I have nothing much to say about the death of Ted Kennedy, except that if I had been the youngest brother of men like JFK and RFK and had started losing my elder brothers to violent deaths when I was 12, and had lost all of them before my 40th birthday, I suspect I probably would have had a long struggle with alcohol and a failed marriage. Indeed, I suspect those would have been the least of my problems.
Unlike Ted Kennedy, I'm not sure I would have come back from that. The usual suspects will make their usual noises about Chappawhatsits, and it's true that he had the career he did because he was a Kennedy first. But many men have been blessed with more and parlayed it in to far less -- see Bush, George W.
So thank you, Senator Edward Kennedy. Rest in peace.
Unlike Ted Kennedy, I'm not sure I would have come back from that. The usual suspects will make their usual noises about Chappawhatsits, and it's true that he had the career he did because he was a Kennedy first. But many men have been blessed with more and parlayed it in to far less -- see Bush, George W.
So thank you, Senator Edward Kennedy. Rest in peace.
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