Sunday, January 27, 2008
Endorsement
Caroline Kennedy, daughter of JFK, has endorsed a candidate for the first time since her father died (read her op ed piece in Sunday's NY Times). It's a good piece from all kinds of points of view, but it's also amazing to read it on the heels of Obama's huge South Carolina win. She says two things, among others, that really amazed me:
It isn’t that the other candidates are not experienced or knowledgeable. But this year, that may not be enough. We need a change in the leadership of this country — just as we did in 1960.
and perhaps most significantly and movingly
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans.
My fingers remain crossed that the Billary machine and the party hacks won't wrest the power from the levers of the electorate. Billary is permitting her name to remain on the ballot in Florida, as she did in Michigan, despite the party denying both states any delegates to the convention because they defied the earliest-date requirement that the party set for primaries. Thus proving so many (not very good) things about her and many (much better) things about Edwards and Obama. But also giving her a voting-number bump in both states what with no one else being on the ballots and all. She's a team player?? By what warped definition?

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Blogger DADvocate — at 9:25 AM, January 27, 2008:
The odds of my voting Democratic this year are slim and none. But, I'd much rather have Obama in the White House the next 4-8 years than Hillary. I like Obama's message of unification and working together. The Clintons like to divide and conquer. They are the Democratic equivalent of Richard Nixon in that respect.
 

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Anonymous Anonymous — at 7:54 PM, January 27, 2008:
On the Caroline Kennedy endorsement I'm with Roger L Simon.

But I do know this: We are a democracy. As I wrote yesterday in the comments section, it's time to end the Divine Right of Kings in this country. That means no more Bushes, Clintons, Kennedys, Roosevelts, etc. I don't even want to hear from Kennedys for their recommendations. Enough of this monarchical crap and these over-blown, over-important political families. We might as well bring back the Romanoffs.

As for Obama, as well as being ridiculously inexperienced, read what Ed Lasky at American Thinker has to say about his anti semitic associates, fair makes your hair curl.
 

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