Put yourself in his shoes on that night and think what you would have done and how soon, and IF, you would have come forward at all.
ANY respectable man would have tried to free his female passenger before fleeing. Any respectable man would also have IMMEDIATELY called the authorities so that maybe (just maybe) they may’ve had a chance of saving her. But to run away like a dog and sit at home all night long KNOWING that woman was in his car at the bottom of some lake is sick.
Hopefully that woman is giving him a good ol bitch slappin in the afterlife.
watched all of the service for ted kennedy, in between reading the newspaper (man, i’m oldschool). for those of you who don’t live on these shores, who don’t know the history of the civil rights movement or the legislation which has passed regarding equal rights for every legal citizen of the united states–be quiet. takes more effort to be quiet and work against stupidity and racism than spouting off on things you really know nothing about.
[reply]Put yourself in his shoes on that night and think what you would have done and how soon, and IF, you would have come forward at all.
ANY respectable man would have tried to free his female passenger before fleeing. Any respectable man would also have IMMEDIATELY called the authorities so that maybe (just maybe) they may’ve had a chance of saving her. But to run away like a dog and sit at home all night long KNOWING that woman was in his car at the bottom of some lake is sick.
Hopefully that woman is giving him a good ol bitch slappin in the afterlife.
Well, i used to have no respect for him when i was younger, but after remembering what he went through -3 brothers killed, his douchebag rapist of a nephew, The
Accident (which could of happened to ANYONE - Shit, if Bush had done that, well, it’s all the same i guess). But, he plowed through life and tried to make change for the better in the political world, which is what is not what’s being adressed here anyways, so i’ll shut up now. So, what about that crash and how horrible he was again? That human being! Scum!
[reply][reply]Put yourself in his shoes on that night and think what you would have done and how soon, and IF, you would have come forward at all.
ANY respectable man would have tried to free his female passenger before fleeing. Any respectable man would also have IMMEDIATELY called the authorities so that maybe (just maybe) they may’ve had a chance of saving her. But to run away like a dog and sit at home all night long KNOWING that woman was in his car at the bottom of some lake is sick.
Hopefully that woman is giving him a good ol bitch slappin in the afterlife.
Fuck Ted and the horse he rode in on.[/reply]
My thoughts exactly. Pretty lame Pork.[/reply]
sorry I don’t know the whole situation and all the facts around it like maybe I should to take a stance, i was just saying that a man who takes his life and dedicates it to helping others, be it a dr, fireman, police officer, or a politician is deserving of some credit. as far as this murder thing with the car and the girl, shit i don’t know. I DO know that alot of not just politicians, but bad people in this world would have just weezled their way out of it somehow and tried to get away with it. He manned up, a little late, but he manned up. But yes it was too late and it’s something he had to live
Toot and Kill are bit oversimplifying the matter, the dude didn’t just sit at home and twiddle his thumbs, he tried rescuing her then he went back to the party, he got one of his brothers and I think a staffer and they went back to try and recover her a second time to no avail. after that that’s when he went back to his hotel… I seriously doubt anyone would be running to the cops if there was any possibilty that you would be locked up for murder/manslaughter, especially if it was an accident. Plus, as I’ve mentioned before no one will ever know what roll she may have played in that crash.
Let me say it a third time when the amount of good he put into put into this country compared to the amount of bad he imposed on this country are compared the scale totally tilts to the good. You can still hate if you want, that’s fine, but you can’t claim that nobody ever tried to set you straight.
Late,
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I seriously doubt anyone would be running to the cops if there was any possibilty that you would be locked up for murder/manslaughter,
The thing was an accident so why on earth keep it from the authorities??? He himself was to blame for turning it from an accident into a despicable crime. One in which he should have been banged up for as far as I’m concerned.
Yes it indeed could have happened to anyone, though in most cases it would happen to a drink driver or a dangerous driver. And either you act like a human being or you act like an animal after it’s happened. Ted chose the latter.
Anyway we’re going around in circles here. So I’m bowing out of this.
As soon as his cancer was detected, there was an immediate attempt at the canonization of old Teddy Kennedy by the mainstream media. They are
saying what a “great American” he is. Let’s get a couple things clear & not twist the facts to change the real history.
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.
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 that President Bush received).
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!
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!
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?
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.
He swam to shore and walked back to the party, passing several houses and a fire station. Two friends then 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 (or payoff) from the Kennedy’s insurance policy, and never sued. There was later an effort to have her 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”?
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.
Since that time, he has been the prime instigator and author of
every expansion of an 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 was the standard bearer for the nation in matters of whats right. What a pompous ass!
He is known around Washington as a public drunk, loud, boisterous and very disrespectful to ladies. JERK is a better description than
“great American”. A blonde in every pond is his motto.
Let’s not allow the spin doctors make this jerk a hero – how quickly the American public forgets what his real legacy is. Lets keep this going for truth, justice and the American way!