CNN: Ted Kennedy to endorse Obama

[Karmadillo]

On Blitzer at 12:30 pm or thereabouts.

[Occam Bandage]

1. Link?

[eleny]

2. It was just reported on Blitzer

[Adelante]

14. Did they give any idea of when, eleny? nt

[eleny]

19. Not exactly

I got the impression it would be soon. Suzaanne Malveaux (sp) was the reporter. She's down in Alabama.

You know how Blitzer is. He just said that they would be waiting for the announcement soon.

[Adelante]

27. Sounds like today

Waiting for the announcement soon. Fingers crossed.

[eleny]

30. Blitzer's roundtable just discussed the significance of the endorsement

How he really needs it.

[Adelante]

42. Kennedy did help Kerry in Iowa last time

So the Kennedy machine could help Obama even outside Massachusetts. I just saw that ABC is reporting this endorsement will happen tomorrow in Washington.

[neutron]

58. doh didn't Kerry LOSE the national election?

Kennedy endorsement = Kiss of Death

[patrice]

77. He didn't loose. He turned his back on election fraud in Ohio. WHY? nt

[Yurovsky]

84. Maybe he knew the SCOTUS was stacked against him ...

the case was perhaps not as obvious as the theft of Florida in 2000, and even that lead the SCOTUS to give Chimpy the keys to 1600 PA Ave.

While I too wish Kerry would've fought, I have to believe in his sincerity that he thought it best for the country if he did not. The man's a hero and a partiot, regardless of what the swiftdicks (lying MFers) have to say about him.

[patrice]

85. That IS a good point. I just wish people would just maybe ask Us whether

we think it too damaging or not instead of ONLY taking the counsel of "subject matter experts", then even if they do go with the SMEs at least we could know that we had somekind of hearing, some kind of voice in what is at stake.

People rise to the expectations you project upon them. Treat them as ignorant children and that's what you get.

[eleny]

80. Tomorrow wold be the best timing

[BeyondGeography]

3. Massachusetts is now in play, I don't care what the polls say

:thumbsup:

[bicentennial_baby]

7. You could be right...

I'm in MA...We do love our Senator. I'm impressed, I didn't think he'd endorse.

Good job Obama!

[Debi]

60. How did Mercer let this slip through his fingers? (all three) n/t

[Occam Bandage]

13. Between Kerry and Kennedy, I should hope so.

[Pirate Smile]

68. Plus Governor Patrick

[MonkeyFunk]

4. nice catch

good for Obama.

[ursi]

10. MonkeyFunk, I like you saying at the bottom of your postings!

Peace!

[Adelante]

29. Thanks, Monkey

I hope it's true.

[ursi]

5. awesome! When does Gore do his endorsement?

[NightWatcher]

9. therein lay the 64 million dollar question

[ursi]

15. is that Hunter S. Thompson in that photo, NightWatcher?

[NightWatcher]

18. yep that's the Good Doctor

[neutron]

61. Gore's not stupid enough to

put a serious cause on the political butcher table.

[ZinZen]

72. I would fall over if Gore endorsed anyone

he has transcended politics and is really focused on the climate crisis. I was happy to hear Gore support Gay marriage!

[tishaLA]

6. wow.

congratulations sen. obama!

[polichick]

8. Just in time for Super Tuesday. nt

[Inuca]

74. Sheer coincidence, I am sure :-) n/t

[gateley]

11. Holy Cow! Nice one-two by Caroline and Ted. nt

[Kittycat]

12. This is excellent news. Coupled with Caroline's endorsement, I would say...

Every state is back in play - including California & NY.

[patrice]

16. = the Status Quo defending itself against John Edwards. The Machine had to provide cover

for its true anti-War members, hence, it picked Obama in the first place, so that they would have both ends of what was the main-issue-spectrum covered: HC = Pro-War and BO = "anti"-this-War. Believe it or not BC does know what he's talking about; BO got on record, but otherwise kept his powder dry re the Invasion of Iraq, just so there'd be a place for the real anti-War Democrats to go, depending upon how the primaries worked out.

[LittleBlue]

17. Nice. Go Obama!

Thanks Ted!

[Frances]

20. I was just talking to an Obama supporter

I'm still undecided

Both the Obama supporter and I want a Dem to win in the general.

What's the best strategy for Obama or anyone else to win that all-important election?

[LittleBlue]

41. I think our side is locked in during the General. The real battle will be for idependents

and cross over Republicans. I think BO cakewalks to the White House due to his strong support among these groups. If McCain is the nominee, Hillary has a rough time.

[HILLBILL]

63. BO cakewalks

Don't count on that cakewalk just yet, actually there are more whites that will not vote for Obama than there are blacks that will not vote for Hillary.

[loveangelc]

89. basically all white people are racists in your opinion?

and trust me, many african americans are not going to just forget what hillary did. i have friends who are african american who use to like hillary and bill but would never vote for hillary now. and no, most white people i dont believe are as racist as you think. which im sure is unfortunate to you.

[patrice]

87. You are delusional. Attitudes such as this create Real Independents as we speak.

"Cakewalk" causes People (those who aren't blind followers anyway) to walk away from being taken for granted and when they do walk away because they are being taken for granted, they don't GO to the ones who are taking them for granted.

[City Lights]

21. Excellent news!

:bounce:

[FairyTaleComeTrue]

22. Bad weekend for Billary

eom.

[City Lights]

32. Hiya FairyTaleComeTrue!

:hi: Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Barack_America]

23. Wait, what? Wow. I wasn't expecting this so soon. n/t

[K Gardner]

24. Excellent. But wait for the Kennedy bashing to begin here...

:popcorn: in 1...2..3...

[ShadowLiberal]

25. That's great! I hope these new endorsements help

As big as endorsements from Ted Kennedy and one of JFK's kids, I just hope that and Obama's huge SC victory are enough to make people jump on the Obama bandwagon.

[gateley]

26. Nothing on CNN's or MSNBC's sites yet. nt

[krabigirl]

28. Wow, nice endorsement, but Ted never seemed to be the bipartisan sort. Good for Obama though!

[tishaLA]

31. that's why teddy's endorsement is important

he's an iconic figure in the party and his endorsement provides obama with party bona fides.

[Jane Austin]

35. Ted is famously bi-partisan.

He has lots of good legislation under his name that has been passed with Republican support.

[karynnj]

62. Not true - it was because Kennedy was able to work with Republlicans that he got things done

Read how Kennedy got S-Chip through a Republican dominated (55-45) Senate by identifying a group of Republicans who liked the idea of taxing cigarettes to fund children's health care. He worked with Orrin Hatch to make the changes to a bill he and Kerry had that couldn't be passed as it was. (Kerry stayed involved as a co-sponsor. Dodd was another.) The changes converted it from being an entitlement to needing to be reconfirmed in 5 years and to giving states the right to design their own plan. It was not as good as the original - but it was the biggest increase in federal medical insurance since medicaid.

[Warren Stupidity]

65. Ted never seemed to be the bipartisan sort?

I'm not sure what you mean by that, but Ted's last big adventure in bipartisanship was No Child Left Behind, wherein he got the royal screw job from the Reknucklians. The phrase 'unfunded mandate' comes to mind.

[Unsane]

33. MA in the bag?

[HughMoran]

34. This should seal up the nomination for Obama

I think a lot of people will listen when Ted Kennedy endorses Obama.

[IndyOp]

37. Carter or Gore would seal the nomination - I don't think Ted Kennedy will. Just my opinion. (n/t)

[karynnj]

69. Kennedy will firm up the liberals

Carter may be a good man, but I don't think he has much if any leverage - I know his reputation in the Jewish community is mixed at best , in spite of the Camp David Accords.

What Kennedy does is increase the outlines of the coalition behind Obama - including many of the most conservative - but not necessarily DLC Senators and the most liberal (Kennedy, Leahy, and Kerry). What if he also gets the Montana Governor, Webb and Tester to augment the conservative side and other liberals like Harkin, Lautenberg, and Reed. (Reed as a key Democrat with military expertise and experience would be especially good. (I would have included Feingold, but he seems like he intends to say on the fence.)

[Jester1183]

81. Get Gore to Endorse Obama, send letters here

Honorable Al Gore

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Suite 620
Nashville, TN 37203

[HILLBILL]

52. nomination for Obama

Yea that will really get over 50% of the country excited getting liberal Teds' endorsment. That is why so many people are leaving the Democratic party.

[csorman]

57. No, it is YOUR attitude

that is causing people to "leave the party." When are you DLC types going to figure out why we keep losing elections?

[HILLBILL]

attitude adjustment

If it is not because the party is to far to the left, then you tell me why the democratic party has lost the big majority it once had over the republican party. I think there is more invloved than just changing attitudes.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

75. I personally think they need to get rid of the black people. Do yuo agree?

:puke: :evilgrin:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

67. Can you show me these statistics?

You fucking douche bag errr..... I mean kind sir.

[Inuca]

78. If Teddy is not to your taste

we can offer an endorsement serving of that other famous firebrand liberal Ben Nelson of Nebraska (very nice endorsement by the way, sincere thanks Sen. Nelson).

The whole point is the WIDE range of people that are supporting Obama.

[cindyw]

36. They said it was leaked by the Clinton campaign. More slimy tricks

[TeamJordan23]

40. really? nm

[Adelante]

46. Oh, no, not that

God only knows if it's true or not now. :(

[karynnj]

70. See Prosense's link - it was confirmed to the Boston Globe by Kennedy people.

[HILLBILL]

56. Clinton-haters

Slimeball Obama used his media friends to bring up racism to win a primary and then you call this slimy when you don't even know if it is true. HOW SLIMY

[Debi]

64. Welcome to DU HILLBILL

:hi:

Enjoy your time here.

[Jester1183]

93. The Negroos control the media, you FOOLS

You have got to be kidding.

Barack defended Hillary on both her MLK/JFK gaffe *and* her spadework comment, saying he didn't think she was racist at all.

Bill said that black people only vote for Barack because he's black.

That is racist.

You don't hear Barack whining and crying that 70%+ of white women raised with Jim Crow era privleges vote against the black man, and saying it's just because she's an old white woman like them.

[cali]

38. that's great news

I've long thought that he'd endorse Obama. This is a really great endorsement and the timing is fantastic.

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[Joe the Revelator]

43. Another HIllary Racist?

you guys are more prevalent then I thought.

[MoonRiver]

44. Democrats self-destructing.

What else is new? :banghead:

[Occam Bandage]

49. So you agree that we shouldn't nominate black people?

I didn't pin you as a racist.

[patrice]

82. Can we Please make a distinction between people who actually are Racists and

people who are WORRIED about people who (no matter what they might appear to be) actually are Racists? Or, doesn't this matter?

[Occam Bandage]

90. There's not much room when the statement is

"nominating a black guy will tear this party apart." People pushing that idea are either dumb as bricks or racist.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

50. Damn, you're right he is black. Shit what do we do? We certainly

can't have any of that.

[FrenchieCat]

86. Wow......How Revealing of you.....

I'll have to remember that about you! :wow:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

45. By all means, get the fuck out. n/t

[Occam Bandage]

47. See ya. Pity you couldn't make it to 50.

:hi:

[K Gardner]

48. Hope you enjoyed your stay at DU. Now GTFO.

[cali]

54. Starting out at DU with a blatantly racist post is a piss poor idea

and get it right, genius, the dem party is NOT losing voters. Go fucking educate yourself and read the Pew report- if you have enough brains to know what it is and to find it.

Welcome to DU. The exit is to the right.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

55. DON'T YOU GET GET IT. I MEAN HE'S BLACK!!!!!!!

or something I really don't know how Trent Lott has time to post on these forums. Being such a busy guy and all.

[Turn CO Blue]

51. Well, that is a choice pick-up. Two Kennedys in the last 24 hours

Congrats to Sen Obama.






Go John! All the way to Denver!

[patrice]

53. The Machine speaks Again =/= Change. nt

[karynnj]

73. Kennedy knows all three well

Edwards himself says that both he and Obama represent change. Like Kerry, Kennedy likely sees Obama as more likely to get that change by unifying people than Edwards through confrontation. Caroline Kennedy is saying that she is more inspired by him then any past President.

I realize that you are disappointed, but both Kennedys have the right to their choice and your attacks on various threads questioning their motives are unseemly. Both have proven who they are over a longer time with far more substantial actions than John Edwards, who was a relatively conservative Democrat in the 2004 primaries (attacking Kerry's healthcare and environmental plans as too expensive) with an even more conservative record.

[patrice]

76. Characterizing critique as attacks suggests something other than the inclusion that's being peddled.

Some comments are from people raising legitimate concerns and others are intended to destroy. If you can't make those distinctions, then how IS this "coming together" thingee supposed to work, unless it is predicated on some people being shut out of the coming together from the beginning. *IF* the message is that we can get along with those with whom we differ, your post suggests that that is a lie.

[karynnj]

91. I was referring to the "they corporate candidates" thing

with Edwards being pure on this. Obama's work on ethics in the US and IL Senate is real. Edwards did not make that issue a major effort in his years in the Senate. There are others who fought against corporate of governmental corruption - like Feingold, Wellstone and Kerry - to name three, Edwards was not one people would have named in say late 2002 or 2003 - effectively the end of his Senate career.

[Warren Stupidity]

59. The loathing of the Clintons runs deep.

They seem to have not made a lot of friends among liberal Democrats. Perhaps Bill ought to not have spent so much time shmoozing with Bushes. Perhaps that whole Carvile Matalin thing just irks people.

[patrice]

66. Carvile doesn't look like a snake for No reason. nt

[Scurrilous]

71. K & R

:kick:

[GoldieAZ49]

79. Obama earned it, not a Clinton backlash

From October of 07

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/01/kennedy.endorsement.ap/index.html

"Senator Clinton has a tremendous amount of respect for Senator Kennedy, and she considers him a friend," said Clinton spokesman Mo Elleithee. "We would love to earn his support in this campaign."

Kennedy's relationship with Obama does not stretch nearly as far back, but the two have struck up a friendship.

"He gave me a good bottle of wine," Kennedy joked of Obama's gift. "I'm sure it was an American wine."

Above all else, Kennedy said, he is looking for a candidate who can light a spark with voters. The policy differences between the candidates are relatively small, he said.

"Inspiration," Kennedy said. "I'm looking for a candidate able to galvanize the country to get things done. I want to find the candidate who can inspire people. That's what we need. That's what our party needs."

He said he expects the crowded field "might winnow down by mid-December. That's when people really get engaged in presidential politics."

The value of endorsements tends to get overblown in presidential politics. But Kennedy's popularity with liberal party activists who tend to dominate early voting states puts his support at a premium.

Kennedy can also lend organizational muscle by sending his Massachusetts supporters across the border to neighboring New Hampshire, the leadoff primary state. He boasts a broad national fundraising and political network as well.

"Most endorsements aren't worth much," said veteran Democratic consultant Michael Shea. "But if you get Kennedy's endorsement, it's really worth something. He wants to win.

[Eugene]

83. AP: Kennedy to Endorse Obama, Officials Say

Source: Associated Press

Kennedy to Endorse Obama, Officials Say

Sunday January 27, 2008 6:46 PM

By CHARLES BABINGTON

Associated Press Writer

MACON, Ga. (AP) - Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of
Massachusetts will endorse Senate colleague Barack Obama
for president, party officials confirmed Sunday.

The endorsement will be announced Monday in Washington,
said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized to speak officially.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7260232,00.html

[usregimechange]

88. Yes!

[populistdriven]

92. K&R! nt