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Nobody pointed out that at Chappaquiddick, unlike Dallas and Los Angeles, the person most responsible for the tragedy was a Kennedy, whereas the victim was not--and that Ted Kennedy's invocation of the family "curse" was a clever way of papering over these differences.
Thanks to this blurring of the victim-perpetrator distinction, Ted's nephew Joe was able to get elected to Congress despite his own car accident, which likewise devastated his passenger, four years after Chappaquiddick.
From the time our cat Chappaquiddick (don't ask) was 19 until she died at 20 or 21, we took her to the vet twice a week for dialysis.
On Meet the Press , Tim Russert played the 30-year-old video clip in which Ted Kennedy tried to explain to the nation why, having driven his car off a bridge after a party on Chappaquiddick Island--and having swum to safety while his young campaign aide, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned in the car--he had failed to report the accident to police.
The Chappaquiddick analogies can't be far behind.