Senator Ted Kennedy: Rest in Perdition

On the occasion of Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy's death last week, ABC News posted on its website the question: "What do the Kennedys mean to you?" and invited readers to comment. Most of the comments were severely critical of especially Ted Kennedy: a sodden, corrupt, hypocritical, power-lusting ogre, an appropriate climax of an elitist, disreputable succession of Kennedys. I had nothing positive to say about him, either, nor about any of the Kennedys. They were major movers of the nation in...