Tuesday’s death of Sen. Edward Kennedy has brought out all types of emotion from his allies and adversaries. To some, he was a “liberal lion” who championed the rights of the poor and underprivileged. He was also viewed by other as an advocate of “big government” and an enemy to conservatives.
Many bloggers have expressed their views on the scion of the Kennedy clan who passed away due to brain cancer at the age of 77. Yet the two posts that have most caught my attention come from La Macha at VivirLatino who highlighted Kennedy’s record on immigration as well as the brilliant “Ten Things Ted Kennedy Did For Latinos” by Guanabee’s Cindy Casares.
Kennedy was certainly a controversial figure whose viewpoints could polarize some while uniting others. For my part, I choose to remember him as a great speaker like in the emotional eulogy for his brother Robert or his brilliant 1980 Democratic Convention speech. On other occasions he knew how to act light-hearted in order to play to a crowd as was the case last year:
Since his death, Kennedy earned praise from his political foes and friends alike. He will truly be missed.
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The death of the Last Kennedy brothers is a sad loss for all people that have a Hope for Kindness and Humanity for the Poor, the Black, the Hispanic, the Native American Indian, the Immigrant, etc ...
ReplyDeleteTed worked very hard for the election of Barack Obama, like Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F Kennedy.
We will never forget the Kennedys, their Great Heart, and their rejection of Sadism and Brutality. Their fights for Civil Rights.
With People like Obama and his Wife Michelle, with Ted and John Kerry ( What a Gentleman ! ) with Hillary and Bill, we can believe in a Beautiful Future for the USA.
When I look at the actions of past and present Republican Incumbents, I get depressed .... and I almost think that the US is down the slope, not of a hill, but of the Himalayas ....
I almost believed in Professor Chalmers Johnson of the University of California : The US Global Empire - The Last Days of the American Empire
But I hope that Mr Obama ( Great Intelligence ) does not fall in the same foolish trap of Mr Bush, that believed that you can export Liberty and Freedom by killing poor illiterate peasants in Pajamas that are at the point of starving.
All those peasants are human beings and deserve respect, they only defend their land from the invaders.
This is my homage to Ted Kennedy - He wasn't a Jingo or Racist, he didn't enjoy raw power to kill and maim - He was a man of Humanity and Kindness.
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