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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I do as well. I might even take it a step further and say that this may be one of those cases where that's part of the overall appeal. By that I mean, none of us is perfact. We're all flawed. While we certainly respect and admire those who live a completely upright and blameless (as far as we can tell) life, don't we sometimes feel more kinship with those whose flaws are plain to see? It makes redemption seem that much more possible.
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If he appealed at all to me, I could go along with this theoretically, but Ted's issues aren't particularly ones I identify with.
I'm a Kennedy clan hater. I don't claim to have a rational basis for it. The most interesting Kennedy to me is Joseph senior as a study in the bald exercise of power and ambition and the most admirable Joseph Jr.
As we discussed in the Novak thread, I still feel sadness about Ted's suffering and death as a fellow human being, but TK is not going to be the guy who provokes in me a deep study of the complexity of human nature and how it contributes to compelling narrative.
When I made my comment to KSigRC, I wasn't thinking of any retrospectives; just the other comments in this thread and the way the Kennedys are generally treated.
And honestly, I think there are great many young people who didn't know about Chappaquiddick at all, not that it would have been a singularly unforgivable event had he ever fully taken responsibility for what happened. I had been enjoying Henry Rollins and Vanity Fair a lot less for a while now, but I kind of enjoyed this
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/pol...es-eulogy.html
It's a little cheap and basic, sure. ETA: "enjoyed" is probably the wrong word for what I felt about reading it. It might be more appropriate to say that it kind of resonated with me.
EATA: Joyce Carol Oates does a great job with the issue MC raises, I think:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...rd-kennedy-usa