H the K wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:52:06 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote:

I consider it an insult to be lumped in with a coward like Ted
Kennedy. I hope he suffered no more and no less than Miss Kopechne
and I hope his hypocrisy is judged fairly in any afterlife.

Your idea that his protracted death from cancer is comparable to a
five minute drowning is ridiculous. Look up cancer treatment side
effects, such as x-rays to the throat and never swallowing anything
solid again. Some cancer victims have had the nurses getting high on
their pain medicine while they did without.

Casady


Teddy Kennedy was an alcoholic, and it took him a long time and a good
second marriage to get that disease under control. While an active
drinker, he had a horrific automobile accident and in that an innocent
young woman died.

Teddy Kennedy should have owned up to what he had done wrong at the time
he did it. But, he was a coward and went and hid behind his family and
lawyers. Teddy should have served time in prison.

But that was only one of the albatrosses around Kennedy's neck. One of
his brothers died in World War II, and two were assassinated while in
the service of their country. There are other members of his immediate
family who suffer or suffered from various serious illnesses.

Sounds like a normal family with the exception of the assinations.
However, when you put yourself in the public eye and make as many
enemies as papa Joseph Kennedy bad things are bound to happen.

Despite all this, Teddy Kennedy was the *leading* legislator in the
United States Senate, and he was a great humanitarian, a loyal friend,
and a wonderfully decent man.

Decent? Killing MaryJo Kopechne and makeing watress sandwiches at DC
bars with Sen. Chris Dodd? Oh, and let's not forget about that incident
in southern Florida with his nephew.

He may have been trying to atone for his sins but, he was hardly decent.


I didn't know him at all, though I did get to meet him at a couple of
holiday parties in the early 2000's...where he had nothing to drink, and
we did nod at each other when he was out walking his dogs. His walks
would often take him to an office building near Union Station where I
worked as a consultant. He had many old friends who worked in that
building, and in the late afternoon, he'd stop by sometimes to see them
and, I would guess, to visit the men's room.

You happened to see Teddy at a party and he didn't have a drink in your
presence and that is supposed to impress us? Oh, and he nodded at you
when he walked his dogs. Wow, you almost had me switch political parties
on that one but, I came to my senses.

The twerps who are raving against Kennedy here are nothing more than the
sort of vermin you'd see crawling in the dirt if you lifted up a rotting
log. The really funny thing is that there are *no* high-quality or even
memorable U.S. senators on their side of the political fence.

Your view of the Senate is through a jaundiced eye.