Whatever happened to our government having strength? Ted Kennedy was not even dead, why was he crying? I'm all for having a heart, but damn it our government is supposed to be representative of the people. I for one would like to see resilience in congress. Is this the way we would like the world to see us? As a group of people who lose all hope and start blubbering at the first sign of difficulty? Our forefathers were this weak when they forged our country. Why do we allow weak character now?

What a shame, what a public display of weakness and senility. Is that our government? Is that a Senator of a Superpower?

Democrats are a bunch of idiots.

Kennedy is a murdering womanizer,and I'm sure byrd was involved in lynchings... I will celebrate when they are both pushing up daisy's.

A former member of the KKK weeps over a fellow bolshevik's ailment. Touching.

Very moving. I would have been moved to tears myself if Byrd had cried through the eye holes of his soiled bedsheet. The phoniness of liberals is sickening.

Is that the nuclear button on his lap?

Name one that murdered an innocent woman by letting her drown to death and then covered it up.

Republicans never killed anyone right?

AMEN!

That compassion is called senility and weakness, my friend.

This is a senile old man that should not be an acting US senator. What happened to the day when leaders conducted themselves with "control" in the public eye. And this liberal "God hater" has the nerve to reference "God"? As for Kennedy, I wish no harm or suffering on any human being, but he is a drunken, murdering scumbag. He deserves no honor, because he has none.

sounds like Byrd and Kennedy had a "special relationship"...

I don't wish any harm upon him at all, and we ought to conduct ourselves more appropriately. However, that is not to neglect the "legacy" or record of Ted Kennedy. Truth is, he has ruined this country with the policies he has introduced on Capitol Hill. The media should talk about that now that all eyes are on him, but we know they won't. Right now, he's heralded as so sort of hero. Shame! When Regan was on his death bed, the media show bad mouthed him. Why can't we bad mouth Kennedy now?

God Bless you Senator Byrd. I wish more Americans had the same kind of compassion, ideals and faith in the American System. Our Troops (and not their fault) are placed in a war that was unnecessary and untold hurt, killing and evil are going on. Get better soon, sir.

this is pretty gay

Amen CrystalCalistoga Amen!!!

No doubt Byrd and Teddy barfed, pissed and shit themselves drunk in the finest bars around DC.

...especially in front of the TV cameras. Byrd could have put on his white bedsheet and cried through the eyeholes - very moving and powerful.

Ted Kennedy was expelled from Harvard twice, slaughtered a woman and got away with it, and enacted the most socialist policies the US has seen. He is a cheater, a criminal, and a communist. Worshipping him as a hero shows liberal bias in the media. I hope he dies a slow painful death before joining Lee Harvey Oswald and Stalin in hell. It's the least punishment for the death, destruction, and evil he has caused. Oh and his car has killed more people than my gun.

I wish American politicians would cry like Byrd every time an innocent baby was murdered by an abortionist. Oh that's right, silly me I nearly forgot, murdering babies is LEGAL in the United States!

People all have the right to reform their thinking; it's what makes us humane. My hat goes off to Byrd and his unabashed vulnerability for a colleague and friend.

How is this not a YTMND, yet?

let's all die young now then...

its time to put him in a nice room in a wheelchair by a window and let him stare. not bad for an x kkk grand wizzard. the truth is this is what represents the free world. totally disgraceful.