Posted on 08/27/2009 5:37:13 AM PDT by rellimpank
With Sen. Ted Kennedy dead at 77, the political iconographers on Wednesday were working feverishly, like alchemists over a fire.
The Kennedy legacy has always been about American royalty and the appetites of kings and the use of myth, and that myth was always Camelot, those shining knights and the idealistic boy who drew the sword from the stone. With the death of the Massachusetts Democrat, finally, mercifully, let's let Camelot go.
The iconographers on the political right, including some who call themselves Christians, were busy damning his soul to hell for walking away from that crash at Chappaquiddick 40 years ago.
He let young Mary Jo Kopechne drown in the Oldsmobile, her body twisting to find pockets of air in that submerged car as he made it to shore, then waited hours to sober up, put his clout together and save his political career.
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Teddy has a lot more souls to account for than Mary Jo; just a few million of the unborn.
Oops. I guess someone already stole that.
Camelot ended? Not yet, they breed and they run for office on name only, and the ignorant serfs love them.
One can only hope that the myth is dead, but I doubt it.
-—yep—Camelot=Brigadoon=Shangri La=Utopia—
Camelot, my ass. What do a bunch of spoiled brats descended from an Irish liquor and molasses smuggler have to do with a legendary English King?
Camelot was a den of thieves and miscreants.
Camelot?
Everyone under 40 couldn’t care less about some crusty hippies circle-jerk over these hack posers from mASSachusetts.
I don't think the "Camelot" metaphor was applied to the Kennedy administration until after JFK's death.
Exactly! The NYTimes today is effusive with praise for Ted's turn to the comforts of religion in his final days. You can almost see the angels coming down with a white chariot to sweep him up to the heavenly court. And they write it without he slightest trace of irony.
Thank God
Too many Democrats imagine that the Dark Age ends with their arrival, not that it begins!
The Kennedy's weren't Britons either ~ they lived in Scota (now renamed after Ir with Alba renamed as Scotia).
No way that man turned to religion in his old age. The claim that he did so is bizarre to the point of madness.
“Camelot” only existed in the minds of leftist journalists.
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