Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass) died last night, after a valiant battle with brain cancer.
We will miss him tremendously. He was someone who has been on my Favorites list since he ran for the Senate for the very first time. I watched him go from the baby brother role to the role of the "Lion of the Senate." There were many rough patches along his path that we all knew about. When you are a Kennedy there aren't many secrets. But he prevailed in each case except this one.
If health care reform prevails this year, through his inspiration, Senator Kennedy will have accomplished in death what he was notable to finish in life. Obviously that would not be his entire legacy, but it would be a fiting tribute to his long decades of dedication to the health care cause.
More later as I gather my thoughts.
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