Obama completes endorsement sweep of loathsome Massachusetts senators
posted at 8:29 pm on January 27, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Unlike Kerry’s, this one might actually do some good.
Democrats said the endorsement will help Obama with traditional Democratic groups where Clinton has been strong — union households, Hispanics and downscale workers.
Also, the nod by the most experienced member of the Senate adds significant standing to Obama, who is working to prove he has the experience necessary to be president.
Having him and Caroline endorse as a pair will go a long way towards sidetracking the post-Carolina “black candidate” narrative Team Hillary’s trying to jump-start, so either Obama’s the luckiest pol alive or this is a master stroke of media management by him and his campaign.
Follow the Politico link and thrill to the image of our now ex-first black president pleading with Teddy not to strip him of his “heir to JFK” title too — but don’t quit before the end, as it’s the last two paragraphs that tell the story here. This isn’t about policy preferences (mostly), it’s about “souls being touched” by that special shallow blend of youth, looks, and oratory that denotes the true Camelot bloodline. Hence the significance of Caroline’s approval, which operates less as an endorsement (intellectually, who cares what she thinks?) than a recognition of royal legitimacy. For all the abuse conservatives take for their Reagan worship, there’s at least never been any creepy element of congenital aristocracy to it of the sort cultivated by the Kennedys and their decrepit hagiographers. If Obama winning means we’re in for another round of that, replete with that curious dynamic of populist progressivism that somehow requires a monarch to administer it, please, give us Hillary.
On the other hand, it’ll make for pretty some sweet Neely Brothers vids in 40 years. Content warning.
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But didn’t the Clinton camp release news of this endorsement?
Vizzini on January 27, 2008 at 8:34 PM
Do you think there were some behind the scenes problems between Teddy and Hill that influenced this decision? Perhaps he thought she was wielding too much power and stepping on his turf?
INC on January 27, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Ted looks like Tiberius in Caligula.
BL@KBIRD on January 27, 2008 at 8:41 PM
Just when Obama had some decent momentum!! Teddy said he was going to throw his weight behind the Obama campaign … so that could be formidable!
darkegop on January 27, 2008 at 8:43 PM
minus the end stage syphilis perhaps…
BL@KBIRD on January 27, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Did Ted get Obama’s name right this time?
innominatus on January 27, 2008 at 8:47 PM
Boy, that was one BEEZARO video clip…me like
Big John on January 27, 2008 at 8:48 PM
Barry don’t take the bait!
mred on January 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM
ONE WAY TO LOOK AT THIS : IT’S THE REVENGE OF THE OLD LEFT AND NEW NEW LEFT ON THE CENTRIST DLC/PSEUDO LEFT.
BILL N HILL WERE THE RIGHT CHANGE IN 1992 WHEN THEY WERE CENTRISTS WHO GOT PEROT TO DROP OUT - BEFORE HE DROPPED BACK IN (TO TAKE VOTES FROM BUSH AND ELECT THE DLC CLINTON).
THE OLD LEFT NEVER LIKED HIM OR HIS TRIANGULATING.
NOW THEY HAVE SOMEONE THEY THINK CAN BRING THE OLD LEFT BACK TO THE TOP.
THEY HATE BILL N HILL ALOMST AS MUCH AS THEY HATE JOEMENTUM.
reliapundit on January 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM
I’m almost a tad confused,it’s another rip in the sails
of the Clinton Clipper ship,but I thought Bill bragged
how much he had in common with President Kennedy
as in both liked the ladies!,this endorsement by Caroline
man I betcha the Clintons never saw this coming!
canopfor on January 27, 2008 at 8:51 PM
Good call.
Spirit of 1776 on January 27, 2008 at 8:52 PM
Much more historically accurate than their other presidential video.
warrenmr on January 27, 2008 at 8:53 PM
Is there a reason you used Ron Paul’s blimp for the front page picture on this post Allah?
doubleplusundead on January 27, 2008 at 8:54 PM
Obama is drowning in endorsements.
SouthernGent on January 27, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Barry: Don’t trust White Elite Democrat Liberals. Ted kills woman, Bill rapes them.
mred on January 27, 2008 at 8:56 PM
GREAT, NOW MY CAPS LOCK IS STUCK TOO, HOW DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?
doubleplusundead on January 27, 2008 at 8:57 PM
How long before a Kennedy endorses McCain?
BowHuntingTexas on January 27, 2008 at 9:00 PM
The first thing I thought this morning when I heard about Caroline endorsing Obama was, what a slap to Bill. She said that no presidential candidate since her father has inspired her until now…….Ouch Bill, I bet he got pissed when he heard that.
conservnut on January 27, 2008 at 9:01 PM
BWAHAHAHAHA! MINE, TOO. WHASSUP WITH THAT?
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on January 27, 2008 at 9:02 PM
Heh.
Deety on January 27, 2008 at 9:03 PM
Really! you would think ol teddy boy would endorse the most liberal candidate running.
conservnut on January 27, 2008 at 9:03 PM
I DUNNO MAN, REAL PAIN THOUGH…
doubleplusundead on January 27, 2008 at 9:03 PM
Wasn’t Kennedy going to endorse his boy McCain? What a disappointment.
saved on January 27, 2008 at 9:04 PM
Teddys endorsement might be some kind of political
revenge.Its not nice to hear the Clintons talk and
dispairage the African American voter.I think Liberals
are figureing out the Clintons crossed the line within
their own party,and the words that Bill and Hill used on Obama are now royally backfiring and Hill and Bill are
reaping what they sowed!
canopfor on January 27, 2008 at 9:05 PM
It’s only Harris Wofford. Don’t read too much into it.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on January 27, 2008 at 9:05 PM
I am encouraged that the Old Dem Guard are rejecting the most crooked (Hillary), the most liberal (Kucinich), the most pragmatic (Biden), the most experienced (Richardson), and the most phony (Breck Girl) of the candidates in deference to the one with the least on-the-job knowledge and no ties to modern American liberal politics. It’s a total rejection of their own life-long work, an admission by the liberals of the 60’s-90’s that after all that time they have nothing to offer themselves and are therefore turning to a completely new and untested form of liberalism.
For Ted Kennedy to reject nearly 50 years of his life’s work for someone who is nothing like him is a very telling symbol.
Greenhorn on January 27, 2008 at 9:05 PM
Fixed it.
Mallard T. Drake on January 27, 2008 at 9:07 PM
I’d like nothing more than see McCain lose this primary, but let’s be fair, sure, he’s a jackass in a pachyderm suit, but he’s not the most liberal candidate running.
doubleplusundead on January 27, 2008 at 9:07 PM
Can we hope that both Senators Bloviate’s and Waffle’s endorsments are the kiss of death to Barry? Sort of like a beleagured coach or manager of a sports team getting the “vote of confidence” from the owner or general manager. He’ll be gone in the next two weeks….
Mallard T. Drake on January 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM
Like I have said before, I would rather have novice communist than a veteran communist.
jukin on January 27, 2008 at 9:10 PM
Barry: Don’t trust White Elite Democrat Liberals.
Ted kills woman,Bill rapes them.
Mred on January 27,2008 at 8:56PM.
Mred: Hehe,Most excellent bumper sticker!
canopfor on January 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM
Ok, Ok second most. I forgot about Dennis Kucinich ;-)
conservnut on January 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM
I’ve evolved into a conservative, (I have to thank the Clintons for helping to make the transition easy), but I didn’t become a Reagan worshipper. I have respect for the man, but that’s where it ends.
I heard that there are more Demos than Repubs now, because the conservative base went Independent during the amnesty debacle. Let’s hope that most of the Indies are willing to vote 4 Mitt.
Hillary Rotten Clintoon and Barak Hussein Obama both spell disaster for America.
That picture of Teddy should be used at Over-eaters Anonymous. I think I spewed ten pounds after I saw it.
Christine on January 27, 2008 at 9:15 PM
I’ve evolved into a conservative,..
Christine on January 27,2008 at 9:15PM.
Christine: Welcome abroad Christine,leaving the
Democrats, you can now think freely!
canopfor on January 27, 2008 at 9:21 PM
I really think Dems prefer style over substance.
terryannonline on January 27, 2008 at 9:23 PM
Maybe Bill hit on and/or scored with one of Teddy’s stable? Or maybe Hills did?
dmh0667 on January 27, 2008 at 9:24 PM
Ya think? :P
doubleplusundead on January 27, 2008 at 9:25 PM
It’s about “feelings.” Always “feelings.”
*puke*
IrishEi on January 27, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Thanks. Your point is very impressive.
petefrt on January 27, 2008 at 9:33 PM
How’d y’all like to be stuck living in Massachusetts where every time someone says call your senator you have to think, “Oh #%^#%^@ I’ve only got Kennedy or Kerry” ? My house of reps congress critter isn’t much better either.
Anyway, here’s hoping Kennedy’s endorsement of Obama is enough to get some of the “If so and so is the republican nominee, I won’t vote” people to change their minds and keep the Dhimmis out.
Duncan Khuver on January 27, 2008 at 9:34 PM
The Cape Cod Orca endorsed Obamaman BECAUSE of his inexperience. The portly porker will own the boy king and will lead him around by the nose once elected.
IrishEi on January 27, 2008 at 9:40 PM
Whatever it takes to dispense with the Clintons.
Your Jewish Master on January 27, 2008 at 9:44 PM
Yeah, McCain’s a liberal. That’s why he has an 82% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union. The liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives him a lifetime rating of 9%.
packsoldier on January 27, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Bill Jeff Caesar to Senator Ted: Et tu Brute’?
I know that a lot of people swear by the Clinton machine, but things are unraveling very quickly for them and could collapse altogether.
They had the MSM and the Dems in Congress to carry their water against Republicans all those years, but they are fleeing for the Promised Land.
I wish that wasn’t true as I’d much prefer to run against Hillary than Barry, who has nothing of substance to say, but some mad charisma thing goin’ on.
Buy Danish on January 27, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Maybe Bill hit on and/ or scored with one of Teddy’s stable?
or maybe Hill did.
dmh0667 on January 27,2008 at 9:24PM.
dmh0667:haha,I’d love to be a Canadian Brown Finch in that
stable!hehe
canopfor on January 27, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Hedgehogs of the world unite! What a motley crew of political misfits Obama has assembled…
Zorro on January 27, 2008 at 9:56 PM
Geez, I was half expecting him to endorse McCain.
muyoso on January 27, 2008 at 10:00 PM
Wofford has that funny feeling in his pants.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on January 27, 2008 at 10:00 PM
but they are fleeing for the promised land.
Buy Danish on January 27,2008 at 9:47PM.
Buy Danish:Thats a bingo,Hillary can’t compete with that,
besides stuck on stupid Hillary,thinks change
as in the Bush Administration,Obama one upped
her to CHANGE in the Democratic Liberal Party,DUH!
hehe.
canopfor on January 27, 2008 at 10:02 PM
That’s just foul, man.
wccawa on January 27, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Yeah. He’s a liberal.
The following has been pilfered from M.W. Gail’s excellent article posted at American Thinker. Here’s what McCain is all about:
Amnesty.
Allowing illegal aliens to participate in S.S.
No more ballot initiatives AGAINST immigration.
Giving guest workers a path to citizenship.
Allowing MORE foreign workers in the US for “farm work”
Voted YES on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women. (Mar 1998)
Voted NO on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
Regulate nicotine as a drug. (Jul 1998)
Remove charitable deduction; it only benefits rich. (Jan 2000)
Middle-class tax cut: expand 15% tax bracket. (Jan 2000)
Voted YES on banning drilling the ANWR
Voted on a Constitutional ban on burning the US Flag (June 2006)
Against an “unfiltered” Internet as he deems that it steals the “innocence” away for America’s children.
Against term limits
Calls waterboarding torture
Thinks that we should consult LAWYERS on war decisions (2007) so that we don’t go to war “half-cocked”.
Wants to close Gitmo
McCain/Feingold
IrishEi on January 27, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Apologies for hijacking the thread. I forgot it was about Orca’s endorsement. Packsoldier’s comment got me going…
I wonder if old Mac was half expecting this endorsement himself.
IrishEi on January 27, 2008 at 10:10 PM
Hillary’s easier to beat in the general.
Entelechy on January 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM
I agree, she’s burned so many bridges that even if she wins the nomination, the general isn’t gonna be easy for her. A lot of the left will go vote, but I think she’ll lose the black vote if she gets the nomination.
I have a real hard time believing Obama is gonna want to be attached in any way to the Hildebeest, she’s become way too radioactive and is by her nature divisive, considering Obama’s personal style and that he’d want the VP spot as a springboard to the Presidency? He’s better off not taking it.
He’d be better off waiting and staying in the Senate than accepting the VP spot, build himself up some “gravitas”, he’s young enough that he can do that.
doubleplusundead on January 27, 2008 at 10:25 PM
@ Entelechy on January 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Its going to be a Dem with an R next to his name running against a Dem with a D next to his/her name either way.
muyoso on January 27, 2008 at 10:26 PM
I don’t agree with him on amnesty, but he was voting with the GOP president on that issue. And the constitutional ban on flag-burning was a Republican idea! You can cherry-pick anybody’s voting record (he has cast hundreds of them, after all), but the percentages tell the story.
packsoldier on January 27, 2008 at 10:29 PM
packsoldier on January 27, 2008 at 9:46 PM
How DARE you respond with the facts!
Entelechy on January 27, 2008 at 10:13 PM
EXACTLY.
Damian G. on January 27, 2008 at 10:34 PM
I hear that Teddy the Tippler plans to waddle westward and campaign for Osama Obama. Don’t any of these idiot senators have to do any work for the money and perks they take from our pockets?
I know everyone says we’re better off when they’re out of Washington. Let’s take that to the next level and tell every damn one of them to not go back to DC, okay?
Wish I had a job where I could travel around freely, have my every whim catered to, do no work, and still rake in money and bennies….
MrScribbler on January 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Greenhorn on January 27, 2008 at 9:05 PM
Very insightful analysis. I liked it.
cjs1943 on January 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM
Erah, my white guilt is spilling all over me.
Kini on January 27, 2008 at 10:54 PM
I think you hit the whale on the head.
fogw on January 27, 2008 at 10:59 PM
new, Clinton got rejected
windansea on January 27, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Obama must be happy to have the endorsement of these guys.
jaime on January 27, 2008 at 11:26 PM
If she makes it through the primaries, she’ll want him for VP. If he makes it, he’ll never even consider her, or any of ther associations. He’ll make a clean cut.
Were the winner not Hillary or Obama, this gladiator show would be worth an unobstructed seat in the arena. Alas, it’s bitter/sweet.
Entelechy on January 27, 2008 at 11:37 PM
Good Lord…
Fred, we miss you. What happened here? There is nothing left.
wccawa on January 28, 2008 at 12:06 AM
Fresh, articulate, honest, and… endorsed by Kennedy and Kerry.
Shiny new goods, marked with the musk of corruption the oldtimers will find comforting.
drunyan8315 on January 28, 2008 at 12:09 AM
True.
Hillary represents the tired, same old same old, 60s liberal mantra, flavored with the Clinton lust for power at any cost. The Dems will feel obligated to vote for her, but with no enthusiasm.
Barry represents new fresh liberalism that will get people excited and want to vote for him. He will energize the base and likely spur lots of young voters who might otherwise stay home if Hillary is the candidate.
There is enough dirt to bury Hillary in the general election.
Mallard T. Drake on January 28, 2008 at 12:27 AM
There are lots of people in BOTH parties who feel that way.
Kennedy endorsement = kiss of death.
logis on January 28, 2008 at 12:58 AM
Got to disagree with you fundamentally there. BO is a an ideal example of the Saul Alinsky community activist a generation or two later. (Hillary and Edwards are two other familiar “types” of the sort you also would have encountered if you ever, as I once did, wasted large amounts of time with leftist activists.) It’s not an accident that his speeches are so magnificently empty, and that people mistakenly believe he’s moderate, or beyond left and right. Barack learned early on to keep any threateningly concrete objectives or scary beliefs and perceptions to himself, and instead speak fluently in a vacuous language of unity, community, optimism, novelty, and so on. As a result, rather inevitably, his newfangled campaign becomes a weird orgy of hyper-tokenism - not the end or transcendance of affirmative action and the era it represents, and not even the apotheosis of affirmative action, but apotheosis AS affirmative action (and vice versa).
It’s not surprising that such a profoundly deceptive spectacle is treated by so many as the most inspiring political event of their lives.
CK MacLeod on January 28, 2008 at 1:04 AM
Great screen cap. Has anybody checked Uncle Ted’s pulse in a while.
labrat on January 28, 2008 at 1:10 AM
I suppose most of us on the right are scratching our heads. Why is being endorsed by The Swimmer and The Flip-Flopper a good thing?
I think we should quit trying to understand internal liberal politics.
infidel65 on January 28, 2008 at 6:29 AM
I think AP does it just so he can maul our eyes without the “not safe for work” tag.
BKennedy on January 28, 2008 at 6:37 AM
So, Mr Smith has been bought!
OldEnglish on January 28, 2008 at 6:56 AM
So Teddy The K is throwing his weight (sic) to the Obama camp? Oh I will bet that Hill the Shill had an absolute hissy fit of meltdown proportion when she got the news on this one. Now if Chuckie Schumer falls in lockstep here and endorses Obama as well, I would not want to be in the same time zone will Hill gets that bit of bad news!
pilamaye on January 28, 2008 at 6:57 AM
Obtaining the backing of the Kennedy’s (Caroline and Uncle Teddy) raises a more subtle message-Get Bill and Hill.
MSGTAS on January 28, 2008 at 7:57 AM
The level of animosity toward Hitlary from Democrats is positively breathtaking.
drjohn on January 28, 2008 at 8:00 AM
If she gets the nomination, don’t expect the MSM to carry the message that you feel will bury Hillary..Once the decision is made, she will be given a free pass by the MSM..
Pam on January 28, 2008 at 8:02 AM
Not really, considering that she has the majority of the pledged “superdelegates”, which puts her ahead in the race..
Pam on January 28, 2008 at 8:05 AM
The Massachusetts Kiss of Death. La Costa Bay State.
Mister Ghost on January 28, 2008 at 8:11 AM
This is a desperate attempt by the Kennedys to remain current and in the spotlight. HillBill now represents the OLD Democratic party.
The Kennedy days have long been over, except for Teddy, who has been kept alive by being perpetually embalmed.
Conservaboomer on January 28, 2008 at 8:38 AM
Ms. Lewinsky, can you point to the place on the doll exactly where your soul was touched?
James on January 28, 2008 at 8:55 AM
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.
someone has to say it
franksalterego on January 28, 2008 at 8:57 AM
Love. That. Headline.
Rational Thought on January 28, 2008 at 9:06 AM
Meaning: I’m basing my endorsement for Obama, not on experience, track record or anything substantial; but for the most powerful office in the world, during a time of grave global conflict, my endorsement is based on a warm fuzzy and what other people have told me about how my father made them feel, almost 50 years ago.
On the flip side: you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ‘cuz some watery tart threw a sword at you.
yo on January 28, 2008 at 9:23 AM
Obama contacted Kennedy, a simple conversation and Kennedy supported Obama…”Hello, Ted, this is Barack, just want to say a couple of things, all you can eat and drink if you campaign with me.”
I am sure a couple of other promises that some posters will reveal.
right2bright on January 28, 2008 at 9:37 AM
A candidate, running for high office against a sexual predator’s wife, gets endorsements from someone who murders women, and another, who marries them for their money.
I’d write this as a novel, but no one would believe it.
franksalterego on January 28, 2008 at 9:53 AM
I think Billary’s the victim of a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy! BWWWAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
bloggless on January 28, 2008 at 9:56 AM
CONGRATULATIONS! (cue Angels singing…)
kcd on January 28, 2008 at 10:01 AM
I hear Ted’s a big fan of Happy Days.
Happy Hours are over way too soon.
fogw on January 28, 2008 at 10:06 AM
LOL!!! Just a reminder, more people have died in Ted Kennedy’s care than at Gitmo?
kcd on January 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM
She recycled her 2000 endorsement of Gore..compare and contrast the 2 endorsements, they are one and the same…
Pam on January 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM
I think Irish Ei nailed it.
If B.O. gets nominated and then elected, he’ll be SOOOOOO beholden to the Kennedys - - mostly to Orca - - that what happens is that Barry becomes his proxy.
Teddy becomes the very first EVER Senator-President.
By default.
Anybody else think this is the REAL reason behind the Orca endorsement?
Shirotayama on January 28, 2008 at 10:11 AM
I think they are all kissing their choices a$$es in order to curry favor. DOES ANYBODY HAVE PRINCIPALS ANYMORE?!
kcd on January 28, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Orca and Co. really have no choice. They have to endorse BO or they will look like they are racists. Just look at what is happening. The ARE racists because race is the first and foremost thing on their minds.
bloggless on January 28, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Of all the Kennedy’s who have died…..
kcd on January 28, 2008 at 10:24 AM
After seeing your website, this is obviously not you, but because of the similarities I had to point it out.
SouthernDem on January 28, 2008 at 10:52 AM
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