Have you ever been to Chappaquidick? Do you have any idea how sparsely populated it is (or was at the time)? Even if he ran for help, even if he wasn’t drunk, she would have died regardless.
He fucked up, no doubt about it, but I would hardly ascribe it to malice.

Wait… Intentionally committing a racial killing equates to being involved in an accidental death and trying to help them yourself but not (because you’re too distressed or confused if you believe the Senator, or too selfish if you believe his conservative enemies, whatever the reason really) summoning more effective help?

I humbly suggest that lynching someone indicates a much greater level of depravity than Kennedy’s behavior at the time of his accident. But we’ve all got our own ideas about morality, I suppose.

How do you know he didn’t? I understand folks wear hoods at those sorts of thing.

Reminds me of an Onion headline – “Three quarters of klan rally attendees actually undercover reporters.”

Or Cindy McCain, for that matter?

How do you know he didn’t? I understand folks wear hoods at those sorts of thing.

Sorry, you’re wrong again. I explained what you wanted explained. That’s all.

Thank youi. So are you.

You know damn well what he did. If you have kids and that happened to your daughter I doubt you’d be so smug.

That’s not what you asked. You wanted “an articulate argument why he shouldn’t have gone to prison.”

He. Wasn’t. Convicted. For someone who has such a profound “appreciation and understanding of the Constitution,” you don’t know much about our legal system, do you?

I doubt there is anything much lower than picking up a dumb little chick at a party, taking off in your car for a little private action, accidently driving into a pond and then leaving the chick to drown. Sure you could have gone to a house and called for help but then people might have found out what you did.

But no problem to swim off the island trying to set up an alibi.
“Here’s one: He wasn’t convicted of a crime in a court of law.”
And you’ll defend him. Wow.

Here’s one: He wasn’t convicted of a crime in a court of law.

Because as we all know, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Cynthia McKinney’s Dad are all government policy makers whose policies affect millions of people like Helms.

Have you no shame? Oh wait, if you had shame you wouldn’t be a conservative.

Frankly Sean,
I’m not shocked or outraged by racism as a political tool. I’ve seen far too much of it. It isn’t shocking, it is predictable, on the right on the left.

Not sure if you noticed, but AO is implicitly equating Jim Crow with Affirmative Action.

What’s the phrase? “Moral equivalence.” Oh yeah.

This guy is an authentic idiot and I’d suggest talking to him is a waste of time.

So the policy of illegally wiretapping the phone conversations of American citizens without getting a warrant is a “liberal” one?

One could say the exact same things about Bush’s war on terror, from the invasion of Iraq to illegal wiretapping to the approval of torture. So I wonder. Do you spend much time thinking about how you would you feel if your daughter was killed, say, in the carnage of civil conflict unleashed by our horrifically botched occupation of Iraq? I mean if you want to put things in “perspective.”

Amused: Helms wan’t a nice man on the public stage to minorities. He was hardly evil. Ted Kennedy committed a far more dastardly act then anything Jesse Helms ever did.

Note that you dismiss Helms as “hardly evil” and then change the subject to Kennedy’s character and go on for a paragraph and a half about that. Providing another perfect example of exactly what I was pointing out. Thank you.

Note, I’m note defending Kennedy. I’m pointing out that the subject is Helms, and you dismiss him and instead start going on about someone on the left.

Some, but about as much as would be expected on a board of this type. I am gratified to see, though, that several folks here do take OW and each other to task when mountains start getting made from molehills. There have been a lot of comments, for example, objecting to Obama being criticized for the non-issue of lapel pins. But there have ALSO been a lot of comments objecting to McCain’s being criticized for slips of the lounge.

Amused: Helms wan’t a nice man on the public stage to minorities. He was hardly evil. Ted Kennedy committed a far more dastardly act then anything Jesse Helms ever did.

Note, I’m note defending Kennedy. I’m pointing out that the subject is Helms, and you dismiss him and instead start going on about someone on the left.

Are you also interested in hearing an articulate argument about why Laura Bush shouldn’t have gone to prison?