News Analysis — Ted Kennedy
May 21, 2008, 10:57 am; posted by Djere
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Conservative scientists were stunned today to learn of Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-MA) condition upon being released from Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctors diagnosed the aging Senator with a malignant glioma in his left parietal lobe — brain cancer.
Though details of his prognosis have not been released, speculation centers less around what they said, and more on what they did not say.
Listed as possible options for treatment were radiation and chemotherapy, but not surgery, leading many medical experts to believe the tumor is inoperable. Differing sources estimate the Senator has between one and three years to live — around 50 years longer than Mary Jo Kopechne.
Newsday reports that damage to the left parietal lobe can result in difficulty with words, math, and hand-eye coordination — symptoms most politicians suffer from. Gliomas are the most commonly diagnosed brain tumors — around 9,000 a year — but not common enough to explain away liberalism.
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I would not wish that diagnosis on anyone, and I don’t think the twilight of a man’s life is the time to mock him for ideological differences.
But although I wouldn’t have written this, I nonetheless appreciate the Kopechne reference. I don’t want Ted Kennedy dead, but I also don’t want anyone to forget that he practically killed a woman and got away with it, because he was rich, famous and powerful.
It was not fair. And he is not a good man.
I do not revel in his pain but I have already begun my cringing at the inevitable lauding and praise he and his record will now just begin to receive in obscene doses.
What an enemy to American ideal he has been.
A coward who had the vacancy sign always lit on the hotel of his morality.
In poor taste.
Job, that’s what bothers me so. All over Washington, people have nothing nice to say about this “good man,” their “good friend.”
It is terrible. And while I would like to make it clear, I do not wish him harm… just as Steve said: he is not a good man.