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He is the last great link to the age of Camelot, and he remains a roaring lion of progressive liberalism, even with his grave diagnosis.

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The press extensively has marginalized Kennedy's impassioned calls for compassionate domestic policies and a sane foreign policy, because they believe that is what is expected of a "Massachusetts liberal."

But some of the most damning indictments of the Bush Administration have come from Kennedy, along with the barn burning speeches of Al Gore in the last few years.

The number one non-fiction "citizen" reviewer on Amazon.com says of "America Back on Track" (which was published in this hardcover edition a couple years back) wrote:

In the context of the other 700+ books I have reviewed as the #1 Amazon reviewer of non-fiction related to national security and competitiveness, I can safely say that no other person in America has written a book quite as relevant, quite as competent, to our declining dollar and our vanishing democracy. I am, incidentally, a moderate Republican.

The Senator, whose brother Jack was in my view assassinated for wanting to end the arms race so profitable to Wall Street, and whose brother Bobby was in my view assassinated for wanting to make government work as intended, is quite correct when he opens by suggesting that the checks and balances intended by our Founding Father are NOT WORKING. Excessive secrecy on the part of the Executive branch, combined with an abdicating Congress and a compliant Judiciary (the latter just rules against freedom of speech for government employees, penalizing those who denounce government waste, fraud, and abuse), have put not just democracy, but the fiscal and military health of the Republic at risk.

...As the author states, government is supposed to be a guarantor of individual rights and equality (all men created equal and the rest of that good stuff in the Founding documents), but the Republicans (the extremists that have disenfranchiese we moderates) have been mounting a determined assault of government, seeking to reduce its role in protecting the majority, while favoring the special intersts that can afford to bribe our Representatives with houses, yachts, and private jet trips to play golf in Scotland...and of course cash. [I also recommend Tom Coburn's book, "Breach of Trust" in which he documents the corruption of the Republican and Democratic party leaders who demand that representative vote the "party line" rather than what is good for their district). Washington is BROKEN.

The Senator's final recommendation is brilliant: the U.S. budget must become more transparent. I call this "reality based public budgeting." What he is really talking about is the degree to which the budget is concealed from the public with escoteric earmarks, off budget funding, and budget decisions that bear no resemblance to our needs, but instead respond to bribery from special interests, and the ideological fantasies of extremists.

Overall this is a book that is full of common sense, that is thoughtful, that is easy to read and to understand. I put the book down thinking that the author is indeed a "great man" in the classical Churchillian sense of the word. He has a great mind, and he would make a good President. He has earned my total respect. [End of excerpted review]

Kennedy has faced so many personal tragedies, he could long ago lost faith in the promise of America.

But he has not, nor has he lost his passion and his outrage at seeing our nation destroyed by a rogue regime in the White House.

Two of his brothers were assassinated in the '60s, which really was the beginning of America's second Civil War.

This time the Confederacy stole the White House and remains in control of the Executive Branch.

Ted Kennedy exhorts us to restore the hope of the union that Lincoln left as his legacy.

We should heed the words of lion who never lost his voice.

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