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| A Political Par-tee! |
He was called the
last
and the least, an attitude firmly grounded on the morbid deification of his brothers. Perhaps it’s hard to appraise his value. Few people have had to perform publicly with as
many ghosts as
Ted Kennedy.
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| Ted never really escaped |
The
White
House was his, until he
abandoned
a young girl to drown in his overturned, submerged car. And then OJ'd his way out of it. After that, the only
thing they would trust him with was an incumbent-for-life senatorial position. Massachusetts loved him. Everyone felt so lousy about his
murdered brothers, what
else could you do?
Surprisingly, he performed well – which is either a testament
to Kennedy’s innate political savoir faire, or evidence of what kind of job it
really is.
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| O them ghosts |
Ted had a hard-earned reputation for womanizing and boozing –
not exactly a career-killer, but one that keeps you off Pennsylvania Avenue. It
was impossible to tell whether he cared, or was just going through the motions ... Something, unprincipled and painful, kept pushing him on.
He had everything and, in a way, very little, choke-collared by historical expectations, and perhaps, when alone, subject to late-night nightmares of slim, pale hands.
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| ‘In our sleep, pain that cannot forget' - Aeschylus |
