Posted on 08/15/2009 1:57:14 PM PDT by libstripper
Sen. Edward Kennedy’s absence from two high-profile public events is raising worries that the country’s longest congressional champion for health reform may not be available to shepherd it through the Senate this fall.
Kennedy, 77, who has been battling a particularly deadly form of brain cancer since a diagnosis last May, did not attend a White House ceremony on Wednesday at which he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the country’s highest civilian honor.
He also did not attend a Friday funeral for his sister Eunice Shriver, who died on Tuesday.
The senator’s absences were particularly notable given that he has not been seen in public for several months, since throwing out the first pitch of the Boston Red Sox baseball season at Fenway Park in April.
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Under the health care scheme he is helping cook up in Washington, only rich people like him will be able to get the kind of treatment he has enjoyed at the expense of the taxpayers.
Not to sound callous but, is there brain cancer that is not “particularly deadly”? Is the author adding a bit of dramatic flourish needlessly? It’s not enough that he is fighting brain cancer but he has to fight a “particularly deadly form” of brain cancer. As if just normal brain cancer wouldn’t be enough to prevent him from doing his job.
I wish Republicans would offer amendments for swimming lessons and CPR lessons, and how to walk into fire stations and police stations and report an accident, if you happen to walk by such places after leaving the scene of an accident!
Chances are that it will be a very short "chat".And one that the senior Senator from Chappaquidick will find *distinctly* unpleasant.
They’re playing The Kennedy Card a lot sooner than I expected. I figured they’d pull it out of their sleeve about 2 weeks before the vote, at the earliest.
IIRC this kind of brain cancer has a worse prognosis than some of the others. I dont know whether "particularly deadly" is accurate though.
Does the term “Poetic Justice” fit in here?
There are a few that are at least treatable, if not curable, but a glioblastoma, the one he has, is the 100% fatal, evil black queen of them all. To learn it was a glioblasotma took some careful Pravada-like reading since each of the MSM articles about his condition buried the lede several paragraphs down.
Good
Sound far-fetched? Something very similar has happened before.
That’s not The Kennedy Card, that’s the whole friggin’ Kennedy Deck.
Without being unkind.....
...is Ted Tnnedy the person who is pushing the ‘lets not waste our medical money on old age persons’...
and yet ......
what he is doing!!!
Is this the “do as I say not as I do” thingy!
Well, he could lead by example on that end of life counseling, seeing as thats the plan he wants, no?
So now they’re going to blame the failure of Obamacare on the Swimmer. Somehow that’s fitting. Wrong, but fitting.
Spend your final days in repentance and prayer instead of continuing to destroy the country which you and your family were so blessed by.
Hell, they’ll stuff and mount him like a deer, and he’ll be “casting votes” for the next hundred years, and STILL winning his seat in his district.
If his number one priority was seeing the tasks he was elected to do was carried out to the fullest extent possible, he would resign, but his priorities are different.
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