The Kennedy Family

By helping her husband make it to the White House, it won't be because she is a Machiavellian schemer or harbors some secret ambition to become president one day. She'll be a classy First Lady.

We're lucky, as Democrats, that we've had Ted Kennedy as a leading light of our party for so long. He's our link to a past when everything seemed renewed, refreshed, and all things seemed possible.