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Ted K: Kerry will get my vote over Hillary
AP via Boston Herald ^ | 10-13-05 | Staff

Posted on 10/13/2005 5:22:48 AM PDT by veronica

Even if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton runs for president in 2008, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said yesterday he will throw his support behind fellow Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry for the Democratic nomination.

``If he runs, I would support him,'' Kennedy said during an interview at his Boston office.

While Kennedy has frequently entertained Clinton, the New York senator, and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, he said his loyalty is to Kerry.

Early polling shows Clinton and Kerry among the favorites for their party's nomination in 2008, but neither has said for sure whether they'll run.

Kennedy called Kerry, the 2004 nominee, an ``able, gifted and talented political leader.''

He criticized President Bush's leadership and said of voters: ``Every day, I think they regret that John wasn't elected.''

There was friction between Kennedy and Kerry in 2000, when Kennedy appeared to favor then-Sen. John Edwards over Kerry as Al Gore's running mate. Yet Kennedy campaigned vigorously for Kerry last year.

Kennedy said Kerry is ``rather uniquely set up'' with his seats on the Senate Finance and Foreign Relations committees, allowing him to hold sway over a broad range of congressional issues – from the war in Iraq to the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.

``I don't know what's on his mind, but I think he's got some time to make it up,'' Kennedy said.

In a wide-ranging discussion in his 24th-floor office at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building, Kennedy also discussed his own plans to run re-election next year.

No opponent has emerged, but state GOP leaders were reportedly trying to recruit Essex County Sheriff Frank G. Cousins Jr., a black Republican who also served in the Legislature.

Kennedy said he'll mount a vigorous campaign, regardless of whether he has opposition or runs unopposed for the first time in his 43-year-career.

``You honor the people that elect you by speaking to their needs and the policy issues that affect their lives and the lives of their children and their parents and their community, and I'm going to do that irrespective,'' the 73-year-old said.

Kennedy already has about $8 million stockpiled for his re-election bid. He plans to raise even more, which his political advisers believe could scare off challengers.


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1 posted on 10/13/2005 5:22:49 AM PDT by veronica
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To: veronica

I guess Kerry came through with that truckload of Chivas...


2 posted on 10/13/2005 5:24:13 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
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To: veronica

``Every day, I think they regret that John wasn't elected.''

I was thinking that just this morning.

/sarcasm


3 posted on 10/13/2005 5:25:18 AM PDT by KoRn
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Whenever I see Teddy K. these days, I think of "Susie" from Curb Your Enthusiasm, unloading on her portly hubby...


4 posted on 10/13/2005 5:25:33 AM PDT by veronica ("clowns clones clowns/ it's raining clowns/snarling FR obsessed clones/ claws bared clowns"...)
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To: veronica

I don't think that Kerry has much more chance than Kennedy of being elected President.


5 posted on 10/13/2005 5:26:31 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: COBOL2Java
Or, Ted "Hic!" Kennedy is lying again.


6 posted on 10/13/2005 5:27:43 AM PDT by starfish923 (It's never right to do wrong. Socrates)
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To: veronica

Loser supporting loser...


7 posted on 10/13/2005 5:27:44 AM PDT by Edgerunner (Proud to be an infidel)
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To: veronica

Ted knows how much Pork will be steered Taxachewzits's way if Kerry becomes Prez.


8 posted on 10/13/2005 5:27:52 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth-Estate is a Fifth-Column!)
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10 posted on 10/13/2005 5:35:24 AM PDT by maggief
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To: veronica
The catch phrase "Curb Your Enthusiasm" reminds me of a talk show guy named Chip Franklin in Baltimore WBAL (9am-12pm Mon-Fri) who does a bit where he walks the streets of Baltimore and asks people simple questions in which they fail miserably.

If you get a chance, listen to a couple of them that he has archived on his web page. They're actually quite funny yet sad knowing that these people get to vote.


The Chip Franklin Show Audio Highlights
http://www.wbal.com/shows/franklin/audio.asp

The latest one asks "Who is Harriett Myers?"
11 posted on 10/13/2005 5:36:15 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (It was a village of idiots that raised Hillary to Senator status.)
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To: COBOL2Java

$8 million bucks will buy a lot of scotch.


12 posted on 10/13/2005 5:37:34 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: starfish923

Reminds me of Shamu at Seaworld.


13 posted on 10/13/2005 5:39:25 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: veronica

Oh Boy! Let the fun begin!!!


15 posted on 10/13/2005 5:41:29 AM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie
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To: veronica
He may not see 2008 ...


16 posted on 10/13/2005 5:43:14 AM PDT by maggief
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``I don't know what's on his mind, but I think he's got some time to make it up,'' Kennedy said."

Isn't that the truth. IF he has no position, he will make it up. That's why J F'n K was not elecetd, besides the fact he's an unpleasant, wooden, pompous, lying a-hole traitor bastard...


17 posted on 10/13/2005 5:44:22 AM PDT by astounded (We don't need no stinkin' rules of engagement...)
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"Kennedy called Kerry, the 2004 nominee, an ``able, gifted and talented political leader.''"

Barf! I guess it takes a socialist to know one.


18 posted on 10/13/2005 5:47:03 AM PDT by poobear (Imagine a world of liberal silence!)
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To: veronica
Teddy, is that you?

19 posted on 10/13/2005 5:47:38 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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``I don't know what's on his mind, but I think he's got some time to make it up,'' Kennedy said.

"I actually voted for the $86 billion, before I voted against it".

20 posted on 10/13/2005 5:50:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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