'The greatest' — Kennedy honored at funeral Mass

[Zomby Woof]

Source: AP

BOSTON – President Barack Obama led the nation Saturday in mourning and remembering "the greatest legislator of our time," celebrating the indelible impact of Edward M. Kennedy as a senator for nearly a half-century and leader of America's most famous family during tragedy and triumph.

Delivering an emotional, simple eulogy for Kennedy that capped a two-hour Roman Catholic funeral Mass, Obama employed humor, his own experiences and timeless anecdotes to memorialize the senator, who died Tuesday at 77 after battling brain cancer for more than a year. The country may have viewed him as "heir to a weighty legacy," Obama said, but he was playfully known by the youngest Kennedys less grandly: as the big cheese, "The Grand Fromage."

"Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections," Obama said. "It was to give a voice to those who were not heard, to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity, to make real the dream of our founding."

The president said that "though it is Ted Kennedy's historic body of achievements we will remember, it is his giving heart that we will miss."


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[gopiscrap]

1. What you say?

But farewell and thank you-rest in peace!

[orpupilofnature57]

2. He brought to point what a rare Gem Sen. Kennedy was ,Eloquently..

something we've been starved of for 8yrs.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Yes.

Yes. He probably was. And he understood a little-known, these days, concept: "noblesse oblige".

Made a change from the usual political anancephalics and their discourse, it did.