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Obama, Biden honor Ted Kennedy, help open Senate museum

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden and a host of other dignitaries traveled to Boston Monday to pay tribute to the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and help open an institute devoted to the Senate.

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, a $78 million museum which boasts a life-size replica of the Senate chamber, officially opens to the public Tuesday.

Kennedy’s widow, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, introduced Obama, noting that Kennedy recruited Obama as a senator to the committee he chaired.

“The Senate was a place where you instinctively pulled yourself up a little bit straighter,”[and swam a little stronger] Obama said. “It fills you with a heightened sense of purpose. That’s the magic of the Senate. That’s the essence of what it can be.

“We live in a time of such great cynicism about our institutions, and we are cynical about government and Washington most of all… And this place can help change that,” he said.

And while Obama said it was not the time “to suggest a slew of new ideas for reform,” he said he would suggest “just one.”

“What if we carried ourselves more like Ted Kennedy? What if we worked to follow his example a little bit harder?” he asked.

The museum comes at a time when Congress is having trouble passing bills and public opinion of lawmakers sinks. It is designed to teach students how the Senate works and, perhaps, get them interested in serving in government.

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Big RR wrote:A mistake, rubato. Driving off a bridge, killing a young woman, and leaving her at the bottom of the channel (indeed, possible to even die) while he went home to consult his spin doctors is a mistake? I think it's far worse than a mere mistake.

Not that it makes anything anyone else (including Reagan) did that was wrong any better, but what Teddy did was hardly a mistake.

As for what Reagan did, the guy was an actor not a scientist, and in no better position to appreciate the dangers of smoking than anyone else.

and we don't know how much she had to drink either.

Big RR wrote:No, you let your politics cloud your judgment, as many others do. And that is your prerogative.

As for what Reagan did, the guy was an actor not a scientist, and in no better position to appreciate the dangers of smoking than anyone else. And I sincerely doubt many, or even any, people said--"Gee, the star of Bedtime for Bonzo likes Chesterfield so they must be good, safe, and for me"

If Mary Jo was drinking and made the decision to get in a car with a drunk driver, she bears some responsibility for her own death.

a stupid act taken in a drunken moment in time.

rubato wrote:No, I have a sense of morals.


Being paid to enslave people to a drug which will certainly cripple and kill them over the decades is worse than than a stupid act taken in a drunken moment in time.

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rubaot

I definitely won't be voting for Teddy for President next year

She was dead within 5 minutes +/- of immersion

Why doesn't it matter? If Mary Jo was drinking and made the decision to get in a car with a drunk driver, she bears some responsibility for her own death.