What does Obama know about Chappaquiddick?

A Response to Jack Cashill's article below. May 22, 2008

Thank you for this article. Ever since I heard the news about Senator Ted Kennedy's brain tumor, I have been struggling with anger towards him and all the memories of 1969 came flooding back, like it happened yesterday.
With so many people coming out and saying what a great man and leader TK was, my anger only worsened.

In 1969 I was only 16 years old, but that year and this incident set the stage for what I believe began a rising tide of battery against women. And we as women got to see first hand that there was no protection for us. People everywhere witnessed a famous leader who didn't take accountability and was allowed to walk away from the scene of an accident, leaving a young woman to die without facing jail time, taking away hope for the rest of us ordinary people.

And I believe it led to years of silence, with many females of our generation being physically abused and even killed, most not reporting anything because very little was done about it, until the OJ Simpson case. It took a Black man accused of murdering his White ex-wife to bring sexual battery out in the open again and for women to feel safe enough to report violence against their oppressors.

The even bigger slap in the face for American women with the TK case didn't stop with him walking. It kept going. Soon after he won an Election, and later even ran for President. One of his major positions and acheivements that he has lobbied hard throughout his career for was killing babies, Abortion. He campaigned tirelessly as a hero to women, to have the freedom to wipe out all evidence of illicit relationships.

(When Legislatures finally made an attempt to stop the cruel method of death used on 3rd term babies between 6-9 months with a Ban on Partial Birth Abortion, Senator Kennedy and others voted against it. It's ironic, that he as one of America's most influential leaders, who doesn't see a problem with having babies killed with a sharp instrument thrust into their brains, is now suffering from a brain tumor. The Bible and the Laws of Nature reveal that we reap what we sow.)

If this young lady had been pregnant, it would have been convenient had Abortion been legal then, instead of in 1973. Whatever the case was, I hadn't realized the anger and hurt I've been harboring all these years against someone I don't even know, except through the News. And yesterday I felt that I was the only one, until I read your article. And now I realize there must be millions of us who feel that way, women and men alike, and we need healing from these old wounds of authoritative betrayal, because those who gave TK a free pass were equally guilty.

I am a practicing Christian, and know that Jesus tells me to forgive, but I found it extremely hard to do so when Senator Kennedy hasn't asked for forgiveness. But now that these old wounds are being brought to the surface, I believe that we as a Nation can let that process begin to happen for healing and the first step is to talk about the reality of the crime and the pain. And with you doing so, my hope is that Senator Kennedy and the others involved will seek and find forgiveness and healing from this as well.

Thank you for going against the grain and sharing your heart. It helped set me free and most likely will many others as well. God bless you.

Olga Hermann

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What does Obama know about Chappaquiddick? Thursday May 22, 2008 by Jack Cashill -- "With Barack Obama," said Ted Kennedy upon endorsing the Illinois senator a few months back, "we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion." In his gushing response to Kennedy's endorsement, and in his widely televised anguish about Kennedy's recent illnes ...