April 23, 2006 -- THE best prop at the party for Sen. Ted Kennedy and his new book, "America, Back on Track," was a special clock historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. showed to former President Bill Clinton that counts down the days, hours and minutes until President Bush leaves office.
Clinton entertained a circle of Dems at the Parker Meridien Hotel by announcing there were about a thousand days "left to suffer." All three of Kennedy's sisters - Jean Kennedy Smith, Eunice Shriver and, in a wheelchair, ailing Patricia Lawford - made a rare appearance together and joined the cheering when Ted, who rushed in after taping Larry King and Jon Stewart, said, "I've been a senator for 44 years and will stay till I get the hang of it."
He said he was a "politician of hope, and the current Rove White House is all about the politics of fear, and it is all eventually catching up with them."
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Kennedy's wife, Vicky, hosted such guests as former Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin, George Stevens, Joe Armstrong, Bob Schrum and Sen. John Kerry."
I absolutely loathe these people. They remind me of high school losers who never outgrew the fact that they didn't get the best girl.
I just hope Teddy stays til he gets HUNG.