Today he is in surgery doing just that.

The MoveOn card allowed members to add a personal word of their own, and I decided mine would be a simple one line quote - the last line of the speech the Senator had given to the deeply divided Democratic Convention in 1980. To make sure I remembered correctly, I consulted the speech.

Reading the speech again, one of many times I've turned back to it, it's relevance to the divisive primary we are currently living through fairly shouted at me.