Comments on: Chappaquiddick bridge to be renamed Ted Kennedy memorial causeway

By: ken

ken — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:37:53 +0000

Christian you better check yourself in some place. Think you are down a couple of quarts. Ted Kennedy was a drunken piece of crap. Everyone thinks because of his years serving Mass. he is a great man. The gutless wonder left that girl in the car to drown. If you have ever been up to see that bridge you would understand how gutless he really was that night. The water is not high at all even when tide all the way up. A ten year old could have pulled her out of the car. Anyone that condones what Ted Kennedy did or minimizes that girls death is an idiot.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:36:25 +0000

By: John F. Yanny

John F. Yanny — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:41:07 +0000

HELLO
Its our GOVT. thats running and Ruining the Country ! And Their renaming bridges and roads the same way in New York ? – Politicians are being Glorified ?

By: bob

bob — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:02:34 +0000

I can’t agree with you more. If this were an actual story, I’d share your outrage. However, as this bridge is not, nor never will be, named after this man, I can’t muster that much outrage. I call it satire for a reason – It is “the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.”

This “story” does a good job of pointing out the fact that this man never was held accountable for his actions. That the entire legal process was corrupt at best, and potentially prosecutable. The fact that Ted Kennedy was ever elected anything other than Animal Control Officer after this event is disgusting. It would appear that the electorate in Massachusetts turned a blind eye to justice.

By: idea guy ricky

idea guy ricky — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:32:38 +0000

Why not rename the bridge “Ted Kennedy-Mary Jo Kopechne Memorial Bridge”?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:56:00 +0000

What you said! absolutely a disgrace! If someone died personally at the hand of Kennedy, and their life was only worth 90K, makes me wonder what an annonymous life like you or me is worth?? Little , I suspect as is evidenced by current government activety

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:06:11 +0000

This is actually a real story:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJuhv38_wziB5HQaIOHYG0Ty_l7AD9AFEGT00

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:30:03 +0000

At this point I can only assume the the Francino family has suffered a painful loss, causing them to miss the point entirely. I am truly sorry for any suffering they may have endured, and will now cease to confront them on their opinions. I wish them nothing but the peace.

However for the majority of the other posters may impart you with these words of wisdom.

“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned, forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.”
– Luke 6:37

“Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:14

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, “What is truth?”
- Richard Whately

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:25:05 +0000

At this point I can only assume the the Francino family has suffered a painful loss, causing them to miss the point entirely. I am truly sorry for their suffering and will now cease to confront them on their opinions. I wish them nothing but peace.

However for the majority of the other posters may impart you with these words of wisdom.

“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned, forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.”
- Luke 6:37

“Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:14

“As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, “What is truth?”
- Richard Whately

By: Yvette Francino

Yvette Francino — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:20:01 +0000

Christian,
I don’t see how you can simply call this tragedy “regrettable” and actually put blame the true victim here! Kennedy fled from the scene– he was a drunken coward and it cost Koechne her life. She would have lived had he gotten help. As someone else said, she survived for an hour breathing from an air hole. That he not only got away with this, but remained in office for his whole life is unbelievable. Do you really think we would have been better off with that kind of character holding an even higher office?