Oh, how the times have changed, yes they have

Many years ago, I watched my oldest brother die of the ravages of Hodgkins disease, and ultimately, leukemia. He was thirty-three when he died, though he should not have. But it was 1974, when there was still not enough research, apparently.

Thirty-five years ago is a long time, especially in the memory of Congress, if you understand anything. Now, it's all about healthcare, isn't it? Obamacare, it is called, though I ask, what the "eff" does Obama care about the American people?

Oh, yes, I remember Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick in 1969. I was not there: were you?

Does that whole episode mean we should have a healthcare program in Teddy's memory? Ted seemed, back then, to not give much of a crap about Mary Jo's "health", did he? And now, he has died himself, folks, and to promote the Obamacare program?

Ted Kennedy died because he had a brain tumor, and simply, because it was his time to die.

Before that, I have still a most vivid memory of Washington, DC, burning, in 1968, as many a$$holes set fires, looted and plundered their neighborhood businesses, and destroyed their own homes. I can still smell Washington burning, after these forty-one + years.

Can you? Do you even understand what happened back then? What trauma occurred after the killing of Martin Luther King? Do you, any of you, have any idea of the effect this had upon America at that point?

I do, because I was living in Alexandria, VA, and watching not only Senator Edward Kennedy, but all the politicians in DC--studying them, as it were. Shortly after I moved back to the Midwest, this "incident" occurred, which resulted in the drowning death of Mary Jo Kopeckne. I saw so much in those days, that I resolved to become apolitical.

Oh, by the way, I do have a fond memory of Senator Birch Bayh, when in the tunnels beneath the Senate and House in 1968, complimenting me on the handsomeness of my young son, who was then about two years old and in a stroller. And wasn't Birch Bayh handsome himself then? And quite effective? He could have been elected president by our current-day standards of electing a president because of his looks...

And I am certain HE, Birch Bayh, would have produced, for public knowledge, his birth certificate AND a health certificate, in order to show the American people that he was fit to govern this nation.

Amazing, isn't it, how the times have changed?