>>So thank you for pointing out in a dignified manner that the potential demise of these two questionable and dishonorable characters should lead us to give a pass to the previous acts committed by those corroded souls.<<
My Grandaddy used to tell a story about a man who got yelled at for holding a door for a woman. The woman shouted that he didn’t have to hold the door because she was a lady.
The man said he didn’t know whether she was a lady or not - he held the door because he was a gentleman.
“The man said he didn’t know whether she was a lady or not - he held the door because he was a gentleman.”
Your granddaddy was a gentleman, You may be, too, though patting yourself on the back for being a gentleman generally negates that.
As for me, I am going to go on not mentioning Ted Kennedy’s cowardly acts in not attempting to save a drowning girl from his own irresponsibility, because, given his present health problems, it would be, as you say, ungentlemanly to mention them.
I will also not mention that upon seeing Kennedy’s health troubles, Sen. Byrd on cue, had his own episode, as if wanting to be prepared sneak by the pearly gates while St. Peter is occupied with the lengthy list of Kennedy transgressions.
It would be positively bad form to mention those things, and I certainly wouldn’t want to have my gentlemanly honor questioned by anyone......certainly not anyone on the internet.