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Barack Obama endorses Ted Kennedy

by hwc, Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:23:34 PM EST

Here are the seeds of the close relationship between ultra-liberal Senator Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama:

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Re: Barack Obama endorses Ted Kennedy (2.00 / 1)

HAHA SOUR GRAPES CLINTON SUPPORTER.

by tom32182 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:26:40 PM EST

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Are you kidding me? Was that tube video manufactured?

Get over yourself because you sound very lame.

by lonnette33 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:29:52 PM EST
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I think Obama's point is valid on the video (I'm thinking NCLB), but on the whole Kennedy is still a good endorsement. Politics is often about emotions and vision (whether or not it should be), and the Kennedy name isn't bad for that.

by tom32182 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:32:18 PM EST
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Please keep telling youself that. People like you undermine the arugement for Obama. Good grief.

by lonnette33 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:36:40 PM EST
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That's not even an argument. I try to read this site but it's totally bizarre. Just rabid Hillary supporters everywhere who won't even make an argument. I am going to vote for Obama, but I was considering Edwards/Clinton strongly until recently (who I will vote for in the general if one of them is the nominee). However, this site represents an extreme desire to just destroy Obama, so if he wins the nomination (which I think is unlikely), he will be damaged goods.

It's pretty bad in my opinion, especially among Democrats (and don't give me this Obama hates Democrats crap, so it's okay).

by tom32182 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:43:09 PM EST
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I soo tired of you Obama supporters. You don't have a lock on the blogshpere. Hillary has die-hard supporters. Get over it.

by lonnette33 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:44:30 PM EST
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So....Kennedy endorses a guy that trashed him over your candidate. Ha!!!! He must really think Hillary is a loser.

by mcdave on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 04:02:37 PM EST
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Kennedy has always had trouble with women and women's issues. He's a founding member of the all-boys club of Presidential politics.

by hwc on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 05:19:03 PM EST
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Does Caroline have problems with women too?

Why can't even rabid Clinton supporters respect the choises of others rather than trashing the likes of Sen. Edward Kennedy. Are you a Democrat or a Hillocrat? Democrats respect Ted Kennedy. Period.

by howardpark on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 05:26:45 PM EST
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Obama is a schmuck!

TK can endorse whomever he choses, but his speech today regarding Obama was over the top. Everything he said about Obama, the same can be said about Hill.
Hill will be OK. Hill's fighter. She will fight her way to the nomination.

by lonnette33 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:27:48 PM EST

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Yeah, but he said it about Obama, not Clinton. Thats says a lot.

by lifelongdem on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:42:40 PM EST
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And...

This race isn't over by a long shot, if you think is than you are pretty lame. Hill's a fighter. Don't count on Hill giving up. She's just getting warmed up.

Can't wait until the California debate. She's going to clean Obama's dumb ass clock on the issues.

by lonnette33 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:47:13 PM EST
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Who said it was over? (none / 0)

Yet the very fact that it isn't anywhere close to being over shows that illary is losing ground. She was the extreme (20+ points) frontrunner for almost 5 years. Now when it comes down to it we have a real horse race.

I don't in any way expect her to just lay down and die. She will fight it out to the end, as she should. But the tide is not flowing in her favor. I honestly don't know who's going to win, but I do know that Hillary was hoping it would be all over by now, and it isn't.

by Mystylplx on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 02:23:09 PM EST
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Re: Who said it was over? (none / 0)

Stop putting words in Hill's mouth. Provide a link or something. Stop making shit up?

by lonnette33 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 02:31:57 PM EST
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Which? (none / 0)

You mean about her hopeing it would be over by now?

Sorry, no link--just commen sense.

by Mystylplx on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 02:38:58 PM EST
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err... "common."eom (none / 0)

by Mystylplx on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 02:42:39 PM EST
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Nice personal attack, great contribution to the dialogue around here.

I won't call her names like "schmuck," but I must point out that she and Bill have been lying.

Try listening to TK best line:

"So let us reject the counsels of doubt and calculation."

Truer words have not been spoken in this campaign season.

Do not call us "Hillary-haters" when we point out that we need a new politics that is not based on distortion, misrepresentation, and division.

Do not say that we are calling the Clintons "racist," when we point out that they are making race an issue for political gain.

Do not attack the character of a brilliant and profoundly decent man, who is not perfect, but who is trying to make our politics cleaner and more transparent, fairer and less negative.

Do not question his commitment to progressive values and policies when two of the most progressive Dems, Leahy and Kennedy, have chosen to endorse him when they have nothing to gain.

Stop distorting his pro-choice record. Quit misrepresenting his comments on Reagan and the Republicans. Desist from trying to paint his proposal to raise payroll taxes on the top 4% as some sort of trillion dollar tax on the middle-class. Having been on the receiving end of so many smears, can the Clintons devise no better strategy than to continue the politics of personal destruction?

Let us have an honest discussion about where each candidate wants to lead the country and which one has the character, skill, and experience to get the job done.

Lets be honest. Most of the attacks emanating from Team Billary have been very thin gruel, a concoction that is damaging our party and playing into the hands of the Republicans.

by upper left on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 02:44:01 PM EST
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Lets be honest. Most of the attacks emanating from Team Billary have been very thin gruel, a concoction that is damaging our party and playing into the hands of the Republicans.

lol

by lonnette33 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 03:22:49 PM EST
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Trying to have a substantive discussions with many HRC supporters is pretty challenging.

More snark......

by upper left on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 08:46:44 PM EST
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Then don't. This will be my last comment to you.

by lonnette33 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 09:16:30 PM EST
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I just got back from lunch, they had Fox on in the restaurant of course. They were giving lots and lots of airtime to Kennedy and then Obama. Not even any snarky comments about them at the bottom of the screen like they usually do on Fox! Good stuff.

"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman

by Steve M on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:49:48 PM EST

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I just watched the endorsement. Those of you who think it doesn't matter are the actual schmucks.

The Camelot torch has been passed.

And I am FREAKING LOVIN IT!

Carla

by hillsboroughrules on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 01:59:11 PM EST

the torch bearer is dead (none / 0)

it can't be passed on.

ABO... Anybody but Obama. I LIKE the democratic party.

by MollieBradford on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 02:44:22 PM EST
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NY State Chapter for Women is Pissed Off at TK (none / 0)

The New York State chapter of the National Organization for Women rebuked TK's endorsement of Obama today.

"Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy's endorsement of Hillary Clinton's opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act to name a few. Women have buried their anger that his support for the compromises in No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bogus drug benefit brought us the passage of these flawed bills. We have thanked him for his ardent support of many civil rights bills, BUT women are always waiting in the wings.

"And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He's picked the new guy over us. He's joined the list of progressive white men who can't or won't handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not "this" one). `They' are Howard Dean and Jim Dean (Yup! That's Howard's brother) who run DFA (that's the group and list from the Dean campaign that we women helped start and grow). They are Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com, Kucinich lovers and all the other groups that take women's money, say they'll do feminist and women's rights issues one of these days, and conveniently forget to mention women and children when they talk about poverty or human needs or America's future or whatever.

"This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women's rights, women's voices, women's equality, women's authority and our ability - indeed, our obligation - to promote and earn and deserve and elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who `know what's best for us."

by lonnette33 on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 05:00:13 PM EST

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wow. that's hard-hitting.

by CalDem on Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 06:33:33 PM EST
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