It's official. Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy is suffering from a malignant brain tumor. Kennedy is the last man standing in the generation of his family that brought us Camelot, and "Bobby." He was the baby of the family, having lost each of his older siblings one by one, in more and more terrifying fashion. Kennedy is father not just to his own children, but to his brothers' Jack and Robert's children as well. He is also, as has been said so many times, a lion of American politics. This is, then, no time for politics. ( Right and left, for once, agree. though I wonder if the Wizbangers and others on the right who have been so cruel to Kennedy over the years, will observe the truce for long.)
In any event, God speed to the Senator, and God bless his family.
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