RAMÓN ROJO: I've decided to hang my gun up on the wall.
DON MIGUEL: I think that Ramón has the right idea. I, too, am getting tired of these killings. They must stop.
Posted on 01/29/2008 11:58:50 AM PST by seanmerc
What does Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama really mean?
In addition to seriously boosting Obama’s chances for the Democratic nomination by anointing him as the generational heir to John F. Kennedy, there’s something else that’s just as important for the body politic: Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the voters of South Carolina may have personally tolled the death knell for the Clintons’ reprehensible politics of personal destruction.
It’s about time.
For more than 30 years, no one has been able to stop Bill and Hillary Clinton from routinely acting on their shared base instinct: to annihilate anyone who gets in their way, in whatever way it takes, however long it takes, whatever it costs, and then to enjoy watching their targets suffer.
Throughout their long public careers, they’ve had no moral overseers, no one to challenge them. The sycophants surrounding them simply implement their orders, never questioning them. So after successfully employing their slash and burn tactics for years, they’ve come to truly believe that their reprehensible politics are justified, even necessary.
Remember Hillary’s glee when she announced that the “fun part” of the campaign was about to begin — her attacks on her fellow Democrats? She was serious.
The Clintons have repeatedly and successfully embraced the politics of personal destruction — and enjoyed every minute of it.
In Washington, Arkansas, and recently in South Carolina, they’ve used whatever slimy tactics they felt they needed, ruining reputations, invading the privacy of their targets by dispatching private detectives to comb their records and troll through their trash, lying about their opponents, blackmailing and threatening women who dared to say yes — or even no — to Bill Clinton, releasing confidential employment records.
Remember how the Clintonites released Linda Tripp’s confidential employment files to Jane Mayer of The New Yorker after Clinton hit man Harold Ickes met with Tripp’s boss?
Years later, the Department of Defense settled a lawsuit with Tripp for over $600,000 for invading her privacy. And then there were the stories branding Monica Lewinsky as a stalker who was trying to hurt the president.
Those were traced back to Sidney Blumenethal, a Clinton White House adviser, and the author of the right-wing conspiracy theory that Hillary so loves. Of course, then it turned out that this stalker had been called by the president from the White House hundreds of time and invited into the Oval Office for sex in the private kitchen.
Then there was Gennifer Flowers, smeared by George Stephanopoulos and James Carville as a liar and opportunist. Eventually, Bill Clinton admitted under oath that he, in fact, had a sexual relationship with Flowers. On it goes. And none of these folks have ever apologized for their as the brass knuckles enforcers of the Clintons.
Throughout the recent primaries, Bill Clinton has been Hillary’s hit man, especially in South Carolina where he was in charge of branding Obama as the "black candidate." Shamelessly distorting Obama’s words and deliberately using the race card to try and marginalize the first serious African-American candidate for president, Bill Clinton worked overtime at stirring dissension.
It’s been revolting. And it seemed that no one could stop them.
Until Barack Obama. Until Ted Kennedy. Until South Carolina. Until the voters said enough.
Now the voters of South Carolina and the Kennedys have stepped forward and openly challenged the tawdry Clinton politics of personal destruction, their hit job on Obama, their use of the race card, their claims of dynastic privilege.
On Saturday, 55 percent of the South Carolina voters said no to the Clintons. After listening to the two of them disparage Obama, distort his record, dis his hopes and dreams for America, South Carolina backed Obama and his politics of hope. And Ted Kennedy, in his lofty endorsement of Obama, served notice on the Clintons that the days of their politics of personal destruction are over.
Apparently Sen. Kennedy called the Clintons last week and demanded an immediate end to their transparent racial politics and attempts to destroy Obama. They ignored him.
After the polls closed, Bill Clinton’s surly and irrelevant reference to Jesse Jackson’s showing in South Carolina 20 years ago was meant to diminish Obama’s victory. But the press and the public — and apparently Sen. Kennedy — caught the unattractive performance on YouTube.
Now, for once, someone has challenged the Clintons’ dirty, outdated, and unacceptable politics.
Ted Kennedy has made it clear that the Democratic Party and the voters of America are no longer going to tolerate and ignore the Clintons sordid personal politics.
Bravo!
“That’s all very well but it bares a mouthful of fangs to the Republican nominee, who will know that anything he says about Obama will be interpreted as a new low in racist ranting.
If Obama is the nominee, I predict the GOP opponent will be urged to “step down” over some innocuous remark. (Anything will suffice.) And if I know Republicans he probably will step down. :(”
That is why a lot of us are praying for Hillary to win, and hoping for those that are pulling for her to lose will get a clue.
The last thing we need is a Dem nominee or heaven forbid, a president, that will have a Praetorian guard that will use the race card 24/7 to stop any criticism or dissent directed at him.
“Ted Kennedy has made it clear that the Democratic Party and the voters of America are no longer going to tolerate and ignore the Clintons sordid personal politics.”
And why does he think that? Hasn’t the Dem Party tolerated Ted’s own sordid personal life and politics for years?
Morris ought to know them - he helped them to gain their political power, didn’t he?
Now that Dick Morris says it is so, you can be 100% certain that it isn't so. Hillary will win the nomination in a cakewalk. Take it to the bank.
Dick...Kennedy, the Washington democrat elites, and democrat voters of South Carolina have NOT spoken out against the politics of personal destruction....
....they have only spoken out against the use of same against DEMOCRATS...as long as the targets are republicans the scorch and burn tactics will be perfectly acceptable.
I was watching one of those focus groups on Fox, and it was an Obama group. Without exception, every one said that IF Hillary ended up being the candidate, they would enthusiastically support her. She is not dead. She's wounded, but she is not dead. People need to quit dancing and put a stake through that vampire's heart. Heck, I'm thinking about registering as a Democrat and voting for Obama in the primary.
Well, bless the Cliintons’ little ole flea-bitten hearts.
how old
Dick, Ted is about 16 years late!
Ted Kennedy had no problem with the politics of personal destruction when it involved Clarence Thomas.
If the dirty politics doesn’t have the Kennedy(tm) label on it, old Teddy wants nothing to do with it.
Just ask Clarence Thomas about Ted Kennedy’s noble concern about the politics of personal destruction.
Clinton/Kennedy Fatigue!
Morris’s articles only says exactly what we’ve been saying for 16 years.
But it only took a Black candidate whose hidden name is Hussein, a drunken Senator who’s antics killed Mary Jo, and a state that is being boycotted by the NAACP.
BEAM ME UP!!!!!!!!! PLEASE (<—jailed congressmen with bad hair, quote)
Personally, I think he endorsed BHO, because he recognizes an empty suit when he sees one. A whole lot easier to control the over-his-head empty suit, than the hil and bill show. It’s all about Kennedy keeping power. He has a much better chance of being a mover and shaker in BHO’s administration, than in a clintoon admin.
Just my take on it.
“There but for fortune.” If not for his untimely demise, it would be JFK Jr. running for president today, as the junior senator from NY.
Hillary, of course, would be a senator in some other state, struggling to destroy him in order to win the nomination.
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