Thursday, August 27, 2009

Kennedy and Chappaquiddick

Mary Jo, Rest In Peace.
It's always fascinating to see if obituaries bring up what might be called a black mark on a notable person's life. Just last week we looked at when news outlets first mentioned the Plame case in covering the death of Robert Novak. So where did leading outlets place the first mention of the Chappaquiddick accident in their obits of Ted Kennedy?
Ted Kennedy lived a live of extreme privilege thanks to our Capitalist System, and continued to enrich his family by the same system. Yet he did everything politically to destroy it for the rest of us by trying to bend us to Socialism every step of the way.
Maybe the media manufactured Camelot Bull Shit will FINALLY come to an end. Or will it get bigger and more ext ream. Will the Coward of Chappaquiddick become a Hero of the Health-Care movement? Will Obama use his death to promote this ridicules Plan of his. Yes, Yes, and Yes!
I guess that someone somewhere loved him. Someone somewhere grieves. That someone is not me.
It's sad to see how far the media will go with this story, nowhere will you read about how he has degraded in this country. They idealize Ted Kennedy like he is some kind of saint, yet give very little importance to the fact that he was guilty of manslaughter at the least in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne . The ghost of Chappaquiddick has haunted Kennedy over a lifetime, raising questions about his honesty and courage, in my eyes there were NO questions about his honesty and courage. There was NO honesty or courage to be seen.
Mary Jo never got a chance to do anything else she died. Never got to marry, or to have children, or to run for the Senate. Or to get a Health Care plan named after her! Kennedy never paid the price for his actions. There was no justice for Mary Jo, none.
I could never respect this man because he showed me what he was made of - no matter how many trips to church he made, no matter how many bills he passed, babies he kissed, speeches he gave. He never paid his debt to society. Somehow, he was above all that.

And this man, the hero of Chappaquidick, gets a Freedom Medal from the president of the United States.

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