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Ms Kennedy,

I was amused to read your editorial, “Getting mean and distinctly ugly,” and find it a cliché’-ridden paper-thin analysis of the posts you’ve read on Free Republic. In the fact-starved world in which you operate I’m sure such vulgar reminders of Kennedy’s life history makes it difficult for you to keep your mind on your liberal playbook.

Rest assured, you have a lot of friends in the media who will pretend Kennedy’s life was chock-full of huge accomplishments that have improved the human condition. However, I’d be amused to see you explain a few things.

First, since Kennedy’s was such a “friend” to American blacks, who were his most reliable voting demographic, I’d like you to explain to me how all these efforts to help the African-American community have actually benefitted the people. When Kennedy was elected to the US senate American blacks voted about 60/40, Democrat/Republican. But that changed about the time old Teddy was elected, with American blacks voting for the Democrat in every national election since. When Kennedy was elected about one in four black kids was born into a home without their father. Today, it’s about three out of every four. Through the years since his election per-capita violent crime, alcoholism, drug use, suicide, and illiteracy have all more than tripled in the black population.

So, besides killing an innocent, albeit inconvenient girl friend, introducing the country to “waitress sandwiches,” and offering to assist the Soviet Union in their effort to defeat Ronald Reagan’s presidency, what were the true, “positive” outcomes of Kennedy’s tenure in the Senate?