Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88

wsj online ^ | 08/11/2009 | Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dies at 88

[Badabing Badablonde]

The only Kennedy that I respected....the only member of the family who lived life as a public servant.

[Liberty Valance]

President Bush, center, seated with first lady Laura Bush, along with California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, and Maria Shriver, second right, sit with Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, second left, and her husband Sargent Shriver, left, as they listen to the band Rascal Flatts in the East Room of the White House following a dinner honoring the Special Olympics Monday, July 10, 2006

[Publius Valerius]

If Sarah Plan's father had done this to one of her siblings, the media would let you know exactly what happened.

Yes, that's true, but that's because it's 70 years later. We have a bit better understanding of medicine and the brain than we did in 1940.

If one of the Kennedys did that today, the media would be all over them, too.

[Badabing Badablonde]

Yeah, she should have just clothed herself in rags and lived in an abandoned car....that would have helped alot of people. /sarcasm.

She stepped out of her wealthy comfort zone and opened paths for disabled individuals all over the world (my daughter, cousin, and personal friends), when no one else was doing it.....its more than I have done in my 46 years. I won’t criticize what I don’t know, and I won’t be so arrogant as to speculate on her moment of judgement.

[w1andsodidwe]

I met Eunice in the early 70's when I was working with handicapped children. She was one of the good ones.

Not only that she was NOT pro-choice.

[cvq3842]

I’m sure she did a lot of great work for the Special Olympics.

I was a little disturbed, however, that she was given her own commemorative coin:

http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=fun_facts8

I just have a problem with living people being depicted on our coinage, as well as with battleships, monuments and other items being named after living people, in the US.

Sorry to rain on the parade with a pet peeve.

RIP.

[Girlene]

Dittos to that.

"With enormous conviction and unrelenting effort, Eunice Kennedy Shriver has labored on behalf of America's least powerful people, the mentally retarded. Over the last two decades, she has been on the forefront of numerous initiatives on the behalf of the mentally retarded, from creating day camps, to establishing research centers, to the founding of the Special Olympics. Her decency and goodness have touched the lives of many, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver deserves America's praise, gratitude, and love."
Ronald Reagan Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom March 26, 1984

[ohioWfan]

Prayers for her family.

I agree with others who have said it here - she was one of the good ones.

[TJ Jackson]

Under ObamaCare, I’m sure caring for the mentally retarded will be too costly and burdensome for society.

[Loud Mime]

You have your points, but the bit about arrogance reeked of its own use.

[RushCrush]

She should have been more vocal when Obama made his Special Olympics gaffe.

[Verbosus]

I agree - she did so much good, and had a good heart.
RIP Eunice, RIP.

[Badabing Badablonde]

Struck a nerve, did I?....then you obviously see my point.

[Doofer]

May she rest in peace and be with the good Lord.....

[Theophilus]

Known for her devotion to the mentally disabled community and in particular her mentally disabled sister Rosemary

Rosemary was not mentally disabled. She was manually disabled by a quack doctor performing mayhem with a butter knife upon her brain's frontal lobe. That's the kind of Nazi treatment that you got if you didn't please Joseph Kennedy.

[WayneS]

Correct.

And in this case her politics were totally irrelevent because she never stood on a soap box yelling at us about them and she never ran for elected office.

[GatorGirl]

Mrs. Shriver left a great legacy with Special Olympics. We volunteer as a family every year and it’s a wonderful experience.

RIP Mrs. Shriver.

[WayneS]

She was pretty sick at the time...

[MNReaganite]

RIP. She deserves it after all her work with the Special Olympics.