Assuming they manage to stay awake.
Posted on 08/29/2009 4:58:58 AM PDT by Zakeet
U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy went to his deathbed looking forward to a reunion with his assassinated brothers - certain he could proudly tell them he had continued their legacy through the president who will deliver his eulogy today, U.S. Rep. William Delahunt told the Herald yesterday.
In a dramatic conversation with Delahunt, the ailing Kennedy “talked about a reunion with his brothers, and I’m confident he could say, ‘I did it. I carried the torch,’ ” said Delahunt. “From Jack to Bobby to the Obama moment, Teddy really was the bridge. He carried the torch and never wavered.”
The conversation is a rare glimpse inside Kennedy’s thoughts as he made peace with his life and prepared for his passing.
The dramatic and deeply personal presidential eulogy expected today at Kennedy’s Mass on Mission Hill speaks to the close bond that developed between Obama and Kennedy after the senior senator made his unexpected endorsement in January 2008.
“(Kennedy) saw in (Obama) much of himself. He knew there was something special in this individual,” said Delahunt, another early Obama supporter.
The endorsement was as much of a surprise to Obama as it was to anyone else, said longtime Kennedy friend Phil Johnston.
“I think for Obama it was a transformative moment on the campaign,” said Johnston. “I’m certain it infused the Obama camp with tremendous energy and enthusiasm, and as long as Barack Obama lives he’ll feel he owes a great debt to Ted Kennedy.”
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I’m confused. I thought Clinton and Kerry were both Kennedys now. The family grows as they die.
Ted Kennedy will be reunited with his brothers, in HELL! They will not have time to reminisce as they will be screaming in agony.
I think it’s more likely Kennedy’s last words were:
“You can’t take ME like this! I’M TED KENNEDY!”
Hillary never forgave TK for his betrayal last year
I bet Hillary is going to the graveyard to make sure he’s dead, any keen photographers hang around, you may get a pic of Hillary dancing on his grave when everyone has left.
“What gets me is those on this site that think people like Kennedy and Bubba are going to have some kind of death bed conversion or when faced with their mortality (like Bubba’s by pass operation ) will have a spiritual awakening
They don’t understand evil people exist and don’t change”
There are no atheists in foxholes, or so they say. Have you even noticed that when a scumbag gets caught doing their thing they suddently “get religion”? That, in an of itself, is their greatest moment of cowardice.
Ted Kennedy will be reunited with his brothers, in HELL! They will not have time to reminisce as they will be screaming in agony.
“Many people talk about God and salvation when facing death.”
To which I would add when they get caught with their hands in the cookie-jar. All of a sudden they get religion.
There are no atheists in foxholes!
Maybe they’ll catch her laughing then wiping a tear like Bill at Ron Brown’s funeral.
Were Cherubs strumming harps and Angels singing as this scene was playing out?
Good Lord, if the media is going to peddle this tripe they may as well go whole hog!
Didn’t you know that O’Bama is the 1st Irish President? He’s from the Bumma clan. His name was mispelled on his “birth certificate”. He was the original red-haired step child.
Assuming they manage to stay awake.
LOLOLOL. With the memorial being so long, and the funeral to be about 2 hours (?), you know there will be some who doze off. Of course, the MSM won’t show it.
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LOL! That’s what I’m talking about.
You are correct. My mother died of a brain tumor the first part of June, this yr. The last 2 mnths she was alive she made almost no sense when she talked, thought my brother was my father, etc. The last 3 wks she was alive were really ugly, she spent almost 2 wks in an almost coma.
Delahunt is such a flaming liberal.
So Teddy looks forward to being reunited with Bobby and John. I wonder how the reunion with Rosemary will go.
If my understanding of the Bible’s words on hell, you don’t reunite with anyone! You are alone, forever, with regrets of what you should have and could have done. He will not be with Bobby or JFK. And folks, eternity is a very long time. He will remember what he did to Mary Jo Kopechne and to Joan, his first wife, and all the other women he abused. Then he will probably see the millions of aborted babies he was instrumental in killing. REGRETS FOREVER AND EVER.
The torch of debauchery, dishonor, and anti-Americanism.
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Is that available as a commemorative plate?