Billiken Man

Since the 1920s when old Joe Kennedy first started throwing his bootlegger money around, the Kennedy family has had a finger in the pie of American politics. In the 30s and 40s Joe Kennedy served in various post before he fell out with FDR. In the 50s, his son John F. Kennedy became one of our youngest Senators. His election to the Presidency in 1960 brought along his brother Robert Kennedy who became Attorney General in 1961. Edward "Teddy" Kennedy had to wait until he was old enough in 1962 to join his brother Robert in the Senate, where he has been ever since. I will play it safe and not mention the word assassination here.....

No matter if you like him or not, one has to conclude that having served in the Senate continuously for 46 years, the youngest Kennedy of that golden generation has surpassed his perhaps more illustrious brothers in service to this country. Right or wrong, for better or worse, Teddy Kennedy has done as much to shape our modern times as any living person. As the last of the Kennedy political dynasty and the keeper of the flame, I am in hopes he'll work one more piece of Kennedy magic before he fades into the sunset.

From what we know at the moment, Ted Kennedy was handed a death sentence by his doctors last week. Excepting a miracle, his days are numbered. His brain tumor will rob him of speech before it robs him of clear thinking and later of life. I'm sure these kinds of thoughts were on his mind as he spent the last of this week sailing with family members. Current estimates give him from 1 to 4 years to live, time is short and must be used wisely.

Edward Moore Kennedy's greatest contribution may yet to come. He could single-handedly help this country more than 4 Obamas by using his remaining time to level with us. Of all living Americans, probably no one knows more about how we arrived in the Bush-Cheney era of disastrous  government. Surely Teddy knows where the bodies are buried and who tamped down the dirt. He could cut our rebuilding time in half by telling us the truth of how things went so wrong in the last 2 decades of American political history.

No one than Ted Kennedy knows better who goes to work in DC each day with blood on their hands. Senator Kennedy could serve his fellow men no better than by outing the enemies of good government on both sides of the isles. He could deliver the goods on the Bush administration and let us start to bring them to justice before they scatter into the woodwork like the cockroaches they are. He could, with his remaining time and dimming eyesight see the guilty brought to justice as the gallows go up across this nation.

With nearly 50 years at the center of power, Ted Kennedy could gift us with a plan for the future, so that no American has to feel ashamed of his country ever again, no American will be instructed to torture, no US troops will be asked to die in order to steal another country's oil. Senator Kennedy could tell us how to prevent the formation of another rogue administration,  criminals who let Americans die in the Gulf needlessly, who continue to turn a deaf ear to the pleas of 200,000 still displaced by Katrina while New Orleans is divided up by the likes of Donald Trump.

Kennedy could double his efforts to stop the illegal war for oil in Iraq. He might be able to tell us the truth about why it began and how it should end, whose profiting and how. Its been said a death sentence will make an honest man out of anyone. America has never needed straight talk from an authority figure more than it needs it now. America needs you Teddy Kennedy....to cut through the mountains of bullshit covering up our reason and judgment and as the last act of your long and productive life, give us the facts and the plan to correct our course and once again be a great country. Save us Senator Kennedy!