Senator Kennedy, RIP

From Reuters/Yahoo:

U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America’s most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, died at age 77, his family said.

“Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port (Massachusetts),” the Kennedy family said in a statement early Wednesday.

A vast ideological divide separated us, but today is a day for condolences to the Kennedy family, not political commentary. And a little comfort from the big guy, via Mahalia Jackson…