Ted Kennedy - An Everyman

Kennedy patriarch and a U.S. Senator for decades, Ted Kennedy has died.  In many important ways, he was an Everyman.  Like the rest of us - poor, middle-class, wealthy - he was flawed.  The Roman Catholic Church calls that "original sin."  Shakespeare called it "cankered in the grain."  But unlike most of us he had the opportunity to go beyond his own darkness to create light on a large national and global stage.  In the public policy arena he leveraged his resources to be useful to the common good.  

That is how we might take a measure of this man.