? Driving off the bridge was an accident, yes, but the events that ocurred after were not. He left her to die and that was NOT an accident.
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