Doug Henwood wrote: > He did leave a woman to drown, and a lot of his family was repugnant. Do you > disagree?<
I dunno, but de mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est (don't speak ill of the dead) springs to mind. While I've never forgotten Chappaquiddick (as I guess a lot of liberals have), Kennedy seemed to redeem himself later on in life: he seemed one of the best people in a basically bourgeois and bad institution. It's true that the law effectively let him off the hook concerning Chappaquiddick; that's one of the privileges of the rich in our society (cf. Dubya and cocaine, etc.) Of course, it's really telling -- and sad -- that the working class, ethnic minorities, and women had to depend on the charity of elite types like him. His family? I don't hold him responsible for his father (and I hope that no-one ever holds me responsible for my father). Though I don't carry a torch for either JFK or RFK, I thought Eunice was okay. -- Jim Devine / "laugh if you want to / really is kinda funny / cause the world is a car / and you're the crash test dummy" -- Devil Makes Three. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
