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Joyce Carol Oates: How does one woman’s life compare to decades of awesome Senate service?
Hot Air ^ | August 28, 2009 | Allahpundit

Posted on 08/28/2009 7:09:48 PM PDT by Lou Budvis

Somehow, the fact that she recognizes Chappaquiddick as “unconscionable, despicable, unmanly and inexplicable” only makes it worse. It’s come to this: Yet, ironically, following this nadir in his life/ career, Ted Kennedy seemed to have genuinely refashioned himself as a serious, idealistic, tirelessly energetic liberal Democrat in the mold of 1960s/1970s American liberalism, arguably the greatest Democratic senator of the 20th century. His tireless advocacy of civil rights, rights for disabled Americans, health care, voting reform, his courageous vote against the Iraq war (when numerous Democrats including Hillary Clinton voted for it) suggest that there are not only “second acts” in American lives, but that the Renaissance concept of the “fortunate fall” may be relevant here: one “falls” as Adam and Eve “fell”; one sins and repents and is forgiven, provided that one remakes one’s life… Yet if one weighs the life of a single young woman against the accomplishments of the man President Obama has called the greatest Democratic senator in history, what is one to think?

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: chappaquiddick; tedkennedy
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To: Lou Budvis

Are they trying to say she was some kind of martyr?

Aren’t martyrs usually killed by their enemies?


21 posted on 08/28/2009 7:33:27 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Lou Budvis

Who is this woman anyway?

From her bio:

Oates won a scholarship to attend Syracuse University, where she joined Phi Mu

Isn’t that the one they call “Phi Moo”?


22 posted on 08/28/2009 7:52:30 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: MayflowerMadam

“What does Mary Jo’s family have to say on the matter? How do they feel that Kennedy’s friend, Klein, said that Teddy’s favorite jokes were Chappaquiddick jokes? The man makes me want to puke.”

“Ed Klein, said that Teddy’s favorite jokes were Chappaquiddick jokes”.
I can’t for the life of me think of anything more sick than the thought of Ted the “swimmer” laughing at anything concerning the death of Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick.


23 posted on 08/28/2009 7:58:48 PM PDT by Islander2
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To: Lou Budvis

That one woman’s life was cut short.

It’s too bad we didn’t have that one woman alive to make this comparison.

These folks are seriously deranged.


24 posted on 08/28/2009 8:02:13 PM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: cynwoody

Seeing the author’s picture explains everything.


25 posted on 08/28/2009 8:05:13 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Lou Budvis

So perhaps all Senators should be allowed a murder or two.


26 posted on 08/28/2009 8:07:01 PM PDT by Poincare
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To: cynwoody
She looks like a Miss Havisham who lives with 100 cats.

Imho, wackjob doesn't even begin to cover it...
27 posted on 08/28/2009 8:10:06 PM PDT by khnyny (Barack Obama and Chauncey Gardiner: separated at birth)
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To: Lou Budvis
Liberals: willing to literally sacrifice innocent lives (like the unborn and now Mary joe K.) to advance their agendas.

Good God these people make me sick.

28 posted on 08/28/2009 8:19:14 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (The way to destroy a countercultural movement is to have white people start liking it.)
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To: Lou Budvis
One is to think Ted Kennedy was a hyper-partisan demagogue who skirted the law with inherited wealth and a family name. He committed treason by colluding with the Soviets against Ronald Reagan. He betrayed his faith by supporting the barbaric practice of infanticide. He hypocritically supported environmentalism while fighting windmills that would devalue his real estate.

He was a drunk. He was a commie. He was the worst of America.

29 posted on 08/28/2009 8:25:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: cynwoody

She looks like she’s spent too much time in the water herself.


30 posted on 08/28/2009 8:34:52 PM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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To: cynwoody

31 posted on 08/28/2009 8:49:10 PM PDT by Darnright (There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. - Tacitus)
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To: cynwoody

Oh my goodness. That poor woman has Ed Zachary disease.


32 posted on 08/28/2009 8:58:38 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: Jo Nuvark

Although Oates considers herself a feminist, “Her tragic and violent plots abound with incidents of rape, incest, murder, mutilation, child abuse, and suicide, and her protagonists often suffer as a result of the conditions of their social milieu or their emotional weaknesses. This is especially true of her female characters, who are portrayed as dysfunctional, passive, and vulnerable to exploitation and abuse in a male-dominated society. For this reason feminist critics consider Oates a controversial figure, because she has created few strong, independent female role models in her numerous works.” http://www.enotes.com/feminism-literature/oates-joyce-carol

So much for feminist writers and their thought processes...


33 posted on 08/28/2009 8:59:23 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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To: Lou Budvis

Or the lives of millions of unborn babies, for that matter..?


34 posted on 08/28/2009 9:02:29 PM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: La Lydia

“Yet if one weighs the life of a single young woman against the accomplishments of the man President Obama has called the greatest Democratic senator in history, what is one to think?”

Right, spot on La:

Well one is to think that its not about the one women, whom was abandoned in the flooded, pitch black, car. To struggle waiting for rescue, while this monster changed clothes and arranged his damage control.

He has gone to judgment, Mary and others will cast for his lot. I hope he has something better than damage control, greed, corruption. Life is surely fleeting for us all. Hell is for ever.


35 posted on 08/28/2009 9:11:11 PM PDT by Rabin
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To: cynwoody

Her mom may have loved her. I kinda respect her purity. ug, surface to the bone. This thing typifies the drift all that apologists adore.

Line her up for the Neville Chamberlain, honorable mention sticker.


37 posted on 08/28/2009 9:25:02 PM PDT by Rabin
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To: Lou Budvis
"..Fidelity to a personal code of morality would seem to fade in significance as the public sphere, like an enormous sun, blinds us to all else..."

The above theory holds only for the depraved or a writer long past her prime.

The good Kennedy did did not cost him anything. If it did cost, if it involved sacrifice be sure Teddy would punt.

38 posted on 08/28/2009 9:37:16 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Nervous Tick
That poor woman has Ed Zachary disease.

Exerrent diagnosis!

39 posted on 08/28/2009 9:41:21 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: eeriegeno
And another M. T. bon mot, paraphrased:

"If I should hear of his funeral I would postpone all other recreations to attend."

40 posted on 08/28/2009 9:43:30 PM PDT by Erasmus (Barack Hussein Obama: America's toast!)
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