There is no way on earth that you’re dumb enough to actually beleive Laura Bush was shifting responsibility to God. No way.
This is a good point. The New York Times reviewed the book today and used a this quote:
I agree. It sucks that this is how things go in politics.
Ted is dead, dude. Let it go.
Zed’s dead.
Well, I’m not here to dump on Mrs Bush–I feel she has enough to put up with being married to W and having the kids she has–but I don’t see a future in writing for her. Cite? This snippet:
I find I have to admire it for its ambition alone. Quite the simile. 
I’m sure she does feel bad about the accident. I’m also sure that Ted Kennedy felt bad about his. I also wish that she had perhaps used her position as FL to do something about distracted driving. Her comment re the size of the stop sign is ridiculous. Her remarks on the type of car the victim was driving are specious as well. Her speculation that there might have been poison involved at the G8 is also a bit odd.
But I don’t care enough about her or her life to actually read her book. I wish her no ill; just obscurity.
I suppose the difference is that Laura was a 17 year old, and not very politically connected at the time, and Ted was older, and utilised his connections to avoid prosecution for what amounts to close to the same thing.
I don’t even really care all that much, no RO here, but…I suppose if people here want to paint someone with a brush its fair to paint another with the same…
I really don’t see their ages/positions as particularly relevant. Both of them were left with the guilt of knowing that they directly caused someone else’s death. I am confident that if both could go back and relive those last minutes, they would do things very differently indeed. IOW, they both felt remorse. I’m not interested in a tit for tat. Beating either of them up solves nothing and proves nothing. I have not (and do not) accuse either of them of murder or of being heinously evil people. I find her reasoning a bit odd, but I also found Kennedy’s actions odd as well. Meh.
The Corvair rolled like an unsinkable stone. Then it rippled.
Endlessly.
Plus Ted had been drinking, and was driving his dead brother’s campaign secretary to a beach to fuck her, while his pregnant wife sat at home.
Regards,
Shodan
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shodan do!
Ted Kennedy is dead. Chappaquiddick was over 40 years ago. You guys need to find a new tu quqoue. That one is starting to petrify. It doesn’t alter the fact that Laura Bush killed a guy by her own negligence and doesn’t give a fuck. Even that’s not important anymore, but it’s an unique distinction that she’s the only First Lady ever known to have taken a human life.
Teddy had a concussion. His erratic behavior after the accident was caused by his concussion. There is no evidence at all that the crash itself was caused by any negligence on his part, or that he was drunk. There’s no evdience that he was sleeping with (or intended to sleep with) that girl either, but it’s irrelevant if he did. I don’t know why the Teddy Bashers always try to assert that like it’s meaningful. It isn’t. At all.
You got facts, sure, but Shodan’s got telepathy. Give it up.
I was just fucking around. I don’t really care. They both did something stupid.
{cough - cough} Vince Foster *{cough - cough} *
It doesn’t sound to me like she doesn’t give a fuck. She’s just saying that there were reasons for why it happened. She may have been the only First Lady to have done this, but saying she took a human life just makes her seem so cold and calculating when it’s more like she made a mistake that ended up having fatal consequences. I’m sure there are a lot of high school kids who have accidents like this–most don’t end in someone dying, no–but they don’t go on to a career in politics or become First Lady.
It was more recent than Laura Bush’s crash.
I am rippling like a motherfuck!!!
Yeah, but these particular comments from her are new. I hope I’m not giving the impression that I care. I don’t.