KOEB Meeting: 08/26/09 -- The Dream Shall Never Die Edition

[Patsy Stone]

RIP, Teddy.

[SeattleGirl]

1. Hi Patsy. My heart is heavy today.

Bless you, Ted Kennedy. You did so much for so many.

[Patsy Stone]

2. He was amazing.

It's a very sad day for America.

:hi:, SG

[SeattleGirl]

3. Yes, it is.

I was watching a DVD last night when MrSG came and told me that Teddy had died. I just started crying.

[Patsy Stone]

5. Chris Dodd just made me tear up.

I didn't know until this morning. I was watching "What Would Brian Boitano Make?" on DVR and some other stupid shows instead.

[ralps]

4. Hi Patsy! Hi Everyone! Yes! I hope Teddy's Dream of Universal Health Care will live on!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :cry:

[SeattleGirl]

6. Hi ralps.

Sweet kitty.

I agree with you.

[ralps]

8. Hi SeattleGirl!!! Thanks

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :cry:

[Patsy Stone]

7. Hi, ralps

I hope this energizes the Democrats and they decide to do it for him.

[ralps]

9. I do too!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :cry:

[GigiMommy]

23. Oh my goodness Ralps. What a beautiful kitty.

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

10. I have to thank you, Keith.

I was sure you were going to play the video of the soldier playing Taps at Fenway I just saw on Hardball. The only reason I'm thanking you is that it prevented me from crying again.

[Patsy Stone]

11. Dominick Dunne

is going to get the Farrah treatment.

[SeattleGirl]

12. Yes, he is.

I enjoyed his writings, and also liked watching Power, Privilege, and Justice. His musings about the cases were quite sardonic.

[Berry Cool]

13. Yeah, poor guy.

:hi: Yes, it is a sad day.

Thank you, Ted, for helping me go to college when I otherwise could not have, thanks to the Pell Grant program.

We all have our reasons for thanks.

[Berry Cool]

14. And as for the Dems, let "I Promised Teddy" be their slogan and battle cry

everywhere they go, everything they do...and let the Blue Dogs be shamed into joining the fight.

[SeattleGirl]

15. Hi Berry. Yes, let it!

This has been such a long fight, and it's time that something finally got done.

[Patsy Stone]

22. Yes

[GigiMommy]

32. OK...thanks Patsy

for making me laugh.:rofl:

[Patsy Stone]

16. Bernie Sanders

always makes me want to move to Vermont.

:hi:

[bleever]

17. It's hard to wrap my mind around Teddy's passing.

It's the end of an era, the passing of an age.

In Teddy's memory, and in his brothers', let the next era be informed by their dedication and humanity.

:patriot:

[Patsy Stone]

18. Amen.

:patriot:

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

21. They were wealthy people who could have said "I got mine and screw you"...but didn't.

They took the idea of public service seriously...as service.

Sometimes I fear they are the last of a breed.

[SeattleGirl]

29. That''s one thing that saddens me so much.

There will never be others like the Kennedy brothers, but it is my hope that enough of us will step up and carry on what they started.

[GigiMommy]

35. They were wealthy people..."I got mine and screw you"

You mean like another family I"m thinking of.

[Berry Cool]

42. Exactly, GGM.

Them, and many others who decided it was easier to be Republican and expect everyone else to pull themselves up by the bootstraps...even when they had no bootstraps.

[PSzymeczek]

67. Forget about bootstraps;

Lots of people have no BOOTS.

[SeattleGirl]

26. Absolutely, bleev

Absolutely.

[Botany]

28. Do not be sad my friend .... we got to live when Ted was alive.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_j32h-ninmv8/SkurQfajrBI/AAAAAAAABLw/efA3p2oCc5w/s400/dancing+beaver.jpg

We are gonna pass universal health care and he showed us what class was.

[Botany]

19. Ted Kennedy's Winning Picture 1/21/2009 & Joe Biden's speech

Inauguration Day 1/21/09 Ted beat long odds just to be there but he promised us
in 8/2008 he would be there.



As a new senator, Biden lost his wife and daughter in a car accident that left his two sons clinging to life in a hospital. Biden said Kennedy called every
day and often sent help. “I’d turn around and there’d be a specialist from Massachusetts, some doc I never even asked for,” the vice president recalled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip6TjpFTmME

please watch when you get a chance ..... the best Joe Biden speech ever.

[Patsy Stone]

24. And a year to the day after his speech at the DNC.

Wow.

:hi:

[RevCheesehead]

45. I saw that live, and totally lost it.

Joe was simply amazing.

[GigiMommy]

20. Hello All, what a sad day.

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

25. Hi, GG

:hi:

[GigiMommy]

36. Hi Patsy!!!

:hi:

[SeattleGirl]

30. Hi Gigi

Yes, it is.

But I feel good, thinking how much that wonderful man did for this country.

[GigiMommy]

37. Hi SG!!!

:hi:

[Patsy Stone]

27. Well that explains why his delivery sounded so weird.

He was reading it for the first time. It was all Bob Shrum's doing. Who knew?

[SeattleGirl]

31. That was a hell of a speech.

[Patsy Stone]

33. A classic.

:loveya:, Teddy.

[Patsy Stone]

34. Hi, Ken Burns.

Come by anytime, hopefully for happier reasons.

[Berry Cool]

40. Funny, isn't it, how Keith started out on Ken's bad side by enumerating all the factual errors

he had put into his "Baseball" series...and somehow they ended up friends?

Goes to show, you never know.

[Patsy Stone]

44. Sometimes a good argument is fun.

It's a true friend who will get into a fight with you, knowing it won't matter.

[Berry Cool]

60. That's for sure.

[polmaven]

71. I was sad to see

the look on Ken Burns' face when he showed Keith the bracelet he was wearing. I have been wearing that same bracelet since early June, 2008, when I donated to a cancer fund at the MA Democratic Convention. It says "TEDSTRONG". I have it on still today, and it is making ME strong today.

[Botany]

43. You do know where Ted was sailing don't you?

Gull Bay



BTW did I ever tell you that you are my Fav? :rofl:

Please don't tell the others!

[SeattleGirl]

38. BTW, I'm still at work at watching Countdown online on this site:

http://www.tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=1767

It's been working for me since I found it three weeks ago.

[GigiMommy]

49. Thanks SG for the info on this.

Don't want to get too excited about this otherwise I could jinx it.

[RevCheesehead]

39. Did anyone hear Keith last night after Teddy died?

I woke up around 2:30, and heard Keith on the phone, and saw the banner "Breaking News." Hell of a guy, to get up that early, just to help out the team.

:hi: Hi everyone.

[SeattleGirl]

41. Hi Rev

I didn't hear him. I agree, though. That was great that he did that.

[RevCheesehead]

51. Hi SG!

You sound like you could use one of these: :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

55. Thank you, Rev. Yes, I could.

:hug:

[Botany]

46. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fave?

I have heard that Gull Bay has brats & cheese curds

[RevCheesehead]

50. That looks like Sturgeon Bay.

You know, right down the road from Gull Bay.

:hi: Did you like the new photo in the other thread?

[GigiMommy]

47. Hi Rev!!!

Unfortunately I was asleep but good on Keith. :hi:

[RevCheesehead]

53. Hi Gigi!

Yeah, I was asleep, too - but something woke me up. That is, something besides hot flashes. :)

:hi:

[Berry Cool]

61. No, I know he was on the phone but I was in bed at the time and didn't hear the news

till I got up this morning.

But that's Keith for you.

[PSzymeczek]

69. I didn't know

until I went outside and picked up the Tucson paper. I have been sad all day.

[Patsy Stone]

48. Lawrence seems to think health care reform

hangs on what Orrin Hatch's heart tells him after the funeral. We are screwed.

[Botany]

52. Might not be ...

.... Hatch wrote a song to Ted today.

[Patsy Stone]

62. Really?

Is this posted somewhere?

[Botany]

66. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fave?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x359932

[Patsy Stone]

68. You did.

Thanks, Bot. That was beautiful, and it gave me some hope that he will honor his friend.

:thumbsup:

[RevCheesehead]

54. Breaking News:

Orrin Hatch has a heart??

[Berry Cool]

58. "Don't screw it up, because he's watching."

Words to live by, especially for our President and Congress.

May they listen.

:applause: Good job, Keith. I'm looking forward to your funeral coverage.

[Patsy Stone]

64. Did you hear me ask that from here?

I knew I could be loud, but jeez. :)

[RevCheesehead]

65. Ssshh!

That's our super-secret EDV powers at work!

[SeattleGirl]

56. Don't screw it up because he's watching.

And good night, and good luck.

Thank you, Keith. I missed hearing you say that.

[Berry Cool]

63. I think he brought it back at just the right time.

Thanks, Keith. :loveya:

[Botany]

57. To the EDVs and Bleever

Keep up the good work

[Patsy Stone]

59. We're back to "Good night and good luck."

I liked your story about Teddy, Keith. If I had a Teddy story to tell, I would. Especially one where I was told he watched me on TV everynight.

[SharonRB]

70. Sorry I missed being with you guys tonight

We went to dinner with my dad and aunt for my birthday. I caught the end and recorded to watch later. I loved his Teddy story.

:hi: