Re: Teddy Kennedy..
Originally Posted by
claireandaisy
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...is now (according to the radio) a supreme Statesman. (He died in case you missed it). The eulogy this morning was amazing! What a wonderful guy, I thought...and there was me all these years thinking he was a spoilt rich kid from one of America`s most powerful families who`d proved himself a coward by running away when he`d got drunk and driven his date into a river and killed her.
Now John, yes - charismatic and inspirational (although his brinkmanship could have ended the world) - and Bobby, yes, because he did try to push progressive legislation through before his assassination.
But Ted? Maybe the US people can put me right - I really didn`t think he was
that wonderful.
Well put, cant really say much more... was reading an article on him this morning, and you forget he left that girl "alive" in the car to save his own neck..went home took a shower, had a nights sleep then called his lawyer
now thats the true man he was... maybe he did redeem himself in later yrs,
but I am sure the family of the girl he allowed to dies dont feel sympathy for him.
According to the report in the paper, she was still alive for hours, caught in an air pocket.. but eventually died, if he had gotten help earlier, she would have lived.
One also wonders, if he did not have "that name" attacked to him, would he have served a few yrs in prison for manslaughter/murder.
I dont know about the US, but the rest of the world will remember him for that, and nothing else!!