The Legend Dies

Much has been on the airwaves on Senator Ted Kennedy today. As I was finishing my daily reading on the WSJ, I came across this statement:

Over the course of the third-longest tenure in the history of the Senate, Mr. Kennedy mounted a legislative agenda across a wide range of issues dear to liberal voters and left-leaning Democratic Party constituencies -- school and racial integration in the 1960s, poverty and gender equality in the 1970s, disability in the 1980s and education reform in the 1990s.

I never considered myself liberal or left-leaning before. But by golly, if being left-leaning is to champion the above list please call me a lefty by all means!