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I”m surprised by some of the comments I’m getting about Ted Kennedy. It looks like some of us would be happy to see Senator Kennedy die from cancer.

I don’t know if they’re serious. I don’t know if they understand what they’re wishing on him.

I’ve only seen one brain tumor patient. He was a middle-aged man, sharing a hospital room with a person I went to visit. When I got there, he was smearing feces on his head. And he couldn’t talk. But he was aware of his surroundings and other people, and he looked healthy, physically. I don’t know much about brain tumors. I suppose sometimes they cause dementia. Who would enjoy seeing Ted Kennedy in that state? It wasn’t funny when it happened to President Reagan.

I’ve said similar things about Castro, and I suppose even that was wrong. But Castro murdered thousands of people. And he tortured and unfairly imprisoned thousands more, and he turned his nation into a penitentiary people were not allowed to leave. The main reason Castro never equaled the evil of Adolf Hitler wasn’t that he was morally superior; it was disparate opportunity.

Ted Kennedy is not in that class, even if he did take care of number one while Mary Jo Kopechne was suffocating in an air pocket in his car.

Sooner or later, we’re going to have to give up the fun of Internet rage and invective and start treating each other like human beings. I say that even though I’ve been as bad as almost anyone. We’re not helping our country by treating each other so harshly we make it impossible to cooperate. It’s actually unpatriotic. At some level, we’re supposed to be on the same side.