05-20-2008, 02:45 PM
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peekaboo
Location: on the back, bitch
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So Ted Has a Brain Tumor....
From the NY Times:
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Edward M. Kennedy came to Washington following the trail blazed by his older brothers, John and Robert. He became a Senator for Massachusetts in 1962, elected to fill the vacancy left by John's election as president, and has held the position ever since.
On May 17, 2008, Mr. Kennedy suffered a seizure and was airlifted to a Boston hospital, where doctors discovered a malignant tumor in his brain.
Mr. Kennedy has become known as one of the last lions of liberalism, a full-throated defender of the policies the Democratic party pursued in the 1960's and 1970's. But within the Senate he has a reputation as one of the most effective members at building bipartisan coalitions. When President Bush's No Child Left Behind bill was floundering in 2001, it was Mr. Kennedy he turned to and who saw it into law. In 2007, with the bill's renewal stalled, it was Mr. Kennedy Mr. Bush turned to again, despite bitter disagreements in the years in between on a wide range of issues, most notably the war in Iraq, which Mr. Kennedy opposed. When the Senate that spring seemed poised to pass a bipartisan bill on immigration, one of the names on it was Kennedy's.
In a family synonymous with tragedy, Mr. Kennedy has had his share of woes, but they have been largely self-inflicted. The car accident in Chappaquiddick in 1969 in which a young woman drowned permanently stained his reputation for many voters; his only bid for the presidency, a 1980 primary challenge, was easily turned back by President Jimmy Carter. In 1991, with his poll ratings among the lowest in Congress, he issued a public apology for his personal shortcomings. In 1994, after having divorced and remarried, and with a new sense of energy and determination, he bounced back to defeat Mitt Romney and hold onto his Senate seat. He has never faced a serious challenge since, and at the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston, he was cheered and celebrated as the party's patriarch.
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Do we care? It's been reported he's been given less than one year to live. He's 76. I was always of the opinion he should have quit 20 years ago... |
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