Paranormal Underground - Topic: Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at 77

norcalmonkey on Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at 77

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:52:40 -0700

I would be completely ignorant not to acknowledge the (mostly) positive impact the Kennedys have had on our country, culture, society etc. But I've never been a fan of Ted's. His passing is sad but I'll manage.

sympathyforthedevil on Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at 77

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:55:12 -0700

Sad, Eunice Kennedy also just passed two weeks ago.

I think there is just one sister of Ted's alive.

Sort of an end to the Kennedy era, for my generation.

I stiil remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when JFK was killed.

Same when Bobby, and Martin Luther King were killed.

MysticalKnight on Sen. Ted Kennedy dies at 77

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:16:34 -0700

BOSTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the Camelot torch after two of his brothers fell to assassins' bullets, has died at his home in Hyannis Port after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.

In nearly 50 years in the Senate, Kennedy served alongside 10 presidents — his brother John Fitzgerald Kennedy among them — compiling an impressive list of legislative achievements on health care, civil rights, education, immigration and more.

His only run for the White House ended in defeat in 1980. More than a quarter-century later, he handed then-Sen. Barack Obama an endorsement at a critical point in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, explicitly likening the young contender to President Kennedy.

To the American public, Kennedy — known to friends and foes alike simply as Ted — was best known as the last surviving son of America's most glamorous political family, father figure and, memorably, eulogist of an Irish-American clan plagued again and again by tragedy.

His family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday.

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