Kennedy memoir reveals remorse over fatal accident

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Nessie at 03:50 PM JST - 3rd September

If he were really sorry, he'd have cleared up the question of whether he had been drunk driving at the time.
wanderlust at 04:21 PM JST - 3rd September

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...
RomeoRamenII at 05:20 PM JST - 3rd September

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.
lostrune2 at 05:35 PM JST - 3rd September

wanderlust,

Honesty and sincerity would end a politician's career, thus becoming a politician no more.
RomeoRamenII at 08:01 PM JST - 3rd September

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.
Cicada at 08:15 PM JST - 3rd September

smartacus:

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

Self-preservation?
RomeoRamenII at 08:22 PM JST - 3rd September

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.
yabits at 10:56 PM JST - 3rd September

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.
seijichuudo9sha at 11:36 PM JST - 3rd September

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.
Alan at 12:52 PM JST - 4th September

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.
WilliB at 05:04 PM JST - 4th September

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.
homealone at 06:39 PM JST - 4th September

Little late in the game for remorse I think.
zurcronium at 12:40 PM JST - 6th September

Nessie, of course he was drunk. He was drunk for years after his second brother was killed.
thethudelh at 09:55 PM JST - 6th September

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?.
bdiego at 06:31 AM JST - 29th September

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