Excessive alcohol consumption leads to short term memory loss -- Teddy probably doesn't remember he was in an all-male club until February 2 of this year (he'd probably have to have a Bill Murray-like Feb. 2 to ever acknowledge he and Holmes shared the same situation, since he's safe in the knowledge that the big media outlets aren't going to call him out on this one).

What is wrong with being a member of an all-male club? Is this a new fad in political correctness?

The proper response should be, "I wanted to challenge your record."

New? It's been in effect ever since back in February '06.

I want to admit right now that I was in an all-male club between the years of 1981 through 1991. This was an elite paramilitary organization known as "The Boy Scouts."

Well Bryan, I hope you never aspire to political office or judiciary appointment! o/t Odd that Teddy belongs to any Harvard club. He was kicked out for sending someone else in to take an exam for him.

erp:
And here I was thinking that it was all the alcohol abuse and womanizing during college that would keep me out of elected office!

No, that would be an enhancement.

Remember when former Senator John Tower was nominated for SecDef by Bush 41? The Senate Democrats organized to reject him, successfully. The orders went out: "Those of you with drinking problems, attack him for womanizing. Those of you with woman problems, attack him for for alcoholism. Ted Kennedy, don't say nothin'."

I mean, if Teddy can't attack people for doing what he's done, what can he do?

It's stuff like this that makes me want to run for political office one day. I can just picture the face of some poor staffer who gets told by a political hack to go find the dirt on me.

Political Hack: "Well, what did you find?"
Staffer: "Nothing"
Hack: "What do you mean 'Nothing'?"
Staffer: "Just that, nothing. The guy never smoked, never drank, never did drugs, never got a ticket, never missed a bill payment, only woman he ever dated is his wife, and they're happily married. I tell you, there's nothing there."

I guess that means they'll have to make it up, won't they?

Bryan, you copied that line, from Red Dawn, right:
(from the scene where the town mayor, try to explain the affiliation of the "Wolverines" to the
Cuban commissar

Bryan, you copied that line, from Red Dawn, right:
(from the scene where the town mayor, try to explain the affiliation of the "Wolverines" to the
Cuban commissar)

erp:

A slight correction: I believe that Sen. Kennedy was suspended a semester or so for having a classmate take a Spanish test for him. He was readmitted on the condition (I have heard) that he not attend any Harvard graduste school. Hence, he received a B.A. from Harvard, but attended the University of Virginia law school.

Fred, you're right. According to Wikipedia, Ted Kennedy was forced to withdraw for two years, but was eventually graduated from Harvard. I thought I remembered that he was eventually graduated from Boston College, but perhaps that was one of the next generation of Kennedy scholars.