Ted Kennedy’s Crisis

As we near the fortieth anniversary of Robert Kennedy’s assassination this week, Ted Kennedy will be fighting for his life today in six hours of “extremely risky” surgery for a brain tumor at Duke University Medical Center.

He has always been a survivor, outliving a plane crash, the plunge of a car into deep waters and the violent death of two brothers to fill out a long and honorable life.

Barack Obama said last week that he “would not be sitting here as a presidential candidate had it not been for some of the battles that Ted Kennedy has fought. He is somebody who battled for voting rights and civil rights when I was a child. I stand on his shoulders.”

Others will be on their knees today, praying that Ted Kennedy will be granted more years to give us all.

Cross-posted from my blog.