Ted Kennedy died.

[mrsleeve]

Glad to see him go. Now the assholes in MA are trying to quick change the law so they can get a liberal appointed to the vacated Senate seat. They want to change the law back to the way it was when Romney was Governor, and John (why the long face?) Kerry had an outside chance of being POTUS. They changed the law to prevent a Republican Governor from appointing a Republican Senator, and now they want to change it back again to suit their own ill cause. Fuck these liberal fucksticks here in the gay state. I want to go back to Montana, Wyoming, SD, and Utah.

Me too am in PA working and kinda have a place in IA, I hate it there and want to go back to MT full time (no work though)

And yes to the rest of the post as well

[jeff_b]

Glad to see him go. Now the assholes in MA are trying to quick change the law so they can get a liberal appointed to the vacated Senate seat. They want to change the law back to the way it was when Romney was Governor, and John (why the long face?) Kerry had an outside chance of being POTUS. They changed the law to prevent a Republican Governor from appointing a Republican Senator, and now they want to change it back again to suit their own ill cause. Fuck these liberal fucksticks here in the gay state. I want to go back to Montana, Wyoming, SD, and Utah.

[E30 Cabrio]

He should have served time in Prison, not in the Senate.

[325Projectz]

i just lost a friend last week, brain cancer, 30 y/o.

[nando]

That's not really what happened (but no one alive knows all of the details). Forty years ago, Ted Kennedy attended a party where he and buddies could nail secretaries on the Island of Chappaquiddick while their wives and kids stayed at home. He took one of the office workers to the other side of the island to fuck her and drove off of crappy bridge because he was going too fast (and was probably drunk).

He got out of the car, but dove back in seven or eight times to try to get her out. The current was too strong. He walked back to the party cottage, but passed about four cottages on the way where he could have summoned help more quickly. When he got to the cottage, he told his friends and they went back to try to rescue her. The current was too strong and despite repeated attempts, they could not get her out. This was on a tiny island back in the sixties and so it wasn't like this happened in an urban area. It's debatable, but t is my understanding that it was unlikely that Mary Jo Kopechne could have been saved after he drove into the water. No one knows for sure how long she survived in the car. IMO, he had been drinking most of the night and this happened just before 1 am. He obviously made a ton of bad decisions.

In the middle of the night, Ted swam back to the mainland and tried to make it look like he had been on the mainland all night (hoping he could find someone else to take the blame). In the morning, after the getting advice from his family, he gave a statement to the police (but did not give the details). He denied being drunk and trying to nail the secretary.

I'll say that it's a pretty fucked up thing to have done. I don't think that "Chappaquiddick" makes Ted Kennedy a good person, but the way right wingers cling to this story you would think that he burned babies for profit. Feel free to argue about the details, I'm just saying that mrsleeve's account is not accurate.

http://kevincolby.com/2009/01/22/the...dick-murderer/

it doesn't matter, even if your account of the story is correct he was still responsible for her death. And all the other things he did were just as despicable, especially for being a "respected" politician.

[Pinepig]

And....



Ted Kennedy is a shovel ready project.

Fuck that shitbag but condolences to those he left behind.

[blunttech]

my dad suffered the same shit in the end. cancer is a fucking tragedy and as much as i hated kennedy, the blotchy bloated liberal drunk he was still a human and a father and husband
RIP teddy

[whysimon]

my father in law has the same brain cancer, really really sad

[Court M3]

Rip

[ragged325]

pick up a bitch at a party, try to drive her home while drunk and put your olds in to a river and not try to help her, but swim to safety and walk back to the party and go to bed latter and not report it till latter the next day after you have contacted several lawyers. Check.

That's not really what happened (but no one alive knows all of the details). Forty years ago, Ted Kennedy attended a party where he and buddies could nail secretaries on the Island of Chappaquiddick while their wives and kids stayed at home. He took one of the office workers to the other side of the island to fuck her and drove off of crappy bridge because he was going too fast (and was probably drunk).

He got out of the car, but dove back in seven or eight times to try to get her out. The current was too strong. He walked back to the party cottage, but passed about four cottages on the way where he could have summoned help more quickly. When he got to the cottage, he told his friends and they went back to try to rescue her. The current was too strong and despite repeated attempts, they could not get her out. This was on a tiny island back in the sixties and so it wasn't like this happened in an urban area. It's debatable, but t is my understanding that it was unlikely that Mary Jo Kopechne could have been saved after he drove into the water. No one knows for sure how long she survived in the car. IMO, he had been drinking most of the night and this happened just before 1 am. He obviously made a ton of bad decisions.

In the middle of the night, Ted swam back to the mainland and tried to make it look like he had been on the mainland all night (hoping he could find someone else to take the blame). In the morning, after the getting advice from his family, he gave a statement to the police (but did not give the details). He denied being drunk and trying to nail the secretary.

I'll say that it's a pretty fucked up thing to have done. I don't think that "Chappaquiddick" makes Ted Kennedy a good person, but the way right wingers cling to this story you would think that he burned babies for profit. Feel free to argue about the details, I'm just saying that mrsleeve's account is not accurate.

http://kevincolby.com/2009/01/22/the...dick-murderer/

[jrobie79]

Yeah really stand up guy here, Good riddance.

/thread

[Scotaku]

It's Chappaquiddick Island. If you're going to malign the man, at least get the bigger details right.

The incident happened a year before I was born in what was likely just as salacious and scummy as has been imagined. Sadly, it has become a colloquialism for covering up the truth of the matter. A girl died in very suspicious circumstances and a wealthy playboy never served jail time even for the least charge he openly pleaded guilty to.

He was 37, a year younger than I am today. She was about to turn 29.

Perhaps now Mary Jo Kopechne can rest in peace?

[mrsleeve]

sorry double post

[mrsleeve]

good ol teddy

lets see here, flunk outta harvard........... twice, Check

get daddy to get him a cushy assignment in Great Britain during Korea and never get past a the rank of private. Check

pick up a bitch at a party, try to drive her home while drunk and put your olds in to a river and not try to help her, but swim to safety and walk back to the party and go to bed latter and not report it till latter the next day after you have contacted several lawyers. Check

and has pent 40 years in govt but yet has no real accomplishment to speak of.


Yeah really stand up guy here, Good riddance.

[Alkasquawlik]

RIP
good riddance to his stupid policies though.