Ted Kennedy (middle) with his brothers
“Rose didn’t have triplets,” Texas political operative Robert Strauss famously said in 1980, nastily suggesting that Ted Kennedy fell short of the standards set by his two older brothers.
It’s probably true he lacked the intellectual heft of John and Robert, and for many years he seemed to display the spoiled temperament of a very wealthy and very coddled young man, a man for whom all obstacles, even obstacles of his own making, were cleared, and for whom all problems were magically solved. He was thrown out of Harvard for cheating on an exam, but somehow subsequently readmitted. With no experience of elective office and no other obvious qualifications, he was essentially handed his eldest brother’s senate seat the moment he reached the constitutionally mandated minimum age of 30 (the seat had been kept warm by a family political retainer named Benjamin Smith on
Glenis Devereux
“I do not believe it is the role of the Senate to interfere with or regulate the kind of medical advice that a doctor can give to a patient,” Ted Kennedy March 12, 2003 US Senate in opposition to the partial-birth abortion ban that was passed – If the Taliban, if Hitler, if… usual suspects, did Partial Birth Abortions it would be at the top of the list of their most evil acts of barbarity… go Google a video… but not on a full stomach – What a guy !