Edward Moore Kennedy was very young, too much young, to bear all that misfortune, so much sorrow and responsibility. He could have left everything. Who wants jewels with teeth! I mean the political intricacies of holy aqua or atomic cigars. Nobody would have complained. But he took his family’s path and did it well, as well as or better than his three dead brothers, or even better, because he lived enough to demonstrate everywhere, his philosophy of life: the power for the common good. He fought until the last breath to create the health reform, “the cause of his life.”
It was, as predicted by his name, the “blessed guardian” of human rights. There was no point, comma or parenthesis that did not deal fairly. Citizens of all types and skin benefited from his quotidian tenacity; poor, employees, women, children, sick and immigrants. He opposed the war. He faced racism and participated in educational reform.
His speech, Tolerance and Truth, about church and state, should be manual to be read by certain nuclei of coconuts that, having no more clothes to tear, they anoint with ashes the different beliefs, as if they were the only owner of the kingdom. Men of little faith!
The list of well-being bequeathed to all his people is incalculable. The way to be followed indicated by his brilliant and unforgettable star is infinite. It pains me…I am very sorry! With the departure of Edward Moore Kennedy, is leaving us the last hero of a great dynasty. The daily work was his best allied and empathy, without a doubt, his best weapon.
Farewell, blessed guardian of human rights! And do not forget to send my best regards to your family.

I agree that there is a time and place for political analysis and criticism and that in virtually every instance, the “time and place” is not immediately following the death of a political adversary. However, I also find any heightened vigilance or concern that conservatives will suddenly forget their manners and stoop to engaging in grotesque or unbecoming political attacks on Ted Kennedy misplaced and completely unnecessary when the Kennedy family itself is engaged in this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T75L9KvTlcY&eurl=http://tammybruce.com/&feature=player_embedded

Yeah. They went there. America’s oldest and most powerful political dynasty has now resorted to using its pre-teen, future alcoholics and adultery-enablers to peddle nationalized healthcare at Uncle Teddy’s funeral (sickeningly punctuated by the entire congregation’s uneasy refrain of “Lord, Hear Our Prayer!”) So, short of one of us showing up at Ted Kennedy’s burial in a 60s mini-dress, up-do, blue make-up and moaning at the coffin, “Teddy! Teddy! Save me! Can’t breathe! [choke],” what exactly would it take to breach the standard of political decorum set by the Kennedy family?

So I’d say we are honouring him. In that vein…

Rumour has it that Sen. Kennedy will be burried at sea. The USS Kennedy will be taken out of mothballs for the event. Once out in the ocean, His body will be put in an Oldsmobile and then the car will be shot off the deck via catapult.

Dan Quayle and Ronald Reagan are only two of the many political adversaries Ted Kennedy called friend.

Translation: Dan Quayle and Ronald Reagan decided to be nice to Kennedy, despite his shameless lying and (in Reagan’s case) Kennedy’s desire to collaborate with the Soviets against him, as has Iggy reminded us.

The fact that some chose to be more generous to Kennedy than he deserved and treat him as better American than he was, Spooky, is not ultimately a positive reflection on Kennedy.

As a gay liberal I thank you for doing as Kennedy would have done.

Gotten shitfaced drunk, driven you into a large body of water and left you for dead while trying to hide what he’d done to save his political career?

I’m sorry so many other people can’t do the same

Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.

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http://tinyurl.com/nptm44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdl86KNkt_M