from our correspondent FLORE D'ALBERTO Arcais
Ted Kennedy
DENVER - At half past seven in the evening the sick old lion with a long white mane made his entrance into the arena and in the evening dedicated to Michelle Obama has taken away half scene the woman who dreams of becoming First Lady. Two-minute standing ovation he received when Ted Kennedy, at a slow pace, the physical care against inflated by the massive brain tumor, has reached the stage where his niece Caroline had just finished to enhance its quality. "Thank you, thank you, thank you", he repeated almost moved, with that unmistakable voice that generations of Americans have learned to recognize four decades of political life of the youngest brother, the last heir, marked by deaths, battles and defeats, the legend of Camelot in America.
In Denver had not come, I'll have discouraged doctors, party friends, family members, had prevented his wife Vicky. But he wanted to be present to "pass the torch in the hands of a new generation of Americans," to anoint Barack Obama officially as the only true heir to JFK. Someone in the audience wept, others to hold back her tears touched his listeners on the stage reserved for the family, Carolina, another niece Maria Shiver (wife of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger) and hundreds of signs saying Kennedy was waved by the delegates.
He spoke for seven minutes. "The hope rises again and the dream lives on," he said, he has no more than two years of life, "nothing, nothing would prevent me from being here with you tonight." In a speech that echoed one of his most popular (28 years ago) has repeatedly ripped the applause of the delegates: "By electing Obama we will guarantee that every American, from north to south, from east to west, young or old, will have a quality of health care as a fundamental right and not as a privilege. democratic friends, American friends, eserre is wonderful with you tonight. There is a new wave of challenges ahead of us and if we take the right direction we will reach our destination: not just a victory for our party, but renewal for our nation. In November the torch will be passed again to a new generation of Americans. And I promise that next January I will be in court for the resumption of work of the United States Senate. "
Kennedy spoke before the crowd at the Pepsi Center had watched in silence the short film about him shot by renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Pictures Ted boat with family members, brief interventions wife, Senator John Kerry (the Democratic candidate defeated by George Bush 2004), the closest friends. It had to be just what his contribution to the Convention. But he wanted to do more. Perhaps, as some say, to distract the delegates from the endless controversy that opposes Obama to Clinton, no doubt because he had decided to leave his political testament. And he wanted to do it in person.
(August 26, 2008)
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