A Kennedy Whitewash

"In these “superstar” tributes, there was no talk of womanizing, before and after the senator got divorced from Joan Kennedy in 1982. Gearing up for Kennedy’s presidential run in 1979, Time magazine ran a piece titled “Sex and the Senior Senator.”

It wrote, “The mere mention of Edward Kennedy’s social life is enough to make an editor’s head throb.”

It lamented out loud about how to handle the topic, concluding with a DC dinner party where “14 talented and interesting men and women talked of nothing but [Kennedy’s] sexual activities.”

But now? Sen. John McCain announced on “Face the Nation” on CBS that Kennedy was a man of his word (and his vows?): “Ted always kept his word. The only times I saw him angry was when somebody didn’t keep their word to him.”

At the opening ceremonies, President Obama shamelessly asked, “What if we carried ourselves more like Ted Kennedy? What if we worked to follow his example a little bit harder?”

Does this involve his driving habits? Oh, that."

[NY Post]