Joho the Blog » ted_kennedy http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger Let's just see what happens Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:48:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The lion sleeps http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/08/26/the-lion-sleeps/ http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/08/26/the-lion-sleeps/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:07:02 +0000 davidw http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/08/26/the-lion-sleeps/ Senator Ted Kennedy always stood with the poor, the weak, those who need defense, and those who need a hand. He was the embodiment of what it means to be a liberal and of one important reason that we have governments at all.

You can tell me tomorrow about how flawed he was as a man, so long as tomorrow you also take up the work of his life.

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Later that day: Here’s Joe Biden’s moving reflections. They start about 2.5 minutes in. As Biden says, with Ted, it was never about Ted.

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