Sure is quiet here today...........

 From Mary Jo Kopechne

I would have been 65 years of age this year.
Read about me and my killer below.

When Sen. Ted Kennedy was merely just another  politician on
Capitol Hill on behalf of liberal causes, it was perhaps excusable to ignore 
his
deplorable past.

But now that he's become a leading attack dog, positioning himself
as Washington's leading arbiter of truth and integrity, the days for such
indulgence are now over.

It's time for  someone to stand up and remind America why this chief 
spokesman
had to abandon his own presidential bid in 1980 - time to say the words
Mary Jo Kopechne out loud.

 So many in this generation do not know the story of how this "Conscience of 
the
Democratic Party" left Miss Kopechne behind to die in the waters underneath
the Edgartown Bridge in July 1969, after a night of drinking and partying 
with
the young blonde campaign worker.   Most Americans under 40 have
never heard that story, or details of how Kennedy swam to safety, then tried
to get his cousin Joe Garghan to say he was behind the wheel.

 They don't know how Miss Kopechne, trapped inside Kennedy's
Oldsmobile, gasped for air until she finally died, while the Democrats'
leading Iraq war critic rushed back to his compound to formulate the best
alibi he could think of.

Neither does Generation X know how Kennedy was thrown out of Harvard on
his ear 15 years earlier -- for paying a fellow student to take his Spanish 
final.
Or, why the US Army denied him a commission because he cheated on tests.

As they listen to the "Liberal Lion" accuse President Bush of
"telling lie after lie after lie" to get America to go to war in Iraq, young
voters don't know about that notorious 1991 Easter weekend in Palm Beach,
when Uncle Teddy rounded up his nephews for a night on the town, an evening
that ended with one of them credibly accused of rape.

It's time for the truth be told to a generation who does not know.......... 
and time those who
have forgotten be reminded.