Reply #78: It wasn't all that long ago that I had no time for Ted Kennedy

[PurpleChez]

I had no interest in Camelot or the Kennedy mystique. I thought that JFK Jr's death was a freak show. Thanks to the criminal enterprise of Joe Sr, family members enjoy a degree of privelege that most of us cannot imagine (and many of them carry on like spoiled rich kids who believe they are above the rules), so I am not necessarily overcome with gratitude when the occasional Kennedy seeks to do the right thing through public service. At least no more so than with anybody else. And I am consistently disappointed by the public's obsession with the weddings and other activities of sixth and seventh cousins they've never even heard of before.

I still don't give a damn about "The Kennedys" (cue melodramatic music), but I have come to respect Ted as THE greatest champion of my progressive values on the scene today. It has been reassuring to see him standing up to filth like Cheney and the Chimp. And of course I am grateful for RFK Jr's expose of the theft of Ohio in '04. Thanks guys!