Ted Kennedy to the rescue

In what is perhaps the mother of all morbid ironies, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy gets the nod for assisting in the water rescue of six stranded fishermen off a jetty off Hyannisport on Sunday. From the Cape Cod Times:

Kennedy was walking his two Portuguese waterdogs on the shore at about 11:15 a.m. when he spotted the men, all in their 20s and from off-Cape, cut off from the shore by rising waters on a jetty that begins at the tip of the Kennedy compound, Hyannis Capt. Craig Farrenkopf said.

Kennedy and a friend tried to retrieve the men in a 13-foot Whaler before rough waters forced them back. Soon after, a crew from the Hyannis Fire Department picked up the men, in three trips, and brought them back to shore. They were taken to Cape Cod Hospital with mild hypothermia, Farrenkopf said.

Now I have to give the man props for trying. But I have to wonder, if it took the fire department three trips to get the men off the jetty, just how exactly did Kennedy think to rescue six men using a 13-ft boat, that he and his friend were also taking up real estate in? I mean have you seen this guy recently? (Warning! If you click that link, do not have any food or beverages in your mouth. I cannot be responsible for any damage to your computer screen.)

Anyway, Ted Kennedy did try to help save some guys from a watery death, which I guess is a step in the right direction.

But honestly though, if I was trapped on that jetty, and I saw Ted Kennedy charging to the rescue through blowing wind and high seas in a teeny-tiny boat, I might have just swam for it.

Don't laugh, you know you would have too.