Edward Kennedy Dead at 77
Posted on August 26, 2009
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Edward Kennedy died last night of brain cancer. Yes, you will hear calls to pass the healthcare in his memory, but refrain from disrespectful comments. Keep your dignity, follow Michelle Malkin’s classiness. If you can’t come up with something nice to say, keep it shut. Crass and classless comments will be deleted. Here is the news:
Sen. Ted Kennedy died shortly before midnight Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., at age 77.
The man known as the “liberal lion of the Senate” had fought a more than year-long battle with brain cancer, and according to his son had lived longer with the disease than his doctors expected him to…
..A hardworking, well-liked politician who became the standard-bearer of his brothers’ liberal causes, his career was clouded by allegations of personal immorality and accusations that his family’s clout helped him avoid the consequences of an accident that left a young woman dead.
But for the younger members of the Kennedy clan, from his own three children to those of his brothers JFK and RFK, Ted Kennedy — once seen as the youngest and least talented in a family of glamorous overachievers — was both a surrogate father and the center of the family.
And certainly it was Ted Kennedy who bore many of the tragedies of the family — the violent deaths of four of his siblings, his son’s battle with cancer, and the death of his nephew John F. Kennedy Jr. in a plane crash.
Our heart goes out to the suffering family.
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Sorry, John, but I don’t buy into the PC bit that you, Michelle, and Scott Graves are peddling today. Go ahead and delete my comment if you must. But unlike you, I am old enough to remember his pattern of cheating at Harvard, his collaboration with Russia that would have been treason for an ordinary citizen, his abuse that drove his first wife to drink, his constant philandering and involvement in immoral incidents, and above all, the fact that he left a girl to die in a submerged car just so he wouldn’t be pegged with driving while drunk on an expired license.
The man was completely amoral, arrogant, and selfish all his life, concerned only about his own power and that of his family. The mere fact that he died doesn’t make him somehow better.
This has nothing to do with political differences. I would find anyone who behaved that way unacceptable.
Can’t say I’m going to shed any tears…
Well, I do feel sorry for him and his family… while no fan, to be sure. And I’ll say a prayer for Ted Kennedy and the rest of the clan (am Irish, after all)- it’s tough, especially with the star-crossed Kennedy’s history- I just went through all that with mine, a real drag.
That said, Teddy Kennedy was a moral black hole, a truly self-absorbed and misguided man who did far more damage to this country than good.
PS- I hope the country learns something from his myriad mistakes, so as not to repeat them in the future.
We can’t afford any more self-deluded wishful thinking regarding the leadership of this country- ie. Kennedy and the Dear Leader.
And NO more Kennedys… please
For his family, there is sympathy. For the rest of the country it is a blessing. The Kennedy clan has tried to destroy everything American, starting with the grandfather. In otherwords, probably since the time they first arrived on our shores.
I agree wholeheartedly with American Daughter. This not the time for disparagement, but it should not occasion praise for an someone unworthy of praise.
The old saying, “if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say nothing at all” being kept in mind, on the matter of the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy I elect to remain mute. Take from this comment what you must.
For everyone who is claiming “Un-PC”, I have a comment for you. I was brought up better than to speak evil about a person on the day of their death. It doesn’t mean that we all of a sudden love a certain person. It means we’re civilized. Shame on you.
May Sen. Kennedy’s family find Comfort in our LORD this day of mourning. After all, he WAS an American (good or bad is left up to his Maker, not us at this time).
There’s always tomorrow…