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Unlike the endless glamorization of the Kennedy family has that gone on for generations, this new film accurately portrays the dark side of Ted Kennedy. As the film reviewer said (in the above article), Kennedy should have gone on trial for involuntary manslaughter. (I also believe that he should have been expelled from the Senate.) It makes me extraordinarily angry how many liberals have idolized Ted Kennedy (and continue to idolize him).
Now, if I may digress for a moment, I know that I have gotten a lot of flack on this very message board for my harsh criticisms of Donald Trump. But I loathe Trump for the very same reason I loathe Ted Kennedy: both men are absolute scum. (And the same can be said about the Clintons as well.) And in fairness to Trump, nothing he has been accused of is as bad as what happened at Chappaquiddick. This may be hard for partisans on both sides to understand, but we all have a moral obligation to oppose unethical politicians.
Anyway, that's my two cents on this whole matter. I'm certainly not trying to make myself into some paragon of morality (as I am a flawed individual), but I do think that ethical behavior is the most important quality to look for in a public official.
Unlike the endless glamorization of the Kennedy family has that gone on for generations, this new film accurately portrays the dark side of Ted Kennedy. As the film reviewer said (in the above article), Kennedy should have gone on trial for involuntary manslaughter. (I also believe that he should have been expelled from the Senate.) It makes me extraordinarily angry how many liberals have idolized Ted Kennedy (and continue to idolize him).
Now, if I may digress for a moment, I know that I have gotten a lot of flack on this very message board for my harsh criticisms of Donald Trump. But I loathe Trump for the very same reason I loathe Ted Kennedy: both men are absolute scum. (And the same can be said about the Clintons as well.) And in fairness to Trump, nothing he has been accused of is as bad as what happened at Chappaquiddick. This may be hard for partisans on both sides to understand, but we all have a moral obligation to oppose unethical politicians.
Anyway, that's my two cents on this whole matter. I'm certainly not trying to make myself into some paragon of morality (as I am a flawed individual), but I do think that ethical behavior is the most important quality to look for in a public official.
Comeon. The Kennedy's were all womanizers. Well known and the Ted affair was simply another example though a very sad one. Ted killed the lady by driving drunk or at least impaired. And there is no evidence he could have done anything that would have reversed the outcome. And sad.
Why bring it up again? Cost him any chance of being President and colored his life badly for history.
You folk want to exhume the body and tar and feather it or something?
Just what I was thinking. All the participants of the incident are either dead and gone, or are too old to do anything now, so what's the point?
It's hard to punish a dead man. And all hopes for a Kennedy White House dynasty ended forever when young miss Kopernik drowned. The most Teddy could have been charged with is second-degree manslaughter, and given the circumstances, if he had been charged, he probably would have been given nothing but a suspended sentence and a year's probation.
I'm sure he would have preferred that to what he lost for good.
If not for Chappaquidick, he could have become President; he was the only Democrat who could have taken it from Reagan in 1984.
I wonder if the satiric magazines like Mad, Cracked, National Lampoon would had done this kind of satiric parody ad about the Chappaquiddick incident today who also infuriated VW?
Comeon. The Kennedy's were all womanizers. Well known and the Ted affair was simply another example though a very sad one. Ted killed the lady by driving drunk or at least impaired. And there is no evidence he could have done anything that would have reversed the outcome. And sad.
Why bring it up again? Cost him any chance of being President and colored his life badly for history.
You folk want to exhume the body and tar and feather it or something?
"here is no evidence he could have done anything that would have reversed the outcome"
Your dem bias is VERY showing.
There is PLENTY of evidence.
Just simple questions for you:
Why did ted go BACK to the party INSTEAD of reporting to the police?
WHY did Ted wait until the NEXT morning to report to the police?
WHY does the report show that Mary Jo was STILL alive WHEN Ted went back to the PARTY?
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