Comments by "Sean" (@sean2015) on "July 25, 1969: Ted Kennedy addresses Chappaquiddick accident" video.

+Bradley Bowen are you seriously going to make the claim that the Bush family is better than the Kennedys? Did you know that Laura Bush ran a stop sign while speeding and killed a young boy? (and just like Ted Kennedy, she never got charged for it) Are you aware of how stupid your statement sounds? Are you?
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Just like Laura Bush got away with killing a young boy with her car. Ted Kennedy is hardly the first rich person to avoid being held responsible for his actions.
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Bradley Bowen "it was an accident" ... "she was so young" ... "it happened so long ago_" ... _"she said she was sorry" ... I love how you try to make the Bush thing appear so minor while you play up the Kennedy thing. (at least unlike you, I'm willing to say I consider both accidents equally reprehensible...you would never hear one peep about the Bush thing on talk radio or Fox News). Bottom line is she ran a stop sign on a clear, dry night on a wide-open road with no obstructions to visibility, no blind curves, no bridge without a guardrail. Clearly she must've been speeding if that poor kid got killed. She didn't get charged with vehicular manslaughter as Kennedy should have (again, not one peep from the right).
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Bradley Bowen YOU'RE the one deflecting pal! And YOU'RE the one who first brought up the Bushes anyway (do I have to show you a screenshot with your own comments?) I'm not defending Ted Kennedy and I've already said he should've been charged with involuntary manslaughter (NOT murder). End of story. Now it's YOUR turn. All I wanna hear is whether you think Laura Bush deserved to face similar charges...a simple "yes or no" question which you won't even answer, hence you ARE in fact defending her and playing politics (you already HAVE defended her by saying her case was different because she was young and it was all accidental - as if to imply that Kennedy deliberately drove off that bridge to murder Kopechne) ...on that note, we hear plenty of whataboutism any time (for example) some Republican gets wrapped up in some scandal - when Newt Gingrich and Roy Moore and Donald Trump were found to be cheating on their second or third wives all we heard from the right was "well what about Clinton and Lewinsky?" . Or whenever Republicans are found to be engaging in racist behavior all we hear is "but what about all the racist Democrats? what about Robert Byrd the Klansman?" ...all of this is very much relevant and you have a lot to learn if you're going to continue adjudging people so harshly because there is PLENTY of dirty laundry on both sides of the aisle
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+Diana I've heard that same exact excuse from so many Teabaggers (are you one?) as well as other related excuses. "but she was so young" , "it happened so long ago" , "it was an accident" , "nobody is perfect" ...so tell me what the cutoff age is for you. I know (based on your comment) that you'd be okay with a 17 year-old running and over and killing a member of your family, but clearly you're not okay with Ted Kennedy who was 37 at the time of Chappaquiddick. So...what's the "age of accountability" then praytell Diana?
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@jstasur I think what you mean to say is "sean2015, You forgot...she's the spouse of a Republican, and her last name is Bush"
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@jstasur I do see the difference. One is a Democrat, the other is a Republican. That's the way the Teabaggers see the difference too.
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+Diana, FACT CHECK: Laura Bush's father was NOT a "carpenter" at the time of Laura's accident in the fall of 1963 (you deliberately make it sound like he was some blue-collar day laborer to advance your point). He owned and managed his own (very lucrative) home-construction company; her mother was a bookkeeper for that business. Laura attended Southern Methodist University which (in case you didn't know) is a private school with a tuition higher than even some Ivy League institutions such as Princeton. I'd say the Welches were quite well off. I'd bet any amount of money that this played at least a small part in Laura not being charged.
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Diana, are you a forensic pathologist? Did you autopsy the body? Then you cannot testify as to the cause of death. As much as I'm sure you would love to see Ted Kennedy burn in hell, you have to go by the official findings of a judge: Mary Jo Kopechne drowned. She did not suffocate, and he did not leave her to die. Deal with that.
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+MrPippinsays: sorry, I know you must hate the Kennedys or have some political agenda to push, but your argument doesn't add up. Mary Jo Kopechne either drowned, or succumbed to hypothermia.
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@macobats I'm surprised that you're surprised that I'm comparing Laura Bush's accident to Ted Kennedy's. The two accidents are eerily similar in several ways, mainly that a young person was killed and in each case, the person responsible managed to avoid prosecution for manslaughter on account of being wealthy. I don't believe either Ted Kennedy or Laura Bush were malicious or intentionally tried to cause their respective crashes, but when it comes to manslaughter, "intent" is not a mitigating factor under the law. The fact is that they both should have been charged. I'm tired of people using the excuse that "but she was so young" ...you said you've read my responses so please answer the question which I've already asked. which is: what exactly is the age at which people can and should begin to be held responsible for their actions Priscilla? Because I have a strong feeling that if some 17 year-old kid caused the death of your loved one under similar circumstances, you would be screaming for their head on a plate. As far as Laura Bush not leaving the scene of the accident, to me that is irrelevant because, 1) she was thrown from the vehicle and possibly knocked unconscious; she has given very sketchy details about this (her car was traveling at at least 50 mph so if she had been thrown from the vehicle she should have been more injured than she says she was, and 2) she had a passenger in the car with her (a friend) and there was also another witness to the accident (the boy's father) so fleeing the scene or covering up evidence would not have entered her mind. Finally, 3) no sobriety test was administered, so we don't know for sure if Bush was intoxicated.
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@youaregoingtolovethis I don't know why you bring race into this, that has nothing to do with any of this and it is completely beside the points I was trying to make. This is about politics and partisanship, not race.
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Bruno56 and Laura Bush killed a boy
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Bruno56 "it doesn't count" if someone is a teenager (according to the all-knowing and wise Bruno56). Tell that to the family of the guy who was killed by these teenagers you hypocrite --> https://abcnews.go.com/US/teens-deadly-michigan-rock-throwing-case-accept-plea/story?id=56634773
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