Posted on 08/30/2009 3:25:22 AM PDT by Scanian
In all the obits published and specials aired this week, Chappaquiddick gets a few paragraphs, a few minutes, a tidy recapping of the events of July 19, 1969: The married Ted Kennedy, driving late at night with young campaign aide Mary Jo Kopechne, pitches off a bridge and into the water below. He escapes; she drowns. He does not report the accident for 10 hours. He pleads guilty and gets a suspended sentence, two months in jail.
In most of these narratives, Chappaquiddick is told as Ted's tragedy, the thing that kept him from ever becoming president. And in these narratives, he is chastened, goes on to make amends through a life of public service, advocating for the disadvantaged and the downtrodden -- and, especially, women. No one's perfect, right?
But how is it that so many women unabashedly revere Kennedy today? The particulars of Chappaquiddick are especially gory; his behavior after the accident approaches the amoral. Once he broke free and swam to the surface, Kennedy said that he dove back down seven or eight times to rescue Kopechne. Failing, he swam back to shore and checked back into his hotel, and a short time later lodged a noise complaint with the desk clerk. The people in the room next to his were partying and it was interfering with his sleep. Then he asked the desk clerk for the time.
According to the Aug. 4, 1969 edition of Newsweek, that clerk, Russell E. Peachey, told Kennedy it was 2:25 a.m., then asked, "Is there anything else I can do for you?"
"No, thank you," Kennedy replied.
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The Catholic Church does not justify giving him a Catholic funeral. Local Catholic functionaries(including the Cardinal) justify anything at all for the Rightful King. Then again, we do not know the state of his soul the moment before death. He may well have sincerely repented of all his Cardinal Sins in that last moment. That faint possibility certainly does not justify a eulogy that pretends that he is already in Heaven. A funeral mass should not contain such a eulogy from a priest, even for someone who has led an apparently saintly life because we really do not know the state of the deceased’s soul at the moment of death. A funeral mass should be a funeral mass with no praise or excoriation of the dead.
Women are stupid. They go for the “bad” boy and think they can change him.
We rule from our hearts instead of our heads too often.Just look at the women who write or worse marry men in prison for murder.
Just like people who vote on emotion not logic.
Even back in Cardinal Cushing’s day I thought that Boston Catholicism was about as saintly as Boston politics.
I see nothing at all has changed.
Then perhaps the correct term is that they DESPISE women.
Very easy answer.... It’s about “FEELINGS” and not facts or logic...
“lodged a noise complaint with the desk clerk. The people in the room next to his were partying and it was interfering with his sleep. Then he asked the desk clerk for the time.”
I would bet that at THAT particular time he was planning to pretend he had loaned his car to Mary Jo....
This is true. However, unless the person in question makes a public repudiation of his wrongs, there can be no public funeral Mass. And under no circumstances should a radical leftist Muslim be invited to give a "eulogy" in a Catholic basilica at a funeral Mass for this person, either.
As a Catholic I didn't take any offense in what took place yesterday. Remember -- this was the same Archdiocese of Boston that made a habit out of sheltering sexual predators among its clergy for decades. That entire place has effectively written itself off as far as I'm concerned.
I found an article praising Kennedy and claiming he was recruited. Here is what it said:
“Kennedy then enlisted in the U.S. Army and was eventually stationed in Europe. In 1953, after his discharge from the Army, he re-applied and was re-accepted to Harvard. After serving a year of athletic probation, he returned to football his junior year as a second-string end for the Harvard Crimson team where he earned (apparently just barely) his varsity letter for the sport.
That was when he received the recruiting feeler from Lisle Blackbourn, the head coach of the Packers. If Kennedy had wanted to, he could have become a professional football player.”
I’m just wondering - how many second string players are seriously recruited...
I did some digging and found on the “American Experience” web site entitled, “The Pill”, this interesting fact:
“1982- The Pill’s impact on women in the work force is significant. With highly effective birth control now at their disposal, 60% of women of reproductive age are employed in America.” When I was a little girl in elementary school, and visiting bomb shelters on weekends,I remember thinking that in Russia mothers had to work and leave their children in day care centers. I recall feeling frightened that this might happen here in America. Well, it did happen, didn’t it? In an insidious way where nobody thinks to make the connection to a socialist agenda. It will be obvious someday, when some of our descendants living in socialist dependency will also question how they got to that point, and begin to look deeper. What they will find is a concerted effort and design on the part of anti Christian socialists to undermine the American culture and ethos. They knew they could not do it overtly, so they began patiently to destroy all the standards and institutions that defined our country and our people. It is still happening under the guise of equal rights for all types of deviant groups. It is still evident in the never ending high cost of living which forces mothers into the work force. It has blast its way into the halls of academia where godless dilettantes hold sway. Those of us who decry this trend need to wake up and make the sacrifices necessary to continue in however small way, and “ask for the old paths,where the way is good, and walk therein...” jer.16:6
ABORTION. And this shows why women never should have been given the vote. They have become an arm of the Democrat party.
I think you’re right. Your post says it much better than I did.
I NEVER met a woman who would put up with the kind of person Klinton was yet I also never met a woman who wouldn’t lie and make excuses for him in a New York minute. I would be in jail if I even came close to being the sort of person he was.
The real problem is that since liberals have no standards to live up to, they are immune from being treated like criminals.
The Republicans claim to have the corner on family values, so when one of our guys gets caught with a mistress, he goes down because he violated the rules of the party and society. The left dont have many rules, so he can get away with murder.
The left lives is a moral desert. Sounds like a perverts paradise.
As I recall, he tried to get a cousin to take the heat as the driver. The cousin refused. He was establishing an alibi through the desk clerk.
***This is true. However, unless the person in question makes a public repudiation of his wrongs, there can be no public funeral Mass. And under no circumstances should a radical leftist Muslim be invited to give a “eulogy” in a Catholic basilica at a funeral Mass for this person, either.***
Thank you for your reply. You’ve taught me something about my church that I didn’t know. I am confused, though, about PUBLIC funeral Mass versus private. Does that mean that when there is a doubt as to whether the deceased is known to have broken the rules of the church a parish Mass confined perhaps to only the family and close associates can be held, but NOT a public Mass such as Ted Kennedy had? It was certainly VERY PUBLIC.
I agree, also, that Obama should not have been allowed to speak at the funeral.
***ABORTION. And this shows why women never should have been given the vote. They have become an arm of the Democrat party.***
And, of course, no man has ever become an arm of the Democrat party, and yet they voted for Obama. /s
***I NEVER met a woman who would put up with the kind of person Klinton was yet I also never met a woman who wouldn’t lie and make excuses for him in a New York minute.***
May I introduce myself to you? My name is Kitkat, I’m a woman, and I have NEVER made excuses for Klintoon’s behavior.
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