>>>>>>>It's not a filibuster proof majority. Please check your facts. It was for a time and then t
>>>>>Chappaquiddick, yeah, there's that. I don't believe anyone still alive truly knows what happened. Maybe I am giving him a break here but the theory that makes the most sense to me is that he wasn't even in the car, she was the one driving. That bridge looks treacherous in photos but he had been in that area his whole life and should not have had any difficulty driving across it. A really short bridge. Were they having an affair? Almost certainly. But it makes no sense that he would have killed her or failed to save her. The theory has it that she had dropped him off, for unknown reasons, and was driving back around the island. It also explains the long delay before he reported it -- he didn't know.
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>>>>I've been reading about that incident since the day it happened and I can honestly say I've never heard the theory "he wasn't in the car" before. Where did that come from ? And is any explanation offered for his own admission he *was* driving the car? Seriously, I'd love to read more about this "alternate theory" of the crime. Who proposed it?
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>>>>REVISED - just googled and found references to what you are talking about and I have to say I'd never heard of those sources so but the idea still seems absurd - since the idea of Teddy "taking the rap" for something he *really* didn't do is really beyond belief.
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>>>>It is believed she lived for two hours in that car under water while Teddy figured out how to cover his ass. If somebody wants to rail against wealth and privilege a good target would be the failure to indict him.
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>>>Yet once again, no proof, just a theory. This is from the Wikipedia --
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>>>Alternative theory
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>>>A BBC 'Inside Story' programme, 'Chappaquiddick', broadcast on the 25th anniversary of the death of Mary Jo Kopechne advanced a theory that Kennedy and Kopechne had gone out from the party in Kennedy's car, but that when Kennedy saw an off-duty policeman in his patrol car, he got out of the car, fearing the political consequences of being discovered by the police late at night with an attractive woman. According to the theory, Kennedy then returned to the party while Kopechne, unfamiliar both with the large car and the local area, drove the wrong way and crashed off the bridge. The programme argued this explanation would account for Kennedy's lack of concern the following morning (because he was unaware of the crash) and for forensic evidence of the injuries to Kopechne being inconsistent with her sitting in the passenger seat.[44] A similar theory was advanced by Australian writer Bob Ellis.[45]
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>>>Best-selling investigative writer Jack Olsen had earlier advanced a similar theory in his book The Bridge at Chappaquiddick, published early in 1970. Olsen's book was the first full-length examination of the case. Olsen wrote that Kopechne's shorter height (she was 5'2", a foot shorter than Kennedy) could have accounted for her possibly not even seeing the bridge as she drove Kennedy's car over unfamiliar roads, at night, with no external lighting, after having had several drinks at the party both had attended. Olsen wrote that Kopechne normally drove a smaller Volkswagen model car, which was much lighter and easier to handle than Kennedy's larger Oldsmobile.[46]
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>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappaquiddick_incident
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>>>This does not leave him in any kind of good light but there is a difference between tawdry behavior and murder.
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>>Whether he was driving or she was driving isn't really important. It wasn't bad driving that was his crime. It was being a coward with so little character he would rather have a girl die than besmirch the "image" (or face daddy after screwing up yet again.)
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>>Yeah, it still might be difficult to explain why he told everyone he was driving, swam down to try to save her etc and was traumatized by the accident. (in which he claims to have suffered a concussion)
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>>This kind of nonsense is a pretty good example of a very well-oiled - and funded - PR machine that made a lot of people a lot of money covering up despicable behavior and the fact that anyone would even believe it for a minute pretty much sums up the danger of celebrity worship.
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>>Teddy Kennedy was scum and a murderer.
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>The accounts given never held any sort of reality. What would your or my reaction be if we'd driven a car into water and knew there was someone in it. I'd try and get to them and then run as fast as I could to the nearest house and be banging on the door or breaking in to get to a phone.
>I think Kennedy should have retired from public life and should have been to do so by his advisors.

Kennedys don't have advisors - they have sycophants who profit from reflected glow and enablers who are on the payroll.

He should have been told to retire by the voters of Massachusetts, but celebrity often trumps character.

It is hard to believe Democracy is the best form of government when you realize twice as many people watch "Keeping up with the Kardashians" ( an especially heinous American reality TV show ) as watch "Madmen". <s>