Revisiting Chappaquiddick After 35 Years

Human Events ^ | July 19, 2004 | Joseph Calandra, Jr

[Wolfstar]

...he is probably haunted by what he has done.

I sincerely doubt it. He didn't care about Mary Jo immediately after the accident. Why would he care 35 years later?

[Wolfstar]

Kennedy was guilty of manslaughter...

At least.

[Nasty McPhilthy]

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/downloads-pdfs/twentyquestions.pdf

[johnny7]

I doubt he is haunted at all.

Of course he isn't. But the excessive boozing shows it does bother him 'subconsciously'.

[Chieftain]

Too bad someone doesn't have the ambition to buy a '68 Olds just like the car Teddy was driving and then drove it around the streets of Boston during the convention. They could put some seaweed and fish on and about the car just for effect.

Attention Mass FReepers great idea for an enterprizing FReeper in the New England area!

[pilgrim]

"http://www.humaneventsonline.com/downloads-pdfs/twentyquestions.pdf"

 

This makes the event more questionable!  I had not heard about the bloodstains of Mary Jo's shirt. 

 

Hmmmmmmmmm.....pilgrim  .

[pilgrim]

"http://www.humaneventsonline.com/downloads-pdfs/twentyquestions.pdf"

 

This makes the event more questionable!  I had not heard about the bloodstains of Mary Jo's shirt. 

 

Hmmmmmmmmm.....pilgrim  .

[vanmorrison]

"...he is probably haunted by what he has done."

"I sincerely doubt it. He didn't care about Mary Jo immediately after the accident. Why would he care 35 years later?"

And why should he care, when the people of Taxachusetts, home of JohnEffinKerry, continued to re-elect this monster from that day to this? He's a hero! He beat the rap! Just like OJ!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Huh? When has he every been lying sober on his pillow?

Because he lies best when he isn't drunk.

[Wolfstar]

And why should he care, when the people of Taxachusetts, home of JohnEffinKerry, continued to re-elect this monster from that day to this? He's a hero! He beat the rap! Just like OJ!

That's the hard truth which tells the tale, doesn't it. That's why I have no faith or trust in the American electorate. Hope, yes. But trust, no.

[1Old Pro]

Photo of car:

[El Gran Salseron]

Yes, Kennedy is a low-down, mudering dog. There is no question about that.

It is also sad that this young woman lost her life.

BUT, that isn't the saddest part of the whole process.

The saddest part is that despite his obvious criminality.....the good people of Massachusetts have continued to "overlook" this incident and elect him over and over again.

That says so very much about the electorate in that state. Very sad, indeed.

[weegee]

What are the politics of Scott Peterson? No one would be interested, indeed.

[weegee]

There is no statute of limitations on murder. Perhaps Ted Kennedy will eventually be brought to trial for his crimes. Another Kennedy was brought to trial over a murder case from decades past.

Political connections can't betray justice forever.

[Cicero]

If Kennedy went into the water because he was drunk, he was as you say guilty of manslaughter or accidental death, and anyone but a Kennedy would have been tried on such a charge.

But it's worse than that. He waited 9 hours to inform the police, whereas if he had called them from the first house near the bridge they might very likely have gotten her out before she died. There was a substantial pocket of air in the car, and she probably lived for some time before it ran out.

That's worse than manslaughter. And there's more. His motivation was almost certainly to figure out a way to cover up his involvement and preserve his political career, not that he was too drunk or incompetent to make the right decisions in an emergency.

That's murder, in my book. He didn't deliberately kill her, but he did deliberately let her die after putting her into a situation where she was certain to die.

[Christian4Bush]

BUMP

[Mike Bates]

Teddy's real legacy:

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[weegee]

Same as the case where the woman on X hit a pedestrian and drove him into her garage where she left him to die in her windshield.

[weegee]

The "good people" of Massachusetts continue to overlook this horrible bit of Ted Kennedy's past but so does Big Media that sees Teddy as the last viable Kennedy (no JFK, RFK, John-John/JFK Jr.... although the media has tried to spin John Kerry as "John F. Kerry" and Kerry/Edwards as "John-John"). Why should we care to hear his take on Iraq?

[Dead Dog]

I thought it was a Lincoln (rhyms with sinkin'). What model of Olds was it?