Think about it - Ted Kennedy never ever had to do one thing to help anyone else in this world

[LynneSin]

He was born of privilege and given the best that money could offer. He, along with all of his siblings, could have spent their lifetime spending their father's wealth and living the high-life. They could have fought the government in order to find ways to make even more money by fighting to eliminate the death tax or ways to hide their money offshore so the government wouldn't of taxed it. And they could have used & abused the working class in order to make even more money for themselves.

Very few of us will ever know the type of wealth that the Kennedy family has. But despite that wealth Ted, along with his brothers and sisters, were out there fighting for the rest of us. Creating a government where each and every one of us can have the opportunity to live the American Dream.

Ted Kennedy was one of the reasons I became a democrat, him and Jimmy Carter. I have been crying all morning because we have lost an angel (but God had inherited a wonderful one because Ted deserves a wonderful afterlife).

Thank you Senator Ted Kennedy, for everything you have done for the rest of us.

[katandmoon]

1. K&R

[Uzybone]

2. The stories keep coming

I just saw this one on CNN


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aYvx7QNHS0P4


Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- For Boris Katz, Ted Kennedy’s biggest accomplishment was saving the life of a baby -- Katz’s baby.

Katz and his wife, Natalya, lived in Moscow, where their infant daughter, Jessica, was dying because she couldn’t digest milk products. No lactose-free formula was available in the Soviet Union back in 1978, Katz said.

Kennedy persuaded Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to allow the family to emigrate because of Jessica’s medical problem. Today, she is a healthy, 31-year-old newlywed who works for New York City, said Katz, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The senator even helped him find a job when he first moved to Boston, Katz said.

“That’s when I knew he wasn’t in it for himself,” said Katz, 61. “When he does these things, he means it.”

[Muttocracy]

12. wow. there could be books just full of these stories. nt

[Bozita]

3. the total opposite of GWB

[LynneSin]

5. That's what I keep thinking the 2 most opposite in wealthy families - Bush and Kennedy

I'm glad the Kennedys are on our side. We are better people because of it!@

[harun]

4. That is the way I have always thought of it. He could have spent time

in lush resorts with his family but he fought in the Senate till the very end.

[Myrina]

6. Ted has now become one with The Force.

O8) More energy on our side.

[PA Democrat]

7. Most people in his situation would have steered clear of politics after living through

the assassination of two brothers. He spent his adult life fighting for those who had no voice in the political process.

His work for people with disabilities has made my daughter's life one of possibilities rather than limitations. He is gone but he has left behind a wonderful legacy of how government CAN improve lives of individual citizens.
Thank you Senator Kennedy.

[ejpoeta]

8. I would never begrudge the man or his family their wealth.... i don't generally want to envy

anyone their wealth. all too often you see it isn't that great in the end.... when someone fears the vultures are just waiting for them to die so they can get the money.... i wouldn't want that, that's for sure!! but you can see by ted kennedy and eunice kennedy shriver and most of that family who despite their wealth tend to go into public service or somehow try to make the world better. And instead of trying to tell those of us hanging on the bottom rungs of the ladder to get some bootstraps.... ted kennedy spent his life working to make life better for the rest of us and to make it a more even playing field. a man who was in the senate not for his own gain, but actually to get things done and help his countrymen. he will be missed.

[LynneSin]

10. The Kennedys were out there helping us with our bootstraps

instead of making them harder to pull like the Republicans do.

[redqueen]

9. K&R

[sagetea]

11. k&r n/t