Today is a sad day for Massachusetts and a sad day for America. Edward M. Kennedy is dead. He was part of a fabled family, suffered the loss of one brother to war and two to political assassination, experienced the humiliation of the Chappiquiddick affair, rebounded to champion the cause of access to heath care as an American right and was visibly supportive in the campaign of the man who would become the first African-American President in U.S. history. He was many things, but most of all, Ted was the best of the many Senators produced by the great state of Massachusetts. Just stop and think for a moment of the known Senators from that state: John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Henry Cabot Lodge, John F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy.