1 Sad day. I can't remember the date when Laura Bush killed her boyfriend, can you?

2 yeah -- it is November 8, 1963, but I think we can point to a few relevant differences between the accident in which Laura Bush ran a stop sign and the one in which Teddy Kennedy ran off a bridge.

1) She was a 17-year old high school student driving to a party with a girlfriend, not a US Senator fooling around on his pregnant wife.

2) She wasn't drunk.

3) She didn't leave the scene of the accident to sleep off her drunken state.

4) She didn't leave the injured party to die without medical attention or notifying authorities of the accident.

5) She didn't seek to get someone else to take the rap for her.

6) She didn't try to obstruct justice in the case.

So as you can see, the problem in Teddy Kennedy's case is not the fact of a fatal car accident per se, but rather the totality of the circumstances surrounding that accident and the things it reveals about his character that leads me to make my harsh judgment of the man.

But I suppose if you dismiss all those relevant differences between the two cases, you could say they are exactly the same.

3 Typo alert -- that should have been Nov 6, 1963.

4 No charges were filed, so of course she didn't seek to obstruct justice in the case. There was none to obstruct. Just another over-privileged Texan getting the kind of justice reserved for over-privileged Texans. By all accounts, she ran a stop sign to kill her boyfriend, but they didn't even charge her for that.

5 Dan, you are a sick, sick, man if you can't see the differences.

6 It was the Mary Jo incident that gave me my first lesson on how our court system works. unfortunately 39 years later it hasn't got any better. When it comes to the Justice system there is 2 Americas.