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milestogo

(21,689 posts)
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 12:12 PM Thursday

A lot of these Senators are old enough to remember RFK.

I was a child when he was killed, but I have read a lot about him and seen a lot of video clips. He was a passionate man, full of energy and life. He enthusiastically supported President Kennedy. He could also be abrasive and stubborn.

What I see in his son are some of the same characteristics, but inverted. He is passionate about things that are untrue. He is delusional. He seems to be so badly damaged that there is no hope in reasoning with him. It is a tragedy that he does not look to his father and his uncles.


RFK Greatest Speech: A Tiny Ripple of Hope


RFK announces the death of MLK Jr


Eulogy for RFK by Ted Kennedy
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A lot of these Senators are old enough to remember RFK. (Original Post) milestogo Thursday OP
Is the organist trying to play him off the stage? The Blue Flower Thursday #1
I think the music was added to the video later on and was not happening during his funeral. milestogo Thursday #2
The apple has fallen far from the tree, rolled into a sewer, and been eaten by worms and bacteria IronLionZion Thursday #3
There are many Kennedy children, it's an amorphous group FakeNoose Thursday #4

The Blue Flower

(6,144 posts)
1. Is the organist trying to play him off the stage?
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 12:18 PM
Thursday

The music just gets louder and louder. Very disrespectful.

milestogo

(21,689 posts)
2. I think the music was added to the video later on and was not happening during his funeral.
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 12:22 PM
Thursday

I've heard this clip several times and I don't remember any music.

IronLionZion

(49,801 posts)
3. The apple has fallen far from the tree, rolled into a sewer, and been eaten by worms and bacteria
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 12:28 PM
Thursday

FakeNoose

(38,494 posts)
4. There are many Kennedy children, it's an amorphous group
Thu Sep 4, 2025, 01:03 PM
Thursday

It's a large clan and not all of the Kennedys have lived in the public eye. Yes they have wealth and privilege, and the Kennedy name has opened doors for some of them. But it seems to me that the Kennedys stand for liberal causes, and use their name and money to promote programs for the public good.

As a family the Kennedys are embarrassed and heartbroken over RFK Jr. To me it seems they don't know what to do about him, and it's way too late to disown him. If his father Bobby Kennedy Sr. had not been brutally murdered in 1968, he might have become President. But I believe his 2nd son RFK Jr. would have had an entirely different life.

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