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Botany

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Sat Jun 6, 2026, 02:18 PM Yesterday

RFK was murdered 58 years ago today. And then we got Nixon. I don't think America will ever really recover. [View all]

When I was a boy in N.W. Pennsylvania our next door neighbor in a middle class neighborhood was
the Crawford, County D.A. and his brother was the Republican Governor of the State, Ray Shafer and
to this day the finest man I have ever met. Bobby Kennedy, Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and
Kamala Harris Americans and the World have been robbed of so much what made this a great nation.



Anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good, they die young;
I just looked around and he was gone.

After a bridge, the fourth and final verse mentions "Bobby" (referencing Robert F. Kennedy), and ends with a description of him "walking over the hill" with the other three men.



And I refuse to believe that a child rapist, convicted felon, and with the morals of sewer rat won legitimately.


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