Comments on: Edward Moore Kennedy: 1932-2009

By: Elaine

Elaine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:19:19 +0000

He might have felt bad about it, but does that make anything any better? He was human, but the human trait of selfishness can be overcome if one has a mind to.
The one thing that he could have done that would have been right in that situation was to admit what he did wrong and accept the consequences.

Politicians, for the most part, are grossly perfidious and prehensile. Frankly, I don’t see what can be done to correct this problem in our country.

By: Dean CES

Dean CES — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:04:53 +0000

Good comments, John and Elaine, to keep the discussion floating. His “liberalism” was not necessarily a good thing, but at least he didn’t try to hide who he was, as many other members of his party so often do.

Elaine, I agree with your conclusion that he was probably too drunk and too worried about his own political future to report Mary Jo Kopechne’s drowning right away. Although, I’m sure he felt horrible that he caused her death. Not horrible enough to own up to it, mind you, but it’s not as if he thought “oh well, no big deal.”

By: Elaine

Elaine — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:34:30 +0000

Oh, and he was rich, so of course he got away with it.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:32:38 +0000

Thank you, Hugh, for speaking the truth. Ted Kennedy was a bad man.
God save his soul.
Matt, you fail to notice the “a” before the “young women”. If I’m not mistaken, Hugh meant one young woman. And I somehow don’t think Ted Kennedy was grieving the lady in between the time he killed her and the time he finally reported it.
1. He was drunk, so he was waiting for the alcohol to wear off his breath
2. He was unwilling to take responsibility for his misdeed.

By: John D.

John D. — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:43:39 +0000

Kennedy consistently voted against economic freedom. Like so many so-called “liberals” his policies were oppressive.

By: Dean CES

Dean CES — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:59:58 +0000

Ted Kennedy was a polarizing figure, indeed. Much like Sarah Palin is today. Some people worship her, whereas others cannot believe how she even made it out of high school, let alone to be Governor of Alaska and the GOP’s Vice Presidential nominee. The same held true for Teddy, who was both revered and vilified throughout his near-half century in the Senate.

When some of George W. Bush’s fiercest critics challenged me to name one thing I admired about him, I replied: he stuck to his guns and did not pander to polls. Right or wrong, he believed in his convictions. I can say the same thing about Ted Kennedy. Politicians on the right stumble over one another to make sure everyone knows they are conservative (even though it is laughable at how that word has been abused over the past few years), but hardly anyone on the left ever admits to being a liberal. They will sidestep the issue, or call themselves “progressive.” Whether you liked him or not, Senator Kennedy was a proud liberal who stayed true to his cause.

By: Matt Wilding

Matt Wilding — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:53:43 +0000

I’m a Kennedy fan and this is a grand tribute to him.

I do think it’s interesting that Hugh above says that Kennedy let “young women” die, as if 1. it was on purpose, 2. if he’d reported the accident immediately, there’d have been any way she’d have been saved, and 3. there was more than one woman.

Kennedy was certainly no angel, but let us not forget that he did have his day in court. Further, he spent the rest of his life working hard for working American people, and quite definitely saved a few lives in the process.

By: Donald

Donald — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:04:15 +0000

Kennedy was a liberal, get over it, Hugh. Bork’s rejected nomination was the best thing to ever happen to this great country of ours. Too bad we couldn’t have kept Clarence Thomas off the court, too. R.I.P., Teddy, you will be missed.

By: Hugh Maguire

Hugh Maguire — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:04:19 +0000

Gee. Not a word about abortion. You state he was unwavering in his beliefs but you fail to mention that he was pro life in his early career but changed when he needed the liberals support. You also gloss over what you call his adult “mistakes”. A rather generous discription for letting a young women die because he was too much of a coward to face what he did. Most open minded people with any morals would have convicted him of manslaughter. His slander of Robert Bork was a disgrace. “Teddy” wasn’t half the man Judge Bork was. His cheating while in college and his drunken behavior with his buddy Senator Dodd are all a matter of public record. As a new subscriber to the post I really dissappointed with this puff piece on Kennedy. I had expected better.

Sincerely,

Hugh Maguire