Kennedy was a rare sane voice among the Democrats in strongly opposing the Iraq war. ... Robert Scheer
Remember: it's the Republicans who love to mire Teddy Kennedy in the context of Chappaquiddick and his taste for the hard stuff. Some pro-Hillary Democrats in the past 48 hours have swung right, plucked the Republicans' Kennedy characterizations out of a dead tree, and tried to plant them. Don't let 'em do it.
Lest we forget:
It should mean a great deal to progressives that in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination Senator Ted Kennedy favors Senator Barack Obama over two other colleagues he has worked with in the Senate. No one in the history of that institution has been a more consistent and effective fighter than Kennedy for an enlightened agenda, be it civil rights and liberty, gender equality, labor and immigrant justice, environmental protection, educational opportunity or opposing military adventures.
