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**Boris Godunov** · January 20, 2009, 15:56

He collapsed at the luncheon for Congress. His seizure lasted for several minutes, apparently, and he was taken out on a stretcher.

Sen. Byrd apparently had to be taken out during this, as he was "overcome" by the incident...

**Blaupanzer** · January 20, 2009, 16:09

Sadness. Hope Ted recovers.

**Imran Siddiqui** · January 20, 2009, 16:17

Hope all is well with Senator Kennedy and Senator Byrd.

**Q Classic** · January 20, 2009, 16:20

Didn't Sen. Kennedy just get through a stroke? This doesn't bode well for him.

**rah** · January 20, 2009, 16:21

Despite my personal dislike, I wish him well.

**Imran Siddiqui** · January 20, 2009, 16:23

From the NY Times live blog:

Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, said Mr. Kennedy was conscious and smiled at him as he was taken away by paramedics.

So that's good at least.

**Grandpa Troll** · January 20, 2009, 16:25

Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, collapsed Tuesday afternoon during a luncheon held for President Barack Obama in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.

Sen. Kennedy, pictured earlier this month, was diagnosed with a brain tumor last May.
2 of 2 Paramedics were called to the scene at 2:35 p.m. ET.

Kennedy, who appeared to be suffering from a seizure, was transported to a hospital.

"Senator Kennedy had a seizure" which "lasted a while," a Republican House member told CNN.

The member said Kennedy was still experiencing seizures when he was put in a wheelchair and taken out through the Rayburn room, located to the side of Statuary Hall.

Kennedy, 76, was first elected to the Senate in 1962.

The source did not know whether President Obama saw it happening because "there was still a lot of talking" and the program was still going on - the incident happened at the end of lunch.

This source was sitting at table in front of Kennedy and said Kennedy was sitting with former Vice President Walter Mondale and Senator Daniel Inouye

This from CNN

**Boris Godunov** · January 20, 2009, 16:30

Originally posted by rah View Post

Despite my personal dislike, I wish him well.

You know him personally?

**Dauphin** · January 20, 2009, 16:36

This is why I didn't enter the celebrity dead pool. He would have been on my list and then I'd now be wishing him to croak it. :/

**rah** · January 20, 2009, 16:46

Originally posted by Boris Godunov View Post

You know him personally?

No just thinking of the person he left to drown.

I still loved the volkswagon ad in National Lampoon that showed one floating on the river.

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**Grandpa Troll** · January 20, 2009, 16:59

Originally posted by Boris Godunov View Post

You know him personally?

Many of us have been around long enough to remember the legacy of this Kennedy family member playing out in real time.

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**Grandpa Troll** · January 20, 2009, 17:05

Originally posted by rah View Post

No just thinking of the person he left to drown.

I still loved the volkswagon ad in National Lampoon that showed one floating on the river.

I got hung up and got slowed posting, but we think alike rah

Time has a way of not forgetting how things were handled

By the way, they were talking abot the marks from golf cleats from a former president in the white house, and Jack kennedy stated his interests wouldnt leave marks in the floor..

Now was he talking about sailing or

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**Ben Kenobi** · January 20, 2009, 17:09

Hopefully he'll take the time to repent and be welcomed home in the Church.

**rah** · January 20, 2009, 17:14

When a law suit was threatened by VW, National Lampoon ran the following retraction:

"Even if Ted Kennedy had driven a Volkswagen he wouldn't be president today."

Only the National Lampoon

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