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Independent, U.K.]
El Tiempo, Colombia
Ted Kennedy: The
World Has Lost a Champion
"Not
only in the U.S. but around the world, Edward Kennedy was a living legend - an example
of compromise and dedication."
EDITORIAL
Translated By Miguel Gutierrez
August 27, 2009
Colombia - El Tiempo
- Original Article (Spanish)
The death of Senator Edward
Kennedy - anticipated and feared since it was discovered he had brain cancer in
May last year, marks the end of a legendary and tragic generation for a political
family and of the legislative work of one of the most memorable Congressmen in
the history of the United States.
Kennedy died on Tuesday in
his native Massachusetts. A year ago, already ill, he traveled to the
Democratic National Convention that nominated candidate Barack Obama and gave
an emotional and optimistic speech that brought a standing ovation - because Kennedy
understood that this was his farewell.
Obama lamented his death and
declared: "Our country has lost a great leader, who picked up the torch of
his fallen brothers and became the greatest senator of our time."
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by WORLDMEETS.US
This is an accurate
description. Ted Kennedy was a leader not only of the Democratic Party, but of many
bipartisan initiatives in moments of great confusion and pain. Although he was
the youngest brother, the death of the oldest, Joseph; the assassination in
1963 of John, the president; and in 1968 of Robert, the presidential candidate,
early on left in Teddy's hands the Kennedy aura and all that it represented to the
United States in the 1960s: a fresh, modern, wind that revitalized the legacy
of the captains of World War II.
SEE ALSO ON THIS:
L'Express, France:
Adieu, Senator Kennedy!
Daily Mail, U.K.:
Ted Kennedy 'Loathed
Britain', So Why Was He
Knighted?
Irish Examiner, Ireland:
Ted Kennedy: 'Symbol to Those Who Have Suffered Losses'
In addition to leading
liberal Democratic representatives, Ted became the family patriarch. The evil
star of the Kennedy's struck with disease, scandal and the deaths of his
nephews. And then 40 years ago, in July 1969, it put a tombstone on his dream
of reaching the White House with the death of a girl who accompanied him during
an unholy nighttime drive on the island of Chappaquiddick. But eventually,
Kennedy was able to carry out his historic legislative work.
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by WORLDMEETS.US
While that work was mainly on
the domestic and social fronts, internationally and in keeping with his liberal
philosophy, he always fought the dictatorships of the Third World. He blocked
the sale of arms to the tyrant Augusto
Pinochet, defended the rights of immigrants and fought the Vietnam War to
the end. Not only in the U.S. but around the world, Edward Kennedy was a living
legend - an example of compromise and dedication.
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