Opiate of the People wrote:Comrades, weep not for Mary Jo. I have it on good authority that she didn't mind "taking one for the team":
We don't know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she'd have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don't know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.
Still, ignorance doesn't preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn't automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted's death, and what she'd have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.
Who knows — maybe she'd feel it was worth it.
http://minx.cc/?post=291479
Non-voluntarily sacrificing your life to advance the political career of a Kennedy: Worth it.
Volunteering to serve your country in the military, going to war, and getting killed in defense of freedom: Not worth it, and Bush coldbloodedly murdered you.
Did these morons ever stop to wonder if Mary Jo's parents thought it was worth it? She was their only child. She was all they had, and he took that away from them, forcing them to live another three decades without their child. That sucks more than anything that ever happened to him. What happened to her was not a "Kennedy" tragedy. It was a Kopechne tragedy, dammit.
Last year the Democrats/Obama campaign ran a commercial that showed some woman with her baby, addressing John McCain and telling him he couldn't have her son (to fight the war in Iraq for the next hundred years).
We need to start telling the Kennedys and the rest of the left that they can't have our children. We can't let them have our children to pay for their socialist agenda, or slave in their "mandatory volunteer service" programs, or get caught up in Obamacare/Teddycare/Chappaquiddicare whatever care they call it.
This is the same wonderful family that lobotomized one of their own for being less than perfect.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy#Lobotomy
"We went through the top of the head, I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch." The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. "We put an instrument inside," he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman put questions to Rosemary. For example, he asked her to recite the Lord's Prayer or sing "God Bless America" or count backwards. ... "We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded." ... When she began to become incoherent, they stopped.
Instead of producing the hoped-for result, however, the lobotomy reduced Rosemary to an infantile mentality that left her incontinent and staring blankly at walls for hours. Her verbal skills were reduced to unintelligible babble. Her mother remarked that although the lobotomy stopped her daughter's violent behavior, it left her completely incapacitated.
Now that's Kennedycare!
Thank you for letting me rant.
