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An un-named senator collapses @ Inauguration Luncheon??

2:42 pm - 01/20/2009
I'm watching CNN live; Dana Bash is reporting unconfirmed information that a senator collapsed at the Obama-Biden luncheon with Congress within the last 20 or so minutes.

The two unconfirmed identities are: Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy.

Will add a text source once one is churned out online.
  • ETA 1: Still getting conflicting reports.

  • ETA 2: Obama just offers thought on Kennedy's condition during his brief luncheon toast/speech. He suffered a violent seizure. :(

  • ETA 3: Here's a link that provides tracking for multiple sources as the news develops.

  • ETA 4: Forgot to further clarify that Robert Byrd *also* had a medical situation at the Inauguration Luncheon. Holy-Moly. D:
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[info]ihatemostthings 20th-Jan-2009 07:46 pm (UTC)
They're saying it was Kennedy :(

Details want! I hope he's ok!
[info]merlinspants 20th-Jan-2009 07:46 pm (UTC)
kennedy :(
[info]spacedudey 20th-Jan-2009 07:47 pm (UTC)
I hope he's okay.
[info]potatoboat 20th-Jan-2009 07:47 pm (UTC)
ABC said Byrd was overwhelmed with what happened with Kennedy and had to be taken out.
[info]ladypolitik 20th-Jan-2009 07:47 pm (UTC)
Omg. :(
[info]rosmar 20th-Jan-2009 07:48 pm (UTC)
OMG Teddy no. :(
[info]unspooling 20th-Jan-2009 07:49 pm (UTC)
I hope hope hope he's okay. The President went to hug and greet him before taking his seat at the table and I went "awww."
[info]lanrek 20th-Jan-2009 07:50 pm (UTC)
Omg I'm hoping this is all just hoopla and he only tripped or something :'(
[info]ladypolitik 20th-Jan-2009 07:50 pm (UTC)
Srsly. :(
[info]door 20th-Jan-2009 07:50 pm (UTC)
NBC is saying it was Robert Byrd.
[info]door 20th-Jan-2009 07:57 pm (UTC)
NBC revised and said it was Kennedy and that he's had a seizure.
[info]leavesoflorien 20th-Jan-2009 07:50 pm (UTC)
NBC is reporting that it was Robert Byrd.
[info]cattyhunts 20th-Jan-2009 07:51 pm (UTC)
CNN said earlier it was Ted Kennedy. MSNBC *the state I usually love to watch* really has NO information on this.
[info]unspooling 20th-Jan-2009 07:52 pm (UTC)
Obama just said that it's Ted.
[info]ihatemostthings 20th-Jan-2009 07:52 pm (UTC)
OBAMA IS TALKING ABOUT IT OMG.
Aww he speaks the truth. I'm glad he said something, it was like this growing "elephant in the corner".
[info]leavesoflorien 20th-Jan-2009 07:54 pm (UTC)
He just thanked the waiters and staff too! I'm pleased with that.
[info]leavesoflorien 20th-Jan-2009 07:52 pm (UTC)
Obama just said something about Ted Kennedy. I think it might be both him and Byrd. hmm.
[info]geckophobe 20th-Jan-2009 07:52 pm (UTC)
Obama just sent prayers to "Teddy's family"? Who, what now?
[info]schonste 20th-Jan-2009 08:01 pm (UTC)
...Teddy Kennedy.
[info]cattyhunts 20th-Jan-2009 07:53 pm (UTC)
Kennedy had to be taken out on a stretcher :(
[info]ladypolitik 20th-Jan-2009 07:54 pm (UTC)
:(
[info]lizzybees 20th-Jan-2009 07:54 pm (UTC)
MSNBC says its Kennedy.
[info]jblaque 20th-Jan-2009 07:54 pm (UTC)
Damn.
[info]schmiss 20th-Jan-2009 07:54 pm (UTC)
oh my fucking God...
[info]chimbleysweep 20th-Jan-2009 07:54 pm (UTC)
Oh my god.
[info]deternot 20th-Jan-2009 07:55 pm (UTC)
I really, really don't like this. ):
[info]kekekekekekeke 20th-Jan-2009 07:55 pm (UTC)
damn and kennedy was looking so (relatively) healthy too
[info]germli 20th-Jan-2009 07:55 pm (UTC)
Poor Teddy and Byrd. :( Lord, I know when I say your name on this comm it's followed by something ridiculous but please let these men be alright.
[info]harveytwoface 20th-Jan-2009 07:55 pm (UTC)
Medical workers aided Sens. Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd during the inaugural luncheon in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

Both were wheeled out by medical personnel during the luncheon, which immediately followed President Barack Obama’s inaguration on the West Front of the Capitol. Kennedy recently returned to the Senate after a fight with a brain tumor, while Byrd has been frail for years.

Capitol staff had no further updates on the conditions of either senator though comments from Obama hinted at something serious.

“He was there when the voting rights act was passed,” Obama said of Kennedy. “So I would be lying to you if I did not say to you that right now a part of me is with him, and I think that’s true for all of us.”

Obama said his prayers were with Kennedy’s wife and family and called the moment “joyous and sobering.”
[info]buffy_usa omg no not today not today — 20th-Jan-2009 07:56 pm (UTC)
shit, no way, pls let him be ok.

ngl, i teared up watching him join the group before the swearing in. he was using a cane, and looked like he had lost weight a little, but he was walking and talking and blowing kisses and shaking hands and smiling and so on.

ack, pls not today not today. i hope it was just too much exertion for him today and that he just needs rest ...
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