President Barack Obama, three former Presidents and a host of world leaders and luminaries yesterday attended the funeral of a legend of the past half century, Mary Jo Kopechne, the woman who lost her life when Edward Kennedy drove off Dike's bridge at Chappaquiddick.
Mary Jo will forever be associated with the tragic events of one night in 1969, when the phenomenon known to this day as the 'Kennedy Career' came crashing down in a moment of drunken folly. The events of this night were never fully understood, however one thing is known for sure: After the crash the 'salvage operation' never satisfactorily restored the 'Kennedy Career'.
People have to this day questioned why Teddy Kennedy abandoned the car with Mary Jo still inside, not returning for ten hours - by which time she had suffocated. However, it does appear that there was a simple and plausible explanation: Kennedy was obliged to contact the family lawyer, which for a Kennedy at least was the only appropriate thing to do in the circumstances. Similarly Kennedy showed contrition for the accident in true Kennedy style, never actually saying 'sorry' to her parents, but skillfully and considerately paying them $90,000 hush money.
We can only guess what Irish Catholic Kennedy actually said to his priest during confession. We can only guess that he actually went to confession. One key question still remains, however: After the events of that night in 1969 and after Kennedy's response to those events, will Senator Edward Kennedy go to Heaven or to Hell?
To Heaven of course - After all, he was a Kennedy.
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We'll have no marks of respect here!
ReplyDeleteHe probably said a few hail Mary-Jos
ReplyDeleteForgive me Father for I have sinned...
ReplyDeleteOh, hold on, his father was Joseph Kennedy... and he sinned too... big time.
Leave the poor man alone. He's trying to transubstantiate
ReplyDeleteI say unto you, "Ask not what the Kennedys can do for you, ask what you can do for your Kennedys."
ReplyDeleteApparently they even have a branch of the Hyannisport golf club in Heaven - free membership for Kennedys
ReplyDeleteI know that this sounds a bit naive and all that, but he did do quite a lot of good in his life - on social issues and Nth Ireland etc...
ReplyDeleteThe evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones bla bla bla
ReplyDeleteI had a dream
ReplyDeletePlease can we stop all this cynicism about the Kennedys.... at least for a day or two
ReplyDeleteNo man is an island
ReplyDeleteIndeed no man is a 'Chappaquiddick' (look it up)
ReplyDeleteWell, there was a man who sure was full of drive
ReplyDeleteYeah, but his career took a bath
ReplyDeleteI looked this Quidditch up and apparently its a game in Harry Potter
ReplyDeleteDumbledore denies a cover up
ReplyDeleteAt least he had a Kennedooo attitude
ReplyDeleteThey should be singing 'A Kennedle in the Wind.'
ReplyDeletePuh-lease, those 'puns' (if you can call them that) are really rough as hell.
ReplyDeletePlease desist.
Come on guys, show some respect. Barack Obama has.
ReplyDelete(Obama) And I say unto you, "The greatest expectations were placed on his shoulders because of who he was, but he surpassed them all because of who he became..."
ReplyDeleteYer what?
I thought that everyone had 'expectations' of his becoming President. Or did he perhaps go one better on Dike's bridge that night...?
What are Haldeman and Ehrlichman doing here? They were Tricky Dicky's boys.
ReplyDeletePrecisely... My boys
ReplyDeleteHe must have been pretty brazen to think that he could stand for office when he had never properly explained the Kopechne death.
ReplyDeleteAs it happened, when questioned about it during the 1980 campaign he totally fell to pieces
Couldn't have been expecting that question, I imagine...
Yeah but he was a Kennedy right so all was forgiven
ReplyDeleteCometh the hour, cometh the dynasty.
ReplyDeleteGoeth the hour, goeth the dynasty.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
As far as we know he never laid anyone called Gloria
ReplyDeleteSome dynasty that was.
ReplyDeleteIt was more like a Walt Dynasty
Hey guys, I don't know where this is leading, but Sam Giancana was part of the Chicago Outfit. Nobody messes with the CHicago outfit.
ReplyDeleteGot that?
Nobody expects the Chicago outfit
ReplyDelete"Salvatore surpassed expectations placed upon his shoulders because of who he became..."
ReplyDeleteHey like didn't you hear the boss? Nobody messes with the likes of Salvatore
ReplyDeleteBlimey, I couldn't half murder a Caesar's Salad
ReplyDelete...for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee...
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