As I watched the circus that was Ted Kennedy's funeral today, I was struck by the fawning, sanitized eulogies. Poignant words from his son - whose mother was summarily kicked to the curb via annulment of a marriage that lasted more than 20 years. What does that make the children from that union? If you read about it, Joan apparently didn't fight the annulment. How could she? Her life was already destroyed by alcoholism - which could only have been made worse by years of Ted's cheating ways. And then there was contending with the Kennedy clan... the original mobsters of Massachusets. No wonder Joan was found a few years back in a crumpled heap on a Boston street. Many, many additional indiscretions - well modeled by his father Joe. Yeah...Ted sounds like a GREAT dad.
Tears all around for a man who faithfully fulfilled his father's dream of a political empire. Tears for a man that killed an innocent woman, and successfully got away without criminal prosecution. Tears for a man that bears enormous responsibility for the death of millions of aborted children.
Tears for a man that made a mockery of the Catholic Church by his public campaigns against the church's doctrine - all in the name of "helping those less fortunate".
He was no hero - except to the ideology that cripples this country. Liberal elitism -the condescending stand that government will take care of you - decide what is best for you. A government made up of weak, non-principled men and women who see themselves as so much better than the rest. That has turned public service into some kind of life-long power trip.
Good luck resting in peace Ted.
