Posted on 05/24/2008 3:33:59 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
My circle of friends lost a fine man, a husband and father of several children, to brain cancer not long ago. He fought with courage and optimism, and received fine treatment, but the disease simply proved too strong. I sympathize with the plight facing Ted Kennedy, his family and loved ones.
That said, I cannot help but comment on Bob Herbert's NY Times column of this morning, Tears for Teddy. The gist is that this is but the latest of many challenges that Kennedy has faced. And it's certainly true that the senator's life has been touched by more than its fair share of tragedy.
Even so, read this line, the one the Times placed on its op-ed web page to promo the column, and see if the same thing doesn't come to your mind as did to mine:
The press will tell you that this is Senator Kennedy’s toughest fight. I don’t even know if that’s true. Who knows what the toughest fight has been for someone named Kennedy?
My reaction was to immediately think of Chappaquiddick, and to try to imagine the fight that Mary Jo Kopechne made. And so I was drawn to read the column, to see how Herbert might address the matter. He first made an elliptical reference to it, writing of the Kennedy clan's "tragic failings." But then came these lines, which immediately followed the "toughest fight" one cited above [emphasis added].
This is a guy who has experienced every kind of horror, who went down in a plane, who had to fight back after Chappaquiddick, who has had two kids stricken with cancer, and on and on. So who knows?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Discussing Chappaquiddick, Bob Herbert expresses sympathy only for Ted Kennedy. Ping to Today show list.
Herbert: Kennedy ‘Had to Fight Back After Chappaquiddick’....
guess Mary Jo just didn’t fight hard enough as fat ted left her to die a slow death....
Herbert ~ a lib/dem synchophant b. HUSSEIN supporter!!!!
- Boston Globe reporter Charles Pierce, 2003
Kennedy’s toughest fight was Chappaquiddick, he had to cover his ass to get a way with it.
Tell the committee they can retire the award, Charles Pierce has set a standard that will never be matched.
All I thought he had to fight was advice that he should report the accident.
These people are disgusting.
You can count on more columns like this as Kennedy nears the end.
Ask the people of Barnstable County, which is all of Cape Cod and supposedly Fat Boy’s home, why he has never carried his home county in an election.
You Freepers are just horrible!
Senator Kennedy has done so much good and helped so many people. He got me my SSI after my husband died.
And besides, that family has suffered so!
Poor Joe and Rose losing three boys and all. It's a shame I tell you. Then there's that retarded one they had to put away...
They suffered because they are fundamentally bad.
I do not.
Ted Kennedy is a leading member of the enemy Democrat Party, U.S.A., and as such I wish him a bon voyage, as I would any of my enemies.
Good ‘ole Joe Kennedy gave the lobotomy to the wrong one of his children!
‘put away’ = lobotomy
He seems to have had ample help through the years in covering his ample tuckus. Bob Herbert is the latest in a long line of apologists for the Cape Cod Orca in particular, and America’s anything but royal family in general.
>> he had to cover his ass to get a way with it.
Yes, covering THAT fat ass certainly would be a struggle!
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