Posted on 08/26/2009 1:30:15 AM PDT by kingattax
BOSTON (Reuters) – Senator Edward Kennedy's death marks the twilight of one of America's most fabled political families, with no heirs to the Kennedy name poised to emerge with the same mix of gravitas, ambition and celebrity.
Kennedy, 77, one of the most effective lawmakers in U.S. history and the brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, died late on Tuesday after battling brain cancer.
He died just weeks after his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics and was a leading advocate for the mentally disabled.
"There seems to be no one there to pick up the torch," said Thomas Whalen, a professor of politics at Boston University.
"There doesn't seem to be someone in the next generation to carry the load here. Ted Kennedy might be it, he might be the end of the line," said Whalen, author of "Kennedy versus Lodge: The 1952 Massachusetts Senate Race" about his brother John's first race for the Senate.
Kennedy's cancer diagnosis and then his death have stirred speculation over who might succeed the third-longest serving U.S. senator, and whether a new generation could emerge from under his shadow.
Many younger Kennedys are active in civic life but none on the scale of Ted Kennedy, last of four Kennedy brothers, including John, elected president in 1960 and assassinated in 1963; and Robert, a New York senator whose presidential bid ended with his assassination in 1968.
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Condolences to all the Kennedy family on the Senator’s death, but we don’t need a Bonaparte family in America.
“What about Patrick?
He has the driving record, the substance abuse, and the “do you know who I am” attitude that make him a natural successor.”
Patches to catch up on the womanizing. Maybe he is gay?
Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
I’m not for sitting here and slamming him, even though, God knows, there’s a ton of material for that. But it doesn’t do any good to forget the bad people. That kind of forgetting is what leads to looking the other way when people step up to do evil—a skill that liberals have perfected. You can only take steps to stop evil when you recognize it for what it is.
To ignore History is to repeat it.
fixed it.
Girl? With Patches?
More likely a guy.
> To ignore History is to repeat it.
I didn’t say they should be ignored. But to preserve his misdeeds is to grant him an immortality that he doesn’t deserve.
I say he ought to be proactively forgotten. Just like some anonymous villain that has been hanged on the town gibbet for purse-snatching and buried in an unmarked grave in a potter’s field. In two weeks time nobody will remember him and nobody will care.
I think the MSM and liberal history re-writers may prove you wrong.
The U.S. Can I’ll afford anymore Kennedy style sociolism.
> Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it.
Yet you can remember history without commemorating the villains involved.
> But it doesn’t do any good to forget the bad people. That kind of forgetting is what leads to looking the other way when people step up to do evil—a skill that liberals have perfected.
But not if you know evil for what it is. All that is needed for that is a good, solid moral code and a clear understanding of right and wrong, coupled with a marked intolerance for wickedness.
None of that requires commemorating evil people.
> You can only take steps to stop evil when you recognize it for what it is.
True? What happens when two villains have a falling out and one kills the other? Let’s say their falling out is over theft and adultry: one villain stole the the other’s purse, so the other slept with the first villain’s wife. The thief then kills the adulterer — in that case he’s stopped evil without recognizing it for what it is.
The only way to stop evil is to stamp it out root-and-branch and replace it with good. And then be forever vigilant lest evil return.
> I think the MSM and liberal history re-writers may prove you wrong.
Yes, because he is not going to be proactively forgotten. He is the itch that will be continually scratched until it bleeds, causing more itching and more scratching.
And from our side, we are either going to play the itch or we’ll play the scratch. We’d be wiser to ignore it altogether, and get on with the proactive forgetting. Don’t let ourselves or Obama’s crowd be sidetracked by the death of this evil man.
From the moment he drew his last breath he is irrelevant to whatever now happens in America and this world. That is one reason why he should be proactively forgotten.
For Ted Kennedy it is time to meet the greatest Judge of all. The one who he cannot influence or bribe, or the family can’t pay off. I just hope Mary Jo is standing beside God at the pearly gates as Ted comes to hear the verdict of where he will spend his eternity.
Thank goodness!!
The Kennedy's prove that not all white trash is poor & lives in a trailer park. Prayers for his family, yadda-yadda.
nothing then...
He was scum; rich and famous, but scum non the less
But the name of the wicked will rot." (Proverbs 10:7)
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