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Originally Posted by Ghost_Tracker
I watched most of it. I felt the entire Kennedy family showed their stuff, big-time - really "did him proud." Very impressive. And I loved Obama's speech.
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Agreed. It was a really moving service. I thought it was interesting that so many of the speakers quoted Ted's own eulogy for Bobby.
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Politics aside, the entire thing made me realize what a good person he was; what a "fundamentally decent human being" he was. I also hadn't realized how profoundly religious he really was.
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I'm reading a biography of Jack and Jackie right now (I'm on a never ending quest to be more like Jackie Kennedy, but those Stevie Nicks tendencies seem to come a little more naturally, sadly), and it's nice to see that even before the tendency to elevate a man in death had come into play, both the biographer and all the parties she quotes seem to have nothing but positive words on Ted. She also reveals that Jackie had made plans that, had anything happened to both she and her husband, the children would be raised by Ted.
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By the way, speaking of "next leaders," I very distinctly saw one of the grandchildren looking up at the Capitol Building with a more-than-idle look. It seemed to be either a look of, "Well . . . MAYBE!" or even, "This is going to be my workplace someday."
At any rate, he certainly was looking at it with a sense of being "at home" there, i.m.o.
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Somewhere, Joe Kennedy is a very, very happy man haha. Seriously, I wish I could sit down and think to myself "I think one of my kids should be President. Eh, maybe a few" and then make it happen.
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P.S. - MSNBC did something right at the end of the coverage that I thought was a little weasley. They said that they were going to "cut away early" because they wanted to give the family a little privacy - implying that they were making some sort of extraordinary gesture out of respect for the family and how "public" they've been forced to be. Well, I looked at the time - it was exactly 8:30 - and I quickly went to the other networks - all of the others had also cut away. It seems pretty clear that 8:30 was a pre-arranged time for all of the networks to stop their coverage. Pretty crappy way to try to pick up ratings, i.m.o.
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That's so tacky.
