The Measure of a Liberal Man

President Obama is going to have to stretch quite a bit to make his Saturday eulogy beat this:

Finally, we must take a measure of the man. Not the person, or the legislator, or the family member. No, the man. Ted Kennedy was more of a man's man than any of the brush-clearing, hick-talking, pick-up driving politicians who overcompensate again and again by faking it. No, Kennedy demonstrated, through all the ups and downs, again and again what a real man is. It is a type of masculinity that we rarely see anymore because it is a fearlessness that few are allowed to embrace.

SNIP

A man works to help those who need help. A real man is a liberal because a real man is unafraid of change and progress and difference.

Read the whole brilliant thing.