(12-13-2017 12:51 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  

(12-12-2017 08:09 PM)baker-13 Wrote:  I've been thinking about posting this for a while, but OwlNumbers bringing it up now makes it impossible for me not to...
Courtesy of the immortal Art Buchwald...

Well, what about Chappaquiddick? Were/are you outraged by Teddy's behavior? Was his behavior better/worse than Roy Moore's? Than Bill Clinton's? Than Donald Trump's? Why, in each case? And what was your relative degree of outrage in each one?

My guess is, if you lean left, you are outraged by Moore and Trump, but you make excuses for Ted and Clinton. And if you lean right, vice versa.

I don't know what it means, but I was--and remain--outraged by Teddy, not so much by Clinton, pretty much so sick of Roy Moore before the allegations--and frankly not convinced of the truth of the allegations--that they didn't register much, and not really sure exactly what to think about Trump. I probably have to admit that my greater disgust with Teddy than with Bill is probably at least in part because I agreed with /bill on a lot more policies. But I still think what Ted did was the worst of the four, by far.

A woman died. None of these other allegations against anybody resulted in a death.

At the time, i was amazed by Teddy's story. Wasn't it nine hours between the accident and him calling it in?