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To: Poet who wrote (17810)	7/18/2002 6:58:47 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21057

Oh, I wanted to remind you that today is the 33rd anniversary of Chappaquiddick (as in "Ted Kennedy). :-) [ Yup, I'm bring this over from IHUB. Aren't I nice? We Republicans need every edge we can get right now. :-) ] POET: Ugh. That was a fiasco and awful, repulsive incident. :-( Is SI acting up for you? I can't get on. ME: I can't tell you if SI is acting up. I can't get on to find out. :-( That was a fiasco and awful, repulsive incident. Just wanted to make sure it didn't slip by unnoticed. :-) POET: Try SI now. I just got back in. and your velvet glove may be necessary right about now. I'm disgusted by the Chappaquidick incident, believe me. But I still think Kennedy has been a fine senator. ME: In that case, Ashcroft is an outstanding Attorney General and Bush is an absolutely terrific completely honest President. Let's see, I'm married. I go to a party, get drunk, pick up a woman, start driving back to my pad to do our thing, drive off a bridge into a river, leave her and the car, go home, and don't call the cops until many hours later. She dies, of course. And then, belonging to the most powerful family in the state, I use my connections to escape any consequences. What do you think would have happened to you in those circumstances? (Minus that last line above of course.) Do you think you'd be out of jail yet? And you have the audacity to complain about GWB using his family connections to escape the consequences of a little bit of minor piddling insider trading? Aw, come on, Poet, gimme a break. GWB is a saint in comparison. Kennedy KILLED A WOMAN ferchrissakes. If you don't condemn him and demand his removal from office, don't whine to me about Bush. Bush is strictly a bushleaguer in comparison. "fine Senator". Sure doesn't say much for the Senate. POET: I'm trying to remember if I've ever whined to you about Bush. Chappaquidick happened thirty years ago. Politics was different then. If it happened these days, Ted Kennedy's career would be over. I hate what he did (or didn't do, but that doesn't wipe out a thirty year history of hard work in the Senate. Ashcroft as an outstanding AG? Cough. :-) ME: Politics was different then. Oh. OK. Then what Nixon did only three years later was just fine and he was unjustly persecuted. Politics wasn't all that different. If that had happened anywhere except Taxachussets, the outcome woiuld most likely have been different. Vehicular manslaughter never has been considered a virtue. But the fact is it did happen and this is now, not then. Why is he still Senator? And how can anyone who supports him have the audacity to criticize Bush? His sins are rather petty in comparison.