DEMS SHOULD NOT BE CASANDRAS-- READ SPECTOR'S BOOK TO GOVE YOU COURAGE AND CONVICTION THAT TEDDY LIVES AND WILL LIVE ON LONGER THAN FEAR CAUSES YOU TO PROGNOSTICATE!
Ted Kennedy has been a rock for most Dems, EVEN FOR SOME REPUBLICANS IN THEIR DARKEST HOURS; and, especially for the Obama Camp. True, the Kennedy's have known more tragedy than most, but that should not rob Teddy of his prospects to survive. Ted Kennedy may not be prognostically as bad off as one may think. Perhaps we should all ask Senator Spector to write a comment in this blog to give us all courage. Though a Republican, in the eyes of non-partisan cancer, we are all fair game. So Spector should be a real mano-manio inspiration to Ted Kennedy.
TED WILL OVERCOME....SOME OF US HAVE PRAYER TO GIVE US COMDFORT ON THAT BECAUSE THOSE OF US WHO KNOW MEDICINE KNOW THAT WE REALLY DON'T KNOW SQUAT-- NEITHER POSITIVE....BUT CERTAINLY NOT NEGATIVE EITHER. BUT WE DO KNOW NOT TO CRY UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS. So far, Teddy still gets only shapely young lassies singing to him, so there's not cause to give up.
TED WILL PREVAIL...AND WHERE THERE IS LIFE THERE IS HOPE.....IN THE MEANTIME, THE REST OF US SHOULD CONSIDER HOW VERY MUCH HE CONTRIBUTED TO THIS NATION AND WHAT A FIGHTER HE HAS BEEN FOR CAUSES, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR PROSPECTS, SO LONG AS HE DEEMED THEM RIGHT. LET'S ALL BE TEDDIES NOW IN THIS CRITICAL PERIOD AS HE WOULD WANT US TO BE...KICK ASS, DON'T STOP!
I have learned to appreciate and even to admire Senator Kennedy even while a Republican activist. But I have not come to bury Teddy, rather to praise him-- the OPPOSITE of Brutus!
DON'T ANY OF YOU DARE GIVE UP ON HIM OR THE CAUSES TO WHICH HE HAS RECRUITED YOU ALL....I KNOW THAT SENATOR SPECTOR WOULD TELL YOU EXACTLY THE SAME THING.
IN MEDICINE WE LEARN TO PLAY THE ODDS AS IF A HOSPITAL WERE A CASINO. BUT IN LIFE, WE LEARN THE POWER OF HOPE AND FAITH....NO ONE CAN DOUBT THAT SENATOR KENNEDY WANTS YOU ALL BACK AT YOUR BATTLE STATIONS WITH YOUR EYES DRY SO NOT TEARS WILL BLUR YOUR VISION.
HE WILL WIN, JUST AS RIGHT WINS OVER WRONG....GOD DOES NOT TAKE HIS CREATIONS OF THE TEDDY-TYPE LIGHTLY.
SO STOP CRYING....WHERE THERE'S LIFE, THERE'S HOPE, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE LIFE IS SO FEISTY.....
AND, AS MY WIFE TOLD ME WHEN SHE GOT BREAST CANCER: CANCER KILLS YOU ONLY ONCE, SO WHY LET IT KILL YOU EVERY DAY....THAT WAS 30 YEARS AGO AND SHE'S STILL BATTLING IT.
HANG IN THERE DEMS, FIGHT ON AS TED FIGHTS ON....WE WILL ALL-- TED INCLUDED-- PREVAIL FOR SOME TIME TO COME...BUT NOT FOREVER, SO WASTE NOT TIME IN DESPAIR.
TED LIVES BY THE GRACE OF GOD HE CERTAINLY *STILL* DOES...BACK TO YOUR BATTLE STATIONS, SHOOT DOWN A LOBBYIST FOR TED!
This post is in caps because I am screaming at the top of my lungs!
