That was very interesting and refreshing for me and its so right and good timing People do need to stand up to those assholes that bully them and even just to speak what they feel any time.
]]>The Kennedy who might have been the one liberal activist in the family was Bobby. We’ll never know how strong a force for change he might have been if not cut down. It wasn’t John. It might have been Edward if he had not been so muzzled by his own personal failures as a younger man. Because of that, we always thought, he was unable to take too prominent a role as the leader of the liberal wing of his party. But perhaps it was that he didn’t really have it in him to be a fighter and a public leader, and was more comfortable being collegial and making bi-partisan deals. If he was our leader, did we know it? We never heard from him except in regard to legislation, not all of which was wonderful — No Child Left Behind being perhaps the worst example.
Edward Kennedy never apologized for being a “liberal,” never ran away from the label, wore it proudly. Unfortunately, neither he, nor any other leader, nor all of us together, tried hard enough to stop that label from becoming increasingly unpopular, as it still is today.
I think the quite overdone eulogies we are hearing now are, in part, based upon the realization that the last of the three brothers is gone — and that not a single Kennedy of the next generation has inherited the charisma they brought to the public realm. So it is, indeed, the end of an era. The tragedy is that none of them lived up to their potential - the older two because they were murdered, the younger one because he had the name but not their spark.
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Thank you for sharing these overwhelmingly touching and interesting articles and video. As I pray for you, your mother and brother, I applaud your brother for the courage, love, compassion, patience, and strength exemplified in his actions and deeds. GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU!
Love, Rose
]]>I appreciated the opportunity to review this piece with you earlier this month. Your concerns and observations are refreshing and insightful.
Thank you for including me in your blog…
Sincerely
Mark
]]>“Go Gene! Right on! and Hurray for our side”.
Love, June
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