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Apollo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 06:52 AM Original message |
The Kennedy women covered up their husbands' excesses (The Guardian) |
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Apollo11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 06:59 AM Response to Original message |
1. I see the recs and unrecs are very evenly balanced on this one! |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:00 AM Response to Original message |
2. I'm glad someone finally wrote this. All day yesterday when |
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cdsilv (883 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:08 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Yes - the Kennedy's are human. and this is a surprise? |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:16 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. When I look at the suffering that being a Kennedy wife entailed, |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:15 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Who says they suffered? |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:17 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. They suffered. A woman who lives with a man who isn't faithful, |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:23 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Right to the ad hominem. Stay classy, Jean. |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:24 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Oh dear I have a feeling I don't want to join you..... |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:28 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know them |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:32 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. That was a nice paragraph excusing the actions of a adultering |
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BlueMTexpat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
22. They may also have loved them and did their part to hold the family together. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:07 AM Response to Original message |
3. It's inevitable |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:10 AM Response to Original message |
5. this is shit. shameful shit. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #5 |
23. Voyeurism in moralistic drag. n/t |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:16 AM Response to Original message |
7. Re: Sexual behaviors: Christ cautioned against judging and stone-throwing. He was pretty clear, |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:19 AM Response to Original message |
10. "excesses" |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:22 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Actually I think the problem was the wives weren't exactly |
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Teaser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:24 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. most of them weren't, I'm sure. |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:33 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. It's that simple, is it? |
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comtec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:46 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I'm curious what would you have suggested to them at the time then? |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:50 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. I absolutely love the thought that the Kennedy women |
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comtec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 12:53 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. i didn't suggest that at all |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:50 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. You've made some good points |
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JeanGrey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:51 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. I am aware of that. And I still say, maybe I am the only one, |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:48 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Completely agreed, JeanGrey. nt |
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nadine_mn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 05:57 AM Response to Reply #27 |
34. I think perspective is missing |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:47 PM Response to Reply #14 |
30. Unless you have kids and then you try to do what's right for them . . . |
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JohnnyLib2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
20. Think of the timeline, folks. JFK and Jacqueline married in the 50s. |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 10:35 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. As practicing Catholics, divorce wouldn't have been easy to choose. |
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Berry Cool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
24. The Kennedy women of that era (and even Vicki, to her extent) were from another age. |
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southernyankeebelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 04:21 PM Response to Original message |
25. That was the way it was back then. The media never got involved in private matters. In a |
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MissDeeds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
28. Poor taste for the Guardian to run this now |
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The Hope Mobile (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Exactly! nt |
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malletgirl02 (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-28-09 07:36 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. The Guardian |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-27-09 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
29. Stay classy, Mr. Chancellor! |
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