Teddy Takes Night One

OK, the man's not perfect. To put it mildly.

But damn.

CBS has disabled embedding, the fuckers, but they have a link to Teddy Kennedy's surprise appearance at the DNC.

But wait! C-SPAN for the win! (This includes the DNC's "Tribute to Ted Kennedy" blah blah, which is nice and all, if a little ... yeah. Packaged. God, the bad, bad music. Can't the DNC hire Joss Whedon and his people for things like this? You know, for a tribute speech, you can't beat the Buffy Summers, Class Protector bit from Season 3 ... anyway, For Senator Kennedy's speech, go to minute 14:30.)

Together we have known success and seen setbacks, victory and defeat, but we have never lost our belief that we are all called to a better country and a newer world. And I pledge to you that I will be there next January on the floor of the United States Senate when we begin the great ...

And he's cut off with "Teddy! TEDDY! TEDDY!" chants.

Well, that was moving.