Opining Online

How I would have loved for The Anchoress to be wrong. Her prediction:

Someone - probably Keith Olbermann or Chris Matthews - will go completely over the top and say that the Kennedy illness will not mark the “end of Camelot…how fitting that it is being revived this very night by Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy’s handpicked successor to the enduring legacy,” or some such gag-inducing nonsense.

Unfortunately, she was not wrong. She accurately predicted the media malignancy that will make Ted Kennedy’s serious illness “all about Obama.”

Brain tumors, malignant or benign, are not about politics. This is a man’s life, his future quality of life, the ordeal his family will endure - that’s what we’re talking about here, not his past mistakes and foibles and certainly not about the next Democratic nominee, whoever that might be.

I’m also a bit disgusted about the “pre” eulogizing being done by some of Kennedy’s democratic colleagues. He’s not dead yet and from all the reports seems to be as alert and cognitive as ever. Imagine what it must feel like to hear your funeral years before it might happen.