Media Going Bonkers over Kennedy Endorsement

Post SOTU analysis on MSNBC is focusing on Obama-Kennedy rather than Bush's irrelevant speech.

Is MSNBC still broadcasting?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven

Was married to Jane Fonda some time later.

Was a state senator in California at one point.

And Wiki on Hayden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hayden

I am loving seeing all these great hippy dippy names getting associated with Obama. Tom Hayden - oh boy. Hanoi Jane. Jerry Moonbeam Brown. What a throwback (to a drug addled subculture)!

And Roxx, Bush gave a GREAT speech. Lame duck he is, it was hardly irrelevant.

Damn.......Being supported by Jane Fonda is a wonderful reason for people to run from Obama like the plague.

Just hearing her name make me want to run for my blood pressure pills. How she never was charged for treason has always been a puzzlement to me.

Thanks!

Phoenix, why do you think that Jane Fonda supports Obama? Tom Hayden does, but they've been divorced for a while.

I looked around and as far as I can tell she hasn't endorsed anyone, but she likes Hillary.

(Not that it should matter, I just saw an excuse brewing... ;-))

Roxxanne said...



Nobody in their right mind would try to speak for you, because so many of your statements have been so "out there" that nobody sane can make an equivalent statement.
You have twisted the truth, you have twisted other peoples comments, and you have flat out lied so often that its impossible to speak for you.

Well, I like to think Roxx is reprepsentative of the Democratic party. It's all about "change".

soz- You are right. I think that I had quickly painted with too broad a brush. (Just the thought of Jane Fonda, whether she is for Obama or not, makes me want to run for my blood pressure pills.) I think that I let my gut reaction get the better of me.

Anyhow, from what I have read and learned over the last number of months, Obama would be my LAST choice (Well, maybe he's in a tie with Huckabee )

If I had my druthers, Giuliani is probably the closest to what I would want in a president. The problem is, I think that he has shot himself in the foot, and I really expect that he will drop out if he does not win Florida today by a vast majority. I don't think that will happen, though.

Phoenix, I feel the same about Jane Fonda...I feel slightly nauseated when I hear her name. But I do believe in redemption, and she has said that she sincerely feels shame for what she did in North Vietnam. I hope Tom Hayden's support for Obama will not hurt him as I am one of his supporters.

Having been against the Iraq war from the beginning, I could never get behind Hillary because she has never apologized as Edwards and others have done. I don't demonize her...she has good qualities as well, but Bill Clinton hurt her rather than helped her campaign after New Hampshire.

Ted Kennedy and Caroline will bring older voters to look more carefully at Obama and just maybe the so-called Latino/Hispanic voters will also. I hate like anything when I hear one of the pundits or "Kewl Kids" say that the Hispanic vote will be Clintons because they dislike African Americans.

Ted will remind some people of the 60's and Chappaquidick, but he has been a great senator and has done much for the public good. I wonder what my life would have been like if I had two brothers, one the president, and the other the likely presidential nominee in '68 assassinated. That doesn't excuse his behavior that horrible night and I don't, but I do think he has done so much good since then for his family and for Americans.

I think their support is a plus.

Hey VN, long time no see.

Hey, cjhsa! Is that you guarding the perimeter at your fire base? Good to see you, too!

I need to change out my Christmas avatar....

VN holds a special place for me at A2K as being the first person to ever send me a PM.

Hi Vietnamnurse!

Did you end up campaigning in SC?

Soz.

Soon after I signed up to go to South Carolina, my father was taken ill and is terminal. I went to Dallas and set up hospice for him and to help my mother these past two weeks. I tried to keep up with the 'Obama 08 thread but you are going at an awesome pace!

I was sad coming home on the 26th, (my brother is giving me a breather) but I was very happy with the returns from the SC primary! I will try to do as much as I can for the Obama campaign on the phone and with money!

Oh, I'm so sorry about your father. That sounds promising that things are taken care of with hospice -- I'm sure you were a great help in facilitating that.

The Obama '08 thread has exploded! I haven't even been able to keep up with it, really.

Take care...

Thanks for the kind words, Soz.

Today's NYT's David Brooks and The Kennedy Mystique:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/opinion/29brooks.html?ex=1359349200&en=1ee

Sorry to hear that VN.