I agree that Ted’s endorsement might be such a great thing. My mom was excited about it, though.

The only advantage that came to my mind pretty quickly is the possibility the Ted’s endorsement might sway “establishment” Dems who were on the fence, or who don’t like Hillary, but felt they ‘had’ to vote for her. A few superdelegates, maybe?

No idea how many of those people actually exist, or where they live.

“My mom was excited about it, though.”

Mine too, and that is EXACTLY why it’s a big deal. I can think of no politician with more influence over the Boomers than Teddy Kennedy. This endorsement deflates one of Hillary’s core constituencies.

dude, you’re spending too much time in the thicket. it’s not the “ted” endorsement; it’s the “kennedy” endorsement. The Kennedys Have Endorsed Obama, is how everyone is seeing this. people don’t have the “ted” baggage you might think they do; honestly, most people couldn’t tell you a damn thing about him pro or con. 90% of voters don’t know chappaquiddick from chappaqua.

Any other raving drunks endorse Obama yet?

Good thing they had Teddy speak before Happy Hour.

The Kennedy endorsment will help with liberals and some independents. It will hurt with some voters. When i vote it wont be based on who someone else wants me to vote for itll be about who will try to bring change, hope and unity.

First Kerry, now Kennedy. This totally wraps up the white male patrician vote in Massachusetts for Obama.

It is a passing of the torch By Ted and the most eloquent tongue lashing of the Clinton’s recent behaviour I have heard to date.

I think, it means a lot and the Kennedy’s bring a whole wealth of resources to the table for Obama.

And while we’re talking about voters (and mothers ——- I’m an Independent, who is not only looking forward to voting for him, if given the chance, but am considering campaigning for him…

And my mother? A Republican, who has already voiced her support for Obama. (I’m not sure of dad’s vote yet )

Since Obama can only play one victim card and Hillary has two (female AND gay), any REAL Democrat knows who to vote for to avoid feeling guilty later on.

I agree with Senator Kennedy, Someone needs to define ” HOW OLD IS TOO OLD FOR BREAST FEEDING!! “!
We can’t leave this up to the states, we need a federal law that makes it illegal for anyone to breast feed in public above the age of, let’s say,, 48 years age, or, it’s time to accept it, that is as long as the woman is a willing participant!!

I AM a mom and a boomer and an old anti-war, anti-racism activist, raised Catholic who was affected profoundly by the Kennedys, especially RFK. Ted truly is the lion of the Senate and he has worked tirelessly throughout his 50 year career for the needs of American working people. If we ever get to universal health care, it’s going to be largely because of Ted Kennedy. I do believe it’s time for young people to end this corrupt, sordid, chapter and begin their own. And they must reform American politics and give it back to the people. They must turn this country into a true democracy-social, political and economic, perhaps for the first time in history. Barack is only the start. Will you have the courage and the commitment to do it? (Oh–and I steal my daughter’s Rolling Stone to read during my dialysis treatments.)

I think that this endorsement does a lot more as a symbolic passing of the torch from an older generational family that once stood from change to the new inspiration of America. I think that ultimately this will be good for Obama, as most people will look at as endorsement from someone who has been around that think that Obama has what it takes to change the nation and handle the leadership position. The only people that I think that will harp on this negatively are the conservative blow hards who would not have supported Obama to begin with.

If Ted Kennedy hadn’t left me to drown, I’d probably have endorsed Obama, too.

Just sayin’

Ted is the only Kennedy that has survived the establishment’s murder attempts, JFK, RFK and JFK JR. were victims of assasination, Ted merely woke up before he was suppossed to and was able to get out of the car. His excessive drinking probably saved him that night by making him less succeptible to the drugs that were used on him and Mary Jo.

I’m just glad to be in the news for something other than doing Oxycontin and Ambien.

Yeah, Kennedys!

Geez, who WOULDN’T want the endorsement of a ne’er-do-well booze sponge with more gin blossoms on his nose than W.C. Fields?

It’s sad that anyone cares who this drunken dinosaur endorses or what he thinks about anything. I am amazed each time he gets re-elected as he should be in a prison cell instead. The fact that Teddy is still alive and his other two brothers are dead is evidence enough that there is no God, as far as I’m concerned. There was so much promise in John and Bobby and all this fat f@%k could do was let poor Mary Jo drown and then cover it up to protect his own ass. How the people of Massachusetts can vote for him in good conscience I will never know. I hope the pig rots in hell.

It appears the disappearence of all those weapons in Iraq last Fall, an item RS deemed fit for posting, was actually a black market arms sale by Americans. To the ‘terrorists.’

Do we get that here? Nope, we get Teddy’s endorsement of Obama and it’s ‘import.’

Bush is ‘crowing’ about ’success’ in Iraq. Make that lying. Do we get that here? Nope, we get ‘thoughts’ about Teddy.

And people wonder why this country’s going to hell. Look in the mirror.

To the extent that people pay attention to endorsements, I think this is really symbolic about a new generation of leadership. For everyone who thinks so badly of Ted Kennedy, everyone in the race was seeking his support. I’m not sure how the coverage of this is any different than the coverage of Clinton campaigning in Florida – we have to think about who we will vote for, not just be led to the top stories. The last few weeks should have taught us that – if not the last 2 elections.

Tim, Tim, Tim!

Obama has already sweeped the ‘change,’post-partisan, youth vote. He needs to grab elderly democrats with real concerns about the economy. No one, I mean no one who isn’t married to Hillary Clinton, better represents the old guard, bread and butter democratic constituency than Ted. Yes, he lends some unwanted, ‘old politics’ weight to Obama campaign (insert fat joke), but he’s hitching it on at the right time: Obama is flying lighter than air coming out of SC.

He’s showing the Clintons how triangulating is done.

this will kill obama if he gets the nomination…if its anything that america dislikes its an endorsement from an old white yankee liberal who’s only accomplishments in the senate were sponsoring crap stopgap immigration reforms, and record consumption of alcohol, coasting on his families legacy, and general rabelaisian loutishness…

the republican smear machine would have a field day picking obama apart over this…i can already see the add “Obama…friends with and personally endorshed by (dramatic pause)TED KENNEDY!!!! (sinister echo follows, Teddy boy morphs into satan)

The only way this could be worse is if it was Sheets Byrd given his Grand Dragon seal of approval

Ted’s endorsement is merely a perfunctary act. The truth is there are millions of us who embrace Hillary because of all she’s done for this country. She was a great attorney for the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas. She was a fabulous First Lady who acquired much valuable experience by being close to the action. And now she’s leading the way for women.

Hillary is an exemplary role model for all females who have been exploited by the system. We embrace her. We take from her positivity the sunshine she provides us with. And we return to her all the support a woman under stress deserves.

was I hallucinating last night or did George actually try to make us believe that after 8 years of raiding the treasury he’s become a fiscal conservative that wants to balance the budget and eliminate earmarks?

Or that he didn’t know that the ’surge’ would have been the right tactic to use from the start rather than waiting till almost the end of their reign?

These guys should be brought before the hague after being prosecuted here.

I bet he thought it was funny how he was suddenly adopting the democratic agenda to blunt their talking points.

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I’m gay

Speaking of endorsements, it looks like Hillary is scraping the bottom of the barrel as she just got the insanely corrupt Maxine Waters to endorse her. Who is next, Marion Barry? I guess now her strategy is to get as many black endorsements to draw the black vote away from Obama. She knows that if she can’t (or any Dem for that matter) get the black vote, she can’t win.

The one endorsement I am really waiting to see is from Senator Russ “John Edward is using my voting record” Feingold. I always thought Kennedy would endorse Obama in this campaign unless his former drinking buddy Dodd shocked the world. Russ is actually in a state, Wisconsin, that is a must-keep for Democrats and not a safe, cozy Massachusetts. The endorsement could definately backfire on Obama. A Feingold or even a Senator Webb endorsement will be better since they aren’t partisan lightning rods, yet are both solid progressives.

REAGAN REPUBLICANS AND KENNEDY DEMOCRATS IN REVOLT AGAINST NEO-CONS AND NEO-LIBS

Just as the Ronald Reagan Conservatives are revolting to crush the Podhoretz Neo-Conservatives; the John Kennedy Liberals are revolting to crush the Leiberman Neo-Liberals; and the leading Libertarian Republicans, dauntless guardians of the rule the American Constitution, are drawing their growing rebel forces from the ranks of young energetic conservatives and liberals.

The endorsement of the unpopular Neo-Con McCain and Neo-Lib Hillary, by the New York Times, exemplifies this desperate struggle by the Neo-Con/Neo-Lib news media to retain control over the wealth and blood of the American People, by hook or by crook. Similarly, Neo-Lib Leiberman’s notorious endorsement of Neo-Con McCain was an attempt to unite the Neo-Lib and Neo-Con supporters against the Conservatives and the Liberals.

These insidious Neo-Cons and Neo-Libs, victims of their own culturally subversive ideology and political corruption, with the traditional conservatives and liberals now rebelling to expel them from their niches of power in government, education, and news media are in panic; their fear and loathing of the America People having become their self-fulfilling prophecy.

It is the beautiful dawn of the American Reformation; and the beginning of the End of the Era of the Ugly American; and whole wide World is watching and cheering.

Google: Who Would the World Elect; Stricherz Why the Democrats are Blue; Mearsheimer “Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy”; Human Events Ron Paul Interview.