Ted Kennedy loves Barack Obama and not me. All I can say is I’m hurt. We tried. Bill talked to Ted on the phone to get him to hold his endorsement until after Super Tuesday’s primaries. In the end, Kennedy was pissed that we didn’t call him sooner.
Either way, it’s difficult to fight the memory of a ghost. It should be obvious to everyone what is really going on with both these Kennedy endorsements.
Psychiatrists would hold a convention just to study the Kennedy family and all their problems. Caroline Kennedy sees her father in Obama, while Ted Kennedy sees his older brother. I just see a crazy woman and a fat alcoholic looking for a final moment in the sun.
What really gets under my pantyhose is this– no one is paying attention to the scorecard in all this. Sure, I didn’t get Ted Kennedy or Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement, not that anyone except the news media really cares, but our Kennedy scorecard looks pretty good.
The Kennedy family still loves us. At least, those that are not paranoid or inebriated. Today I was endorsed by a bunch of Kennedys not living off the past, but looking forward to my future– Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Kerry Kennedy, whoever he is. That’s three Kennedys for Clinton, and only two for Barack Obama.
Was that score on the nightly news? Nope. Not a word.
How much influence does Ted Kennedy have in the political process these days? I tell everyone to ask Mitt Romney. Despite his sober best, Kennedy couldn’t stop Romney from getting elected as governor of Massachusetts. A Republican governor in the most Democratic of states. How embarrassing.
When Kennedy told Bill he would endorse Obama instead of me, Terry McAuliffe turned to me and said, ‘What impact will this have to our chances on Super Tuesday?’
Bill just grinned and said, ‘We’ll fall off that bridge when we get to it. Just like Ted Kennedy.’
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January 31st, 2008 at 11:42 am
What a great line about Ted Kennedy. The problem is that only old people know about what happened at Chappaquiddick way back when Ted was a young womanizer. He’s an old womanizer now. He still gets elected every six years, just like some kind of drunken cicada.