Eulogy of Robert Kennedy

[Drunken Irishman]

Run time: 10:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFsMCXXAWI0   Posted on YouTube: March 16, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 20, 2008 By DU Member: Drunken Irishman Views on DU: 1560

 
40 years ago this June, Ted Kennedy gave an amazing speech at his brother Robert's funeral. Now Teddy is in a fight for his life. :(

[Mountainman]

1. June 8th is the 40th anniversary of his funeral.

"Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?"


I get so sad when I think of RFK and what could have been just as I look back on the last seven years and wonder what it would have been like of Gore was president instead of shithead.


In the sixties it looked like anyone who could offer us hope was taken from us as if we were supposed to make it on our own without some charismatic leader. JFK, RFK and MLK all taken from us.

The whole speech

Remarks of Robert F. Kennedy at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968
Robert F. Kennedy
University of Kansas
March 18, 1968

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/RFK/RFKSpeech68Mar18UKansas.htm

[remember2000forever]

2. How Awesome!

Thank You For Putting That Speech In Todays Concept!

[The Traveler]

3. And just how the hell do you expect me

to make it through that with dry eyes?

I'll raise a glass to ye later tonight, Irishman, and another to the Kennedy lads.

[DianaForRussFeingold]

5. Thanks for the warning,

:dem: "I'll raise a glass to ye later tonight, Irishman, and another to the Kennedy lads.":cry:

Senator Ted Kennedy sings at Obama campaign stop,
When Irich Eyes are Smiling :hug: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot1kqlSLWwQ

[The Traveler]

8. For your comfort and safety ...

I'll refrain from the singing bit. :hug:

[Jack Rabbit]

4. K/R

I remember that speech.

And Andy Williams' rendition of The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

[sam sarrha]

6. i saw RFK's speech in Modesto CA on his way to LA, WE ALL KNEW HE WAS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT, THERE WAS

HOPE, anticipation for the future.. it was a whistle stop speech from the back of the train.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. Wrong

It's hardly appropriate or even thoughtful to put the hateful images of what we've done in Iraq in front of Ted Kennedy's brilliant and loving words about his third fallen brother. That eulogy wasn't meant to put a pretty face on war, but, really, when I see photos of soldiers with all their protective gear next to kids in shorts and t-shirts, I am reminded of how wrong things are right now. How very wrong.

It just cheapens the Kennedy heartbreak to politicize those words, especially in today's climate.

[The Traveler]

9. Well, that's one perspective.

I was 12 years old when RFK took a bullet to the brain and fell into a coma asking if everyone else was OK. 40 years later. Ted has a brain tumor. There is another war of occupation, like that war. Things haven't changed much ... we've traded desert for jungle but the game is the same and blood is the same color.

And those words of grief were uttered by a politician about another politician who to his core wanted to do the right thing, and tried hard to discern exactly what that was. So it is appropriate, in my view, to hear those words again played out against the savage scenery of our own day establishes a certain timeless quality to the words, the ideals they proclaimed, the price of achieving them, and the tragedy of failing in that effort.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

10. It's about how much is public v. private

I was a grown adult when both Kennedys were assassinated, and I remember quite well the world before each died. Their deaths were in no way connected to Vietnam, although that was to become the biggest story after JFK was killed and before Bob Kennedy was murdered. There was much more to those men and their murders than the matter of an illegal occupation of a foreign country.

It might well have been more appropriate to deal with the hungry in the United States, the uninsured, the poverty-stricken young and old, for they were the Kennedy constituents, especially Bob. This video tries, and fails, to politicize something that was a concern, of course, to Senator Kennedy, but his record - like that of his brothers - had more to do with other matters.

I think taking a private thing like a eulogy for yet another fallen brother and putting it under the rubric of the Iraqi occupation misses the mark by a country mile. Or perhaps a generation or two.