You are not alone!
Posted on 08/27/2009 1:22:08 PM PDT by Islander7
(Excerpt) Read more at freerepublic.com ...
A rather ironic headline, if I may say so.
Thanks for finding the link. Rush was talking about this article today.
“A SOBER LOOK AT TED KENNEDY”
What is “What did Ted never take”, Alex?
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That man could write.
Bump for those who missed this important reminder of the man Ted Kennedy was.
no mention of the barney the dinosaur costume/episode at that xmas party
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| Nearly twenty years on, regarding the downward trajectory from 1990, this article now stands as an amazingly poignant review of what can only rightly be described as a life-long human tragedy. Not a sudden tragedy like the World Trade Center on 9/11; but a slow, inexorable tragedy like termites eating Independence Hall, punctuated by the occasional resounding crack of important structural members giving way. Against that nature of internal turmoil, all of the drinking and carousing resemble nothing so much as vain efforts to drown out the steady agony of an accumulated lifetime of pains, great and small, relentlessly gnawing away on the inside where nobody else can see. |
| More than anything else, I think that Senator Kennedy's legislative legacy arose out of his own inner desperation to compensate for his own dismal self; to forge something monumental that others would associate more immediately with the name "Ted Kennedy" than the man he actually was. "Look at what I created, not at who I am," would be the true heart-cry that his mouth would never find breath to utter. By that analysis, a review of his legislative track record stands as testament to a truly tortured soul, indeed. |
| So, on the passing of the man, I express great political relief, because the long, leftist nightmare of his personal reign in the Senate has come to an end; but I express personal condolences of even greater and deeper proportions, because -- by all outward appearances -- his long, personal, unrepentant nightmare has not, and now never will. |
| Yes, we may -- and ought to -- pray otherwise, and I do hope I am wrong, but I sense that is not the case. |
| If there is anything that we, the living, may derive in the way of benefit from all of this, I think it lies in our own introspective answers to that question given more than five decades of fame by the pen of Francis A. Schaeffer, "How should we then live?" |
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