Sen. Kennedy endorses Barack Obama

Kennedy called Obama a “man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character,” and a worthy heir to his assassinated brother. He said, “I feel change in the air.”

Here’s the video.

  1. iknowtruthismine says:

    Can’t wait for the Neocon hate fest to begin. Let’s see what the Fringe Righties can do to this.

  2. TUReader says:

    Ted Kennedy stands for change?

    Why doesn’t he try implementing some–he has served in Congress since the 1960s.

    He looks and sounds like a figure from the 1789 the French Revolution “Old regeime.”

    Ted needs a cold draft to cool him down!!!

  3. gecannonphd says:

    Two down, and two to go from the anti-Clinton gang of 4.

    There have been rumblings for weeks that the gang would try to defeat Hillary by endorsing Obama. The gang’s motivation is to clip the power of the Clntons in the Dem. Party, and to revenge previous political slights from the Clintons.

    John Kerry endorsed Obama earlier this month. He was never too happy about the luke warm Clinton support in 04. The feeling was that the Clintons preferred Kerry losing, in order to clear the path for 08.

    Ted Kennedy followed today, strongly endorsing Obama. Kennedy wants to clip the Clintons’ wings and their clout within the Dem. Party. Kennedy also wants to lessen the clout of the Dem. Leadership Council (DLC), and its triangulation and centrist ideology.

    Kennedy’s comparison of Obama to JFK is really a stretch. JFK was born in wealth, and had 12 years experience in Congress. The closest comparison could be that both JFK had, and Obama has, Ted Sorenson writing speeches.

    We should be prepared for the other two members of the gang of 4 to soon endorse Obama.

    Howard Dean, chmn. of the Dem. Party, is under pressure now to endorse Obama. Again, it would be to lessen the power of the Clintons and to go with a candidate that may have stronger coattails in state and congressional races. But, again, if Dean wants to keep his job, he’ll remain neutral.

    The fourth member of the gang is the big one…Al Gore. If Gore endorses Obama, it will be mostly an anti-Hillary move. Gore apparently has long simmering grudges against Hillary. Part comes from the rivalery in the Bill Clinton White House. Also, like Kerry, Gore has long felt that the Clintons were luke warm for Gore in 2000.
    I caught John McCain’s rally in Florida yesterday, on Cspan.
    Do you believe Joe Lieberman did the warm up?
    McCain is a militarist, and Lieberman likes him because John would attack Iran.
    McCain flippantly told the crowd that Iran is building nuclear weapons. That’s a ten on the lyier meter,
    I want Mitt to win tomorrow, in order to clip the Lieberman and McCain militarist juggernaut.

  4. nighthawk says:

    The TU editorial board’s reaction to this should be interesting.

  5. devtob says:

    OT — What happened here!?

    Website updates are usually an improvement.

    Not this one.

    Aside from ditching the Capitol art for an unbelievably boring CapCon in blue header, what’s with having years-outdated stuff on top of the right side!?

    Did some intern do this? That would explain it somewhat.

    But presumably someone who makes six figures there thought that this is an improvement over the old site.

    There may be a good explanation for that seemingly foolish executive decision.

    Let’s hear it.

    And what’s with putting Gillibrand stuff on the Local Politics blog which most commenters interested in that race don’t visit, because it obviously gets far fewer clicks and comments than CapCon!?

    It really makes no sense to move Gillibrand stuff, which has generated more comments here than any other issue/politician for the past year or so, to a TU blog that few people bother with.

    I know it’s your site, and you can do whatever you want here.

    But making CapCon worse is not a good move.

    As I’m sure you know, there are other online places we can, and will, go if CapCon continues to decline.

  6. gary condit says:

    Nice to see that Smokinjoe’s name calling is still embraced in this blog, but a post that questions a certain bloggers self-proclaimed “conservatism” is censored.



  7. gunga dan says:

    â€œI feel change in the air.â€

    I know a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88 where air magically changed into seawater.

    Too bad it wasn’t a VW:

  8. Mike says:

    NOW-NY has already started bashing him. The politics of personal destruction on behalf of the Great Hillary is in full swing.

  9. knottime says:

    â€œWhat does it say about the state of America that we have a woman and a biracial black candidate as the top contenders for the Democratic spot? Are we moving forward?â€

    Answer: We donâ€™t have â€œa woman and a biracial black candidateâ€ running.

    We have a Democrat running as a Rethuglican Lite, versus a liberal, running as a centrist, with some media-blushed skin color.

    And the media (et TU) like Barakâ€™s media people more now, and will like HERS later.

    Come on. This isnâ€™t about skin. Or gender. Itâ€™s about power.

    The reason the Jesse Jacksonâ€™s and Sharptonâ€™s arenâ€™t in this, yet, is they donâ€™t know who to support to keep their hate supporting networks productive.

    Kudos to Caroline K.

    Anti-kudos (?) for allowing her uncle to have anything to do with the endorsement.

    Times Leader, The (Wilkes Barre, PA) (January 13, 2008)
    Article ID: 11E5C7F754052328
    Gwen L. Kopechne, 89, died on Dec. 20 at the Valley Crest Nursing Home in Plains Township. A small gathering of family and friends attended a Memorial Mass in her honor at All Saints Church in Plymouth.
    Family photographs pasted on a board were placed near the altar.

  10. sebastian says:

    #3 (phd) -
    dems. eat their own – that’s why do not win that often. Lost pres. election in ’68, ’72, ’80, ’84, ’88, ’00, ’04.

    Guys like Teddy, Kerry, and Gore would rather clip the clinto wings than beat the republican. That is why they are too short-sighted (aka: stupid) to lead the nation.

  11. Da Man says:

    Enough already…

    That chaps aquitted…

  12. JiggsMalone says:

    So! Once again! The Kennedy family will deliver the Massachusetts’ delegation to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

    And, perhaps, all of the Massachusetts’ electoral votes in November.

    Shades of 1972 and George McGovern.

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