What's worse? Telling a reporter off or manslaughter?

McGentrix wrote:

You brought it up, You seem to want to keep it an issue.

I rank it right up there with Cheney's remark. Sometimes people need to be directed as such.

There is a 9 page thread on ThK's big "Faux pas." What I did was juxtapose the two incidents.

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What you could have done is start a thread about the car accident without mentioning THK. Instead, you invoke initial prejudice by needing to compare the two when there is no comparison to be made.

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Harper wrote:

CoastalRat wrote:
Harper wrote:
Coastal Rat, I will type slowly so you can understand, she ran a stop sign and killed a man and didn't get charged with a n y t h i n g! You are in denial.

Maybe the press should keep badgering her about this until she finally loses her temper and tells them to Cheney off!

Harper, I will refrain from typing slowly because I do not wish to resort to smearing your intelligence, but she was not charged for some reason. I will not put myself in the position of the investigators and assume she should have been charged. I guess you have every right to assume she should have been, but then from your snide remark about typing slowly I would guess that you believe you know better than the people who investigated the accident.

The last traffic ticket I got was for making a "rolling stop" negotiating a right turn at a stop sign. Laura Bush ran a stop sign and killed a man and didn't even get a ticket! I really have to question anyone's thought process who would deny that that is, at the very least, a bit unusual.

I can't help myself. I am forced to say one last thing on this subject to respond to you Harper, then I think I will leave this thread for good. Neither I nor anyone else knows why she was not charged. You do not know why she was not charged. So what is the point of conjecture? Records are missing or incomplete. Not all that unusual for a 30 year old case that did not result in charges being filed.

And I am sorry you got a ticket for a rolling stop. I did that once and guess what? The officer let me go with a warning. Good thing someone in my family is not running for office cause that would sure come back to haunt them.

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No one knows why she wasn't charged but it is not too hard to make an educated guess. If someone ran a stop sign and killed your spouse (for instance)and wasn't charged, would you dismiss it so easily?

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We all would do well by discontinuing these probes into unprovable past alledged transgressions. It's playing judge and jury and if anyone thinks they are electing Joseph and the Virgin Mary, that's a matter of whether or not one has taken their own inventory. I suppose nobody here has done something in their past they aren't proud of and perhaps deeply ashamed. Laura Bush doesn't want to talk about it and I don't blame her -- it might as well have happened under the shadow of a pyramid. In my estimation, reporters are often perceived as a lower breed than attorneys. That might not be fair but if their tactics are tantamont to Papparazzi, I would likely tell one off. I had a theft in the gallery a few years back of a small painting worth about $800.00. The artist called the local paper and I was interviewed. The reporter twisted up the interview badly enough that I had some explaining to do to the artist who finally realized that her interview was also distorted. Funny bunch, those reporters. Or, maybe, not so funny.

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Harper wrote:

No one knows why she wasn't charged but it is not too hard to make an educated guess. If someone ran a stop sign and killed your spouse (for instance)and wasn't charged, would you dismiss it so easily?

I really gotta stop looking at this thread. This is really getting ridiculous. To answer your question, I don't know if I would dismiss it so easily. It would depend on the circumstances of the accident and the reasons for the lack of charges being filed. And that is exactly my point here. Why make a big deal out of something from 30 years ago that YOU have no knowledge about the circumstances.

Now if it would make you happy, if you come up with any evidence at all that she should have been charged with manslaughter or whatever, then please, send it to the police agency that investigated the accident. I don't believe there is a statute of limitations on manslaughter so maybe you can get her prosecuted. And then I will jump on your bandwagon and condemn the woman and somehow transfer my condemnation to her husband because of what she did.

And no with that, I am really, really done responding to this pointless discussion. Oh, and LW, excellent comments concerning both this and that ridiculous thread on Heinz-Kerry.

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She was not charged because it was an accident, and accidents happen. This society used accept the fact that accidents happen but not any more. We have become a society which looks for an ultimate causes and then prosecutes no matter how foolish. That is why a mother in my state was recently prosecuted and convicted of a felony for keeping a messy house as the ultimate cause for her 12 year old son's suicide. The constant bullying the boy was subject to at school was considered mere childs play.

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I have knowledge of the circumstances, Laura Laura Bush ran a stop sign and killed a man. If someone ran a stop sign and killed my son and didn't get charged, there is not a shred of doubt how I would react. What is really strange is that the family of the victim didn't demand justice. Maybe things were taken care of behind the scenes. Of course, it is all speculation. But the point remains that killing a man and getting away with not even a traffic ticket is highly unusual. And killing a man is a lot more serious than telling someone off.

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Harper wrote:

Of course, it is all speculation.

Bingo!

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joefromchicago wrote:

McGentrix wrote:
It's just another case of trying to defend the evils of one side by demonstrating the impurity of the other side. It's a typical leftist tactic that allows them to avoid actually dealing with an issue.

And besides, Bill Clinton got a blowjob!

(i may be late with that but i just read it)

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Maybe they didn't make charges as much as they do now over everything. It is odd any way you look at it that she didn't get charged when a death was involved over her violating a stop sign. It must of been a big deal then for anyone to know of it now.

I imagine that she feels terrible about it and it is over and she is not running for office.

Lastly, to think that a republican wouldn't use this story no matter how old or whose wife, Kerry's or Edwards or any other high profile democrat or spouse is a joke.

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Very true.
But they get highly offended if democrats try to do the same. Righteous republicans!

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Laura Bush
I have to interject here, first of all, there is NO COMPARISON between killing someone and telling a reporter (who has in the recent past purposely and intentionally misquoted you) to shove it AND the second highest official in the land using "FU" on the floor of Congress.

What concerns me is that this was no stranger (the "man" you all are referring to) but a school mate who was a former boyfriend, and isn't it strange they way documents in that family seem to just disappear, over and over again? Coincidence? I think not.

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"A lot more serious non-issue".....................that says it all.

Get a life girl! LOLOLOLOL