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Eunice Shriver, RIP

Eunice Shriver, who experienced the violent deaths of four of her siblings, and the incapacitation of a fifth, before their times, died at 88 today. Joe Kennedy said, a manner more crudely than I do here, that if his daughter Eunice had been born a man she would have been the president. Better for the mentally disabled that she instead involved herself in the Special Olympics in its infant stages, transforming it into an international event. Eunice Kennedy Shriver never ran for office, but she did watch three of her brothers and her husband seek the presidency--and her son-in-law obtain the governorship of America's most populous state. That makes her unique, but so too, perhaps does her advocacy for the unborn within a pro-abortion party. Her husband, Sargent Shriver, was the last pro-life Democrat to run on the national ticket. Given her brother Ted's abortion reversal, and his successful efforts to prevent Hubert Humphrey from selecting her husband as his running mate in 1968, one wonders of the internal dynamics of between the few remaining Kennedy siblings. If the famous family she was born into was dysfunctional, the family she started seemed far from it. Unlike so many of her siblings, she never watched her kids become fare for the tabloids (and if she did, I can't recall it). Above the tributes attesting to Eunice Shriver as a wonderful sister and a servant to the mentally disabled stands the fact that she was a good mother. That simple accomplishment makes a life worth living.

posted at 10:34 AM
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