Kennedy Lauds Obama As Worthy Heir To JFK

Sought-After Endorsement Could Help Democratic Hopeful Among Working Class, Hispanics

(CBS/AP)  Two generations of Kennedys - the Democratic Party's best-known political family - endorsed Barack Obama for president on Monday, with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy calling him a "man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character," a worthy heir to his assassinated brother.

"It was a moment packed with political significance," said CBS senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield. "Ted and Caroline Kennedy — the surviving brother and surviving child of the most revered Democratic President — declaring that the torch has been passed."

"I feel change in the air," Kennedy said in a speech salted with scarcely veiled criticism of Obama's chief rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.

"I have marveled at his grit and grace," he said of the man a full generation younger than he is.

Kennedy's endorsement was ardently sought by all three of the remaining presidential contenders, and he delivered it at a pivotal time in the race. A liberal lion in his fifth decade in the Senate, the Massachusetts senator is in a position to help Obama court Hispanic voters as well as rank-and-file members of labor unions, two key elements of the Democratic Party.

He is expected to campaign actively for Obama in the days before a string of delegate-rich primaries and caucuses across 24 states on Feb. 5, beginning later this week in Arizona, New Mexico and California.

The senator made his comments at a crowded campaign rally that took on the appearances of a Kennedy family embrace of Obama, who sat smiling as he heard their praise.

He was introduced by Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, who said Obama "offers that same sense of hope and inspiration" as did her father. Rep. Patrick Kennedy also endorsed Obama from the stage before a boisterous crowd at American University.

"This is more than just politics for me. It is personal," Obama, 46, said when it came time for him to speak. He said he was too young to remember President John F. Kennedy, but that "my own sense of what is possible in this country" stems from what his parents told him of the Kennedys.

In his own remarks, Sen. Kennedy sought one by one to rebut many of the arguments leveled by Obama's critics.

"From the beginning, he opposed the war in Iraq. And let no one deny that truth," he said, an obvious reference to former President Clinton's statement that Obama's early anti-war stance was a "fairy tale."

"With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion.

"With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay," Kennedy said.

The Massachusetts senator had remained on the sideline of the presidential campaign for months, saying he was friends with Obama, Clinton and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, as well as several Senate colleagues who are no longer in the race.

Lately, according to several associates, Kennedy became angered with what he viewed as racially divisive comments by Bill Clinton. Nearly two weeks ago, he played a personal role in arranging a brief truce between the Clintons and Obama on the issue.

Questioned about Kennedy's endorsement, Hillary Clinton said simply, "We're all proud of the people we have endorsing us."

She also defended herself and her husband against criticism that they had engaged in racial politics and distortion of a rival's record.

"There's been no two people who have stood against that more than we have over many years," she said in a conference call with Arizona reporters.

Kennedy refers only sparingly to his assassinated brothers, John and Robert, in his public remarks, and his endorsement of Obama was cast in terms that aides said was unusually personal.

"There was another time, when another young candidate was running for president and challenging America to cross a new frontier. He faced criticism from the preceding Democratic president, who was widely respected in the party," Kennedy said, referring to Harry S. Truman.

"And John Kennedy replied, 'The world is changing. The old ways will not do. ... It is time for a new generation of leadership.

"So it is with Barack Obama," he added.

Kennedy began his remarks by paying tribute to Sen. Clinton's advocacy for issues such as health care and women's rights. "Whoever is our nominee will have my enthusiastic support," he said.

But he quickly pivoted to a strong endorsement of Obama, whom he said "has extraordinary gifts of leadership and character, matched to the extraordinary demands of this moment in history."

"I believe that a wave of change is moving across America," Kennedy said.

The endorsement may run counter to Obama's image as a change agent, but is also likely to help him among groups that, so far, have been loyal to Clinton, Greenfield said on CBS' The Early Show on Monday.

"The question is, Obama is this transformational guy who's saying 'I can move beyond the old left and right'. Well, Ted Kennedy for many people, pro and con, is the symbol of classic American liberalism. He's been in the Senate since Barack Obama was 15 months old," Greenfield said. "That said, among working class Democrats, among Hispanics, among African Americans, Ted Kennedy is a home run."

Today's endorsement represents a break between the Clintons and the Kennedys, two of the Democratic Party's most powerful families, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said on The Early Show.

"What makes this, I think, a little bit more of a news story is Ted Kennedy squaring off with Bill Clinton saying, 'I don't like how you dealt with the race issue in South Carolina,'" Brinkley said. "When he was president, remember the Clinton's didn't have a home and they used to spend their summers up in Martha's Vineyard, and Hyannis Port, kind of infiltrating the Kennedy compounds, if you like. All that's over now. It's not just an endorsement by Ted Kennedy. He's getting on the campaign trail; he's going to be trying to bring labor unions, and particularly Hispanics, to Barack Obama."

Also Monday, Obama picked up the endorsement of author Toni Morrison, who once labeled Bill Clinton as the "first black president." Morrison said she has has admired Obama rival Hillary Rodham Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but cited Obama's "creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom."

Morrison said her endorsement had little to do with Obama's race - he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas - but rather his personal gifts.

Writing with the touch of a poet in a letter to the Illinois senator, Morrison explained why she chose Obama over Clinton for her first public presidential endorsement.

"In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don't see in other candidates," Morrison wrote. "That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it."

[olebd]

Reason number 7,765 not to vote for Obama....endorsement by a Kennedy.

[jack3213]

There is only one reason not vote for any Democrat..None are qualified.

[pepperp1]

What absolute bull I believe it is becoming increasingly clear that the Dem party can not look outward past identity politics and liberal social lectures as their burning cause and Lead this country in our time of need. This preoccupation with branding everyone racist this inflaming to victimize feelings and inflame for turn out is destructive and is spending all the capital on what most Americans don%u2019t like about the Party really don%u2019t like by the way, as much as they don%u2019t like Bush it is non productive. That this goof would vote for someone he deems weak with as much as is on Americas plate SCREAMs liberal short sidedness because he is offended for the Black community for simple political statement, is well frankly not the kind of Party I want running all branches of government.


Wake up your strings are being pulled by marketing MASTERS and you look foolish, the Christian Right comes to mind, as a Party incapable of Leading just keeping a unflattering thonge up their behind. After Feb 5 if this party cant get over its demons well President McCain I guess.

[navyvet77]

Wow. An enforsement by a drunkard who got away with manslaughter. If I was Obama I think I would let Hillary have that one.

[pepperp1]

(States voting next) - FL- CA- AZ- IL- MO- TN

Hillary R Clinton 58% 43% 37% 22% 44% 43% 34%
Barack H Obama 20% 28% 27% 51% 31% 24% 20%
John R. Edwards 15% 11% 15% 15% 18% 28% 16%



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EDWARDS needs to drop this isnt a campaign of personal power brokering its for President actually being able to obtain the office and he obviously can not. No one is buying his spin the CAUSE OF MY LIFE....LIBERALS

[prinzowhales]

The co-sponsor of the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill that singled the drug gang, MS-13, out for special treatment--excusing income taxes and crimes, such as child molestation and murder, if they said they were no longer a part of the gang--this bridge killing piece of human garbage is endorsing Obama...Obama, it should be remembered, endorsed Joe Liebermann, the biggest War Pig in the Democratic Party, in his run against an anti-Iraqi war Democrat...The War Pig and Israel-firster, Liebermann...now, an ''Independent''... has endorsed McCain for President...a perfect circle of corrupt interests that serve international capital in the interests of war and corruption...Keep supporting the mainstream and you will have 4 more years of Bush policies...prehaps replacing a coke head with a crack head.

[cbs4me3]

AL GORE for PRESIDENT. Oh, how we want you as the party''s nominee for President Big Al. Save us from this nonsense Big Al.

[prairiefox1]

THAT SHOULD REALLY PUT UP THE RED FLAG!
LOOKS LIKE WE ARE GOING TO END UP WITH A HAND OF POO REGARDLESS!

[prairiefox1]

AL GORE for PRESIDENT. Oh, how we want you as the party''''s nominee for President Big Al. Save us from this nonsense Big Al.


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Posted by CBS4me3 at 11:20 AM : Jan 28, 2008
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I DO HOPE THAT YOU ARE JOKING!

[cbs_oliver]

I really like the way this story is presented.

It is refreshing to see direct quotes rather than paraphrased summaries.

A good clean story.

Well done!

[abbe91]

Rezko''s GOP Beneficiaries

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/01/rezkos-gop-bene.html

[abbe91]

"Rezko, former friend and fundraiser of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, is scheduled to stand trial this month on charges of fraud, attempted extortion and money laundering.
Posted by trapbreak at 11:11 AM : Jan 28, 2008"

Probably better to have got donations from Rezko like many politicians around that to be in league with "911 hero" Giuliani''s friends from Qatar Al-Thani and KSM (mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing).

[gunownerdan]

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961

www.A-HUMAN-RIGHT.com

[pepperp1]

Here we go Kennedy, Kerry Liberals from Mass pull to the Far Far Left which is what they hated about the 90s and the Clinotn wanting instead their intellectually vague identity politics and narrow social justice agenda as the burning issue of the day. And it may well be for someone who lives in a mansion and has millions like Kennedy and Kerry and the social liberal Clyburn but not 90 percent of the Party. Me I am for the Positively America wing of the Party that Hillary represents and Schumer spearheaded in 06 in his book of the same name not a card caring member mind you, mainly because of the newness of this as a Party platform, which is now obviously under attack from the Kennedy Clyburn fringes and at risk of making the Party undesirable again and back to the Great Society days of the Party. This Liberal Lion lecture about feigned racism and therefore outrage against the Clinton wing of the party is a waste of energy and an obvious slanderous political stunt but with the Liberal press it has the potential to go WAY left and they will loose in 08. And just reminds everyone what they hate about the Dem parties myopic focus on Liberal social agenda at all cost to the rest of us.

[pepperp1]

Here we go Kennedy, Kerry Liberals from Mass pulling to the Far Far Left which is what they hated about the 90s and the Clintons, wanting instead their intellectually vague identity politics and narrow social justice agenda as the burning issue of the day which lost them the middle class family voters. And it may well be for someone who lives in a mansion and has millions like Kennedy and Kerry and the social liberal Clyburn but not 90 percent of the Party. Me I am for the Positively America wing of the Party that Hillary represents and Schumer spearheaded in 06 in his book of the same name not a card caring member mind you, mainly because of the newness of this as a Party platform, which is now obviously under attack from the Kennedy Clyburn fringes and at risk of making the Party undesirable again and back to the Great Society days of the Party. This Liberal Lion lecture about feigned racism and therefore outrage against the Clinton wing of the party is a waste of energy and an obvious slanderous political stunt but with the Liberal press it has the potential to go WAY left and they will loose in 08. And just reminds everyone what they hate about the Dem parties myopic focus on Liberal social agenda at all cost to the rest of us.

[Krazcarl]

commonseanse1....I agree there looking at this like a slam dunk and that is wrong. I''m a bleeding heart liberal and if John Mcain gets the nomination he will get my vote. I like Edwards but with the black verses the lady he''s not getting the attention he deserves.

[abbe91]

"I''''m a bleeding heart liberal and if John Mcain gets the nomination he will get my vote."
Posted by crzmeat at 11:59 AM : Jan 28, 2008

Want war with Iran ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZCISY40qns

[tbweb]

Its anybodys guess at this point who the next U.S. President will be. However if it is Sen. Barack Obama, I hope he honors the Kennedy family support by reopening the investigation into the murder of Pres. John F. Kennedy! Its been a long time of course, but no one should be able to murder any U.S. President right before our eyes in broad daylight and get away with it! For crying out loud, murdering a U.S. President and getting away with it should be impossible and at a minimum a national embarassment! Somebody out there knows who killed JFK.

[mutesss]

Meet the second skeleton in Obama''s closet. Alexi Giannoulias. Obama endorsed and helped Giannoulias win election despite Giannoulias many ties to organized crime.

This well sourced litte ditty has the low down and Obama and his mobster friend Alexi:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/1/27/161410/392

[hillaryin08]

Sen. Kennedy Set To Endorse Obama

Liberals turning on other Liberals. Is this the same code as Ape shall not kill Ape from Beneath the Planet of the Apes?

[ljb6599]

Abraham Lincoln had very little experience before becoming president as I recall.It turns out that he became one of greatest presidents ever.The same argument was made against him when he was running in that he did not have enough political experience. Look what experince has given us over the past 7 years i.e Cheney,Rumsfield,etc. They had all kinds of experience.Now we are involved in a war with no end in sight,a bad economy and the American people are the most divided since the Civil War.Being a good president is most related to having good judgement and decision making ability.It also has a lot to do with inspiring and challenging people to become involved in the political process rather than sitting on the sideline complaining.

[prinzowhales]

mutess--Looks like the skeletons in Barack''s closet are beginning to dance...he''s an unsavoury fellow who has squandered his talents like something out of Robert Penn Warren''s work. When the full story of Barack and his crack use, his ''boy-Monicas'' come out... General Dynamics will have to find another boot lick.

[pepperp1]

What absolute bull, I believe it is becoming increasingly clear that the Liberals like Kennedy, Kerry and Clyburn leaders in the Dem party can not look outward past identity politics and liberal social lectures as their burning cause and Lead this country in our time of need. This preoccupation with branding everyone racist this inflaming to victimize feelings for turn out is destructive and is spending all the parties capital on what most Americans hate about the Party as much as they don%u2019t like Bush it is non productive. And wrapping it in the Kennedy the cloak of social justice and Camelot doesnt work just like values didnt work for long with the Repugs, a marketed manufactured need for political consumption that fulfills no need wont survive no matter how many flaming Liberals scream racist racist and it sounds all to familiar like traitor traitor and how Bush came into office and the power divisive politics warp in Hope and Change and a guy with a vague record who is likable enough.. That this goof would vote for someone he deems weak with as much as is on Americas plate Screams Liberal arrogance short sidedness, is well frankly not the kind of Party I want running all branches of government.

The Positively America side of the Party needs to reemerge and change the conversation or risk marginalizing and loosing the swinging the countries interest back away from their Party.

[alanrobisch]

Being a good president is most related to having good judgement and decision making ability.It also has a lot to do with inspiring and challenging people to become involved in the political process rather than sitting on the sideline complaining.


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Posted by ljb6599 at 12:37 PM : Jan 28, 2008

I generally agree with you but must point out that Vietnam was the most polarizing war much more unpopular than Iraq and resulted in the death of 15 times as many americans as this conflict

[tbweb]

trapbreak,,,

Yes! Despite the Freedom of Information Act releasing most of the Warren Commission Report, a lot of that report is still sealed until 2017. JFK was killed from that "Grassy Knoll", the Warren Commission acknowledged shots fired from the infamous "Grassy Knoll" but claims the shooter missed! The Warren Commission report was flawed inside and out! The 2017 portion they are holding back should be released now!

[alanrobisch]

Want war with Iran ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZCISY4
0qns



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Posted by abbe91 at 12:04 PM : Jan 28, 2008

I would strongly suggest that since he was a prisoner of war that he would be much less likely to go to war than others and would only do it as a last resort. He is not as you infer a war monger

[wync]

WOW. . .such haterism. I am trying to figure out what about Obama draws such hate and discontent from people who claim to be from a party that is supposed be progressive. Where as I can understand the apprehensions about Obama and Clinton being nominated, I can''t understand the venomous hatred and disdain that ultimately stems from race and gender. Yes, I said race and gender because if either candidate were just as viable and were white men they would be touted as the next Ronald Reagan or John F. Kennedy. This is the first time America has faced a situation as we do today. As with all things new we are cautious as we journey on paths which have never been explored. The funny thing is that every body wants to say ". . .even though I would vote for him or her, I know others won''t because they are black or a woman."
If you were being honest with yourself minus the disclaimer, the "others" you speak of is probably you. I have more faith in America than that especially with the younger genrations that don''t have to use the bs that happened in a generation before as an excuse to imply that ". . .even though I am beyond judging people on race and gender, everybody else is not. . .Even though I may be ready for a female or black President, others are not"
WHAT ARROGANCE! WHAT DENIAL! WHAT BS! PLEASE GET OVER YOURSELF!

[alanrobisch]

The Positively America side of the Party needs to reemerge and change the conversation or risk marginalizing and loosing the swinging the countries interest back away from their Party.



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Posted by pepperp1

please slow down sounded like you had legitmate ideas but you said them so fast I couln''t figure them out. also I couldn''t tell who do you favor in dem primary?

[one_american]

How much could it possibly mean - for the ULTIMATE Washington insider (Ted Kennedy) to endorse the candidate of "change"?

Think about it, liberals.

[alanrobisch]

Posted by wync at 12:42 PM : Jan 28, 2008
+ report

Please don''t make a blanket statement about prior generations as you did nor wrap the current generation I assume yours in a blanket of goodness

I won''t be voting for either hillary or obama, but if i were a dem I would definitely vote for obama.

[gunownerdan]

Barack Obama will actually fight for the rights of DANGEROUS CRIMINALS to SUE YOU if they get themselves hurt after breaking into your home. On the other hand he does not believe you have a right to protect yourself, your family, and your property from harm!
Both Obama and Clinton will say law-abiding citizens should not be trusted to own common handguns, rifles, and shotguns while they constantly rely on armed guards who carry AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUNS every single day!

"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual ... as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of."
- Suzanna Gratia-Hupp

[alanrobisch]

How much could it possibly mean - for the ULTIMATE Washington insider (Ted Kennedy) to endorse the candidate of "change"?

Think about it, liberals.


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Posted by One_American at 12:47 PM : Jan 28, 2008

It might mean he likes Obama or hates Hillary or he thinks Obama is most likely to win. Note John Kennedy''s daughter is already supporting Obama. she doesn''t carry this baggage.

[pepperp1]

Tony Rezko arrested, sources say


seems some concern about skipping town before the trial start to Syria his home country...................

[gunownerdan]

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961

"Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government."
-- Congressman Ron Paul, June 27, 2006

www.A-HUMAN-RIGHT.com

[nyckate]

One_American

Like it or not - Ted Kennedy is a well respected senator with the ability to raise a ton of money for Obama - its not looking good for Hillary.

[prinzowhales]

Neither race, s.ex or religion mitigate the fact that the same Human Garbage who backed Bush and Clinton are backing Obama and Hillary. Obama''s advisors are CFR, he has the backing of the Crown family--Israel-first and General Dynamics--his race doesn''t change this... neither does his criminal backers...

Giuliani and McCain aren''t getting a break because they are white males--filty, mob-connected scum that they are...Why would anyone think that a black man with the same kind of baggage should get a break on his criminal connections?

And "Cattle Futures"Clinton? There''s a world of difference between this War Pig and a woman of integrity and courage like Cynthia McKinney...a woman who confronted Rumsfeld over the $2.3 TRILLION missing from DoD accounts and the Senator from New York who weeps and whines for votes....

[klingon69]

The first and foremost reason not to vote republican is they are all liars, warmongers, and big fat fake phony christians.And not a one is a qualified leader in fact they are worse than bush.
Posted by irishbitch11 at 10:46 AM : Jan 28, 2008
You sound like the guy from FAMILY GUY. The one who goes around saying,"you''re a phony, a big fat phony!!!"

[belker1-2009]

So the Kennedys have endorsed Obama. Big Whoop!

The ultra liberal endorses the ultra liberal. Obama already had the extreme left for him. This endorsement and $5 will get a you a Starbucks!

Look at the good side. Jay Leno will give more air time to Ted and his problems now that Ted made it back to the top of the news. Jay needed some new stuff. He has always counted on antics of Ted.

[nyckate]

tuckerndfw

I agree that the GOP will win 2008 - not becuase they deserve or know what the heck they''re doing - but because neither Hillary or Obama can win.

Sad, - the country has become so dysfunctional we can''t put forth an easily electable candidate.

I''d say McCain will get it - which considering his lack of ability to understand the economic problems facing the country is quite scary.

[nyckate]

gunownerdan

Do STOP being SUCH an idiot.

In the days of the founding fathers there were no official policing organization set up you fool. Sheesh - dumber and dumber and dumber you lot get.

[gunownerdan]

nyckate,

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961

"Tyrants from Hitler to Mao to Stalin have sought to disarm their own citizens, for the simple reason that unarmed people are easier to control. Our Founders, having just expelled the British army, knew that the right to bear arms serves as the guardian of every other right. This is the principle so often ignored by both sides in the gun control debate. Only armed citizens can resist tyrannical government."
-- Congressman Ron Paul, June 27, 2006

www.A-HUMAN-RIGHT.com

[klingon69]

Me I am for the Positively America wing of the Party that Hillary represents and Schumer spearheaded in 06 in his book of the same name
Posted by pepperp1 at 11:48 AM : Jan 28, 2008
Ah yes, Chuckie Schumer. The biggest anti-gun nut around. I wouldn''t trust a thing out of him. If he said the sky was blue, I''d look to make sure. Clinton isn''t much better.

[thgdriver]

What has drawn headlines are Rezkos connections to Obama, who was associated with Rezko throughout his rise in Illinois state politics.

Obama is starting to smell a little fishy, If the Clintoon''s don''t find the evidence they need on Obama I will be truly surprised. Somebody that worked for Rezko and got a shiitty deal will probably be giving Hillary a call and tell her handlers exactly where to look.

[thgdriver]

Hey Obama, as you ride into the sunrise with Ted I just hope you know how to swim. LOL.

[pared1]

Doesn''t Kennedy also endorse Vodka, Rum and brandy?

[gaaru-2009]

When am asked who my heroes are, I readily answer Fredrick de Klerk and Mikhail Gorbachev. They correctly interpreted the apprehensions of the world and changed systems whose products they were for the peace we cherish today. I see this kind of interpreter in only one candidate, Obama.

[thgdriver]

Now Ted passes the torch of Camelot onto Obams. LOL

I am not sure about the torch, I have read where he has passed the BOTTLE around somewhat.

[Krazcarl]

LJB6599...All those dead a civil war the first draft cause noone wanted to fight shyrocketing taxes riots in the streets and he was our greatest president read a history book he was a failure his side won the war that does not make him a great leader he was dismal at best.

[thgdriver]

Anybody know who those other two losers, Carter and Gore are endorsing?

By the way, it''s nice to see Edwards up and about after getting a knife a foot long plunged into his back by John Kerry.

[vastr-wcon]

.
I certainly wasn''t prepared to cast a vote until I learned who Mary Jo Kopechne''s killer, Ted Kennedy, supported. But that still isn''t enough to help me make up my mind. I desperately need to know the person all known killers support for president. In particular, could the MSM let us know for whom OJ Simpson, Robert Blake and all killers on death row will vote?
Thank you.

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