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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (71330)	8/31/2009 1:28:01 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran	6 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224749

This is from the current Economist. Certainly to the point. This is the Teddy Kennedy that we all knew, not the one that was plastered all over the media the past few days. "HAD a young woman not drowned in his car, he might have been president. .." ...his story hinges around the tragedy of Chappaquiddick in July 1969. He always denied that he was drunk that night, or that he was having an affair with Mary Jo Kopechne, the young campaign worker in his car. But if not, the episode is hard to understand. Driving away from a party, he swerved off the road and down a bumpy track before plunging his Oldsmobile into a pond. He escaped; his passenger was trapped under the water. Yet he did not call the police for help, relying instead on two discreet aides. Nor did he report the accident until it was discovered, nine hours later. His explanation for what he called his “irrational and indefensible and inexcusable and inexplicable” behaviour was that he was disorientated after the crash. Voters frowned." And worse, voters gave Ted a free pass because he was John's younger brother and a Kennedy from Camelot. Disgusting