Ted Kennedy

First off, I was no fan of Senator Ted Kennedy. But, my father always advised me never to speak ill of the dead, so I will refrain.

Ted's politics were vastly different from my own. I don't believe in social engineering. You either work hard or you don't. Some of us are lucky, some of us are not, although I believe the harder you work, the more luck you make. I always felt Ted was born on third base and thought he had hit a triple.

In later years, he emerged as the patriarch of a family which went through a lot of suffering. Admittedly, some of it was of their own making, but no one should go through what the Kennedys have been through over the past sixty-five years or so. Ted was the only male of the family to live past age 46. He actually spent more years in the Senate (47) than any of his brothers had lived.

So, RIP to the Senator. Only one Kennedy from his generation (his sister Jean) remains...