Posted on 08/27/2009 11:37:56 PM PDT by Chet 99
Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy stood for sleaze. Bloated and drunken, he used his standing in the Kennedy clan to chase vulnerable women - which brought his dream of reaching the White House to a shameful end.
He was the youngest of the four Kennedy brothers, and by far the longest lived.
Incredibly, he was in line to inherit his brother John F. Kennedy's legendary presidency, but his chances were dashed following the drowning of the pretty, young campaign assistant Mary Jo Kopechne.
Forever known as the Chappaquiddick Incident after the Massachusetts island where it took place, the scandal in 1969 broke the Kennedy grip on the White House.
A drunk Ted had been driving back from a party to the family 'compound' on Martha's Vineyard when he veered off a bridge and into a deep tidal dyke.
Drowned: Mary Jo Kopechne was killed after Ted Kennedy drove his car off a bridge with her inside
Mary Jo was in the back seat and, while he claimed he was just giving her a lift back to her hotel, it was widely thought that he had picked her up for sex. Kennedy swam ashore to save himself, but left Mary Jo to drown - in fact, it was even worse than that.
It was nine hours before he reported the accident. In the meantime, he walked back to his motel, complained to the manager about a noisy party, took a shower, went to sleep, ordered newspapers when he woke up and spoke to a friend and two lawyers before finally calling the police.
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Boy, that was fast. I doubt it took anywhere near the time to ZOT this jerk as, it did for him to come up with this crap. What a waste of time and energy. Not a waste of brainpower on his part though; you have to have it before you can waste it...
zot
“Not a good idea to miss the first day of 2nd grade.”
Hey now - you’re making a mockery of 2nd graders!
Wow, somnambulism reduced to post form!
Tell me, how does it feel to praise a man for being a drunken womanizer and a murderer to boot?
And since they are driving Teddy to places that were significant in his life, will they load him into a Delta 88 and drive him off the bridge?
Any man who’d have a menage a tois with Chris Dodd in a restaurant HAS to be sleezy.
What a blot on our nation.
Even the blokes see it as it is, something our liberal MSM closes its eyes to.
If it were anyone else, they’d have gone to jail for it.
Great of our Army to march under the corrupt UN flag, no? < /sarc>
Why so ZOT?
The media pretended this never happened. It is the chief reason he never got to run for the Presidency.
Quite a footnote in the legacy. Swept under the rug in an act of revisionist history.
A Twofer!
A Slings and Arrows ping.
And some dubmbazz got the zot.
What a Friday!
The Mods: Darwin’s little helpers.
Somehow I don't think Teddy took the up escalator to wind up with Mary Jo.
IATZ. Damn. Almost made it 4 IBTZ’s this week! Still one day left, tho.
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