Will Ted Kennedys legacy be health care reform?

meme said:
not that I really care, but I expect to see another Wellstone type funeral..Progressives have no shame when it come to wanting to win power..dead or alive they will use you, abuse you, then if you are no more good to them, toss ya on the trash heap like they did with Cindy Sheehan
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Their honoring Kennedy has been going on for hours now. Bad ass boring.
 
tinfoil said:
I feel sorry for people who think of Ted Kennedy as some kind of hero. You're fucked up in the head if that asshole is your hero.
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Yes, but then I have no hero's at all except for a few personal ones that none of you would know.
 
Ted Kennedy became the greatest legislator of our time.

He did it by hewing to principle, but also by seeking compromise and common cause, not through deal-making and horse-trading alone, but through friendship, and kindness, and humor.

In the days after September 11th, Teddy made it a point to personally call each one of the 177 families of this state who lost a loved one in the attack.

But he didn't stop there. He kept calling and checking up on them.

He fought through red tape to get them assistance and grief counseling.

He invited them sailing, played with their children, and would write each family a letter whenever the anniversary of that terrible day came along.

To one widow, he wrote the following: "As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us."

Bless Ted Kennedy, and may he rest in eternal peace.
 
T&A said:
How many of us here would even have a shot at a "legacy" if we mere mortals had done what Tedward had done?

Nuff said.
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We would be in prison.

Kennedy earned C grades at the private Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a "legacy" his father and older brothers had attended there, so the younger and dimmer Kennedy's admission was virtually assured. While attending, he was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.


While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. He passed the bar exam in 1959, and two years later was appointed an Assistant to the District Attorney in Massachusetts' Suffolk County.


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TuTu Monroe said:
We would be in prison.

Kennedy earned C grades at the private Milton Academy, but was admitted to Harvard as a "legacy" his father and older brothers had attended there, so the younger and dimmer Kennedy's admission was virtually assured. While attending, he was expelled twice, once for cheating on a test, and once for paying a classmate to cheat for him. While expelled, Kennedy enlisted in the Army, but mistakenly signed up for four years instead of two. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to England, pulled the necessary strings to have his enlistment shortened to two years, and to ensure that he served in Europe, not Korea, where a war was raging. Kennedy was assigned to Paris, never advanced beyond the rank of Private, and returned to Harvard upon being discharged.


While attending law school at the University of Virginia, he was cited for reckless driving four times, including once when he was clocked driving 90 miles per hour in a residential neighborhood with his headlights off after dark. Yet his Virginia driver's license was never revoked. He passed the bar exam in 1959, and two years later was appointed an Assistant to the District Attorney in Massachusetts' Suffolk County.


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Class has it's privileges! Didn't you always tell me, don't hate then because they are rich??? I guess it is just the blue blood rich you hate so much!
 
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