digby: All The Way To The End

[babylonsister]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/all-way-to-end-by-digby-ted-politicized.html

All The Way To The End

by digby


Ted Kennedy "politicized" his own funeral, in his own words, written in a letter to the Pope and read by Cardinal McCarrick at Arlington National Cemetery:

I want you to know, your Holiness, that in my nearly 50 years of elective office I have done my best to champion the rights of the poor and open doors of economic opportunity. I've worked to welcome the immigrant, to fight discrimination and expand access to health care and education. I've opposed the death penalty and fought to end war. Those are the issues that have motivated me and have been the focus of my work as a United States Senator.

I also want you to know that even though I am ill, I am committed to do everything I can to get access to health care for everyone in my country. This has been the political cause of my life. I believe in a conscience protection for Catholics in the health field and will continue to advocate for it as my colleagues in the Senate and I work to develop an overall national policy that guarantees health care for everyone.

Go ahead. Wellstone that, wingnuts.

Update: Ed Rollins just said that Senator Kennedy got the last word.

Let's hope so.

RIP

[AuntPatsy]

1. I believe he will rest in peace when his dreams and hopes for this country materialize..

even my husband has given him the respect by NOT repeating any of his faux bs to me today...and usually he does it simply to annoy me..he knows better and I honesty believe that he had to admire him even in secret...not once has he said one disrespectful thing about sen Kennedy since his passing..I always knew his heart was good, he just tends to let his prejudice dictate his mouth sometimes..but I'm working on him..

[babylonsister]

2. How can anyone not admire this man? I know, dumb question,

and I'm glad your husband laid off. Your effect could be working!

Health care reform would go a long way towards realizing the Senator's dream. I so hope that happens.

[TicketyBoo]

4. If my husband and I disagreed politically…

it would have been a VERY short marriage.

[Cha]

6. Yeah, my marriage was

annulled years ago and it turns out I discover my former husband, who's in California, supported bush and then mccain.

I can't tell you how happy I am that I got away before we clashed irrevocably over that.

[AuntPatsy]

11. Let me explain it this way after being married for over thirty years to the same guy

you do get to understand them better though even as you understand them better you find there are things you just simply don't like about them..but

hey thats okay..because truth be told..after so many years anyone, and I don't care who you are will find little things that bother one another about that someone close to you...love is a funny thing...you need not agree on everything to love someone...if you had to would you love your parents the whole of your life? How many people on du seriously agree with every single thing their parents think say or do? and yet..most people continue to love their parents, aunts uncles etc..

why should a husband deserve less respect simply because they are not the picture of perfection that is "you"?

Granted we have gotten into some very heated {my lap top in pieces on the floor) um mm debates on why gb was NOT nor ever even seen to myself as a mediocre president..

I recall another instant where a few chairs fell, very vocal not nice words being exchanged when I tried to force him to look at the pictures of torture victims that our then government found acceptable for americans to have inflicted such on other HUMAN beings regardless of their ethnicticty...

The fact is that before 2000 we pretty much got along on politics...

was does that say?

Faux did it's job..

He was and is an avid faux watcher but..

He NO longer tells me one thing that he hears on that umm entertainment channel knowing I believe that they are NOT nor ever were thought to be a valued news source...he just claims now to enjoy the banter..

It was a long eight years and I would be lying if I said that in those eight years there were some iffy moments where I almost walked out the door..

But too bad faux and criminal friends..we are still together...and thought thry continue the bs..my husband knows who has his true and best interests at heart and he obviously NO longer believes the crap or he would continue to argue with me about the Dem's which he no longer does..

So they can keep their glen minus a letter beck because truth be told..the only people that faux have left that actually believe those guys news worthy
are ones who are simply racist...period.

the other stragglers who continue to watch their shows are like my husband..he still has his prejudices but in his heart of hearts he knows he is wrong..and how do I know this? I know when he wants something before he wants it as he knows me...

He wanted to believe faux and that gb was the best thing ever to have hit washington..but he can no longer look me in the eye and say it with the conviction he once did...but his present silence tells me all I need to know..

He has been wounded by faux and those he once trusted...and as in all wounds, such takes time to heal..


Never give up on someone is my reason for this long post..

It was not his fault..he was raised that way and did not know better...I another way..and the two met...it was a battle but well worth it..

[TicketyBoo]

12. Some people enjoy conflict…

It adds excitement to their lives. I don't need that kind of excitement.

My husband and I have been married for 39 years, and we seem to grow closer and closer in our beliefs and way of thinking. I'm glad about that. And grateful.

[Hekate]

13. Hekate says you are a wise woman, Aunt Patsy

:hug:

Hekate

[OHdem10]

5. Same here. Thank goodness not all Republicans are not like

some of the people at Faux and Wingnuts.

[babylonsister]

8. We only disagree on who we watch at night.

He made his Dem vote, now NCIS rocks.

Politics is drama that has become increasingly fascinating to me.

[OHdem10]

3. BTW, also tell wingnuts--Sen. Kennedy served in the Army .

However, Congressmen can be buried at Arlington. After all
they decide when to send our kids to War.

[Cha]

7. Yeah, Wellstone

Cardinal McCarrick, republicons.

[babylonsister]

9. Now Wellstone can't be mentioned. Perfect! nt

[AuntPatsy]

10. Reading some of the commentary from sundays talkwash I will keep this up...

because here is Sen Kennedy's last word....and it is NOT compromise..

[Hekate]

14. Dang. I heard it read and it still brings tears to my eyes.

That was both a religious and a political act -- he was making his final confession to the highest priest in his religion, and he was making sure that his fellow politicians know he is entirely unrepentant about his desires for the highest good of the greatest number of people. God love him, because God knows we do.

Hekate

[malaise]

15. He got more than the last word

He planned his entire funeral.

I can't wait for cross-eyed Christie's comments although I suspect the proceedings were way too deep for his simple mind.