RIP in 2009

[Alex]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I never said that it shouldn't be mentioned. But neither should his entire life be summoned up by the name "Kopechne".

I agree. I disagree that anybody did so.

Though I will admit to an urge to throw dirt a bit. But I always feel that way when our society is in one of its paroxysms of posthumous fellatio.

Regardless of how good a person the fellatee is. And Kennedy was a good politician, I have no strong reaction either way to his death.

If everything had otherwise been equal, then why not?

Everything couldn't be equal, she wasn't a Kennedy. Like I said, obviously you disagree and we can never know who's right. Though I am.

I did not, and I still do not agree that making light of Helms’s death was ok.

You didn't make light of it, but you hardly showed any respect to him or his family and did express your happiness that he was dead and hoped he was enjoying his first night in hell. It doesn't strike me as such an extension to assume that those actually harmed by the deceased (if you believe there was harm) might have a similar feeling.

(Though I find it as pointless to suppose their reaction as it is for you to assume insult to Kennedy and his family.)

Now everybody get back to the posthumous fellatio! As a collective nation, it is what we do best.

In terms of making light, I suppose this would be a really bad time to break out the Ted Kennedy Volkswagen commercial?