Honoring Kennedy: Eulogies or Campaign Speeches?

PAjamas Media ^ | August 31 | by Cortes E. DeRussy

[AJKauf]

I would hope that, were my death imminent and if I had the opportunity to write a personal letter to the pope, I would be moved to some greater degree of humility. The knowledge that I would soon enter into the great unknown and, I believe, meet God in that ultimate encounter would, I pray, bring me to my knees seeking forgiveness and redemption. Along with a ritual expression of “deep humility” and acknowledgement of his shortcomings caused by his “human failings” and that he was “preparing for the next passage of life,” the late senator proceeded to provide the pope with a litany of his lifetime of good deeds and intentions.

He stated his belief in “a conscience protection for Catholics in the health field” while, in his life, he did nothing to limit abortions and he opposed all efforts to limit the expenditure of public funds for such procedures. No mention was made of his abrupt change from a pro-life position early in his career to a forthrightly pro-choice position as he tested the political winds. One could well ask how these positions could ever comport with the forthright positions of the Catholic Church, but, of course, how does one debate with or correct the departed?

Certainly this letter was intended to be published and used for family advancement and forthright political purposes. It can be no accident that the senator used a letter to the pope to express his support for the president’s health care legislation, which is the hottest political issue of the day...

[Carley]

The swimmer even wrote a campaign speech to the Pope.

[Verginius Rufus]

I thought the letter showed his faith and was inspired by Luke 18:11-12:

"The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess."

Of course the fasting and the not committing adultery don't apply in his case, but the spirit is the same.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

For the last year, I have been snow skiing around the world before global warming sets in and melts everything and the sunshine turns everything to flowers 12 months a year.

I just arrived home this a.m. So what happen to the swimmer?

Can someone please update me with every single article and videos that surround the whale…I mean crook?

I take it something good happened. I can’t imagine.

[RJS1950]

Campaigning, parading the corpse for political gain.