Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:42:42 PM
Speaking on a conference call with reporters today about Ted Kennedy's death, Senator Christopher Dodd, himself a victim of cancer, said that " He [Kennedy] had remained actively engaged in the current heath care debate even as he was physically failing."
There it is just as we expected: Ted Kennedy was a martyr to his cause heroically indifferent to his failing health, selflessly battling unto death for health care justice. But not content with his martyrdom Dodd takes Kennedy's "sacrificial" death a step further and says:
"Even though there is a lot of ranting and raving going on right now, I think things will calm down, and [Kennedy's] spirit will be very much a part of it. It certainly has been over the last couple of months."
The Catholic Church lacks a specific saint for health and wellness, but the Church of Liberalism now has one: St. Teddy the Martyr, the guiding spirit and patron saint of the great medical reformation or transforamtion rallying the legion of blessed angels to invisibly assist Obama in winning over a skeptical nation on the government option and health care justice for all.
Postscript I
Liberals are hoping that it's 1965 all over again; that Ted Kennedy is the dead JFK and Obama LBJ; and like LBJ using sympathy for JFK's death to pass Medicare (JFK failed at this) Obama and the Dems will succeed in using sympathy for Teddy's death to win support for nationalizing healthcare (now called ObamaCare) which Teddy failed to do when alive. But Ted Kennedy was not JFK, he did not have one eighth of his brother's charisma, stature and standing when he died. This is not due simply to Mary Jo, his drinking problems, divorce and troubled life; take these away and what remains is his radical, un-American* left wing politics which disgusts most Americans and is far removed from his brother's patriotic nationalism and belief in American exceptionalism. No. Ted Kennedy is a greatly diminished JFK, a shrunken version of his brother lacking his popularity, magic and national appeal; and this is why Obama and the Dems will fail to turn back the clock to the sixties and use Kennedy's death and canonization to advance their immoral and destructive cause of socialized medicine.
*Kennedy's Socialism and egalitarian politics were un-American.
Postscript II: Added August 27th
Meredith Jessup writing in yesterday's TH said: "The #1 Internet search today on Google Trends: Mary Jo Kopechne. In fact, 4 of the top 10 searches are related to the Chappaquiddick incident. This isn't quite the narrative the media is telling today.."
Very true. Unlike his two brothers the media and the Left will fail in their attempt to turn Ted Kennedy into a national icon and rallying point for health care reform. The little brother will remain the smallest of the three a damaged icon of the Left useles for advancing their insane agenda of heathcare depression* and national suicide.
*Bankruptcy and insolvency.