What has the right offered us besides the ill-fated tax cuts and an aggressive foreign policy that has bankrupted our treasury and ruined our image internationally?

As the nation pays its final respect for the life and times of Sen. Edward Kennedy it has become clear to me we will never again see a politician of his stature grace the halls of Congress.

Yeah we need more fat politicians.

The liberal excesses of the 1960s have not been the norm for ages, and a Search For A Liberal Celebrity Leader who will elevate liberalism as well to that “restored” status won't be fruitful.

(It hasn't been in the case of Obama, even if Chris Matthews considers Obama a Kennedy brother.)

he was a philandering, privileged, drunkard who took the life of his young mistress while [one of] his spouse[s] was at home waiting for him. and that is supposed to inspire reverence?

i'm no more enthralled with him than i was OJ after his trial. it takes no great amount of courage for someone so untouchable as you observe him to have been to get up and proclaim his beliefs. show me a freshman representative or senator without the name or gerrymandering who is willing to stand up for a decent cause. that would be something to see; for a kennedy is was nothing more than a demonstration of arrogance and hubris.

i do not applaud his passing. i've seen what cancer can do and i would wish that on no man. at the very least he has family and friends who are surely devastated by his passing. but his lack of character is nothing to brag about and i shall not mourn him. his was a story of privilege and power; both of which he enjoyed and leveraged to his own benefit and that of his family.