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Ted Kennedy (from wikipedia)

On Tuesday, America lost a lifelong champion of the under resourced.

Regardless of your political view, everyone I’ve heard who’s talked about Sen. Edward Kennedy has said he always fought for the under resourced and always worked to build compromise wherever possible to make landmark legislation happen.
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A National Tragedy?!

The Insider – another junk celebrity/entertainment show just said, “ABC News broke into regular programming to report the news… as the country comes to grip with a national tragedy.”

ARE YOU SERIOUS?! Ted Kennedy has a brain tumor and it’s become a national tragedy?!

I feel sorry for him and the family, but a Senator from Massachusetts who’s served since 1962, gets a brain tumor and it’s a national tragedy? Yet 100,000 are dead or dying in China and Burma and more than 3000 soldiers have died in Iraq and a politician getting a brain tumor is a national tragedy?

Am I just too cynical or am I missing something?