RIP Ted Kennedy
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- lowimpakt0
rip boss
- airey0
"i drink and i drive,
i'm the only man that gets out of my car alive,
i'm ted kennedy!"
denis leary
- kgvs720
RIP
- harlequino0
Most unfortunate. RIP
*pours whiskey in coffee as tribute
- pour coffee into your whiskey. it saves time7point34
- notedharlequino
- monkeyshine0
Sad. We need him now more than ever. :( RIP
- how so?baseline_shift
- health care was his cause. think he could have been influential in helping with reform.monkeyshine
- CALLES0
RIP
the first thing i did when i heard this was to call my boss not to sell me down the river and give me to the news department.. hate doing this opens
- baseline_shift0
He essentially killed a girl. How he kept his political career is way beyond me. Guess its that kennedy sway.
Not gonna mourn this one.
- did he?Kiggen
- yes he didCALLES
- look up the Chappaquiddick incident. He drunk drove his car off a bridge, and his date died.baseline_shift
- so what you meant to say, was that he tried to kill himself and the girl...NONEIS
- he was never charged and drunk driving wasnt even an offense back thenfooler2
- It was an offense, just not as enforced as it is now. This kept him from winning or being nominated as president.CyBrain
- ceiling_cat0
Didn't he have an affair, and was caught with his pants down?
- he wasn't opposed to pinching an ass or three, i'll reckon.harlequino
- ceiling_cat0
"Kennedy was driving a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 with one of the women, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, as his passenger, when Kennedy drove off Dike Bridge into the Poucha Pond inlet. Kennedy escaped the overturned vehicle and swam to safety, but Kopechne died in the car. Kennedy left the scene and did not call authorities until after Kopechne's body was discovered the following day."
- BattleAxe0
can we have term limits now
- juhls0
RIP
The car accident occurred in 1969. The Chappaquiddick incident did affect his campaign, and rightfully so. I would think that after so many years and after he made some intelligent (in my opinion) decisions, not as many people would hold the accident against him.. Also, guess he outlived the supposed curse.
- BS. Anyone else would have gone to jail for a long time. He walked, and kept his political power.baseline_shift
- I agree about the jail time.juhls
- There really is no excuse for that kind of behaviour. Just mentioning that it happened quite a while ago and other thingsjuhls
- things have happened since then.juhls
- sleepyfatso0
Seeya round big guy
- ceiling_cat0
one less fatty on the planet, no complaints here
- moar cheezburger for ubaseline_shift
- bless u my chileceiling_cat
- monkeyshine0
Say what you will about him...but he was a dedicated public servant and he did a lot of good in his life time.
- Ill say he killed a girl and its amazing how the american public can turn a blind eye to that.baseline_shift
- //Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face and didn't talk to the cops for well over 9 hours :PDrBombay
- and the person he shot apologized...NONEIS
- HAHA, I thought the same thing ... how do you get shot in the face then apologize to the media for it?Point5
- Because he likely said something that really pissed him off!NONEIS
- ceiling_cat0
Did he kill a woman?
"He left her to drown in his car, after he had driven the car off a bridge. It took him 9 hours to report the accident - well, he was blotto, after all. To me, that is a YES. I would say yes also."
- harlequino0
Not that I am jumping in the conspiracy boat, but there was always a lot of weirdness surrounding the Chapaquitic thing. A lot of people have pointed to plausible scenarios of a setup, with the purpose to keep him from reaching the presidency. Which it did.
Whatever the reality is, yeah I'll accept he was responsible for that girl's death. However, plenty of people get away with drunk driving and just continue their lives and do nothing. Perhaps you can make a case that in Teddy's case, he continued to try and serve the public the best he could. Maybe he felt like it was a greater penance than to simply fade away.
Just a thought.
- ceiling_cat0
Seems like there's been more celebrity deaths lately.
- monkeyshine0
I don't know your political affiliation (and don't care) but have noticed like republicans LOVE to dismiss anything he's ever done or said by bringing this up. It was a terrible accident in the life of a flawed person.
I know someone who killed someone @ 18 driving drunk. He's in his 50s now and has to live with what he did. He's not a bad person but he did a really stupid thing early in his life. Life isn't always so clean and simple.
- //Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face and didn't talk to the cops for well over 9 hours :PDrBombay
- But Ted lied about it.AngryMob
- did your friend do jail time or repay his debt to society?baseline_shift
- How did he lie exactly?DrBombay
- Please.... must I educate you on everything?AngryMob
- He said he never saw any houses where he could call for help.. which was a lie. Do you just blanketly love all Democratsmathinc
- Rick? Seems as such. It's like a big game to you.mathinc
- The person alsp apologise to cheney for being in front of his gun.GeorgesII
- AngryMob0
RIP Mary Jo Kopechne †