Ted Kennedy was a major supporter of women's rights.

If you had sex with as many women as Ted, you'd believe in abortion too.

He did call the police 10 hours after killing Mary Joe Kopechne. He didn't wait 11 hours, that's a major character plus. Most drunk drivers who leave dead bodies go to prison, for life. But Ted Kennedy is a monument to what money can do. His father got rich smuggling alcohol to America during prohibition. Kennedy, of course, was a major consumer of alcohol, often a little tipsy on airline flights, or at Washington restaurants. Who can forget the "Waitress Sandwich"? A menu item invented by Ted Kennedy and friend Sen. Chris Dodd. Together, in public, at the La Brasserie restaturant they sandwiched a waitress, until she went screaming out of the dining area. It was a real scream, better than Howard Dean.


We missed the wise comments and questions of Ted Kennedy during the Clarence Thomas hearings. He just sat there letting others complain about sexual harassment.

Then we had the 1991 barhopping incident where Ted and nephew William Kennedy Smith got drunk, had sex, and a little rape problem occurred. Ted knows how to be a good role model for his nephew.


The Owl Club was a club kicked off harvard, for gender discrimination. Ted remained a member, even though it did not allow females as members. Ted later did criticize republican supreme court nominees for belonging to similar social clubs.

Ted Kennedy is great at education. He hired another student to take a Spanish exam for him at Harvard. He's an inspiration to all, that you can pass exams, even if you know nothing about the subject.


Ted got suspended from Harvard and went into the military, where he earned the rank of Private. He rose no higher. This gives inspiration to all veterans who never were promoted.

One particularly pointed piece asks the question "What was the Relationship Between Ted Kennedy and Mary Jo Kopechne?" The Chappaquiddick Incident is perhaps a defining moment in the life of Ted Kennedy. It's the day, some say, that he let a woman die while he sought the protection of lawyers. While it was surely a terrible event for him, there are claims that it blatantly illustrates the value he placed on a woman's life... a woman who was campaigning for his brother Robert.

It seems that the problems that Ted Kennedy had could be traced back to Joe Kennedy.

Joe Kennedy was a "not nice guy." He believed that women were either to be used or to be kept pregnant.

He groomed his boys for public office and the girls for social work. However, because one began to show signs of promiscuity (Rosemary) he had her placed in a mental institution.

This was Ted Kennedy's father, his role model and, he lived up to it.

Lets post up all the dirty laundry from all politicians, hell, lets get yours up here too for that matter.

It is really sad to see people who are so full of hate that they cannot even let someone die in peace.

I'm confused about your choice for role models.

I find it sad, you consider a woman left for dead, dirty laundry.

I once posted here asking how many women would let Ted drive them home and not one would have gotten in the car with him.

Not a role model to me. Noone is a role model to me except myself.

Irrelavant, the man is dead, let him lie in peace.

I would say analyze why you are so full of hate and make a change to save your own life.

You assume much.
I value life and have a disdain for those who don't.
Not only for you is the dead woman dirty laundry, she is also irrelavant.
Next, will you say, she deserved to die?

The time to bring up the woman's life was right after it was lost. Not now when nothing can be done about it.

The good Ted did in life is also relavant so if you want to post about him put up the good and the bad. So at least then your bad intention is not shown.

I guess I missed the memo that said Ted Kennedy was a role model? He was a human being, who made a lot of mistakes and admitted to them. He didn't pay enough for some, I think, but his father using his influence to get him out of that, well, we will never know what he thought about that, now will we?

The man was an alcoholic. Does that excuse him? No, of course not. Most of the horrific things he did were done under the influence. But, he took responsibility for his failings. Perhaps he should have taken himself out of the running for public office. But the people were who kept voting him in, there's some responsibility to the public for that.

BTW, Rosemary was mentally retarded, in an age where institutionalizing retarded people was not only socially acceptable but expected.

I think what is reprehensible about things like the above is the obvious bias. Yes, he did some horrible things in his personal life and his professional life was not beyond reproach. But, he did a lot of good as well.

Condensed version of the Kennedy family. Taken from Wiki. This family has done a lot of good for our country. I left some people off of the list. There's so many of them.

First generation- Patrick and Mary Kennedy. He was involved in the Democratic Party.

Second generation- Joseph and Rose Kennedy. Joe served as the first Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom in the years leading up to World War II.

Third generation

Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. died when taking part in Operation Aphrodite as a pilot of a modified B-24 Liberator drone bomber which accidentally exploded and crashed over Blyth Estuary near Suffolk England. For this act, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was a U.S. representative, a U.S. senator and the 35th President of the United States. He was assassinated during a motorcade in Dallas, TX.

Rosemary Kennedy - Brain damaged at birth.

Kathleen Agnes Kennedy - She married a Duke. He was killed in action in WWII.

Eunice Mary Kennedy - She is the co-founder of the Special Olympics.

Patricia Kennedy - She married actor, Peter Lawford.

Robert Francis Kennedy - He was U.S. attorney general and later served as senator from New York.

Jean Ann Kennedy - She served as the U.S. ambassador to Ireland.

Edward Moore Kennedy - He served as a senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009.

Fourth generation

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy — She is a lawyer, a co-founder of the Profile in Courage Award, the president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the chairwoman of the American Ballet Theatre.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. - He was a lawyer and the publisher of George magazine.

Robert Sargent Shriver III — He was an attorney and the president of RSS Inc. and a Santa Monica, California, city councilman.

Maria Owings Shriver — She is a former television news anchor; First Lady of California as wife of Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Timothy Perry Shriver - The chairman of Special Olympics.

Mark Kennedy Shriver — a Delegate in the Maryland General Assembly.

Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver — An activist for mental retardation and founded Best Buddies International.

Christopher Kennedy Lawford — A professional actor.

Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend — Former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland.

Joseph Patrick Kennedy II — Former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. — An environmentalist and political commentator, attorney and law professor at Pace University School of Law; best known for his many successful litigations to prevent water pollution, primarily in the New York area.

Michael LeMoyne Kennedy — Was the head of his brother Joseph's non-profit organization.

Christopher George Kennedy — The president of Merchandise Mart commercial properties based in Chicago, Illinois.

Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy — An author and lawyer.

Douglas Harriman Kennedy — A journalist.

Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy — An award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer.

William Kennedy Smith — 1991 rape acquittal, a physician and activist against land mines.

Edward Moore Kennedy, Jr. — a co-founder and the president of the Marwood Group, a Wall Street investment firm.

Patrick Joseph Kennedy — U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.

Ted Kennedy had his faults. Nobody's denying that. He did do good too. He was did a lot for civil rights, women's rights and health care.

a dead woman locked in a car at the bottom of a lake is "dirty laundry"??

I so hope that after I die, those who hate me and want to bring up all my past mistakes will at least wait till my body has been cremated...

I know I had some disgust with michael jackson and had some things to say. but I will anytime I think someone hurts a child

but in this case its a shame to see people useing some one's death as ammunition for their political agendas

both for and against

It's society's nature to use it, but at least let there be some balance.

so they are going to make an ash of you you say

I am against abortion and gay rights. Kennedy was a good man though.

No political agenda.
Just shedding light on his moral fiber.
How he treated women and how we allow drunks to set policy.

well abortion is contrary to the declaration of independence

(not that i am agreeing nor disagreeing about it just stating fact)

and it is not up to me to tell anyone who they may or may not have as a mate (and whom they choose should not effect the way anyone treats them)



but hey............

Would you be saying these things if he was a Republican?

I guess Bush falls into that catogory too, a drunk who makes policy.