Ethel - RFK

[WiffenPoof]

I just finished watching "Ethel" and I feel compelled to post something...I just don't know exactly what to say.

I am a strong man. Yet tears are streaming down my face.

I suppose "what might have been" is the closest I will come to identifying my dominate emotion.

I am filled with sadness not just for history's loss of a great man. But I am profoundly sadened for our country.

What happened? I look around and wonder what Bobby would think of what we have become.

This is not the country of Bobby Kennedy. We no longer honor the principles of liberalism. Over the past 30 years we have made choices that have dishonored the memory of this great soul. I am convinced that we will never travel down that road again.

"Some see things as they are and ask why...I see things that never were and ask why not."

-P

[Sekhmets Daughter]

1. Oh thank you for reminding me...

I forgot to record it last night...just set up a recording for later this morning.

Losing Bobby Kennedy broke my heart...

[truebluegreen]

3. Me, too...

I was young, and losing JFK was a terrible thing. MLK was murdered and that staggered me, but when Bobby Kennedy died it seemed like the lights went out. It feels like we've been fighting a defensive action ever since.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

9. A perfect description of life in the USA since Bobby Kennedy's death

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I also have thought that many times over the years. Cried all the way

through the movie, "Bobby", a few years back just hearing his voice and words again.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Reagan made stupidity respectable.

[rbrnmw]

5. If you want to Imagine what might have been listen to this speech

[rbrnmw]

6. Ted Kennedy's Eulogy to his Brother always makes me bawl like a baby

If Bobby had won in 68 we would have had no Nixon or Watergate no moving to the right of the Democratic Party

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[Smarmie Doofus]

7. Nice. n/t

[AZ Progressive]

8. Heck, what do you think the founding fathers would have thought of this country now

A country where someone who is a heavyweight liar, looks down 47% of Americans, has no problem shipping jobs to China, and even comes from a party who's policies were responsible for a massive recession can even be considered for the presidency, let alone having a real chance to get the presidency.

A country where one of its political parties are treasonous and has such disrespect for the American people that they continually lie and lie to them and so blatantly are BSers and hypocrites (because they bet on and play on Americans being ignorant fools) and even create their own sub-reality to legitimize their viewpoints.

[dts-hd]

10. jfk and rfk

Will the real truth ever come out of who killed them, it seems that both investigations were very limited.

This country has now become a service industry for Chinese goods, the hope and progress has been snuffed out.

There has not been a man to run for office with the same foresight for change,

I wonder if McCain and Palin were in office, would they have shunned the bush history. How is it that all the piggies with their noses?

In the trough have not been prosecuted for the financial mess we are in.

[WiffenPoof]

11. Excellent Post. NT

[dts-hd]

12. ethel

Thanks , yours prompted me.


In addition, elected officials for the most part, are not there anymore to serve but to line their own pockets.

They react to newspaper stories if it gets them good press, none of them seem to try to enact bills that change society for the better.

There is no sense of shame anymore, someone else is to blame. maybe it's air conditioning, before that when people were on the porch

or stoop, you had gossip and your fellow towns people knew what you were up to. oh well.

"The rich get rich, and the poor have children"

[BumRushDaShow]

13. My Mom was set to watch this last night

Have to ask her how she thought it was.... Mom is about 2 years younger than Ethel (who is ~84) and often invoked her name as a stalwart Kennedy matriarch.