Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>
> --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Geez, ya let one girl die from drowning in your car
> > and you're branded
> > for life.
> > Julia
>
> I am not, I should say, in any way a Kennedy hater.
> My first political campaign was for Mark _Kennedy_
> Shriver. Ted's career makes him one of the most
> influential Senators in history. The last 1-2 years,
> though, have been a disgrace, and people should stop
> pretending that he is in any way what he used to be.
I was being -- something. Should have thrown a smiley in there.
I grew up seeing that Ted Kennedy was doing some good stuff, but that
his personal life seemed to be a bit of a mess at times, and figuring
that eventually it was really going to bite him in the end. So I've had
mixed feelings about him for awhile.
(One interesting memory was of hearing a song on the radio going home
from July 4 fireworks, where some amateur folksinger was bewailing all
the various messes he was blaming Carter for, and ending with Kennedy
being his great hope. It was to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic." Weird what sorts of things will stay with you from your
childhood. This was in 1979 or 1980....)
Julia
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