Did the military genius and economist cheat his way through West Point as well as Harvard? Did his family have to buy him his commission as well as his law degree?
Of course, during his speech, it was also necessary for him to point out that it is unfair to question democrat patriotism. This is the same group of patriots who chanted, "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh," all thru the seventies and late sixties, not to mention the "Che Lives" and Mao-Tse Tung posters they lovingly hung on their walls right through the eighties. They were devastated by the utter failure of the Soviet system of government, and its collapse, but their belief in socialism hasn't wavered one bit.
Sure thing, they're patriots . . . Not!
That murdering, drunken sonofabitch turns my stomach. No shady, corrupt, bribery-deal prosecutors may have made with his family in Mary Jo Kopechne's murder is binding on the American people; the case should be re-opened and he should be arrested for murder on the floor of the Senate and be dragged off in chains.
I made the same argument on another thread for the arrest of Grand Dragon Byrd for his almost certain involvement in the lynchings of blacks.
In fact, there is good reason to believe that any number of Senate dims (not to mention a few RINOs who the dims consequently hold by the nads) were and are criminals of every stripe, and they should be arrested forthwith on the floor of the Senate. THEN hold the vote on Iraq (remember that scene in Elizabeth, The Virgin Queen? -- these time-honored tactics work). Stop fooling around already; the country's survival, and the lives of millions, hang in the balance.
UVA.