obviously the major news today is saturday attendee as perhaps the way
and he was seventy seven years old and of course uh... patriarch of not only
the kennedy family but
usse obviously a line of the senate and uh... or one of those serving members
there obviously
and uh...
was in enormous figure of course there for a couple of different reasons one he
championed civil rights uh... rights for uh... workers in the country arise for
the poor et cetera i've you know one thing that i uh... take away from his
death and
the way he was she when he was alive was
i know a lot of people have done
was good work they talk about that today mentioned a little bit in passing some
of the controversy is that he had
and whenever anyone uh... dies
of course there may be bigger and bigger now senator kennedy was a huge figure
brain
uh... but now everybody loves them now that he's passed away
uh... although of course there many cancers of the country who will not say
that today
but but
every spec for the dad didn't i have seen anyone saying me too bad i mean of
course rush limbaugh
was bragging about how
he got it right the candy was gonna die
stay classy
okay way to go
and by the deputy genius to figure out you know after all the health problems
of the uh... which is the rest of us have the decency not to
you don't talk about it blow et cetera after the guy guys so i was there those
folks
i think there's some maybe even overstate
at kennedy to some degree announcing that he's being compared to some of the
greatest legislators
in this america's in american history henry clay calhoun
et cetera of some of the
the largest figures and send richard but on the other hand maybe they're not
overstating it
maybe i'm in a moment to much
and it's hard to see when
you have a historic figure if one of you
and that you've lived through your whole life he's been in the senate
ever since i've been conscious and so
he is a huge figure no doubt about it i just don't get a little concerned about
people overstating the case with someone dies right
and approve that's true
conservatives
uh... liberals in non political figures in center
but that so huge lead up to this fine
the thing that bothered me about the way they treat him when he was alive
was
they would pick on the limousine liberal
and dick conservatives in the republics will always attacked body act ted
kennedy driveway see now that
he just got family money
and so he doesn't know any date is eleven zero that brawl try to help the
poor are
bolivian nothing combat it
so one
ted kennedy's life have been better
or i guess with the conservatives have approved of it more
if he was a rich guy who only cared about other rich people
or if he was a rich guy who only cared about himself
so his big crime to them
was that he cared about the poor even though he was a ridge
isn't that a good thing
is not a great day
now look a lot of people gain the public's because they love the power
and and and money comes along with it and famous center
and i'm not saying ted kennedy was an angel and he didn't care about the power
na na na na he was a human being
and i'm sure that appeal to
as a way to anybody right
but he was a rich guy he could have done a lot of things and instead
he spent his life now and it's a good life and he asked me am i to spend at
the same way
unless they like the sacrifice like
but he did spend his life
try to look out
for people who were dissidents
who did not have the money he had who did not have the power of the name of
the recognition that he had
and i can say
the real
that's what i think it was great about ted kennedy
that he was a subsidiary cuban legislator driving to the rescue on
every issue
anne was in some baghdad because service made about to be
but then he was a guy who spent his life
trying to do good
what a lot of people are for four more selfish
so of course it's a shame that ted kennedy pass away today
especially because the cause of the site
was health care reform
and he didn't get to see it
happen turns out there's a letter hanging on the the wall of one of his
offices
from senator trent lott
uh... receive a republican
very conservative senator from a city
and he said it says just quote thank you my friend
for your many courtesies
if the world only knew
and for some reason i found that to be a little powerful
and it's interesting how much respected trent lott had for ted kennedy
and if your conservative today i think
that might speak to you it's forests
what you should know about what kind of a
decent person ted kennedy was the people around him
even be didn't agree with you
appointment to it was a story of
uh... jerry falwell and biting ted kennedy to liberty university
uh... he just kind of it
probably as the
you know a little bit
uh...
program
marketing ploy if you will like haha loan by ted kennedy are not open minded
well it turns out
ted kennedy accepted sat upright you know what
uh... i'd love to come make a speech that
and uh... one of the assistance for jerry falwell say says that when
he found i can accept a teacher and what is the sheik
okay do you know what he was gonna say now but they he came and they had a
advice
dinner and then afterwards
kennedy gave the speech any sediment and i like this line
i believe there surely is such a thing is true
but who among us can claim a monopoly
there are those who do
and their all the words testify
to their intolerance
friendly he's collegial he reaches out
and then he has the courage to say what's true
okay
in that case be wary of people who tell you blanket statements
knowing
in this case reverted jerry falwell
the will of god
and what is
universally true
we all make our best attempt to try to get at what's true
but the ones who tell you that they know for sure and there is no other way
well those of the intolerant once and then finally you noticed it's a story
for ms
uh... patrick kennedy
anti you know
i thought maybe that was the best one because
patch kennedy said that every once in awhile somebody would come up to a
and say
hey you know
i really wanna thank you
you for are what your daddy your family of have done for me and
patrick would say
great thank you of
but i don't know what we did
editors at because teddy kennedy would never talk about it never made it public
but
from time to time he would go and help families with their healthcare books
and if someone was in real trouble he would give money out of his own pocket
to help them
is that ironic
because we just talked yesterday about tom coburn say a few sick they'll help
you don't go ask for help from your neighbor
as we're not going to help
what turns out the one neighbor who went out to you
is taken
the guy that they demand i somewhat
there's a little bit irony there