Posted on 06/07/2015 1:37:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When famous people die these days, there is an irritating modern tendency towards hyperbole.
Everyone even remotely well known who passes away is instantly, breathlessly propelled via social media into the once rarefied stratosphere of ‘great’ or ‘finest’. Insincere platitudes of alarming extravagance rain down on the heads of often thoroughly undeserving individuals.
Sometimes, though, it is deserved.
‘Beau Biden was quite simply the finest man any of us has ever known,’ said Vice President Joe Biden about his son, who has died from brain cancer aged 46.
I knew Beau well, interviewing him numerous times when I worked for CNN, and also interviewing his step-mother Jill, about him.
And I agree with his father. It’s hard to imagine a finer man.
Beau carried with him a pride, passion, class and elegance that made you sit up and take notice, as the world discovered when he made that stirringly emotional, heartfelt address about his dad to the Democratic Convention in 2008.
Like Joe, he was very smart, engagingly charming, direct and amusing.
There was also a soulfulness to him, born from the horrific car accident in 1972 that blighted the Biden family.
Beau was not yet four years old at the time.
His mother Neilia and baby sister Naomi were both killed.
He and his younger brother Hunter miraculously survived.
Joe, who was not in the car, became a single parent to two little boys aged 30 just as he was about to become a Senator....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
British journalists use up a lot of ink discussing who was “the greatest prime minister we never had.” It’s like rating presidents: it gives journalists a chance to rehash all the history they learned in school or on the job. So it’s natural that Piers Morgan would try something like this — even though he doesn’t know enough about American history to give a real answer to the question.
A member of the Ruling Families has died. Alas sweet Prince.
This says a lot about the people Piers Morgan has been hanging around.
Sorry for your loss....
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