# NJDC Kennedy letter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858 "2009-08-27T01:33:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858/1 "2009-08-27T01:33:16Z")
The National Jewish Democratic Committee wants me to sign an on line condolence letter for the Kennedys. If I signed it "Mary Jo Kopechne " I would go to Hell, right? Even though we don’t have one. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858/2 "2009-08-27T02:37:56Z")
If you don’t, someone else probably will. That doesn’t make it classy. Like Bart Simpson signing as Seemore Butts. Except he’s a bratty cartoon kid. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858/3 "2009-08-27T03:03:07Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > That doesn’t make it classy. Honesty is seldom classy. ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858/4 "2009-08-27T03:05:09Z")
I’m not sure she’s sorry…so it’s a false statement. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858/5 "2009-08-27T03:05:33Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Honesty is seldom classy. And what part of you signing something as a woman that has been dead for 40 years is honest? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858/6 "2009-08-27T03:19:31Z")
While watching this stuff on CNN, Mrs. Plant offered the argument, “But he made up for it.” I responded, "If someone were responsible for the death of (your daughter, my stepdaughter) could they make up for it? She conceded, “No.” I rest my case. If I drove someone I was committing adultery with into the river and she drowned, I’d be thrown under the jail and bricked in. However much I agree with his politics, he is, er, was, a lying murderous bastard who escaped because he was wealthy. Christ, I just sent this to the pit, didn’t I? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858/7 "2009-08-27T03:37:30Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > If I drove someone I was committing adultery with into the river and she drowned, I’d be thrown under the jail and bricked in. However much I agree with his politics, he is, er, was, a lying murderous bastard who escaped because he was wealthy. Since she was a devout Catholic adultress, and he was a practicing Catholic DUI manslaughterer, I suppose she’s giving him a piece of her mind right about now in purgatory. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858/8 "2009-08-27T03:50:02Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > If I drove someone I was committing adultery with into the river and she drowned, I’d be thrown under the jail and bricked in. However much I agree with his politics, he is, er, was, a lying murderous bastard who escaped because he was wealthy. I disagree with most of his politics, but otherwise I would not dispute any of those things. I fail to see how that would justify what amounts to vandalism of a condolence letter. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/njdc-kennedy-letter/507858/9 "2009-08-27T12:29:49Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > I fail to see how that would justify what amounts to vandalism of a condolence letter. In the OP I was being facetious. I wouldn’t be so tacky. 🙂