Here is my prayer for Senator Ted Kennedy...

[Hekate]

May you be present and well for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. God bless you, sir.

Hekate

[H2O Man]

1. Very good.

Thank you.

[otohara]

2. May Your Beautiful Brain

be treated successfully. Prayers to you, your family and the doctors and nurses who will nurse you back to us.

[remember2000forever]

3. I Totally Agree!

Teddy Has Always Fought For A Moment Like This. Amen!

[Medusa]

4. Amen.

Let's raise a toast to Sen. Kennedy.:toast:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. May you be healed, Senator

prayers and thoughts are with you and yours.

[lonestarnot]

6. Yes.

[mzmolly]

7. May your illness be treatable and may you have a full recovery.

And, may there be ten Democratic Senators with half your zest for justice to join you in a sound Majority in 2008!

K and R.

[Divine Discontent]

8. after I prayed for him to Jesus

I thought wouldn't it be wonderful for him to help get Obama in to help our country with some poignant speech while he's battling this - and then the ultimate - is your prayer that he be healthy and present when that day comes! I'll amen that!

[NanceGreggs]

9. Lovely!

K&R!

[cboy4]

10. Even a tragedy has to evolve around Obama.

I'm sure Obama is the last thing on the Kennedy's mind right now.

[Hekate]

14. Kennedy endorsed Obama in one of the most moving speeches I have ever seen

If he were to witness Obama's inauguration it would mean the American electorate concurred with Kennedy's opinion of Obama, and I think it would be one of the highlights of a long and incredibly full life -- and it certainly would mean Kennedy had survived his illness that long.

Kindly piss on someone else's thread, if you don't get that.

Hekate

[cboy4]

15. Oh brother.

:eyes:

[Radio_Lady]

19. I hope, for your sake, cboy4, that you are less callous than your posts makes you seem.

Maybe you just haven't been touched by tragedy.

I don't know what to attribute your comment to except utter lack of compassion or perhaps, a healthy young person who doesn't really get it yet.

Cordially,

Radio Lady

[cboy4]

21. Radio_Lady, in case you haven't heard, Obama supporters

have the reputation of being completely mesmerized by the senator, to the point some refer to them as cult members.

I don't personally believe all are, but I can see why some might refer to them as such.

My point is I think it's an embarrassment, if not completely inappropriate to say, as Senator Kennedy lies on his potential death bed, "I just hope he's around to see Obama sworn in...."

As though that will be the defining moment in his legendary career as part of a legendary family?

The brother of JFK and RFK just needs to live long enough to see Obama sworn in.

Are you kidding me?!?!

It's for that reason I sarcastically wrote how everything has to seemingly evolve around Obama.

It has nothing to do with the amount of compassion I have for Ted Kennedy -- which is immense.

[Radio_Lady]

24. Yes, I am aware of what you have discussed. However, I'll bet that Ted himself would like to live

to see Obama sworn in. I could be wrong, of course, but he has defined himself as the ultimate politician, against all odds -- and he was one of the chief champions of human rights and civil rights. Now, his January speech supporting Obama seems somehow prophetic. To wish someone who is dying -- that he reaches his birthday, or Thanksgiving, or Christmas, or New Year's Day -- or anything else -- is the usual thing to do with those clinging to life.

So, I am a Hillary supporter, a yuppy elderly woman, affluent and educated, who understands what you said from that context.

I simply disagree with your conclusion, but withdraw anything I said which might have been cutting. I didn't mean the comments that way.

Since neither of us has a prayer of getting into the Kennedy family to find out what his wishes are or will be -- as he faces his demise -- I would suggest that we cease and desist with what is now purely speculation.

Peace, love and happiness,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[TNOE]

11. AMEN

and Amen.

[rosesaylavee]

12. Amen. n/t

[Warpy]

13. Here's mine

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand.

(hey, just because I'm an atheist doesn't mean HE is)

[Radio_Lady]

20. I love that Irish prayer, and I'm not Irish! Thanks, Warpy!

[Bozita]

25. That's perfect, Warpy.

Thank you.

[hopein08]

16. Seriously? I'd leave it at...

May you be present and well on January 20, 2009. God bless you, sir.

But that's just me.

[Hekate]

17. If he had endorsed Hillary I would have phrased it that way. Jeez. His entire life is politics.

Pollitics and holding his clan together. And when he endorsed Obama he did everything but ask O to kneel so he could be knighted into the clan.

When I got in my car this morning I wept for the man. Damn. I'm doing it again. We will not see his like again soon.

Hekate

[Radio_Lady]

18. You aren't alone, Hekate. I cannot control the tears... hubby is from Massachusetts and we

lived through all of Kennedy's rises and falls in the years I lived there -- 1972 to 1998.

How very sad for this wonderful man. My father died at age 76 of heart disease. When you get to my age (69 on 5/31), the 70s don't seem that old.

Peace, love and thoughts to all -- and let there be happiness and little pain for Sen. Kennedy for the rest of his days.

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Marrah_G]

22. WTF?????????????????????????

Unfuckingbelievable..............

[Hidden Stillness]

23. My Prayer

Thank you for your wonderful family, of generations of public-servant, true American Kennedys. From the greatness and promise unfulfilled, of the murdered Jack and Bobby, to the greatness of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who gave us the Special Olympics, and Sargent Shriver, who gave us VISTA and so many Johnson era anti-poverty and jobs programs, from Caroline Kennedy and the JFK Library and all its forums, to Bobby Kennedy Jr. and the work for the environment, from one of the greatest Senators of all time, even praised as a "Lion in the Senate" and a "legend" by John McCain, to all the multitudes of other things done for the people of America over so many generations, thank you, from all the middle class and poor people who are grateful every day that there are so many public people in this world, with names like Kennedy and Roosevelt.

All day today, since hearing the frightening and awful news, I have been reeling back in my mind over so much history, and even the corporate media today has been almost like America, with emphasis on history, and accomplishments, well-wishes, and real emotion, with a lot less of their poisonous, "strategic" divisive labelling. It almost reminded me of the country we once lived in, a country united and on the move, when the President was named Kennedy or Roosevelt.

I can almost feel again, the elevated tone of speaking, with warm-hearted and brilliantly-put calls to action, quotes from Tennyson, and early Presidents or great American writers, a mix of great legal argument, assembled researched fact, and literary wit, lofting the whole message up to something higher, a united America. The truly great speeches, such as at Bobby Kennedy's funeral, or the 1980 Convention. We need Ted Kennedy, the leadership in the Senate, the leadership of the Party; what will we do?

Better yet, may Barack Obama give a speech at the inauguration of Ted Kennedy. It is far too soon for this horrible thing to be happening; all the ties to the past... Please get well, I pray.