Remembering Robert F. Kennedy

[rsmith6621]

Tommorow would have been his 80th birthday.

from CSPAN......"From Wednesday at the Capitol, an event to honor Robert F. Kennedy, who would have had his 80th birthday tomorrow. Speakers include his daughter, Kerry Kennedy, his brother Sen. Edward Kennedy, plus Sen. John Kerry, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and former staffers. Afterwards, a talk on the military & the media."

RIP Bobby....the world would have been a better place had you and Jack been with us all longer.

[FogerRox]

1. I heard RFK speak in Oct. 67, I was almost 10

[GrumpyGreg]

2. God almighty,time does fly. RIP Bobby!

[EFerrari]

15. My mom walked two precincts for him and took me with her.

I was 10.

[FreedomAngel82]

20. Lucky you

What an amazing experience that must have been!

[EFerrari]

23. I think he was probably the first progressive. Honestly.

The party didn't have its arms open and he had hair that was at least an inch too long, but the enegry was electric, really. It just flowed.

Some of his positions horrified the party -- akin to Kucinich now.

He fathered a million of us.

:toast:

[Maccagirl]

3. My political hero and role model

RIP Bobby. Thank you for your passionate, caring and searching nature. Dead at 42-hard to fathom.

:cry:

[AspenRose]

4. I was just talking about this to my mom today

Amen, the world would have been a better place.

RIP.

[medeak]

6. what happened to desert rose?

are you her? I miss her.

[AspenRose]

13. Nope, not the same person

(Sorry if you're disappointed! I live in the desert but she had the nick first!)

[medeak]

5. my Mom woke me up at 2 am to tell me the news

It was like JFK....you will never forget being a part of history.

[EFerrari]

24. Happened to me in reverse, medea. no, you never forget. n.t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. I was living part-time with my sister to help her out and she woke me up

in the middle of the night to tell me. I was 16 at the time. We both wept for quite sometime. Although we are Jewish, we went into Manhattan to St. Patrick's Cathedral later that day, to say prayers for him. Tears again here just thinking about it.

[pretzel4gore]

7. poor america!

abraham, martin, john...bobby

[durrrty libby]

17. ‘poor america” indeed

Oh how we need a politician like him now.

HA! There have been a couple of great Bush slams snuck in.

[BuelahWitch]

8. It's on CSPAN now

I was surprised when Joe Scarborough got up to speak and wasn't an asshole...he said that Kennedy was a hero of his. Go figure.

[FreedomAngel82]

21. Wow

Scarborough was there? Wow indeed. And good for him for not being a jerk.

[BuelahWitch]

9. Kucinich up now!

[WarNoMore]

10. He;s awesome, esp. now! n/t

[upi402]

11. Thom Hartman has co-authored a book

about the assassinations, the mafia, and the Cuba missile crisis etc.
It started as fiction, but over the years in the writing, many players passed away and documents were declassified, so it became a non-fiction book.

Thom Hartman
http://www.airamericaradio.com/node/922

[jbnow]

12. I loved that man

I was a child and probably naive (or not yet cynical), but I utterly admired him and knew he would be president. I cut out every article I could find about him, every pictures, any speech.

I planned to emulate him, have oodles of kids, go to law school, enter politics and my husband would care for the kids. He talked about things I believed politics were about.

I knew many state politicians. My mom worked for senators and use to bring me to work when I had days off and they were in session. It was not impressive and talking to them individual wa less so. Something in me felt politics should be much grander, a thoughtful weighing of the issues and always a priority on the greater good, for the people and society.

Bobby seemed to offer that and more. I remember fighting with a teacher who felt like he'd waited for others to first declare against Johnson and all sorts of other things. I was fierce in my defense.

Guess you know how his story ended.
I still can't believe it happened.
I am sorry for his family and our nation. I even am sorry for the preteen girl that I was too...what a painful time. So many dreams died with him.

[EFerrari]

25. I know exactly what you mean. That beautiful, heartfelt promise

ripped from us over night.

[Erika]

14. The speakers have all been fantastic!

People of all colors coming together in the common goal of uniting all of us by remembering RFK and his fight for civil rights.

It's a far cry from the token Black always pictured behind W in his staged events.

[patrice]

16. He lives in Us.

Really.

Hare Krsna! Hare Rama!

[EFerrari]

18. Bobby was even more charismatic than his brother.

He connected so easily, his empathy was so available.

The night he was shot, we were all tired (even me as a kid) from walking for him. We'd really made the rounds and were napping. When we woke up to the news, it was like waking up in a horror movie.

We never got over it and we never will.

Thank you, Bobby.

[FreedomAngel82]

19. RIP

What a wonderful person he and his brother were. :cry:

[FreedomAngel82]

22. I hope someone video's this

[EFerrari]

26. Dolores Huerta up now. Look at this little brown woman my sister

Bobby embraced the farm workers before anyone else knew where their fruit came from besides Safeway.

He was a capital "P" Progressive.

[EFerrari]

27. "Si se puede." "Yes, we can."

Beloved.

[Historic NY]

28. My God where has the time gone..............

its seems like only yesterday its was a far off dream to improve the human condition. Oh what could have been so many years ago.


"Each time a man stands for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

[newyawker99]

32. ...

One of my favorite quotes. :thumbsup:


Oh, what might have been! :-(

[Mend]

29. I worked for Bobby Kennedy in 1960 when he was in charge

of new voter registration for John F. Kennedy under a grant from the AFL-CIO. I met him in person only a few times and talked several times with him by phone. He was informal, very friendly, very smart, and had a great sense of humor.

[EFerrari]

33. Very cool, Mend, that you did.

:)

[stevedeshazer]

31. Shook his hand about ten days before his death

I was 13. I'm 50 now, and still saddened.

[EFerrari]

34. Me, too. Very rough years, the late 60s. Lots of terrible losses.

And profoundly affecting, for us early teens.