And as for leaving her to die- The law he broke, at least in my state, is failure to report the accident. Also, the car was submerged in water. She could only survive two to three minutes tops. If neither her nor Kennedy could get her out of the car and to the surface, there was no way she could survive.

As an ex teacher, I always have to comment on posts like this. For every impetuous teenager who gets into an accident, maybe accidentally is the cause of a friend’s death or life-long physical or emotional pain, there are hundreds and hundreds of teenagers and young adults who think before they act. They know they do not want to feel guilty, cause their parents and family pain, etc.

My response is always the same: because so many are impetuous does not make it excusable. Because some make it through o.k. does not make it excusable.

And as the others a have pointed out, it was Kennedy’s behavior during the hours and days after that really makes the whole thing inexcusable.

Joe Kennedy had his hands in many places.

Although I think Bobby and JFK were the greatest people, I do feel Joe’s money had a lot to do with the political positions they got.

I do not think we will ever get a Lincoln. He had human foibles, but nothing that had to be pushed under the rug and covered up, at least as far as I know.

They all knew the score (let girl drown while trying to score while wife is pregnant, flee scene, attempt coverup, work system, fake neck injury), and yet they sent him back to the senate over and over and over and over and over.

What gives with American voters?

Down with incumbents and boo to Ted! He was a man of extremely poor character who should have been forced out of office by the folks in charge – the voters.

THANKS for great posts here and the videos are simply superbly chosen…bring back memories. And yes, I’ve changed my mind and wiped away tears after reading your post…You had a familiar effect on me. I now wish Teddy Boy a seat in Hell, beside the reserved one for O.J.

O.J. TEDDY will meet his maker…May she forgive him for I can’t

As a proud Canadian, trust me, there aren’t any “death panels” in Obama’s watered-down harmless-to-insurance-profits healthInsurance plan!

We spend one-third of what Americans spend in Healthcare and we have a great universalized single=payer system. Read about Diane Tucker, 59-year old lawyer now living in B.C. to avoid bankruptcy in U.S. due to inability to pay….medical bills! Incredible that you use Death Panels as an excuse to deny coverage to 50 million and growing due to depression…shameful America is #37, one below Costa rica on the worlds ranking of health!! Eh?

now you can prattle on about redemption and all that. but the dark deed is done and from me there is no forgiveness for helping destroy my country by putting personal dislike for the clintons above love of country.

i used to be a democrat also and still admire the kennedy family in many ways along with my very real disappointments and regrets.

Ted nobody would have been locked up and the key thrown away. Ted Kennedy got by with a slap on the wrist and in his death is being treated like some sort of god. Baloney, bull and whatever word you want to put on it.

A young woman died and he contributed to that death from his lack of inaction and being so worried about saving his own political hide.

IMHO, he was not a great man.

Hopefully, Kennedy will fade from the front pages along with Jackson. Of course, there is all that speculation about Jackson’s “homicide” from a celebrity drug dealing doctor(s). And whether or not health care reform will be the shining finish for Ted. All of that should take care of a few news cycles.

I agree with those who say—we need to see our politicians and celebrities more as they are and a lot less as we want them to be. We also need to accept that because they are just human beings and not for the most part heroic in any sense, we get the good with the bad. Homer’s tales were great myths well told—legends are not exactly new. And yes, some get by with doing really bad things, like being in a drunken stupor and leaving a young woman to die what must have been a terrible death. But then there is the convicted sex offender who was paroled early from a 50 year sentence and turned loose to kidnap an 11 year old girl and keep her captive for 18 years. And there is the Lockabie Bomber who blows up all those people and gets to go free. There is OJ Simpson. Not exactly guys with silver spoons at birth. So let’s keep things in perspective. Justice is an illusive, mysterious and life is not fair.

There’s something so very wrong in this world.

Now we are finding out that he wanted to hear jokes about the crime??

The people who keep defending this monster should feel ashamed. So what if he’s dead. The truth is the truth.

AND, I expected more from Fox.

I would love to know the Kennedy family holdings. The way people kiss their behinds is unreal.