A bunch of politicians descended upon the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in D.C. for Ethel Kennedy’s funeral.
Ethel is the widow of Robert Kennedy and mother to Robert Kennedy Jr.
Former President Bill Clinton delivered a eulogy for Kennedy, and, um, it went as well as you thought it would go for a man who had an affair with an intern:
I was trying to think of whether I could say anything that would add to what others have said. And I doubt that I can but I will tell you this. I thought your mother was the cat’s meow.She would flirt with me in the most innocent ways.I remember once I said, you know, we’re not at replacement population anymore. And all the politics are anti immigrant. What are we going to do? I said we need more people like you.
“She was an amazing fireball of continuous energy. It was wonderful to be around her,” Clinton recounted of Ethel Kennedy, a mother of 11 children who was widowed in 1968 when her husband, then a New York senator, was assassinated while running for the Democratic presidential nomination.“I remember one of the — I loved all these Valentine’s cards and there’s a bunch of them downstairs, and they’re very political,” Clinton went on, reading a poem from one of them.“Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m surrounded by love, but there’s still room for you,” the poem read.
I wish we could see Hillary’s face during the eulogy.
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