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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.
The Chappaquiddick analogies can't be far behind.
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.
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.