Comments on: Report: Ted Kennedy’s Obama endorsement based on rage and vanity

By: DMeNTe

DMeNTe — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:08:13 +0000

Thanks for the swift link. That guy’s hillarious.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:30:24 +0000

“It’s all about us”.

It’s no different with the Clintons.

By: KrisinNE

KrisinNE — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:46:27 +0000

I grew up under the jackboot of the Kennedy clan as a resident of that liberal wasteland that is MA. I now live in the similarly liberal wasteland that is CT. This is not surprising.

It’s all just bread and circuses people.

By: SouthernGent

SouthernGent — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:35:20 +0000

Obama to Kennedy is like rebound sex…you don’t care who it is, you just want to do it to get back at someone. It’s usually pretty hot sex, but not fulfilling (so I hear).

By: doufree

doufree — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:56:08 +0000

Because it wasn’t about the candidate. It was about the Kennedys.

How is this different from all of Ted’s other political activities?

By: amkun

amkun — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:55:27 +0000

Acting on pure emotion, usually hatred and anger?

That’s a liberal for you.

By: Kini

Kini — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:40:43 +0000

Legacy building and deconstruction.
New England Blue Bloods versus Arkansas Hicks
Sort of like the Beverly Hillbillys and the Drydalesw

By: Spanglemaker

Spanglemaker — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:36:45 +0000

Heh. Looks like there’s some life left in the old close-enough-to-murderer after all…

By: mojo

mojo — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:24:52 +0000

Hey, they got two out of three of Teddy’s emotions! Now all we need is hunger.

By: bloggless

bloggless — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:13:48 +0000

So, that's why Teddy Boy was so red-faced.

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:01:47 +0000

infidel65 on January 31, 2008 at 10:04 AM

Staggered indeed :)

By: BKennedy

BKennedy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:55:58 +0000

Was Teddy’s endorsement so important?
Seriously..how many people actually care?

bridgetown on January 31, 2008 at 10:13 AM

Endorsement power comes more from who is in the endorser’s Rolodex than any symbolic value. Thus why Obama stands to gain greatly from Ted’s endorsement, Crist’s endorsement helped McCain, and Tancredo’s endorsement didn’t help Mitt much at all.

By: Valiant

Valiant — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:45:57 +0000

Also dissed was the Republican Congress who passed the bill over objections from Southern Democrats.

The continued thanks continue to pour in for Republicans.

By: OBX Pete

OBX Pete — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:36:47 +0000

My theory as to why Teddy and Leahy and some of the other old time liberals are backing Obama, Osama, yo’ momma is because he is as far left (or further) as they are. With his total lack of experience they can take him under their wings and make him their ‘boy’. He will feel obligated to them and he will let it happen. If he is elected we can look for the most left wing (Kennedy/Leahy, etc.) agenda we have ever seen.

By: Right Voices » Blog Archive » Was Teddy’s Endorsement Of Obama Just For Revenge? Probably

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:27:20 +0000

[...] Bryan: It just goes to show that at the end of the day, the Kennedys still don’t care about anything more than their own dynastic identity. If they really cared about real “change,” they would leave the political scene. The Kennedy soap opera should have long past run its course. [...]

By: Tzetzes

Tzetzes — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:24:24 +0000

Petty.

By: natesnake

natesnake — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:22:50 +0000

It’s a big mind game with Uncle Ted. He wants you to think his head tastes like a delicious glazed ham…. but he knows that he actually tastes like Dewars scotch and a$$.

Uncle Ted is a sly one.

By: AbaddonsReign

AbaddonsReign — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:19:11 +0000

Hey, JFK is his brother, I can understand this.

By: natesnake

natesnake — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:18:03 +0000

On second thought, I may try to lick his head… you know, just to see if remotely tastes like ham.

By: Always Right

Always Right — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:17:31 +0000

Why dont we all just REJECT the Clinton clan AND the Kennedy clan once and for all…

and elect some good conservative Republicans.

And no, I dont include McLame as a conservative Republican….

By: Dorvillian

Dorvillian — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:14:51 +0000

Whatever it takes.

Pettiness. Legacy fears. Righteous outrage.

I don’t care at all what his reasons or motivations were. All I know is this is the first positive thing this kook has done in his miserable life.

Seriously, the democrats have hijacked our party, we have NO candidate.

If someone or something doesn’t stop Hillary! – we are truly in for the worst times of our miserable lives.

By: bridgetown

bridgetown — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:13:52 +0000

Was Teddy’s endorsement so important?
Seriously..how many people actually care?

By: Alden Pyle

Alden Pyle — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:11:41 +0000

Talk radio was all aflutter in Boston the day this happened, a few callers had the Malkins to bring up Mary Jo Kopechne to Eagan (R) & Braudie (commie pinko). Both poohpoohed the caller saying sure Teddy “made a mistake” in the past and “may have contributed to MJK’s death” but his long tenure of working for the people since then and that “he’s been a father to his brother’s kids” shows he’s paid back his debt.

The caller wisely used the logic that we should let all murder’s go free then to have the same chance as Kennedy to pay their debt?

Un-F’n believable how dedicated to the Kennedy mobsters the old hippy libs and baby boomers are. Nothing, not even murder, sexual harrassment, and rape can shake them from their delusions.

Pathetic.

By: natesnake

natesnake — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:08:25 +0000

Anybody else think Uncle Ted’s head looks like an oven roasted ham? Throw on a couple pineapple rings?

I’m saying I would eat his head, but at a glance, it might make my hungry.

By: DerKrieger

DerKrieger — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:05:20 +0000

How many potentially great public servants never make an attempt to run for office due to lack of money and how many power hungry, self important, self serving gas bags get elected to high office only because they have the money to run? Very few of these gasbags have any real passion, they’re just motivated by power and prestige. Those of us motivated by passion lack the funds to defeat the gasbags. Extreme wealth, inherited anyway, seems to leave its owners without a set of core convictions, without any real beliefs. Teddy boy seems driven more by Chappaquiddick (sp?) guilt and a desire to keep the Kennedy name in lights than by anything else.