Ted Kennedy attempts water rescue of fishermen
I don’t know, I have to think he was thinking along these lines:
“Well, gee if Nomar can try this, then surely I can too…”
Good thing there wasn’t an overturned car at the bottom, or he’d have run like a baby.
To be fair, Ted is a different man than he was all those years ago at Chappaquidick. For instance, now he could be used as a floatation device.
[sub]Apologies if this posts twice, my kitten was dancing on the keyboard.[/sub]
So, he is damned if does and damned if he doesn’t.
Yup. Just like every other person who enters politics; and all those who don’t.
Everybody on this board would be serving two consecutive life sentences for second degree murder…
Not the Chappaquidick Kid, Power,Wealth and Name will set you free…
He’s not 69, he’s 73. Born in 1932.
He looks like a walking heart attack!
This is more of a rant than anything else. Off to the Pit.
That, and all the years of crap he’s had to endure about the car wreck.
This reads like a Reeder Bush rant.
Well, somebody has to pick up the slack! 
Have some compassion for your fellow man; Don’t be mentioning “69” while Ted Kennedy is fresh in our minds.
I have to admit, the flotation device line was funny.
And it took guts to admit that he couldn’t do it. It’s scary, as you get older to realize that sort of thing.
Why two? Or are you simply exaggerating?
This makes twice he “didn’t,” doesn’t?
I hope you guys are all Democrats!
No, I’m not serious, I like TK, and I’m just making a joke.
You’ll never make that rap stick, copper! You’ll never take me alive!
:rolleyes:
There’s no sense in making what could be an amusing thread into yet another boring-ass rant about Ted Kennedy.
What we need is a good rant about FDR. Fuckin’ crippled bastid and his socialist programs are what’s wrong with our country today. Maybe dredge up Thomas Jefferson’s corpse and beat him up again.
Don’t get me started on Grover fuckin’ Cleveland!
Firstly only one person died so two consecutive life sentences just doesn’t make sense. If Kennedy’s story is true, he tried repeatedly to save Kopechne, then he got help and they came to try and save her. What none of them did while the incident was actually happening is call the authorities.
There was no witness to the event other than Kennedy. I think the absolute worst that could have came of this for anyone is manslaughter.
Manslaughter in itself would be very hard to get against anyone in these circumstances, I think. It couldn’t be proven that Kennedy was drunk, it couldn’t be proven that Kennedy was driving reckless, it couldn’t be proven that Kennedy did anything other than try his absolute best to swim down and rescue Kopechne.
Making a driving error and going off an oddly built wooden bridge isn’t a crime worthy of being called murder and really not worthy of being called manslaughter.
Kennedy made a big mistake in not notifying authorities until the next day. He committed the crime of leaving the scene of an accident. However due to the remote location and the fact that a woman was trapped in a submerged car, if he had ran back to the party he left and called rescue workers too much time would have elapsed for there to be any realistic chance at saving her prior to her drowning. And according to Kennedy’s story he only left the scene and went back to the party to get help after repeated attempts to save her convinced him he simply could not do it.
Since there is only one witness and so little evidence, Kennedy basically couldn’t be convicted of murder or manslaughter. His story, as he told it, simply did not reperesent a crime of that gravity. And there was absolutely no evidence to contradict his story. That puts a prosecutor in a very tough position. I think most prosecutors would be happy to cut the same deal that Kennedy cut in this situation with virtually anyone else.