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Kennedy memoir reveals remorse over fatal accident

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I don't understand how he could possibly have accepted the Warren Commission report without question.

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You said it. I watched some very disturbing videos on You tube and if they are original filming, its such a crock that it makes you really doubt the WC conclusions. Looked like a whole team and them some were behind it.

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If he were really sorry, he'd have cleared up the question of whether he had been drunk driving at the time.

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His very carefully worded statement of 'apology', made days after the accident was crafted by family advisers, political colleagues and lawyers huddled in the Kennedy compound. A perfectly-balanced mixture of contriteness and concealment, designed to placate the Kopechne family and investigative journalists, while at the same time preserving his own career in politics. It just lacked honesty and sincerity.

But I suppose that is par for the course for these politicians...

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Heh, so that's why he'd go around the D.C. party circuit asking people if they'd heard any good "Chappaquiddick" jokes?

Some remorse.

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wanderlust,

Honesty and sincerity would end a politician's career, thus becoming a politician no more.

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his “self-destructive drinking,” especially after the 1968 death of his brother Robert

Typical liberal. He blames others for one of his many character weaknesses.

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smartacus:

I don't understand how he could possibly have accepted the Warren Commission report without question.

Self-preservation?

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he decided to run for the presidency in 1980, saying he ... criticized Carter’s go-slow approach to providing universal health care.

And guess what? 30 years later American taxpayers still don't want universal health care.

If Kennedy were a true man of his word, he would have accepted end-of-life counseling instead of digging into his deep pockets and paid whatever it took to extend his life. Oh, wait a moment ... we're talking about special Ed Kennedy here. Nevermind.

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This topic on Ted Kennedy and a previous one on the need for civil debate makes it more evident how the conservative movement is dying through lack of any sense of decency.

The biographer of Whittaker Chambers and (soon-to-appear) of William F. Buckley, Sam Tanenhaus, has written a book called The Death of Conservatism.

In a recent Newsweek interview he was asked: "So how bad is [the state of conservatism] really?"

A: "Quite bad if you prize a mature, responsible conservatism that honors America's institutions, both governmental and societal....The consensus forged by Buckley in the 1960s gained strength through two decisive acts: first, Buckley denounced right-wing extremists, such as members of the John Birch Society..."

One great thing that Ted Kennedy has helped to bring about is the tactic by which conservatives, veering ever more back into the extremist realms decried by Buckley, were given all the rope they needed to hang themselves. It is very encouraging, therefore, in reading the posts of the hate-filled, right-wing extremists here, that they are, as a political force, heading down the tubes.

Theirs is the anger born of impotence.

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I will buy this book,in hardcover and paperback, but I am ashamed to say that at the moment conservatives like Michelle Malkin and Mark Levin top the non fiction bestseller list.I don't get it.I JUST don't get it.

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I've never understood why this cowardly, dishonest mound of corruption was hero-worshipped by the left. What he did at Chappaquiddick should have branded him for life.

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He shows "remorse"? For leaving a girl to drown while going first back to a party and then to a hotel to sleep off his hangover, calling the cops the next day after a comfortable nights sleep?

Well, gee, all is well then, I guess.

Well done, liberal hero.

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Little late in the game for remorse I think.

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Nessie, of course he was drunk. He was drunk for years after his second brother was killed.

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In the US alot of liberals no matter what they do can do no wrong.They can get away with having an affair or even away with murder. I wonder what the Kopechne family thinks of his so called remorseful apology?.

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You must not read the news much if you think only liberal politicians murder, lie, cheat, and steal.

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