Thank you, MbC. Republicans always conveniently forget Mrs Bush's little indiscretion.

Wow, I didn't know that about Laura Bush. I hold Teddy in some minor measure of disregard for Chapacan'tspellit .... I guess I'll do the same for the First Lady, who has heretofore escaped my displeasure ... or even notice.


I like that somehow. My estimate of the ratio of good to bad was waaaay out of wack with her husband, the President. This puts it on a more humanly likely scale. I'm glad I found out while they were still in office for a few months. Thanks, MbC.

You are correct as far as the distinction. However, the man was presumably drunk and was primarily concerned with covering it up....I would say that goes a bit beyond "poor judgment".

If he was sober and had reported it immediately, case closed. Accidents happen indeed. It wasn't the accident, it was what followed it that makes him reprehensible to me. I don't know the entire Laura Bush story, but did she flee the scene?

Isn't presumption 9/10th of the law?

This is why I said presumably. If he wasn't drunk, then he was thinking all the more clearly when he left her in the car.

Well, there was a reason why I preceded the the words "poor judgement" with "extremely." I don't think anyone is trying to argue that Kennedy did the right thing in any shape or form. I will tell you that when I was involved in a car accident many years ago, one where my head hit the windshield, that I was most certainly in shock. I was apparently walking around the scene talking to people, but I remember none of it. And in my case, I didn't have the added stress of thinking that I might just have killed my passenger. I'm willing to at least give him the benefit of doubt that, alcohol or not, he wasn't thinking clearly. Just my opinion.

Well, to lighten the mood, I'll post one of my favorite tasteless jokes....

Why did the foursome Monica Lewinsky, OJ Simpson, Ted Kennedy, and Bill Clinton lose the golf tournament?

Monica's a hooker, OJ's a slicer, Ted can't dive over water, and Bill can never remember which hole he played last.

I'm very happy that the worst seemed to miss New Orleans (the wind maps I was seemed to show max sustained winds over NO at "only" 60 mph). I hope the levies hold.