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  seijichuudo9sha at 08:31 AM JST - 29th August

  Personally,I was really moved by a tweet I came across from Time Magazine's Matt Cooper.

  "It feels a bit like 9/11 on Martha's Vineyard. End-of-summer weather is achingly beautiful but the mood is melancholy because of Teddy."

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  smithinjapan at 09:14 AM JST - 29th August

  seijichuudo: Thanks for sharing that. It's a rather touching way of describing the loss in terms of personal feeling there.

  Despite some horrible choices the man made, one that may even have contributed to a woman's death (judges words), it's the end of an era.

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  seijichuudo9sha at 11:17 AM JST - 29th August

  A luminary at the Huffington Post wrote that for all we know Mary Jo Kopechne,who was a good liberal,a civil rights worker, and a RFK volunteer,might be proud that her death arguably became a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history.

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  WaimanaloBlues at 11:30 AM JST - 29th August

  Then again, she may have opted for a few more years above ground on her own accord than to be the catalyst for someone else. That's a backward spin that just doesn't sit well. Teddy did a lot of good in his life, but that moment in time just can't and shouldn't be twisted into sounding like it was a good thing.

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  smithinjapan at 12:55 PM JST - 29th August

  seijichuudo: "A luminary at the Huffington Post wrote that for all we know Mary Jo Kopechne,who was a good liberal,a civil rights worker, and a RFK volunteer,might be proud that her death arguably became a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history."

  If that's the case, while I think the person may just be poorly trying to see the light of a very horrible death, it's in rather poor taste to make such references.

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  RomeoRamenII at 03:22 PM JST - 29th August

  Everyone outside of far-left liberals and non-voting foreigners, who thought he was royalty, know Kennedy was just a drunken spoiled rich kid whose actions -- or, rather, the lack of them -- was instrumental in the death of Mary Jo and got a free pass. Which is why he knew he could never successfully run for U.S. President: he wouldn't have had the votes.

  If he hadn't been a Kennedy, he woulda been just another ex-convict. That's how Americans will remember him.

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  goodDonkey at 02:29 AM JST - 30th August

  RomeoRamenII said:

  Everyone outside of far-left liberals and non-voting foreigners, who thought he was royalty, know Kennedy was just a drunken spoiled rich kid whose actions -- or, rather, the lack of them...

  Please! That is why a couple of hundred million people will be honoring him in the United States. RomeoRamen is just pissed because you can add close to a billion more people around the world that will honor Teddy. Conservatives like RomeoRamen think that anyone who is not a knuckle-dragger is a liberal.

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  RomeoRamenII at 04:05 AM JST - 30th August

  calls to grant Kennedy’s last political wish — health coverage for all Americans

  Heh, the democrats want to advance a healthcare bill as a way to honor the man who denied Mary Jo the healthcare she needed so that she might live.

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  WhiteHawk at 07:21 AM JST - 30th August

  seijichuudo9sha:

  A luminary at the Huffington Post wrote that for all we know Mary Jo Kopechne,who was a good liberal,a civil rights worker, and a RFK volunteer,might be proud that her death arguably became a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history.

  "Luminary"? That's a bit strong, don't you think? I don't think I would refer to HP's Melissa Lafsky as a "luminary".

  I like how Mark Steyn prefaced her desperate attempt to justify a manslaughter other Leftists have spent the past four decades trying to trivialize: I don't know how many lives the senator changed – he certainly changed Mary Jo's – but you're struck less by the precise arithmetic than by the basic equation: How many changed lives justify leaving a human being struggling for breath for up to five hours pressed up against the window in a small, shrinking air pocket in Teddy's Oldsmobile? If the senator had managed to change the lives of even more Americans, would it have been OK to leave a couple more broads down there?

  Seijichuudo, you've made some desperate attempts to paint Teddy in a good light. Suggesting that Kennedy telling jokes about his leaving a woman to drown was an appealing trait; repeating a fawning member of the media's quote comparing the nation's worst terrorist attack to the death of a senator; and repeating another fawning member of the media's bizarre attempt to validate the manslaughter of - and cowardly attempt to cover up - Mary Jo Kopechne. Perhaps you need to sit down and ask yourself just why you're going to such drastic (and disturbing, and wrong) measures to cannonize someone who clearly does not deserve such mercy, and would only exploit if he were still around to do so (don't worry, his party will pick it up from there and run with it). Seriously.

  goodDonkey:

  RomeoRamen is just ----ed...

  He might be ----ed, but he's also right. Teddy Kennedy was a drunken spoiled rich kid. He grew into a drunken spoiled rich bully of an adult. Instead of trying to insult RomeoRamen, perhaps you should put your energy into proving his points wrong?

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