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August 25th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
He was as shallow a schmuck as to ever get elected. He inflicted a terrible loss upon Mary Jo and her family, and he probably really shouldn’t have had the chance to redeem himself in a public forum, but as Caroline recounted, he has had an amazingly productive, useful career.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
A little projection Jeffrey?
August 25th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Oh Jeffrey you are such a worthless cunt.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
It’s definitely better than seeing him up and doing something else.
Thank you, thank you. And a round of applause for MattY too.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Fine, Jeffrey—so he got drunk and he fucked up and since then, he’s spent his entire lifetime atoning for this sin. What the hell have you done for your country lately? Asshole.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
this comment stream is quite high-minded; I thought that baseball blogs had the monopoly on vicious personal attacks. I guess that I have neglected deep political commentary for awhile….
August 25th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
“he has had an amazingly productive, useful career.”
Grrrr. How dare you insult the sacred Kennedy!
August 26th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Two things struck me tonight. One, is that the older pundits think the night belonged to Teddy. The younger bloggers think it was a passing of the torch to the Obamas.
Two, if Obama/Biden are elected, RI gov will appoint the new senator. Could it be Patrick Kennedy, and another passing of the torch?
August 26th, 2008 at 12:22 am
Mary Jo Kopechne died eight years before I was born. I’m a good piece older than Yglesias. Do you know how wierd this stuff sounds to people without a hearing aid?
August 26th, 2008 at 12:43 am
CJ, wrong small state. Biden’s from DE
August 26th, 2008 at 1:23 am
If anything about the convention has stood out for me thusfar, it’s the reminder that even top-tier politicians in this country are such stilted, uninspiring public speakers (with Ted being given a pass this time around).
August 26th, 2008 at 2:11 am
I speak in public quite frequently, and I was very impressed by the “naturalness” of Michelle Obama’s speaking voice. Kennedy and McCaskill have an old-timey booming rhetoric that comes from the days before microphones. Biden is more “natural” in speech, but loses his flow and can sound incoherent. But MO was able to move smoothly between an informal kitchen table talk to beautiful long and perfectly balanced and eloquent sentences.
It takes a lot of work, practice and focus to sound so “natural” and unforced as MO did tonight. I thought that she was better than Reagan who won two terms on his speaking chops and not much more.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Did they have a bucket of water on the stage for Teddy to pop out of like in “Wicked Wanda”. the old Penthouse comic?
August 26th, 2008 at 11:09 am
cj says:
Two, if Obama/Biden are elected, RI gov will appoint the new senator. Could it be Patrick Kennedy, and another passing of the torch?
you do know of course that Biden is a senator from Delaware?
August 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Not just good, but great. Sen. Kennedy was my senator for the first half of my life, and after many first hand encounters I can say there has never been a more hard working person in the U.S. senate. As for M.J. Kopechne, If you visit the scene of the accident as I did, you would realize that was an accident that could have happened to any one of us, and there was zero chance that Kennedy could have saved her.You might want to check out the congressional record to find out what he has been up to since then.
August 26th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
“you would realize that was an accident that could have happened to any one of us, and there was zero chance that Kennedy could have saved her”
Perhaps, but there was that little problem of him leaving the scene of the accident.
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