How does someone having health difficulties warrant "accolades"? He doesn't need accolades, just prayers and symapthy for his family. If you want to trash his reputation why don't you wait until he passes. Or is that too damn long a time for you to wait? I knew conservatives disliked him, but hell even shrub kept it simple when talking about Kennedy today. Save the accolades for an appropriate time. This guy is fighting for his life and all you want to talk about is MJK. Why don't you just start another thread trashing him? "As a human being" puhleeze. You're being too kind to yourself.
If you were listening to any media yesterday, they all rehashed Ted Kennedy's life and accomplishments, conveniently omitting the event that stained his career and precluded him from ever being President. That was the reason for my accolades comment. However, from a health or well being standpoint, I wish no one ill, regardless of what you think. Of course, judging from your responses in other posts, I realize your deductive reasoning skills are quite limited.
I don't know, rich, politcally powerful, they certainly have had more than a fair share of tragedy. its like they did a deal with the devil I don't mean to harp on the accident, but i wonder what the average person's punishment would have been had the left the scene of an accident when the passenger died.
For many, there was nothing Ted could ever do to make amends for what happened at Chappaquidick. Understandably so. However, his accomplishments in his life as a public servant can not be ignored and can be seen as his penance. No Other Like Him By David S. Broder Wednesday, May 21, 2008; A19 Not since the day almost 45 years ago, when word reached Washington that his brother John had been cut down in Dallas, has there been news about an individual that struck so deep a blow to so many in this capital. The bulletin from Massachusetts General Hospital about Sen. Ted Kennedy was at once a personal tragedy and a political cataclysm. In his 45 years in the Senate, Kennedy has probably touched more people, in more cherished ways, than any other public figure. And his illness threatens to alter, for the worse, the prospects of every other politician -- starting with Barack Obama and John McCain. Like countless others, I have witnessed over the years the kindnesses Kennedy lavished on colleagues and friends -- and even on casual acquaintances. It was decades ago when another senator told me that, in complete privacy, Kennedy was sitting for hours with Sen. Philip Hart of Michigan, who had an illness that made him irascible and difficult to manage. Somehow, Kennedy calmed him. When my beloved friend Mary McGrory, the great columnist at the Washington Star and Washington Post, had a stroke that left her almost robbed of speech, Kennedy and his wife continued to visit her, as before, drinking a glass of wine and regaling her with stories. At Christmas season, he brought along a piano-playing friend and sang Irish ballads for her. Somehow in his more-than-busy life, he always seemed to find time for those personal touches -- and to perform them without seeming to realize how much they meant to the recipients. Their affection and gratitude were all but overwhelming yesterday. But after the first shock at the news began to wear off, the sense kept growing that this was truly a landmark event in the nation's politics and government. To a person, the men and women who share the responsibility of governing with him fervently hope that the prognosis implied by the words "malignant brain tumor" is not as ominous as it sounds. But they have to reckon with the possible alterations in politics and government if Kennedy is sidelined for any period of time. Kennedy has been the most respected Democratic senator for so long that no one comes close to his influence. He has also been one of the most energetic, always prodding and pushing his colleagues, undiverted by any other political ambitions or concerns since his one presidential campaign ended in 1980. On issue after issue, but particularly on civil rights, health care, labor law, Vietnam and Iraq, Kennedy has set the direction for his party and mobilized the necessary support. Even when the cause seemed lost, that bullhorn voice summoned Democrats to battle -- and more often than seemed plausible, they achieved at least some of their goals. He is clearly eager to play that role for Barack Obama, his choice for the nomination. Obama will search far and wide to find another Senate ally as committed and capable. But it may still be true that McCain would find Kennedy's absence even more of a handicap than would Obama. It is doubtful that anyone could name another Democrat more willing to become a partner for the Republican nominee than Kennedy. It is not simply that those two have legislated together on health care, immigration, campaign finance and ethics laws. Equally important, Kennedy consistently has searched for compromises that can bring Republican votes -- as he did for President Bush on education reform. And at 76, he is far less inclined to seek partisan victories that poison the legislative well. Truly, there is no one like him. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...ml?nav=rss_opinions/columnsandblogs?nav=slate
Apparently you didn't watch CNN yesterday because you would have seen them dredging up a car and then him walking around with a cast on his neck. I guess they were talking about his qualifying for Daytona? Maybe you're conveniently forgetting or just weren't playing close attention. Quote, the pompous media elitist. The only thing I've deduced is that you're about as biased as everyone else on here no matter how well informed you claim to be. At least t_j is funny every now and then.
You're right -- I never watch CNN. Now, if you wish to see me exhibit jocular wit, you must first be an adequate foil, i.e. a wit of your own is required. Unfortunately, you are only halfway there. Oops. I forgot.
I am German (1/8), Greek (1/8), Welsh (1/4) and Hispanic (1/2). The Germanic part perhaps is why I love to polka fun! Have you never been around a rootin' Teuton Texan?
