>Not vision or health-care reform, not peacemaking or even Camelot. Just the controversial 40-year-old event, the ugliest single moment from the late senators 77 years on Earth, nearly 47 of them in public service. The small souls who spend their days hanging out in discussion forums at Free Republic, one of the U.S ultra-rights more popular online homes, greeted news of Kennedys death characteristically, flinging around words like traitor, coward, disgrace and, yes, references to the 1969 event. Chappaquiddick minds in a narrow, ungenerous world.<
And yet, a man’s whole career can be tainted permanently because he put an extra vowel on the end of “Potato”. Another man’s career has been trashed because of one word, “macacca”.
Excellent post.