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The Kennedys are a tragic family: one son killed in WWII, two sons murdered, one daughter killed in a plane crash, another daughter retarded.... and then there's the offspring deaths.

Now, why are they so villified by the Right? For the same reason FDR was--keeping a mistress while he was in the White House. Sex. The Kennedy father was a philanderer, and so were the sons. What happened in that accident on the Cape? Who knows, though Teddy was damn lucky to get out alive. Don't know how he did it with a bad back from a prior air crash.

I don't villify the Kennedys. There is too much tragedy there. Besides, the sons have had distinguished public and/or military service. A lot of people like their politics. Their private life is another matter. But they don't have the luxury of most people of having a private life.