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I'm just halfway through reading all these responses to this thread.

I can't speak for Congressman Billybob, but when I first posted the information I had, I did not mean to imply that Mrs. Alito's tears were for Mary Jo.

I have no doubt that Mrs. Alito's tears were from frustration, rage, and disappointment with the way her husband was treated. But all of those emotions had to be compounded further by the fact that man who was treating her husband with such disgraceful venom and slander was somebody whom she knew, for better than forty years, to be a particularly dispicable human being through a personal family connection.

I would think that that personal and emotional background probably raised the level of frustration and rage by a considerable degree.

[eyespysomething]

I would think that that personal and emotional background probably raised the level of frustration and rage by a considerable degree.

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[Calpernia]

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[Congressman Billybob]

I agree with you, my friend, and thank you for starting all this. Mrs. Alito's connection with the deceased Mary Jo Kopechne through her in-laws was not the sole cause of Mrs. Alito's reaction at the hearings. But, as I said, it made it worse, for understandable reasons.

John / Billybob

[ilovew]

Perhaps I simply misunderstood what that particular statement was supposed to mean. I certainly wouldn't argue that the idea that Kennedy would dare question someone else's ethics is completely absurd. And that certainly could have contributed to the insult to Mrs. Alito. To me, it sounded as though the article was implying that Mrs. Alito was crying for Mary Jo Kopechne which would be absurd. But if all that was meant was that Kennedy's lack of morals contributed to the insult of his attacks on Judge Alito, then I wouldn't argue with that.