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The second point was that Kennedy was also "criminal", which is totally inaccurate as he has never been found guilty of a crime
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Actually, Kennedy did plead guilty to leaving the scene of an accident, and received a suspended sentence for the Chappaquiddic incident, albeit that ruling represented nothing more than a slap on the wrist for the Senator (he didn't even have to serve the mandatory 20 day jail sentence that he should have)...
The fact that Ted Kennedy drunkenly careened off of a bridge in his attempt to get away from a police officer who was trying to give him directions, then fled the scene of the crime, leaving a drowning Mary Jo Kopechne behind (forensic evidence and the testimony of the rescue diver indicate that she probably lived for 20 minutes to 2 hours after the car was submerged), and then proceeded to hide from the police for 9 hours while sobering up and trying to clean up evidence of the drinking party he had left prior to the accident should have netted him a much more severe punishment than he recieved.
In the words of George Killen, the State Police Detective-Lieutenant who directed the initial investigation of the accident scene, "Senator Kennedy killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head".
Kennedy may not be rotting in prison right now (It's good to have friends and protectors in high places), and he may not be the "most immoral" politician this country has ever seen, but in my opinion, the man is an absolutely corrupt, moral derelict; A craven and selfish, carousing drunk who let a girl die gasping and afraid in order to protect his own political ambitions and because of his own personal cowardice.
And when a man like Ted Kennedy feels fit to loudly and self-righteously condemn the policies of an American presidency that has freed millions from torture and despotic gangsterism, I would be remiss not to call that bloated degenerate a damned hypocrite.