View Single Post
  #6 (permalink)  
Old 08-27-2009, 08:38 PM
marilynk's Avatar
marilynk marilynk is offline
Ultimate Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 7,021
Quote:
Originally Posted by kathytheshopper View Post
lol That's what I've been thinking about. Yes he was a Kennedy and had a career of public service but he's certainly not a saint. He was a womanizer with an alcohol problem who got away with causing a death. You are I wouldn't have gotten away with leaving the scene of an accident that caused a death. Didn't he also "help" his nephew that was charged with rape? The Kennedys have contributed much to society but also have quite a few demons. Having said that, I have prayed for the repose of his soul.
Lots of rich and powerful people get away with murder (literally)--I think a measure of a man/person is not necessarily the "demons" they have, but how they try to conquer those demons.

Really, I think laughing and joking about the dead is in poor taste.
__________________
Mental that one, I'm telling you. ---Ron Weasley, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"