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Ted Kennedy
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jaylake:
“This is the cause of my life. New hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American - north, south, east, west, young, old - will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.”
- Ted Kennedy, one year ago today
Kennedy managed, by hard, good work, to climb out of the shadows of his brothers and his own past, to become a respected elder, always on what I consider to be the side of the angels on health care, disability, education, foreign policy. Already he is missed.
ETA: This piece from The American Prospect pretty much sums him up:
jaylake:“This is the cause of my life. New hope that we will break the old gridlock and guarantee that every American - north, south, east, west, young, old - will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not a privilege.”
- Ted Kennedy, one year ago today
Kennedy managed, by hard, good work, to climb out of the shadows of his brothers and his own past, to become a respected elder, always on what I consider to be the side of the angels on health care, disability, education, foreign policy. Already he is missed.
ETA: This piece from The American Prospect pretty much sums him up:
Ted Kennedy wasn't a symbol of American liberalism. He was the executor of American liberalism: he was the real deal, he got it done. He couldn't make the whole country fall in love with him. But centuries from now, when the sentimental attachment of those who can remember the older Kennedy brothers are gone, it is the youngest Kennedy sibling who will be remembered, warts and all, for having most shaped America's path, and most exemplified its ideals.