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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ABOUT TIME, SCUMBAG !!!!
Does seem kinda convenient. Kennedy backed him early, slim pickings, or just hated Hillary.
“Rest In Hell” I bet you will receive the last rites of the Church regardless of your support for abortion.A real low bred S.O.B. No regrets!
Unfortunately, we are going to hear the praises about him forever and ever.
Oh, come on! They should just choose the next heir apparent the way chose the last one: Get all the Kennedys together in one room and have a big drinking contest. Last man (or woman) standing is it.
st. ted
Maybe there’s a waitress in Georgetown that was sandwiched between Kennedy and Dodd that will magically produce an heir apparent to “Camelot”.
Of course she’d have to go on Maury and we’d have to hear “Chris Dodd.... you are NOT the father!” first.
I’m sure “Patches” is up to driving a girl off a bridge.
The adoption papers haven’t gone through for the black gentleman from Kenya?
Gee, Caroline is available and she is at least as bright as any of them.
Thank God the Caroline Kennedy senatorial thing isn’t going on now. This would have put her in.
Somewhere in Massachusetts, liquor stores and expensive steakhouses are mourning their loss.
1. He lowered taxes
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There seems to be no one there to pick up the torch,” said Thomas Whalen, a professor of politics at Boston University.
But the lies of his liberal Sainthood have to be fought.
We don’t have to hate the guy - indeed we must not, on peril of our souls. But we do need to speak out against the cloud of lies that have arisen like blowflies since his death.
The guy was a crook and a murderer, a man who pauperised the poor with other people’s money. His shameful life needs to be under the spotlight, otherwise it will be used as a battering ram to forward the agenda of evil.
+ May God have mercy on his soul + and may we not shrink from examining his life.
Amen — you’ve said it well.
> Unfortunately, we are going to hear the praises about him forever and ever.
Not from me... I’m actively forgetting him.
“Active forgetting” is a really useful practise that is common to several primitive warrior cultures. Essentially, you make a conscious effort to not remember an evil person when he is dead. Eventually, he is entirely forgotten by everybody as if he never existed — which is a pretty bad thing to happen, when you think about it. It’s the opposite of “making History”. It’s one of the reasons why they used to bury hanged felons in unmarked graves: so they would cease to be remembered.
It works, and it’s alot easier than hating someone. Less risky to your Immortal Soul, too.
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