The Lion of the Senate, brother of the legendary president John F. Kennedy, Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy has died from a brain tumor at the age of 77.
When he had started his political career, his brother, John was serving his legendary time in the White House. Partly because of his brother's popularity, and partly because of his great ideas, he was elected into the Senate.There he served 46 years.
Throughout is entire career, he fought and fought for things like Health Care reform. A few posts ago, I talked about Health Care reform in "Health Care for E.T.?", in that, I praised Universal Health Care which Sen. Kennedy did.
Senator Kennedy said in his article for Newsweek Magazine that the thought of someone not being able to afford full treatment for cancer was what kept him on the Senate floor.
Unfortunately, he was never able to vote on Universal Health Care, but I am positive that he would have voted Yea on it.
Although his successor will almost definitely be a Democrat, who will hopefully vote Yea on Universal Health Care.
In 1980, Ted Kennedy ran for president against the incumbent Jimmy Carter.
He ran against Carter because he didn't feel he was moving far enough on things life Health Care. And there, he was probably right.
In the 1980 Democratic Convention, though, he didn't win.
In the 2008 election, he surprised the world by endorsing Barack Obama instead of Hillary Clinton.
In fact, he was one of the few people who said that Obama was going to defeat Hillary Cilnton.
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