[leewgrant]

It's going to take more than a couple of days of hyperbole by the media and politicians to determine Teddy Kennedy's place in history. However, the whole Mary Jo Kopechne issue has been resurrected. British commentary is laced with Kennedy's sympathy for the IRA.

I expect Kennedy would have realized that having been part of a controversial family the reviews on his life would be at best mixed.

[Brenda]

R.I.P...

[ManifestDestiny]

Wullu Wullu:

And here go the idiots again.

not going to say much here not worth it cuase certain people get a pass and im not one of them.

[Proculation]

Like him or not, he sure was a fighter for his ideas. The Democrats are losing a big piece here.

[bootlegga]

RIP

Proculation Proculation:

Like him or not, he sure was a fighter for his ideas. The Democrats are losing a big piece here.

[GreenTiger]

Proculation Proculation:

Like him or not, he sure was a fighter for his ideas. The Democrats are losing a big piece here.

If there is to be a big out pouring of grief, he has more of a right to it than Michael Jackson.

[BartSimpson]

I actually met the man once at the "Friendly's" ice cream restaurant in Hyannis in 1982. He was nice enough to me in person and I recall our chat was friendly and warm.

As to health care, it is ironic that it may stand a better chance to pass now that Kennedy is not there to serve as a lightning rod for opposition. I also expect the legislation to be renamed in his honor as a strategy to embarrass its opponents.

[Mustang1]

ridenrain ridenrain:

Sounds like another windstorm is comming to Ontario..

Only to blow away the ignorance of the Surrey's Parrot. Piss off.

[Brenda]

Holy FUCK!!
Could you babies just cut it out and fight on the schoolplayground instead of on somebodies grave?
Disrespectful twits.

Yes, ALL OF YOU.

[Scape]

Cut the off topic babble chatter or your looking at downtime.

Only warning.

[BartSimpson]

Brenda Brenda:

Yes, ALL OF YOU.

Me, too?

[poquas]

Kennedy, whether you like him or not did a lot more good for his country than 99.9% of all the other politicians.

R.I.P.

The bullshit bluster of a wannabe right wing ass has no business here in this topic.

[BartSimpson]

poquas poquas:

Kennedy, whether you like him or not did a lot more good for his country than 99.9% of all the other politicians.

That's quite a claim.

[ridenrain]

$1:

Novak and Kennedy [NRO Staff]
From John Fund, writing in the Wall Street Journal's Political Diary:

Ted Kennedy and I didn't occupy much political space in common, but I always admired his ability to build coalitions for the things he believed in, assemble a first-rate staff and bravely represent a coherent point of view. He was also a man who would answer your questions forthrightly and then invite you to have a drink.

In his last months, he and his wife Vicky also found time to come to the aid of a fellow cancer sufferer — my old boss and friend Bob Novak. He died only a week ago from the same type of brain tumor that felled Senator Kennedy. When the conservative columnist was diagnosed last year, Vicki Kennedy reached out to Novak with the lessons they'd learned about treatment. "He and his wife have treated me like a close friend . . . and urged me to opt for surgery at Duke University, which I did," Novak wrote in one of his last published columns. "The Kennedys were not concerned by political and ideological differences when someone's life was at stake, recalling at least the myth of milder days in Washington."

The loss of two great men I knew to the same disease in the space of a single week certainly fills me with a greater appreciation for the brief time all of us have on this earth.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/? ... hiZmM3MWE=

[BartSimpson]

Nice post.