Republican National Convention '08

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

No - I see a big oaf who murdered a woman. Evil? No. Guilty of negligent homicide? Yes.

If I'm not mistaken, negligent homicide isn't the same thing as murder. Laura Bush ran a stop sign when she was younger and killed a pedestrian. I don't think anyone would say that she murdered someone though. And in both cases, it was clearly an accident. Of course, Kennedy exercised extremely poor judgment in not immediately reporting it, but that doesn't make him a murderer.