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Bobby Kennedy should be ashamed of himself over his dead wife -- Successful effort to keep her remains from her family was disgusting - VIDEO

Posted on Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 08:17 AM

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Robert F Kennedy Jr

Bobby Kennedy should be ashamed of his behavior over his dead wife Mary who hung herself.

His wife’s remains belonged to her family not to the person who deserted her.

Bobby Kennedy had the chutzpah to eulogise his late wife Mary Kennedy who killed herself, at least partly over him, at her funeral mass yesterday.

It had to be one of the greatest acts of hypocrisy by a separated spouse in many years.

The world knows the truth of the relationship, a tortured tangled one that led her eventually to take her own life by hanging herself.

Her family was understandably outraged when Bobby proposed he hold the wake and funeral service and bury her where he wanted to at the Kennedy family plot.

Her family rightfully wanted to claim back a beloved sister and daughter and bury her with their people.

Bobby did not agree and a judge agreed with him, mainly because the divorce was not final and he is next of kin.

To call it selfish and callous is to use very mild adjectives to describe this sort of behavior.

We have become used to the Kennedy sense of entitlement but this really took the biscuit.

The estranged husband who contributed to his wife’s suicide tells the congregation how wonderful she was.

Just a few days ago they were at daggers drawn and friends say she was increasingly depressed about it.

I’m sorry but the lack of sincerity and sheer effrontery of Bobby’s behavior is hard to take.

At least one Kennedy family member deserves praise however.

Kerry Kennedy, who was close to the dead woman, spoke some beautiful words.

“She was brilliant and she was beautiful and she cared so very, very deeply about everybody around her,” said Kerry Kennedy. “She had friends in every corner of the globe. Really deep, rich friendships.”

“I just think that she was really an angel who was brought to us, to live with us here on earth,” Kennedy said. “And I think God just brought her back up to heaven and said, ‘You don’t have to fight for me anymore.’”

That is sincere love, not some public relations effort to cover up bad behavior and very likely significant guilt.

Bobby Kennedy Jr, bearer of a famous name, one known for standing up for what is right, should be ashamed.

Here's the AP report on Mary Kennedy's family's ceremony:

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pilib04 | May 20, 2012, 05:59 PM EDT

A little background info on the author of this Kennedy bashing article. Perhaps a teabagger or a RINO. I assume the court acted in the interest of the children (4 of which are Mary and Bobby's). What other family members people are babbling about, I simply am unaware. However, children trump all!!!

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Bythebay | May 20, 2012, 05:48 PM EDT

McNamara31, research the original records and find out before making outrageous statements about it. You haven't done it and it's very obvious you didn't. Learn your own history.

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JosephDuvernay | May 20, 2012, 05:44 PM EDT

I solicit whether a few degrees remove frenchperson might... I wonder if our Mr. Roberts knows anything of the shave-hair between lOVE and hATE? I squeeze-cells to make sense with the brain and heart of how I myself can be two things and more, as a man, human. Important: (and here is the pedant) Do unto others what you'd they do to you! Do No Harm! Know thy(sheer nonsense infused)self! And Out the guilt of the larger questions: has he seemingly tried to help the creation? Has she unbought the weighty sale whereever in it comes? May IT continue to bless Mary! May we, in the jaw of defense, not break all its rankling teeth, and be kind to each other.

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bflogal | May 20, 2012, 05:17 PM EDT

I was just wondering are Mary's parents alive? Every article I read is about the Kennedys but nothing about her family.

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dhaitzin | May 20, 2012, 05:17 PM EDT

To McNamara31 I do not want to deviate from the main ideas expressed in the article about RFK Jr and his wife Mary. All I will say is that take a look at the children of RFK and note how many have had drug and alcohol problems, have been accused of statutory rape, etc. Seems to me that RFK Jr., who has a history in the past of alcohol and heroin addiction should be the last person to be calling his wife an addict. She was about to lose her home and her children, he used this fear against her and then proceeded in her death to denigrate her memory as though she was mentally deficient. She never used heroin for example, she never went to Harlem to get a fix as he did. She was a woman devastated. I feel so sad for her because noone came to her aid and told her what a talented person she was. I wish she could have talked to Sheila Rauch Kennedy the only ex Kennedy wife who stood up to these people with dignity.

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PhlutiePhan | May 20, 2012, 05:10 PM EDT

Disgusting but that appears to be the Kennedy way with women. Use them like Kleenex and then walk away. Cardinals Cushing and O'Malley had a chance to make the record right and turned their heads.

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McNamara31 | May 20, 2012, 05:08 PM EDT

Bythebay You think America (of that time) swung the doors open to all the Irish arriving in Boston? Talk about Laughable!

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abhainn | May 20, 2012, 05:08 PM EDT

"The Kennedys aren't Irish, they're Americans." Of course.

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unclebrendan | May 20, 2012, 05:06 PM EDT

Definitely silly Kennedy should be ashamed of himself but a normal reaction would not be appropriate to him. I too suffer from alcoholism and depression but I have stayed sober practically 40 years thaks to God and AA. The depression is debilitating. I was stolen blind and psychologically abused while suffering cancer and depression with 30 years sober.From a family member of course. These people know that the way to get a depressive out of the way is to drive them to suicide with abuse. They are not dumb. I walked away and ended up homeless but it was either that or commit suicide. I had long term sobriety. Mary Kennedy did not. Bless her and damn her tormrntor. Let him exlain it to God. To my critics: how many of you could walk so well in my shoes ?

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Bythebay | May 20, 2012, 04:55 PM EDT

The Kennedys aren't Irish, they're Americans.

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Bythebay | May 20, 2012, 04:53 PM EDT

McNamara31, you really need to check the facts in the original sources about Irish emigrants to the US because you've got the wrong story. That story is the beat the chest we're all so persecuted one which is far from the truth. The Kennedy immigrants did very in Boston as immigrants, their son received formal education and owned a saloon in Boston. What befell them was what befell everyone else in Boston, cholera, not any huge wave of bigotry. Smarten up.

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McNamara31 | May 20, 2012, 04:43 PM EDT

dhaitzin message back... "These guys are a disgrace to the Irish"...How quick you are to paint an entire family as a disgrace.Very prejudicial don't you think?

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LoveDoolin | May 20, 2012, 04:42 PM EDT

He's a Kennedy; what would you expect? They exonerate themselves from integrity when it suits their needs. It's been happening since the 1930's with Joseph P. and the'legacy' continues. They aren't the sanctimonious family that most seem to portray them to be.

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dhaitzin | May 20, 2012, 04:25 PM EDT

Message to McNamara31 Just because they are Irish doesnt mean you give them a pass for bad behaviour. We are in the 21st. century and if you want to talk about discrimination, I can tell you a lot about growing up Catholic and sectarianism in the 50's and 60's and it still exists to-day. These guys are a disgrace to the Irish.

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abhainn | May 20, 2012, 04:23 PM EDT

Patrick Roberts, why don't you drag out your sticky snout from other people's affairs? You know damn all about it; you're a sanctimonious bystander and an outsider. Shut your filthy trap, you parasitic hack.

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