Sen. Kennedy to Endorse Obama - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog

Yes it is, and is true justice against their attacks and dirty tricks. I think the one from Caroline Kennedy is truly extraordinary.

Ted Kennedy needs a new face like Obama that he could manipulate to his wishes.

Hillary is seasoned and Obama gladly will accept the advises of the old dinosaur that has used super glue to sit in his chair in the Senate.

Why are we so surprised?

Ted is far left, after all.

I admit I am surprised, too.

I don't think Hillary has done anything irregular in the campaign and Obama has no high ground to stand on. But he has something Hillary will never have. This is a patriarchal society, after all.

Annie, don't tell me Hillary is winning this one for all the little girls out there because she isn't. She has no compunction about putting her husband out there as if he's the one running for office and then scooping up his votes. This is not the feminists candidate.

This isn't a hedged bet, this is just a straight up endorsement. The time is now. It's been a long time, but you've got to remember the Teddy was almost the nominee/president (but for the unpleasantness). It was a serious family with serious abilities. Now we see the passing of the torch.

The Kennedys as usual squeezing the votes.

Unbelievable what has occurred in the last week or so. This keeps getting better for Obama and keeps getting worse for Hillary. Oi vey.

You can say that again! :o)

Politics, politics. Teddy is the new father image for Obama.

Oh, dear. The same happened with Perot and Dean. We are emotional people.

They will expect something from him for the endorsement. Nothing the Kennedys do is free.

I suppose everyone has a personal agenda when it comes to doing favours. There is always something expected in return, even when it is not expressed. I wonder what there's will be.

It's the Kennedys, it will not be cheap nor easy.

The Kennedys expect success in return. They expect a good faith effort towards the goals he espouses. Indeed, that is neither cheap nor easy.

Of course, Uncle Teddy will be the shadow President, Obama will feel tied up to him.

Give me a break. You guys said the same thing about Oprah.

I respect Oprah a lot. She worked hard for what she is and own.

I don't respect Ted Kennedy.

Big deal. I don't have any respect for Uncle Ted.

He probably uses it about as often as Ronald Reagan used his... which was never. Can you honestly remember his middle name? Or did you have to look it up?

He didn't choose his middle name, so why should he use it if it is of little relevance, Determined?

I have never used my middle name since I left school. What has that got to do with anything?

So his name is Hussein? His father was Muslim, remember, and parents choose the names for their kids, in case you didn't know that.

Even if he were a Muslim, so what? I hope you are not a Christian because to be judging everyone the same, purely based on their race or religion, is not only grossly stereotypical but pretty racist to me, and doesn't sound very tolerant or Christian, in fact.

You are not Barak, a US Senator and aspiring to be President of the USA.

Oh, Sally, Jimmy Carter is the worst that happened to our country during his Presidency and after because he like Bill like to talk too much.

Sally,

The Presidency of the United States of America is not the kind of job for Trainees or OJT.
This business is not of Trial and Error. Itsn't recycling. And if all the nominees from the actual administration were subject to micro investigation, so be it.

I don't want surprises like Fidel Castro that had a rosary around his neck, prayed and his roots were a loose cannon. The advantage in the USA is that we can remove a President in Cuba was a different story.

I am Catholic and will vote for a Mormon. I like open fields and Obama has a lot to explain and no one can give me the manure that is racism or whatever.

Sally, Ted Kennedy brings to me this name = Mary Jone Kopechne/Chappaquiddick and his behavior with women. Remember that I was in Cuba during the Bay of Pig fiasco and John like his brother Ted backed up at the last minute.

That's the trouble with living in the past which cannot ever be changed. People become fossils to history, hanging back there in resentment and anger while doing nothing really positive with their present either because the past keep blocking the way.

Very sad, determined0a1 because living in the past robs us of a future.

Check your facts, Nixon was not the previous President of Kennedy.

Mrs Bush stayed in the site of the accident until the police came. Uncle Ted was drunk and called his friends first. Patrick Kennedy crashed his car @ 3 a.m. "going to vote". Typical.

About the addition of alcohol by our President, he got help and the drugs hasn't been confirmed. Obama did it also..

Ms. Cyprah,

Good morning.

If Uncle Ted is not sitting in the Judiciary Committee and opposing the Justices and Judges that I favor I could forget, but....he is passing judgement in people that had and have impeccable lives.

And.....thanks for your advise.

A good man does not necessarily make a good justice.

And a US Senator with a dubious past should not be passing judgment and personal insults to the nominees on live TV.

Check your facts, Nixon was not the previous President of Kennedy.

You seem to forget that Nixon was VP under Eisenhower. While VP he was instrumental in planning the Bay of Pigs invasion with Howard Hunt (CIA). That plan was delayed until after Kennedy took office.

Then we have to blame WJC for the invasion to Iraq.

Clinton was not sitting at the table actually drafting the plans. Besides, Bush threw out the plans that the DoD had developed and had Rummie and his boys think up the masterpiece that we got! Or did you forget that too?

GWB found the blueprints of Clinton in Iraq or was it another baloney to gain the votes of the Iraqis-Americans and....why the surprise? GWB's campaigned under change of regime in Iraq inspired by WJC