At first I was going to write a commentary on old ted. But then I thought..rather than what would be considered a biased rant by a 'far right conservative', I thought I'd just state the historical facts based from editorials.
On a day that this....'man' is being hailed so in the the biased media.
Not surprising. I would expect no less from them.
But heres some facts about a guy who left a woman to die....went home, and took a nap.:
(article below)
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By Mary Ellen Synon
Dailymail.co.uk
...."Kennedy’s character has been flawed from the start, but then he came from bad stock. His father Joe Kennedy made no secret of the fortune he made from bootlegging during Prohibition or his decades-long close connections with the heavies of organised crime. Nor did he make any secret of his adulterous affairs with such women as the Hollywood star Gloria Swanson, at a time when such affairs were scandalous.
Ted Kennedy, the spoilt baby of Joe and Rose Kennedy’s vast brood, was a poor student at his private school, but his family ensured he was admitted to Harvard University.
Ted couldn’t manage the work. In order to avoid certain failure on a Spanish exam, he paid another, brighter student to sit the exam for him. Both students were caught and expelled. Family pressure ensured Ted was eventually readmitted.
When he was then manoeuvred by his rich family into the prestigious University of Virginia Law School, he was cited four times by local police for reckless driving. On one occasion he was stopped by police late at night driving at 90 miles an hour through a suburban street with his headlights off.
How did a cheating knucklehead end up, aged 30, with a seat in the Senate? Easy. His older brother Jack vacated one of the seats in the Kennedy home state of Massachusetts when he was elected US President in 1960.
Since in 1960 Teddy was not yet old enough to take a seat in the Senate - Article One of the US Constitution bars anyone under the age of 30 - his father had the governor of Massachusetts appoint a tame family friend to occupy the seat until Ted (or ‘Teddy’ as he was still known at that time) was old enough to take it in 1962. Then the friend stepped down.
Or as Joe was reported to have said about the seat, ‘It’s mine, I bought it.’
All of which tells you a lot about what sort of man Ted Kennedy was. But the key moment of his life, the moment which crystallised his character is known by one word:
Chappaquiddick.
Most people in Britain, if they know Chappaquiddick at all, only know something about Kennedy and a car accident in which a girl died. But it was far worse than just some accident.
In August 1969 Kennedy abandoned Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year old campaign worker, to drown at midnight in a car he had driven over the side of a wooden bridge on Chappaquiddick, a small holiday island near Martha’s Vineyard.
The married senator and Mary Jo had left a party together in his mother’s Oldsmobile. They got as far as Dyke’s Bridge, which leads over Poucha Pond to a deserted beach, but Kennedy ran the car over the side into the water.
Kennedy got himself out of the submerged car, but he didn’t go back for Mary Jo. He didn’t even ring for the police or the rescue squad, though there were four cottages nearby and he could have rung from any one of them.
Instead he ran away to find a lawyer. The police only heard about the accident the next day, after some fishermen found the overturned car in the water.
At the inquest it was estimated that Mary Jo had stayed alive for about 25 minutes as she sucked the last oxygen out of the air bubble in the car. That would have been enough time to rescue her, if Kennedy had called for help.
The worst sanction Kennedy received for the death of Mary Jo was a conviction for the misdemeanour of leaving the scene of an accident, with a two-month suspended sentence.
As critics pointed out, since Chappaquiddick is in Massachusetts, there was little chance of justice being done. In almost any other state, Kennedy would have served a prison sentence.
However, the death of Mary Jo meant that Kennedy could never secure his party’s nomination for President. Despite his support among Democrats, the party’s leaders knew that, no matter how many years passed, the word ‘Chappaquiddick’ would taint any campaign.
So Kennedy instead built up his power in the Senate. He based his power on following the dogma of the hard left of the Democratic party.
For example, he has given unwavering support for the most ruthless and cruel form of abortion, a procedure known as partial-birth abortion: in other words, Kennedy has been a consistent supporter of the law that allows a full-term baby to be killed in the birth canal - without anaesthetic.
Or a 29-year old woman to be killed in his car - without hope."
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1159526/MARY-ELLEN-SYNON-The-Tories-right-rage-Kennedys-knighthood.html
