CNN Remembers Ted Kennedy, AKA the 'Liberal Lion' of the Senate.

CNN -- Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, died late Tuesday at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 77.

"We've lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever," a family statement said. "We thank everyone who gave him care and support over this last year, and everyone who stood with him for so many years in his tireless march for progress toward justice."

Kennedy, nicknamed "Ted," was the younger brother of slain President John F. Kennedy and New York Sen. Robert Kennedy, who was gunned down while seeking the White House in 1968. However, his own presidential aspirations were hobbled by the controversy around a 1969 auto accident that left a young woman dead, and a 1980 primary challenge to then-President Jimmy Carter that ended in defeat.

But while the White House eluded his grasp, the longtime Massachusetts senator was considered one of the most effective legislators of the past few decades. Kennedy, who became known as the "Lion of the Senate," played major roles in passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act, and was an outspoken liberal standard-bearer during a conservative-dominated era from the 1980s to the early 2000s.

"Senator Ted Kennedy's legacy in the United States Senate is comparable and consistent with the legacy of his entire family for generations," Kennedy's biographer, Ted Sorensen, said.

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[rkilla77]

I'm just wondering when cnn will honor Mary Jo Kopechne.

[liberalseatshit]

hey teddy! burn in hell forever with your bastard brothers, you fat drunken piece of fucking liberal shit!

[robvischjr]

@rkilla77

let the past go!!

may you rest in peace uncle ted!!!  love ya

[robvischjr]

rip uncle ted.

[Smithandrewskij978]

@liberalseatshit That is such a hostile comment

[Smithandrewskij978]

@Claronium780 Bush was absolutely the "Worst president ever"

[Smithandrewskij978]

@liberalseatshit That is such a hostile comment

[dale1966gto]

mary jo had spent hours and hours trying to claw out the back seat of that oldsmobile while kennedy slept off a drunk. what a murderer. he put his own political career ahead of this young woman's life.

of course, he was married the whole time. ah, well...what's a little philandering got to do with it.

[dale1966gto]

spoiled limousine liberal he was.

his most disasterous thing he did was sponsoring ''the immigration reform act of 1965'' which shifted our immigration laws from pro-european i.e. white, to third world squatters. he's the reason our country is getting browner every day. thank you teddy..

he also lett mary jo kapeckne in the back seat of that car to drown for 12 hrs. the car had the back seat clawed out it of her trying to get out for hours while he slept off a drunk. good riddance teddy.

[cbz54th]

feathers in a ruffle. LOFL! your the fuckin faggot you conservative pussy. I dont give a fuck who you shot or whos dick you put in your mouth pussy. I already live in a civil war bitch. your on the net talking like your big shit, you aint shit but a scared little girl mad at the world. Im not you bitch I have never taken orders from anybody. you want to come shoot me bitch come to Chi-Town and do it hoe. we have guns too and we actually use them. check the stats. not like you racist rednecks.

[Claronium780]

are you anti-gay AND racist !!?? asshole if there is a hell people like you are the ones who deserve to go there ! Robert Novak too !