Teddy making waves

"Senator Edward Kennedy gave two magnificent speeches last week," writes Katrina vanden Heuvel, "but only one received the attention it deserved. While his blistering attack on the Bush Administration for manipulating and distorting intelligence to justify attacking Iraq was noted in the Washington Post and other papers, the Senator's fiery progressive manifesto--delivered at a New York conference called Re-Imagining the Welfare State--went virtually unreported."