Senator Kennedy on Katrina, Poverty, and the Government Response

[kerrygoddess]

Senator Kennedy on Katrina, Poverty, and the Government Response
September 7th, 2005

Below is the text of Ted Kennedy’s Floor Speech today on Hurricane Katrina, Poverty, and the Government Response:

“Americans continue to be moved by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and its toll on our fellow Americans from New Orleans and in the Gulf Coast region – particularly in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama.

The human tragedy has brought out the generosity of the American spirit as people have opened their homes and pocketbooks to families uprooted by the storm.

This is a disaster of biblical proportions. The dimensions of this tragedy almost are beyond human comprehension. And the failures by our government to prepare and to respond run deep and wide.

MORE - http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=466

[Wetzelbill]

1. Uncle Ted always holds down the fort nt

[shraby]

2. Amazing buncha kids the Kennedys raised.

I'm always in awe that even with all the money they have, they don't forget other people have little.

[Wetzelbill]

4. definitely, isn't that the coolest thing ever?

My grandfather was friends with JFK and RFK. He worked as an Indian Liaison in Washington for years. Before that he was our (Blackfeet) tribal chairman and the president of the National Congress of American Indians. The Kennedy's were really good to him and he was just a guy from an Indian reservation who had a big family to support. Upon my grandfather's death nearly two years ago, Ted has a staff member call my father and tell him that he considers the "Kennedy's and Wetzel's to be family." Ted didn't even really know my grandfather, his brothers were the ones who really did. And, he went out of his way to contact a poor reservation family on the other side of the country like that. He wanted to come to a special ceremony personally and everything. That's why I refer to him as Uncle Ted. What a special man.

[kerrygoddess]

5. Yes he is

a special man...

[paineinthearse]

3. Dupe.

Posted to LBN this afternoon.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1760898&mesg_id=1760898

[kerrygoddess]

6. Didn't see it. N/T