Hello Mary-Jo, Goodbye Heart*

[caddyman]

So farewell then, Ted Kennedy, younger brother of an assassinated President and an assassinated Attorney General.

I'm not quite sure what it was about the oleaginous Ted Kennedy, but to me, the "elder statesman" of the Democratic Party never seemed quite trustworthy, though that didn't stop him from holding down a Senate seat for close on 50 years. As with the rest of America's 'Royal Family', he probably knew where the bodies were buried, which helped him get past the fact that people knew where he'd left the body.

Image-wise Teddy Kennedy was probably the least successful of the three brothers who survived the war, but by carefully limiting his ambition and giving up on the Presidency comparatively early, he escaped the assassin's bullet and was therefore arguably the most successful politically. The word Faustian comes to mind with Sen. Ted Kennedy.



The BBC Obituary is here.

*With apologies to Gene Pitney

Comments

[oldnick.livejournal.com]

Chappaquiddick and his and his family's interference in Irish politics guaranteed that I could never have trusted him.

[mr-h-r-hughes.livejournal.com]

Less vacuous than JFK, less nuts than RFK...I think that's the best you could say about him.

I wish people would just get over the Kennedys.

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

"which helped him get past the fact that people knew where he'd left the body"

By 'people' presumably you mean everyone ?

[suitandtieguy.livejournal.com]

he was a shining example of everything that's wrong with post-war American politics.