Words Are Cheap
I’m finding myself disliking Edward Kennedy more now than ever before, mostly due to the incessant outpouring of adulation for someone whom did nothing to warrant it.
It’s not all down to that, though: a large part of it is due to Kennedy’s own posthumous shenanigans, which you can bet are going to continue for a long time.
Which is fine if you’re Elvis, but not if you’re the Killer of Chappaquiddick.
Kennedy’s 532-page memoir, True Compass, is set to be released on Sept. 14. In it, Kennedy writes that his actions in the 1969 incident were “inexcusable” and that he “made terrible decisions.”
Easy to say (particularly once you’re no longer around to face the critics).
Except that he did excuse himself from any culpability and his “terrible decisions” did not extend as far as immediately going to the police, nor informing Mary Jo’s parents that he was responsible for their daughter’s death.
But forget about all that: he wanted to give the masses health care!
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September 3rd, 2009 at 10:42
I promise to read neither of the copies that sell, much less own the dreck.
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:00
Smitty, posts on assorted VA cretins coming soon, promise!
Plus I heard that Kennedy’s book is going to be as good as the Bible, or something.
September 3rd, 2009 at 11:06
As long as you don’t compare the Kennedy book to some beginning with Q or an other non-Yale-safe image, you’re good to go.
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:51
I’m so sick of hearing about him. I’ve never understood the whole Camelot crap about the Kennedy family. I say good riddance! I won’t be buying his book, or anything else with the Kennedy name on it.
September 3rd, 2009 at 15:40
How nice that he can say this now, when he’s no longer here to answer to it. How nice that he failed to tell Mary Jo Kopechne’s family when they should have heard it and were alive to hear it.
Yet another whitewash of something that should have defined his career – in that it should have ended it. Instead it’s a footnote to his life and his family’s legacy.
Asshole.
September 3rd, 2009 at 15:57
Kris, like how you put it: killing someone was just a footnote to his life whereas it should have defined it. It would’ve done for anyone else.
September 5th, 2009 at 10:57
I’m on my knees, beggin’ ya, Lord: straight to the $2 remainder pile at B. Dalton’s by Christmas.
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