C-SPAN is carrying Ethel Kennedy's memorial

[nolabear]

Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden will speak. Obama is there. Quite a front row.

[malaise]

1. Live link

[a kennedy]

2. Barack is speaking now.....

[a kennedy]

3. Nancy Pelosi is speaking now.......

I didn’t know the congregation would clap after a tribute was given at a funeral service……..after Barack gave his tribute they clapped for it. I thought it strange. It was a very moving tribute.

[nolabear]

4. I've been thinking about that too.

Kathleen is speaking now. There has been applause after speakers. It’s more usual now than in the past, and probably just at those big public ones.

It’s noteworthy that I haven’t seen Bobby Jr at all. I’m sure he’s there but not anywhere you can see him.

Ethel sounds like a pip. And I mean that in a good way.

[a kennedy]

5. and I don't want to see Robert Jr....I really wonder how his mother, Ethel felt of his pursuit

of political and social life…….i’m sure she probably wasn’t real happy with him, loved him as per a mother, but not happy.

[obamanut2012]

8. She was disgusted with him, and he wrote some horrible stuiff about her in his book

[a kennedy]

6. Wow, Sting is playing now.......

[nolabear]

7. I know! An apropos song.

How fragile we are.