{"id":335,"date":"2009-08-26T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2009-08-26T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T15:21:28","slug":"senator-edward-m-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/335\/senator-edward-m-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Edward M. Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regardless of one’s political affiliation or ideology,\u00a0today’s news of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s passing\u00a0is\u00a0upsetting.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kennedy,\u00a0an unapologetic liberal\u00a0—\u00a0indeed, an icon on the Left –served more than 40 years in the United States Senate and\u00a0was a fearsome advocate for the causes he took on.\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed, in the heat of more than a few legislative battles over the years, many in the center-right community found themselves cursing his name, while at the same time wishing he played for our team.<\/p>\n

When I sat down this morning to write this post, I must confess that I was lost for words.\u00a0 Then I stumbled upon Bill Bennett’s\u00a0words<\/a>\u00a0on NRO’s The Corner.\u00a0 Bennett wrote:<\/p>\n

He assaulted our causes and nominees with vigor and rancor. Still, i<\/span>n his day he was a powerful orator \u2014 and historians will mark his speech to the 1980 Democratic convention as a high water mark and example. <\/span>To his supporters, I simply give them his words, and leave the rest to historians: ‘<\/span>For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.’ <\/span>To the American Left, he was their lion. <\/span>To the American conservative movement, he was our bane. <\/span>But today, we put the politics aside and wish him and his family God\u2019s peace.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

R.I.P. Senator Edward M. Kennedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Regardless of one’s political affiliation or ideology,\u00a0today’s news of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s passing\u00a0is\u00a0upsetting.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Kennedy,\u00a0an unapologetic liberal\u00a0—\u00a0indeed, an icon on the Left –served more than 40 years in the United States Senate and\u00a0was a fearsome advocate for the causes he took on.\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed, in the heat of more than a few legislative battles over the years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-senator-kennedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}