Robert F Kennedy Eulogy [Ted Kennedy Speaking]

[listerone]

As if Teddy was capable of truly loving anyone or anything but himself,certain waitresses at La Braserie in DC and Chivas Regal.

[righttoremainhostile]

Yes, yes, yes

[iburnaga]

I NEED MORE THUMBS

[iburnaga]

@pakleglia John Powell - Atonement From the Bourne Supremacy.

[astudyofeverything]

Listening to this really made me think about certain aspect of my life and how I should change them for the better. Thanks Don.

[FaganRoberts]

A Family of Limosine Liberals

[MirageScience]

this makes me want to vow a life of poverty while working a high paying job

[TheSupremeCommentor]

That's a great speech..

[iburnaga]

I desire this song so badly.

[Xavier7564]

Awesome speech, this speech talks about what it means to be a moral person. Most people think they are already a moral person and have a basic idea of morality. This video can encourage people to become more moral as the mainstream view of morality is immorality.

[kyebean]

Amazing. If I had to pick one speech to tell extraterrestrials what humanity is all about, this would be it.

[tiznogodz]

Thank you for posting this - I try to imagine what it will be like when any of my brothers and sisters die or when I die, as my grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles before me, and a few of my immediate brothers and sisters have done. (Yes, I come from an enormous family.)

Surely we can learn . . . Teddy's words mirror my own.

I have no interest nor temptation to place blame.

History proves that all are to blame, ultimately.

Most importantly, we are conscious and thus are responsible.

[ScrapGoldBass]

Hey Don, Its OK if you like RFK! Come on admit it-you like him! Hell, from what I can tell, he would have made a great prez.--what a strange, unfortunate fate for the Kennedys :(

[calvinhobbesliker2]

@ScrapGoldBass RFK used to be in his profile pic.

[BaileysBeads]

@pakleglia It's from the Bourne Ultimatum soundtrack, made by John Powell. The entire score of all the Bourne movies is beautiful.

[wowheed]

Good work,very fitting tribute to a great man.

[calvinhobbesliker2]

@Xerotaerg You probably didn't type it correctly

[calvinhobbesliker2]

@Xerotaerg Fail

[Kroystuffyeah]

Robert was probably the most liberal. He is the one I am saddest to see go. Joe died before his time, Jack after (The president does 90% of all policy and work in the first 100 days, from then on it is just a battle to make sure congress follows through), but Bobby was at his peak. If he had lived, Nixon would not have been president.

[jebus6kryst]

Beautiful.

[katia146]

I agree, it's beautiful :)

[Chi3fSoku]

Fuckin great video

[oilotnoM]

Woe to the dirty dozen who disliked that ...

[EatMyLeadMD]

The music is: John Powell - Atonement, from The Borne Supremacy soundtrack. its about 1 and a half mins long lol, obviously loops a few times here.

[neurocrater]

the music would be nice if it weren't the same 20-second loop over and over and over again...

superbly inspiring eulogy though

[DonExodus2]

@pakleglia Not sure, I mirrored it :(

[adsensus]

@pakleglia ah crap then, I was just going off the music link in the description bar... hope don gets back to you then.

[adsensus]

@pakleglia June 8, 1968 by Walter Cronkite

[adayofpersia]

@DonExodus2 There is no such thing as love and beauty. It's just a chemical in your brain. Stop being irrational.

[BillKiernan]

@adayofpersia yes because only the superstitious are justified in appreciating such things. stop being a disingenous knuckle dragging twat.

[adafuns]

@adayofpersia the fact that it is chemicals in your brain is what actually makes love and beauty real. or what did you think it was before? magic? because if not chemical then the only other alternative is magic and i hope you do not believe in magic. everything our body does is a result of chemicals and yet you choose to single out the emotion of love as not real? then what can you say about everything else driven by chemicals(which is everything else biological)?

[siloria]

Wonderful musical pairing Don. Thank you so much for this.

[ippy223]

thanks don

[petehjr1]

Great eulogy. Teddy was a good man.

[mistertakeda]

@petehjr1 He was a drunk, rock'em sock'em robot who tried to save America from itself. We'll miss the bastard. :\

[taiming71]

wow great speech

[celestialsalamander]

why is this takeing so long to load. is it HD. 'cos i don't think i've run out of downloads

[seks03]

anyone know the name of the melody in the background?

[Captainclusterfuck]

I do have to dislike Kennedy for the sake that he was really one of the main reasons that religion was introduced into politics, and now we have people like Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin as a result. Thanks JFK.

[DonExodus2]

@Captainclusterfuck How so? I think thats a bit of a stretch. After all, its the party that opposes literally every idea of the Kennedys which embraces religious fanaticism.

[calvinhobbesliker2]

@DonExodus2 And isn't is his opponents who attacked him for being Catholic?

[Krumbz2003]

@Captainclusterfuck

John F. Kennedy introduced religion into politics???

You sure about that one? lol

[usernameofnobody]

@Captainclusterfuck The first person to introduce religion into politics was the first person who realised that religous people were the most likely to vote. That was melenia before JFK

[TheAtheistAllegiance]

@Captainclusterfuck

That would actually be Dwight Eisenhower. Look at my profile information for the time periods when Christianity was integrated into the US government. It was all during the 50's.

[Muthsera80]

@Captainclusterfuck

I think you have to point that primarily to Carter. Although much was made off JFK being Catholic and the fuss that made during his presidential run. It was primarily because all Presidents before that time had been New England Protestants, and it was seen as impossible to become President without being one. In the same way Atheists face today. Is that true secularism? No not really, it's the silence of the established hegemony.

[laff2010]

@Captainclusterfuck religion came into politics a thousand years ago. did you ever study history?>

[Captainclusterfuck]

@laff2010 I don't recall American politics being around for thousands of years. Did you ever study history?

[laff2010]

@Captainclusterfuck I am a student of world history....what say you, great name??

[Krumbz2003]

Mesmerizing. The Kennedy family as a whole, although imperfect, did much for the people of America. Each in their own way.

Salute.

[mrstone56]

RFK makes me moist.

[campasini]

obsolete dogma's...

[Ryan44567]

Beautiful. 

[TheAtheistAllegiance]

This is beautiful.

[BeardedBill86]

"Some men see things as they are and say why? I bring things that never were and say, why not?"

A great note to end on.

[Krumbz2003]

@BeardedBill86 "Some people see things that are and ask why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask... why not? Some people have to goto work and don't have time for all of that!" - George Carlin

[ibstrd]

@Krumbz2003 That is one of the big problems of the world. Paid slavery.

[Krumbz2003]

@ibstrd

True.

It's also known in many circles throughout the world as a... joke.

[BeardedBill86]

@Krumbz2003 Hah, even in death good old George still has material to keep us laughing.

A shame it's also completely true, though.

[howlinggoat]

Thank you for sharing this with us :)

[NicosMind]

You should hunt out some of JFKs speeches and Dwight Eisenhower. They had some great speeches. And lets not forget Churchill.

[D119heavy]

RFK FTW

sirhan sirhan for the lose

[pdub78]

Great video:) Thanks for mirroring!

[Baertah]

I was a bit skeptical to the video at first, but it was really beautiful. Thank you for uploading this.

[phookadude]

ehhh...

[MINGO4445]

I will make this video my favorite and will show it to my kids. This is what could save mankind. It could.

[Ofpearlsandswine]

The words are beautiful, and they also reflect a beautiful future that could be ours if we so wanted to reach out and grasp it. People attribute morality to a diety, but I think that if we who do not believe in one were to gather together for the purpose of doing good and showing the world that we who are non-believers can be great champions of morality, the world could begin to change. As Ted Kennedy said "Each of us can work to change a small portion of events". Perhaps change is possible.

[Dodgyisonfire]

Listening to this, I can't help but think maybe we will continue to make it as a species afterall..

[philhellenes]

The last two sentences were perfection.

[seany505]

Only when the last river is dry, and the last crops have been grown, and the last fish has been caught ... will many learn that money cannot be eaten.

[TheBroncoTrip]

I love so much of what he has to say. It mirrors my internal thoughts, and what I feel in my heart to a T.

It is sad that I am filled with so much hope by these words, but yet have enough of a rational, realistic mind to know that words as honest, heartfelt and reasonable as this fall upon deaf ears.

We all have so much potential, and so much of it is wasted. Truly heartbreaking stuff.

[Shalek]

Damn. 

[vozuluzov]

Who could possibly hear those words and then vote thumbs down?

[logoth80]

that was damn powerful.

[nonfractal]

I'd never heard this before.. Beautiful and inspiring....

[bigboy45454545]

What s different world it might have been if Bobby and Jack's lives weren't cut so short.

[fraserdldavidson]

thanks. that was needed this morning.

[morganbath]

In times of great tragedy are words of great poetry spoken, and in times of great sorrow are great dreams born.

[ManlySlut]

"some men see things as they are and say why"

"I dream things and say why not"

[Freshmanwave]

You could sense Ted Kennedy about to break down into tears by the end...

[LordSlag]

Oh why, why must the wicked prosper and the good suffer? Why must the virtuous be always destroyed before their time? Why MUST there be snakes in the water? Why must the selfish and ignorant flourish, and those who show valor be rendered into dust before their turn? I detest this world and I hate, with the heat of a hypernova, the vast swaths of willfully ignorant humanity who make the only reality we will ever inhabit so horrific and unjust.

[beachcomber2008]

@LordSlag There are snakes in the water BECAUSE we live upon the Earth

Life without pain isn't life

Life is easily wasted and quick to leave us

Life waits for none of us

If you don't put out for others, and don't plan to ensure your (and their) childrens' children have a better life than yours

Then you will live a comfortable life without quality, without risk, and without a future

And your and other peoples' children will suffer, and their children might never exist

Choose

[LordSlag]

@beachcomber2008 I already chose, sir. It wasn't a hard one. Please help me support the advancement of science, Google: BOINC.

[MarkLucasTube]

Good

[ScreechingInsanity]

It's a nice speech~

[williafx]

DonExodus - As a former North Carolinian - I gotta hand it to you for keeping an open mind amidst an ocean of oppression.  Cheers Whitney - Adam

[swinewarrior]

blew me away..................bootlegg­ers son .......who could bullshit

with a honey gob

sat an watched the news in South Carolina in 90/91 where the African Americans

started they ......did not want integration as it was taking away their Affricaness

that they got...........minnd you it never helped Liberia much

be cool

[gothatfunk]

i was very familiar with the closing lines, having heard them many times before. thank you for posting this, that was incredibly moving.

[AMP3G]

The last line was by far the most meaning full.

[SintherX]

Beautiful, thanks ... 

[TremorHellborn]

I have never been more moved in my life.

Thank you, DonExodus2.

[AncientAtheist]

Thanks, Whit.

Our politics? Yeah. Should have nothing to do with this at all.

[PopGoesExistence]

This is so pretty I almost cried. It just really makes you think, doesn't it. Completely agree with @DanceInYourRoom. Also this is certainly a lot different from @DonExodus2 's normal videos he posts, but I like it. Him posting this kinda shows a different side of him and I think it's cute. :)

[cireyar]

that music loop was hella sad but went well with the Eulogy

[ericpao81]

The TEA Partiers are the type of people who would have killed him.

[pinochet222]

@ericpao81 or any decent human being, for different reasons



[DanceInYourRoom]

Men like this don't exist in politics today. period.

[elfmotat]

Artist - Walter Cronkite ...?

[Stromatolite577]

Never a "fan" of Ted Kennedy, I agree it is a beautiful eulogy. It was all the more poignant when as teen I watched these events as they happened.

[chuckawobbly]

this is fuckin beautiful.

[chupamiubre]

R.I.P RFK

[GermAmp55]

I love this in adoration for RFK :')

[Bardlettt]

Yeah, I cried a little. I don't know if you're interested, but I've been having a little debate with a racist youtuber on the Out of Africa theory of human migration. A video on population isolation (with respect to evolution), color di (or poly?) morphism in the animal kingdom might be a worthwhile topic, you explain complex evolutionary biology so well to the 'layman.'

[ishtarian]

As noted... regardless of politics, or even of whether or not Robert Kennedy was anthing like he is presented here, it is a beautiful eulogy, and very inspirational. Perhaps, having grown up in that era, I'm more than a bit naive (many would strike the "perhaps" here in a wink), but I still feel strongly that we can do a great deal toward alleviating these things... and yes, dammit, I still tend to have faith in our common humanity....

[DeusExWhyZed]

wow. some people actually voted this down? wtf is wrong with you? that final phrase is haunting

[calvinhobbesliker2]

@DeusExWhyZed People like migkillertwo who think he caused the deaths of millions of vietnamese and almost led the world into nuclear war with the CMC.

[buckfushes]

Beautiful eu-googly

[nishbrown]

Beautiful indeed.

Thanks for posting this!

[JoaoLuisAngelo]

My only complaint is a "technical" one, and I will freely admit that it may be my ears not working properly, or that something is wrong with my computer's speakers.

Anyone else finds the music, beautiful that it is, almost drowns the actual speech?

Was it a mistake somewhere in the mixing of the different soundtracks?

[Tatchko]

I couldn't imagine what it'd be like to lose both of my brothers. Just thinking about it is painful.

[gregcnz]

Agreed. I have long used it as an example of a superb speech.

[TexAtheist]

Anyone know where the music came from? I love it. Need to know it. Sounds like soundtrack music but whatever it is, please tell me...

[dragonmatt5]

It is amazing, that such a beautiful send of, such a well written and heart-tugging eulogy is still rendered a battlefield of arguments and jackasses. Both sides, just shut the fuck up about the discussion on the pres being good or not. It isn't the purpose of the vid nor is this the place to bicker about policy or the lens of history.

Sit back, listen, and save your post-event perfected views about what "should" have been done for someone who actually gave an opinion about it.

Bitch elsewhere.

[black487]

Well written. A good speech should truly unite people. This does fairly well. A good eulogy should rejoice in somebody's memory. This does fairly well in that category as well.

"To live in the hearts we leave behind is to never die".

Regards.

[pumkinpi2]

A shame he was killed, as he was. As a leader, however, he was, well, imperfect. I find much of this speech mere bloviation.

[GuineaJay]

Fuck those Boston mick fucks.

[proatheism]

I listened to this four times.

[bdobbsthepipe]

@proatheism

"The fact of the matter is; Kennedy was a terrible person, and a terrible president and an accessory to the murder of millions of people in Vietnam"

Just go fuck yourself!

[wade6906]

@bdobbsthepipe JFK had stopped the Vietnam war before he was killed after LBJ became president he opened up the war! Read a history book!

[bdobbsthepipe]

@wade6906

You do know what "Quotation marks " are don't you?

[bigalisme]

It's a good eulogy.. too bad Ted Kennedy had to give it.

[truvelocity]

Interesting.  Not one President nor Prime Minister got to their position unless they did something corrupt. Name one who didn't. In the mean time, who's the better man or woman? When the Kennedy's decided to go against the people's principals that got them to the top, they were killed for it.

[jwhyte67]

@truvelocity They were killed for going against the millitary-industrial complex.

[efarmer385]

Empty words.

[DrOman5596]

Such a beautiful eulogy. Thanks for posting it!

[kenshin304]

Wow, great Eulogy.

[AtheistGlitch]

That was an awesome speech 

[pendulousphallus]

Perhaps because I haven't been reading as much lately as I normally would for whatever reason I'm awestruck.

It's hard to forget the feeling when you come across words crafted well and purposefully. I miss it.

Thanks for posting this, DonExodus. Always pleased for a reminder of the important things. : )

[arseymcpherson]

We therefaaaw...

[TheCurmudgen]

Absolutely wonderful. Thanks.

[evb4mvp]

this is simply beautiful, such a great speach. RIP senator Ted Kennedy

[amberview30]

That's pretty moving. However, I think I'd like something suprisingly festive at my funeral. There will probably be only 4 people there though.

[82abhilash]

At 2:18 responsibility is spelt wrong.

[DonExodus2]

@82abhilash Always noticed that

[82abhilash]

@DonExodus2 You mean you wanted it that way? Why?

[DonExodus2]

@82abhilash I didnt make the vid, just mirrored

[82abhilash]

@DonExodus2 Ah! Nice. But not consistent with your image as an original content provider.

[ndyt]

Too bad he was a thug. 

[DonExodus2]

@ndyt Aye

[westfalla]

@DonExodus2 Is it wrong that I get excited whenever I hear someone say "Aye". It's my favorite word and it's criminally underused

[DonExodus2]

@westfalla Gives me a big rubbery one too.

[TheNamesBettyNyahhh]

@DonExodus2 Come and join me in the North East of England. 'Aye' is the common replacement for 'Yes' and 'Yeah' up here... Good ole Geordies.

[arseymcpherson]

@westfalla you should come to Ireland. It's how we say 'yes'.

[EatMyLeadMD]

@westfalla i never say "yes" anymore, or "Yay" for that matter, i instead say "Aye", coz its awsome :D

[squirreljester2]

@westfalla Aye!

[82abhilash]

We get to see another side of DonExodus here.

[barnzee1]

amazing 

[MrsMorphumax]

Thank you for this.

[Haitahx]

music suits it so well

[ndjm00]

Who is speaking?

[IdoloR]

You've uploaded this in the past, guess that shows how long I've been subbed and watching now lol. Great choice, such a touching video.

[rphamning]

beast

[pinochet222]

initiator of the bay of pigs and terror campaign against the cuban and vietmamese people and many others.... fuck him

[DonExodus2]

@pinochet222 Oh jesus just listen to the eulogy. I dont care if the dude was nephilimfree, its still a beautiful eulogy.

[pinochet222]

@DonExodus2 do you realize that these fucking people had almost ended the human race?

it came so close that a courageous Russian political officer had to overrule the direct order of the Kremlin to fire nuclear torpedoes when their submarine got shot at near Cuba.

This is a fact.

[DonExodus2]

@pinochet222 Its a fact, and a great movie. Again, this doesn't change my point.

[pinochet222]

@DonExodus2 I'm not talking about a movie, I'm talking about an incident during the Bay Of Pigs and the blockade of Cuba, which almost triggered the nuclear holocaust. It was THE closest moment in history, ever! It has taken officers disobeying orders (maybe even on both sides)

We've come so close to extinction thanks to the Kennedies.

But don't mind me, keep on worshiping these horrible tyrants ...

[DonExodus2]

@pinochet222 Im talking about 13 days. Great movie.

[pinochet222]

@DonExodus2 thx, I'm gonna check it out

[calvinhobbesliker2]

@pinochet222 It was the Soviet Union who put nukes in Cuba. What would you have done?

[arseymcpherson]

@calvinhobbesliker2 Stopped threatening the USSR with a ring of naval and air bases for a start. As the man says, there are two side to every story.

[jwhyte67]

@pinochet222 wtf are you talking about? During the Cuban Missile Crises millitary officers wanted to strike! It was the cool of JFK and RFK that prevented all out war during that. If someone like Bush was president during that we'd be fucked. And yeah, the Bay of Pigs was a fuck-up but the handling of the CMC more than redeemed them. Read some more history.

[pinochet222]

@jwhyte67 what caused the Cuban missile crisis, you fucking moron? And the terror against the Cuban people didn't end just then...

[pinochet222]

@jwhyte67 "unleash the terror of the world on Cubans" is and actual quote from a conversation between JFR and RFK (who is ultimately responsible for it)

[themine691]

@pinochet222 vietnam was after he was assassinated

[pinochet222]

@themine691 learn your fucking history, idiot

[migkillertwo]

@themine691 Our heavy involvement was after kennedy, but Kennedy could have, but didn't discontinue the Eisenhower pro-colonial, pro-diem policy towards Vietnam

[corjtallan1991]

@pinochet222 yeah let's all make attacks on dead presidents because we're tactless disrespectful assholes. Fuck you George Washington! Lincoln was a dick! Yay!

[migkillertwo]

Well Lincoln WAS a dick! Suspending Habeus Corpus, calling for the arrest of the Chief Justice of SCOTUS, slaughtering thousands of southerners who were merely trying to overthrow a dominating force...Yeah, lincoln was a dick.

George Washington? Kind of a dick, but not as dickish. His response to the Whiskey Rebellion was dickish, and his fetish for Federal Supremacy was very dickish as well.