<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Fineness &amp; Accuracy]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://finenessandaccuracy.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Scott Madin]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://finenessandaccuracy.wordpress.com/author/smadin/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[RIP Ted Kennedy]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>We have lost one of the greatest public servants our country has ever known.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t write anything else and stay coherent.  Goodbye, Senator.  Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: I still can&#8217;t stand to write much, but it&#8217;s worth noting that today is <a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/one-year-ago-today-by-digby-it-was.html">a year to the day</a> from Senator Kennedy&#8217;s speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention where then-Senator Obama was nominated as the Democratic candidate for President; and that it is the 89th anniversary <a href="http://www.feministing.com/archives/017423.html">of the 19th Amendment taking effect</a>, designated <a href="http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html#2035788769757363435">Women&#8217;s Equality Day</a> in 1971.</p>
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