The Boston Globe mentioned Chappaquiddick in the fifth paragraph of its obituary of Sen. Ted Kennedy. The Associated Press and the New York Times waited until the 12th and 15th paragraphs, respectively. Curious about how flawed public figures are eulogized, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Michael Smerconish looked back and found that Watergate was mentioned by name five paragraphs into the Washington Post’s obituary of President Nixon. “I can’t help but wonder when President Clinton’s obituary will introduce Monica Lewinsky,” he wrote.
“Fox News Sunday” also contrasted the leads of the New York Times’ obituaries of Kennedy last week and Sen. Jesse Helms last year — noting the first was all positive and the latter the opposite, observing that Helms’ “hard-edged conservatism” had targeted civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art.
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An Old Farmer’s Advice;
*Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God*
An Old Farmer’s Advice;
*Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God*
An Old Farmer’s Advice;
*Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God*
An Old Farmer’s Advice;
* Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God *
Naw, kick him when he’s down.
He kicked the American taxpayer for 40 years.
I suppose it is fair to include the accident at Chappaquidick in the Senator’s obituary. The right never wanted to let that go and they would have howled and spit chiclets if it was not included.
I submit that that accident may have stayed with Kennedy himself and all his life. It MAY have some part in his determination to help people.
And he did more to help people than almost any other American in history.
Yea, when you kill somebody, I suppose you could be devoted to helping people after that.
Sure.
Ya, you bet.
He didn’t kill anybody. Idiot.
No more than Laura Bush killed her ex boyfriend.
It is said we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live after that.
Please list Laura Bush’s contributions to her country.
The topic is Ted Kennedy, not Laura Bush.
I suppose Ted Kennedy didn’t kill Miss Kopechne.
He helped her.
BlueJay
Posted September 2, 2009 at 9:39 pm |
And he did more to help people than almost any other American in history.
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I’d say there’s at least 2,500 Americans who died on D-day, and 7,000 Americans at Iwo Jima, to list just a few, did a whole lot more to help people then Ted Kennedy.
“I’d say there’s at least 2,500 Americans who died on D-day, and 7,000 Americans at Iwo Jima, to list just a few, did a whole lot more to help people then Ted Kennedy.”
They died for their country. Their sacrifice is not diminished that they fought for their country as it WAS.
Ted Kennedy LIVED for his country. He made it better.
“I submit that that accident may have stayed with Kennedy himself and all his life. It MAY have some part in his determination to help people.”‘
And it seems I was right.
Early releases from Ted Kennedy’s memoirs indicate that he lived his life EVERY day trying to atone for the accident.
I’m not a religious person. But this may be a case where Ted Kennedy’s Catholicism may have done much for America. He apparently did much of his good works with a sense of obligation to atone.