This is so freaking sad. My friend’s dad died of this same thing. but it did take years and years. Just saying… I hope the guy has more time than he thinks.
It’s so sad though…
When the rebubs passed the bankruptcy bill a few years ago ,I believe the vote was 53 to 47. Kennedy wanted an exemption for seniors. lost 53 -47. He then wanted an exemption for people with catastrophic illnesses. lost 53-47. He then wanted an exemption for soldiers who got returned to Iraq more than once. lost 53 to 47. Kennedys heart was in the right place.
The people of Massachusetts must have a lot of trust in him. I will be 65 in July. When Ted Kennedy was first elected to the Senate, I was a teenager.
I don’t think I’ve seen much in the news about his drinking since his marriage to Victoria sixteen years ago.
I wonder how fit for office and service to my country I would be after losing both a brother and a sister in air crashes while they were in the service during WWII, losing two more brothers to assassins, having a sister undergo a lobotomy, breaking my back in an airplane crash, having an alcoholic spouse, having a son lose his leg to cancer, feeling responsible for the death of a young woman, and losing a nephew in another airplane crash at sea.
Some of us genuinely love the man after all these years. The unkind things you say about him seem personal – as if you have said them of a member of the family. If you don’t like his politics, criticize that.
While many bad things have happened to this extended family, this is not a “curse” type of event. 76 year old men get sick and die all the time, it’s sad for the family, but not something to be surprised about.
Or George or Jeb Bush. Carpet bagging is pretty equal opportunity these days.
I still haven’t quite forgiven him for Chappaquiddick, and I’m glad he didn’t win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980, but he’s given long and valuable service to his country in the Senate, and now I wish him well. I echo Zoe’s appraisal of the hard knocks he and his family have endured.
What’s wrong with carpetbagging anyway? We’re a mobile society now. Why should we demand our elected officials be local natives?
I don’t necessarily disagree with your overall point, but you should know that Kathleen Kennedy was never in the service. Her first husband was killed in the war, and she and her fiance were killed in a plane crash in 1948, while flying to see Joe Kennedy and get his blessing for their wedding.
Nitpick, I know, but more soap for the opera.
Nothing wrong with carpetbagging IMO; what’s wrong is hypocritically condemning one party for it when it’s a common thing both parties do.
It does seem to me that the whole things works better when you’re directly representing people if you know a little bit of something about them and where they’re from and what they like or dislike, but I don’t really care where they were born.
Again, out of respect for the illness (of Ted Kennedy) we shouldn’t talk bad. But the fact remains: everything that the family releases has been carefully vetted and approved, by a highly-paid team of marketing/public relations consultants. The family has always known the value of "image’, and has taken advantage of every situation, so don’t doubt for a momemnt, that every picture, statement, article, asn’t been meticulously reviewed 9and its value determined).
Oh, Zoe, he’s a sick man.
Why, oh why, won’t you stop picking on his family?
Regards,
Shodan
Guilty of being rich.
Alexander died, Alexander was buried,
Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of
earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he
was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
Death goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he might devour. It’s the great equalizer; it comes to each one of us.
I have seldom agreed with Senator Kennedy’s politics. But he has served his country guided by his best instincts of what was right, and he’s made a mighty mark on history. He is truly one of the giants of this age.
Now he, and his family, deserve our prayers and our respects. They enter now a very difficult time; I know what’s it’s like to have someone with a medical death sentence in your life, and it’s not easy. I pray they will find the strength and comfort they need to sustain them through this ordeal, and that, whatever is in store for him, he can meet with the grace and dignity that has been his hallmark in his life thus far.
Kennedy wants his Senate seat to go to his wife.
I wonder if she’s electable?