As Senator Ted Kennedy leaves us, he takes with him a spirit and humanity and hunger for justice as vanished from American political life as is the Whistlestop. He was the Job of his time. Who has ever had to face the public grief this man faced? Not only his three brothers, his beloved older sisters, his nephews Michael and John Jr. He also had to face the heartbreak of the country he loved so much and worked so hard to humanize being turned into a snake-pit of psychopathic ambition, grimness, self-delusion, historical ignorance, and endless lies.
He was born to serve and serve he did, in a tireless and very serious way. If we failed to appreciate him during his lifetime, perhaps it was because he was a man being compared to myths. Every day he fought for the weak against the strong -- in a society now controlled by beasts.
He made his brothers proud.
