Senator Edward M. Kennedy dies at 77

bytor2112 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 07:48 AM

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Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who carried aloft the torch of a Massachusetts dynasty and championed a liberal ideology during almost a half century in the Senate, but whose personal and political failings may have prevented him from realizing the ultimate prize of the presidency, died Tuesday night at his home in Hyannis Port. He was 77 and had been battling brain cancer.

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talisyn · #2 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 08:08 AM

Not a surprise, but sad nonetheless. The Dems lost a political lion last night.

bytor2112 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 08:26 AM

and Johnny Walker lost a good friend........

talisyn · #4 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 08:44 AM

Someone once said something about sin and stonethrowing...

bytor2112 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by talisyn

Someone once said something about sin and stonethrowing...

yep...in glass houses...touche'!

Hemidakota · #6 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 08:47 AM

I really do fill for this man and where he is now in repaying those moments of mortality accounting.

john doe · #7 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 09:48 AM

I wonder if one of the first people he sees is Mary Jo.

farmer · #8 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 12:28 PM

Yes, I'm boo hooing about all the boo hooing the media is going to do over this. I heard his last words were "I'll drive".

talisyn · #9 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 01:22 PM

Considering he died from a brain tumor I can see that. My great-uncle who had one did a lot of funny things before he died.

Hemidakota · #10 (**permalink**) 08-26-2009, 02:43 PM

It saddens me when I see so much 'hoopla' with today's media, when someone who has no eternal weight of glory is shown and idolized. But when a eternal righteous man or woman dies, the world ignores it. So it will be for them, when they come knocking on the Celestial door...