The Decline of the Kennedys

How did the Kennedy dynasty manage to decline from this (from Best of the Web):

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

This much we pledge--and more. (Taken from JFK's 1961 inaugural address)

to this:

The war in Iraq has become a war against the American occupation. . . . The U.S. military presence has become part of the problem, not part of the solution. . . . The first step is to confront our own mistakes. . . . No matter how many times the Administration denies it, there is no question they misled the nation and led us into a quagmire in Iraq. . . . As in Vietnam, truth was the first casualty of this war. . . . As a result of our actions in Iraq, our respect and credibility around the world have reached all-time lows. . . . Never in our history has there been a more powerful, more painful example of the saying that those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. . . . The nations in the Middle East are independent, except for Iraq, which began the 20th century under Ottoman occupation and is now beginning the 21st century under American occupation.
(Taken from Teddy "the swimmers" Kennedy's address yesterday to the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies)

Teddy has become America's top cheerleader for defeat in Iraq. He's so afraid that Bush will succeed that he now feels he must do everything in his power to cast doubts on our progress, dispirit the troops, and aid and encourage our enemies. Fortunately, Teddy is a bloated, alcoholic murderer who should have been put in prison 30 years ago for killing his young campaign worker, and who has no credibility among thinking people. According to Charles Krauthammer on yesterday's Special Report with Brit Hume, Kennedy is "washed-up has been who cannot make a major address. There is nothing coherent about that argument. He simply is arguing we'll get out because it's a Vietnam all over again, without making any case to show how that analogy holds. ".

Let's hope the Dems keep putting this gasbag out in front of the cameras.