Obama Describes Kennedy's Commitment to Universal Social Networking

Ted Kennedy was laid to rest today, and President Barack Obama provided a stirring eulogy, which focused on one of the late Senator's dying wishes for America.  Obama spoke at length of Kennedy's desire that everyone, both rich and poor, from both upper and lower classes, of all races, had access to quality social networking sites.

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"To paraphrase his brother Jack," Obama said, "Ask not what Facebook can do for you; ask what you can do for Facebook.  You say the quizzes are boring?  What are you doing to make them better?"

Kennedy believed that all Americans had an inherent right to share the minutiae of their lives with the world.  He pointed to programs in other countries that provided Facebook accounts and internet access to all their citizens, something lacking in the United States.

When people who say they don't need a Facebook account have an extreme emotional event or ordeal in their lives that they need to share with friends online, they are often too emotionally frazzled to set up an account, figure out how the site works, find friends and connect with them.  Someone has to help out, creating a sort of "emergency room" environment which isn't good for anyone.

RNC chairman Micheal Steele fired back, saying, "These concerns are ludicrous. Why should people be able to use the internet in the library that my tax dollars are paying for?  If they want internet access, they should get a job and pay for it just like everyone else.  Our internet access is the best in the world, and I don't appreciate people saying otherwise."

Sarah Palin responded on her Facebook page: "When I look out at this great internet country of America, it's built and constructed on those great people, Real Americans, who work hard and certainly don't necessitate help from that bloated carcass we call a government.  It should stay that way."

Kennedy and his supporters tried to appeal to the Christian principles of most of the social networking access reform plan's opponents.  He constantly quoted Matthew 25:40 "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich replied in a Washington Post Op-Ed, "There's nothing about internet in the Constitution."