[Ragnorak]

I thought this made an appropriate contrast to Senator Kennedy's speech before the Iraqi elections.

Massachusetts is home to the Battle at the Old North Bridge, "The shot heard 'round the world." -- the seminal moment for freedom in this world. It is utterly disgraceful for this to be lost by a representative from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Of course in Kennedy's case it might just be a bridge thing.

[ProudVet77]

What's very strange about MA is that I know a lot of conservatives up here. Conservative when you talk to them 1:1. They are anti-gay marriage, for the death penalty, don't want gun control, pro-military (there are more flags flying on MA highways than any other place I've been). On July 4th the people go crazy at the Esplanade. They go even crazier during the flyover, one year a B-2 got such an ovation it came back for a curtain call!
Yet when you ask the same person who they voted for, they will say Kennedy.
It's maddening.

[cloud8]

Thanks for this. Occasionally I am proud to be from Massachusetts.

Henry Cabot Lodge 1850-1924