Leaving the island involves turning left on the paved road to the ferry. Turing right onto the dirt road takes you nowhere.
Either Ted was really drunk, or he had no intention of leaving the island.
1. He was caught cheating at Harvard when he attended it. He was expelled twice, once for cheating on a
test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him.
2. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. Oops, the man can't count to four. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England (a step up from bootlegging liquor into the US from Canada during prohibition), pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. No preferential treatment for him like he” charged President Bush received.
3. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged. Imagine a person of his “education” NEVER advancing past the rank of Private.
4. While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was cited for reckless driving four times,
including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. Coincidentally, he passed the bar exam in 1959, amazing!!!
5. In 1964, he was seriously injured in a plane crash, and hospitalized for several months. Test results done by the hospital at the time he was admitted had shown he was legally intoxicated. The results of those tests remained a “state secret” until in the 1980’s when the report was unsealed. Didn't hear about that from the unbiased media, did we.
6. On July 19, 1969, Kennedy attended a party on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts. At about 11:00 PM, he borrowed his chauffeur's keys to his Oldsmobile limousine, and offered to give a ride home to Mary Jo Kopechne, a campaign worker. Leaving the island via an unlit bridge with no guard rail, Kennedy steered the car off the bridge, flipped, and into Poucha Pond.
7. He swam to shore and walked back to the party, after passing several houses and a fire station. Then two friends returned with him to the scene of the accident. According to their later testimony, they told him what he already knew, that he was required by law to immediately report the accident to the authorities. Instead Kennedy made his way to his hotel, called his lawyer, and went to sleep. Kennedy called the police the next morning and by then the wreck had already been discovered. Before dying, Kopechne had scratched at the upholstered floor above her head in the upside-down car. The Kennedy family began “calling in favors”, ensuring that any inquiry would be contained. Her corpse was whisked out-of-state to her family, before an autopsy could be conducted. Further details are uncertain, but after the accident Kennedy says he repeatedly dove under the water trying to rescue Kopechne, and he didn't call police because he was in a state of shock. It is widely assumed Kennedy was drunk, and he held off calling police in hopes that his family could fix the problem overnight.
Since the accident, Kennedy's “political enemies” have
referred to him as the distinguished Senator from Chappaquiddick. He pled guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and was given a SUSPENDED SENTENCE OF TWO MONTHS. Kopechne’s family received a
small payout from the Kennedy's insurance policy, and never sued. There was later an effort to have he
r body exhumed and autopsied, but her family successfully fought against this in court, and Kennedy's
family paid their attorney's bills... a “token of friendship”?
8. Kennedy has held his Senate seat for more than forty years, but considering his longevity, his accomplishments seem scant. He authored or argued for legislation that ensured a variety of civil rights, increased the minimum wage in 1981, made access to health care easier for the indigent, and funded Meals on Wheels for fixed-income seniors and is widely held as the “standard-bearer for liberalism”. In his very first Senate roll, he was the floor manager for the bill that turned U.S. immigration policy upside down and opened the floodgate for immigrants from third world countries.
9. Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of every expansion of and increase in immigration, up to and including the latest attempt to grant amnesty to illegal aliens. Not to mention the Pious grilling he gave the last two Supreme Court Nominees, as if he were the standard bearer for the nation in matters of right. What a pompous ass.
10. He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than “great American”.
Yea, Ted Kennedy. He would be the last person on Earth I'd want my kids to model, and I'd just as soon leave the rest of his corrupt family out of politics, too.
Don’t forget, his dad praised NAZI Germany...
Don't mistake this for sticking up for Uncle Shamu, but what's the big deal wih the plane crash. He wasn't the pilot, so who cares how drunk he was. The man has operated in a constant state of intoxixation for over 45 years.
Leaving the island involves turning left on the paved road to the ferry. Turing right onto the dirt road takes you nowhere.
Either Ted was really drunk, or he had no intention of leaving the island.
I watched some kind of video online a little while back where a reporter was doing a report from some reception or event. Way behind her, one could see the distinctive white haired buffalo-head of Kennedy. He was mingling with a crowd around the Hor D'oeuvres table.
In an unmistakable gesture, the the head jerked backwards as the mouth opened to make the pathway from the mouth to the stomach became a straight line. A big, fat meaty hand with a crystal tumbler appeared above the upturned mouth and emptied the contents (clearly not water) in one fell swoop into the gaping maw.
Even from that distance (maybe 50-75 feet) from the camera to the person, it was clear that it was Fat Teddy tossing down a Chivas and Water in one gulp.
I have read "Senatorial Privilege" by Leo Damore a few times, most recently about six months ago. It is a disgusting tale of wealth, cowardice, power and corruption. It is extensively researched, and to anyone who only has a passing knowledge of the incident such as "...he drove off a bridge and his passenger drowned..." it is a real eye-opener.
Ted Kennedy is one of the people who hold the keys of power that have resulted in this arrangement where this shallow spawn of JFK is going to be handed a senatorial seat. That is a done deal, folks.