During health-care vote, Ted Kennedy is gone — but not forgotten
By Dana Milbank | Friday, December 25, 2009 | The Washington Post
“…More than anything, it was his memory, and his final exhortation, that allowed the Senate Democrats to overcome considerable differences between moderates and liberals in drafting a compromise. President Obama, in his address to Congress in September, read from a letter Kennedy had written as he neared death, saying he was ‘confident in these closing days that while I will not be there when it happens, you will be the president who at long last signs into law the health care reform that is the great unfinished business of our society’….”…..BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/24/AR2009122402395_pf.html
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