Let us mourn for Mary Jo Kopechne and Michael Douglas

[Wiregrass Willie]

I noticed some right wingers pointing out that last Thursday was the 38th anniversary of Ted Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick.

It puzzles me that the same people who are so obsessed over Mary Jo Kopechne's tragic death never mention the time when Laura Bush killed her young lover in 1963. Why don't they moan over the death of young Michael Douglas ?

I hadn't thought of it before, but maybe it was knowing that Laura killed a cheating lover that caused Dubya to become a drunk instead of an adulterer. More's the pity.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3910b26e685a.htm

According to the two-page accident report released Wednesday by the
city of Midland, Laura Welch was driving her Chevrolet sedan on a
clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 1963, when she drove into
an intersection and struck a Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old
Michael Douglas.

Although previous news accounts have reported Douglas was thrown from
the car and broke his neck, those details were not in the report.

The speed of Laura Bush's car was illegible on the report. The speed
limit for the road was 55.

Neither driver was drinking, the police report said.

Laura Bush and her passenger, Judy Dykes, also 17, were taken to a
hospital and treated for minor injuries, according to an accident
account printed at the time in the Midland Reporter-Telegram.

The police report indicates no charges were filed. That section of the
report was left blank.

``As far as we know, no charges were filed,'' said Midland city
attorney Keith Stretcher. ``I don't think it's unusual that charges
weren't filed.''

In Texas, when police are called in regards to a death by a wealthy family, they are expected to help bury the kill and then everybody goes about his business.

And being this death happened on Nov 6, it would only be fitting that we make a special point of observing it's 44th anniversary.

[frogcycle]

1. There are much more pertinent things to raise

with respect to bush and cheney than this.


Moaning over MJK is pointless, of course, but trying to one-up them with this is even more so.

[bananarepublican]

3. Does that go for Margie Schoedinger too? n/t

[Bitwit1234]

6. What gets me about this is...

In the records I have seen there was no suicide weapon. Just like in Scarbrough's interns death.

Who came into Margie's house about a month before her suicide and beat the crap out of her husband and told her to drop her suit.

And once filed a civil case must be still listed in the court records. After she "killed" herself it disappeared. And the reason she left Texas after the miscarriage was never revealed.

[MonkeyFunk]

8. Why would there be a suicide weapon

in Lori Klausutis' death? Nobody ever maintained it was a suicide.

[Wiregrass Willie]

9. That's true, but I disagree ...

...that one-upping them is pointless. It's the little stuff that runs them crazy. And the little shit is how they defeated all of their enemies over the years. Please remember it was not by winning the a debate about the major issues of the day that gave them the Congress 1995-2007 and the White House 2001-2009. It was the tactic of calling their opponents "tree huggers" and "bed wetters" that helped them get the Left associated with stupidness in the eyes of the moderate American voters.

Turnabout is fair play. Or -- if not fair -- it is effective. If they can refer to Kennedy as "Splash Teddy" and keep MJK as a topic 38 years later, I would suggest we would do best to imitate. So let's hear it for "Skid-mark Laura".

Contrary to what Mao said, power comes out making your opponent look like fools and murderers.

[frogcycle]

10. There would have to be a whole lot more

to go on that what is available before it would make sense to try to harp on something this thin.

It would look childish and foolish. I don't think that is where to focus our energies.

Now as to what Guliani did/did not do about terrorism, the cleanup, what bushco didn't do, etc. - those and many more are real, legitimate points to make about the lack of competance and general lack of qualification for positions of leadership in this country of all republicans (I'll allow for exceptions, if someone can show me one). And the harping on Chappaquidick can be countered by bush's claim that the Plame affair has "run it's course - we're moving on." It probably killed more people than MJK, severely damaged our national security efforts w/respect to WMD/Iran and they and their leader think it is time to move on.

Do homework on this and make a case; don't waste your time on the traffic accident.

[Aviation Pro]

2. I notice that Mr. Tull....

...had his privileges of injecting reason into Jim Robinson's FreeRepublic - a futility that goes from the sublime to the ridiculous - revoked. (Yes, I do know that the front man for the rock Gods of the 70s is Ian Anderson).

[Hepburn]

4. Just a thought.....

....but way back when ~~ and I am about the same age as Laura * ~~ age of majority was 21 years. So a minor at age 17 years was very much considered a minor AND (the important part IMO) any criminal charges against a minor would be brought in Juvenile Court. For years, I have considered that Laura * was most likely charged, but in Juv Ct, and the records were normally sealed back then. That is why the accident report is blank on that issue...and why we will never really know. I cannot imagine her not being charged for running a stop sign and a death resulted. Maybe her family had the juice to keep her out of trouble, but back then, a Juvenile Court criminla charge almost always resulted in a seal record....so no big deal on any adulthood impact.

This is just my opinion...and nothing more.

[sniffa]

5. what did teddy say to MJK when he found out she might be

carrying his chiLd?

don't worry mary jo, we'LL cross that bridge when we come to it.

*ba dum bum*

5th rec. for the Laura weLch driving academy.

[helderheid]

7. I wonder where Judy Dykes is now and if she'd like to share her version...