Reactions to Ted Kennedy’s death from across the political spectrum and beyond.
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I suspect that among our readership of dedicated political junkies there are more than a few high-quality pictures of Ted Kennedy from over the past five decades: appearances in Massachusetts, events in Washington, campaign stops around the country.
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This morning, Vice President Biden eulogized his former colleague in emotional comments at an Energy policy event in Washington.
David Rohde: Kennedy had “a combination of very liberal impulses with a very practical sense of legislating.”
This morning, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), the longest serving member of the United States senate in history, called on his senate colleagues to rename the pending health care reform legislation after Sen. Kennedy, something that seems certain to happen. There’s a time for remembering Kennedy, simply as a man, with his highs and lows. (For those interested, I wrote our house news obituary of Kennedy overnight. And you can see it here.)
But Byrd’s suggestion brings home the fact that Kennedy’s death, its timing and circumstances are and will be impossible to separate from the politics of the moment. Indeed, one need look no further than the way Kennedy lived the last year of his life to see that he intended as much, conspicuously identifying the aspirations of his life with the battle afoot in Washington and now volubly across the country. Read More
Ted Kennedy spoke in Sitka, Alaska, in April 1968, just a few days after Martin Luther King’s assassination and just weeks before his brother Robert’s. As tumultuous a period as that was, and as unique the circumstances, his stirring speech holds up remarkably well. Timeless. Watch (starts at about the 5:20 mark).