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- The fact is endorsements have been shown to have virtually no impact on a voter''s decision. That''s true even when a candidate who has dropped out of the race endorses one of the others -- their voters make up their own minds and do not follow their former candidate''s pick. The daughter of a long since dead President means even less. To those of us born since the 70s or 80s, JFK has no more meanning than Truman or FDR or Jefferson.
Endorsements, whether they be for Obama or Clinton or McCain or Romney are not going to mean anything in this election. - Reply to this comment
- Why are the Billary supporters to venomous and hateful. If Caroline had come out and endorsed Billary they would be filled with GLEE. Instead they say endorsements don''t matter. Typical of sore losers. If endorsements dont matter then move on to the next article. Some people would rather divide America and will NEVER understand what I means to unite!!
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- Why are the Billary supporters to venomous and hateful. If Caroline had come out and endorsed Billary they would be filled with GLEE. Instead they say endorsements don''t matter. Typical of sore losers. If endorsements dont matter then move on to the next article. Some people would rather divide America and will NEVER understand what I means to unite!!
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- Part 4
Okay, everybody''s over on the other pages so I''ll just contemplate out loud while I drink my coffee tee hee
I guess the naive view might be to think that Obama stirred in Ted inspired an idealism so great it moved him to look past politics and endorse hope. The cynic''s vies might be to think that Ted thinks he can get more payback by leveraging his name with the newbie. Maybe after all these years, he''s settled in somewhere in-between and does after all this time in Washington actually see somebody who reminds him of his brother and after all this time knows there''s nothing anybody can do to him to knock him down for speaking his mind. So there you go . . . - Reply to this comment
- PPPS Ooops, I meant fundraisers in which Bill and Hillary each headlined . . . gosh, morning coffee''s taking a while to have its effect tee hee :D
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- PPS Oops - assuming that Caroline must be a chip of the ''ol block of her dad and probably her mom too :)
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- bud28dy, that''s so rude to say that somebody''s endorsement means nothing. An endorsement is after all just a public opinion. It''s not like she''s trying to run for President based on that type of a record the way Hillary is ;D
Anyway, the big shocker isn''t really that the Kennedy''s are more drawn to Obama - the shocker to me seems to be that they''re actually coming out publicly with their preference, don''t people agree? Like first Caroline and now Ted . . . the Clinton''s went to bat for him when he was facing a serious challenge to his Senate seat by none other than Mitt Romney and headlines by both Hill and Bill apparently helped put him over the top. Hard to know what went into the decision-making there, but I''ll bet there''s a story . . .
PS Wow does Caroline sure wrote beautifully though, gosh . . . no wonder people still yearn for the promise of the JFK years . . . - Reply to this comment
- Caroline Kennedy''s endorsement means nothing. In this morning''s LA Times, it got a three sentence mention on page 26. Sorry but this is not news.
She is not an astute poitical observer, has never run for office, and really has never involved herself in public life to any great extent. Her only claim to fame is her father was JFK. Wow, some credentials. I am on the edge of my chair waiting to see who Amy Carter endorses. And Caroline isn''t even basing her comparison of Obama to her father on personal knowledge -- she was only about 6 when her father died. She actually said Obama seems the most like people said her father was. So she knows as much about her father as any member of the public. Wow, some endorsement. - Reply to this comment
- JFK was an inspirational leader and Caroline Kennedy has every right to connect Obama''s message of hope with the inspiration her father provided a nation. The negative comments of Clinton supporters on this site seems to reflect a general effort of that campaign to denegrade anyone who supports Obama. Good luck with that and the claims of "false hope". "When has hope every been false?" Obama.
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- CBS4me3,
An empowered woman is one who will support the best and vote for her own self interest and, more importantly, the interests of her society.
A dingbat will vote for a woman just because she''s a woman. - Reply to this comment
Ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy 