Ted Kennedy

MANIFESTO

While I'm certainly of the opinion that a giant has fallen in our land, I can't help thinking that Ted Kennedy was the type of legislator that I often complain about, viz., the career politician. Kennedy was first elected to the US Senate in 1962 and served there for the next 47 years of his life. In other words, he never really had another job during his adult life.

Now, to be sure, the good citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts can elect whomever they please, but it's interesting that they'd continue to do so with someone who had such a spotty academic and personal history.