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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:33 AM
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Who's going to fill his shoes?
Edited on Wed Aug-26-09 01:34 AM by armyowalgreens
Just from an emotional standpoint, Kennedy's passing must be mind boggling for people who lived during his era. But his death also poses a serious question.

What do we do now?
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:35 AM
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1. Fight on... that is what we do
the dream will live on...
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DaveinMD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:35 AM
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2. no one person
can ever fill his shoes. He may have been the greatest Senator this country has ever seen.
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pyoom Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:36 AM
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3. Barack Obama. nt
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 09:08 AM
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23. i wish he was as liberal as Ted. nt
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:37 AM
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4. No one -
he's the end of an era.

Tonight, my generation and I are finally old..................
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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:38 AM
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7. That can't be it. We need to make sure he isn't walked all over...
by some idiot trying to play senator.

What is the procedure after a senator dies? I'm assuming someone temporarily fills in until an election can be held.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:40 AM
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9. Oh, someone will be named
as Senator from Massachusetts.

But that's not what was asked.

No one will ever fill Ted Kennedy's shoes. I hope your generation will find someone, I truly do, who inspires and makes a difference like Teddy and his brothers did.

For now, though, my generation has lost its last political hero, and I am very sad.....................
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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:49 AM
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10. My question is both a moral and technical one...
It's really frightening that we cannot find another person as good as him. It makes his death that much more horrible.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:54 AM
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11. Well, don't forget that he wasn't the Lion of the Senate
when he was first elected, at the age of thirty. It took him forty-seven years to work to achieve that reputation.

You can vote at 18 now because of Ted Kennedy.

I hope there's someone who will someday become YOUR generation's Teddy Kennedy. I hope that for you, and for our country.

Right now - consider this - WE don't have a Teddy Kennedy any more, and no one to replace him.

That's why my generation and I - the ones who lost JFK, RFK, MLK, Jr., and now EMK - are sad tonight, are finally old.

And Teddy died on my birthday, damn.........................
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armyowalgreens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 02:02 AM
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12. Well I'm sorry that you are feeling down.
Happy Birthday, by the way. I hope the rest of your day went terrifically.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 02:06 AM
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13. Thanks, hon -
yes, it was a lovely day, actually a wonderful day.

But, boy, confronting your own mortality when one of your life-long heroes dies is really shocking.

I think everyone's sad tonight. We should be..........
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:17 PM
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30. I am too like you
:cry:

There is so much I love about Ted Kennedy.

One thing is that he serves as an example of someone that didn't have to CARE and he did --

He is an example of people that "have everything" and yet have lost so much in such a tragic way.And still he FIGHTS for What is RIGHT for this world.


He could have easily been the little brother that sat down and did nothing.

He could have used his Privilege/riches like GW and worked for evil and not cared about others that were not as blessed -- but, he took a STAND on the side of the least among us.

He made America a better place.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 09:07 AM
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22. boy, thats the truth.
Its not just his passing , its the end of a huge era..the Kennedy brothers..we all grew up and watched as everything that was about them changed the tenure of this country..
this is our parents generation taking off...and we are left as the caretakers..
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JSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 10:36 AM
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29. I feel the same way
and it's devastating.

I was 11 when JFK was killed, 15 when we lost Bobby. I truly feel like it's the end of an era.
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Ken Burch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:38 AM
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5. We ALL have to
One of the lessons of the Kennedy family story is that we should never put everything on ONE person. That makes it to easy for everything to be lost.

Anyone a few years older than myself, anyone who remembers where they were when they saw Cronkite make that announcement or saw the California primary news coverage suddenly go back on when it was about to sign off for the night can tell you that.
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Fearless Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:38 AM
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6. No one fills his shoes. Period.
Others will come and go. But his shoes will not be filled.
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smalll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 01:39 AM
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8. No one for many months (thanks to Mass pols somehow fearing that Kerry could actually WIN last time)
and so changing the law so that a governor (at that time, der Mittenfuhrer) could NOT immediately appoint a successor. Thanks a lot, horseface.
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karynnj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 08:57 AM
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20. 59,000 votes in Ohio
How many Kerry votes were lost to people unable to wait in line 4 to 10 hours because there were not enough voting machines. (That was after an election played on a very unequal playing field.

You could say it was partisan, but given that as it was there were only 45 Democrats in the Senate, they did not want to lose one of them - in one of the bluest states in the country.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 10:31 AM
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27. who are you attacking with that remark?
and why?
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 02:24 AM
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14. There's no one
but we have to fight on because that's what the Kennedy's (all of them) would want us to do.
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fNord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 05:45 AM
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15. check this out:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4032982
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Berry Cool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 08:48 AM
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16. I hope everyone can stand up and do what needs to be done to pass health care reform
that truly means something.

As for filling his shoes, no one else can do that. When he left, he took his shoes with him.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 08:50 AM
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17. It is for a new generation of Democrats to aspire to his model
of public service.

Many won't reach that pinnacle.

The victory will come from their trying to.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 08:51 AM
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18. Hopefully someone with his fight and passion for making us
have a better society.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 08:57 AM
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19. I don't know. There are perhaps a zillion potential candidates,
from all our reps to the state AG to maybe even Joe Kennedy himself.
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jimlup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 09:03 AM
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21. Folks be sure to rec threads that support Ted
I'm noticing a lot of unrecs this morning!

Rec! and kick!
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 09:20 AM
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24. I would think Barney Frank could make a good run of it.
Edited on Wed Aug-26-09 09:21 AM by redqueen
I'd love to see him in the Senate. LOVE.
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 09:24 AM
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25. We should all fill his shoes
We can all be well informed, well educated (by books and by life) and stand up for what's right every day.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 09:56 AM
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26. For your consideration...



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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-26-09 10:33 AM
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28. we need to get those Senators to pass a health care bill
that is what Senator Kennedy has fought for so many years.
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