THe Swimmer, BJ, The Beast and Patches in sunnier times..
Posted on 05/27/2008 3:30:09 PM PDT by BlazingArizona
The sun-dappled image from August 1997 shimmers in memory. The two great Democratic political dynasties had set sail on carefree waters. Aboard the Mya as the schooner maneuvered its way out of Menemsha Harbor on Martha's Vineyard were the reigning Clintons and the radiant Kennedys. The news photographs, which mesh with my memory, show the president and the ruddy white-haired Massachusetts senator, along with a waving Hillary Clinton and the extended Kennedy clan, including Rep. Patrick Kennedy and daughter-of-Camelot Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg.
Last week, 11 years after that in-happier-times snapshot, the curtain began to descend on the Kennedys and Clintons alike. Before the wrenching news of a brain tumor, there had always seemed something eternal about Ted Kennedy: the survivor, the eternal-flame keeper of the dream that never died, the last active link to the heady days of can-do 1960s liberalism...
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Nuke the popcorn and sit yourself down for a classic!
The Democrats have got their work cut out for them They have become a laughing stock.
I didn’t even know Salon was still around...
But, didn’t you predict *Hillary winning? Now, she’s no longer the smartest person in the Milky Way, and the RATS are more than willing to throw her on the trash heap - just like the Lieberdood.
Now, THAT’S entertainment!
I’ll second your recommendation that the comments at the end of the article are a fun read.
You can tell which side they are on. Some of their grandiose dreams and schemes are my worst nightmares, they are on the wrong side of life issues but on the right side of history where we are rapidly spiralling into the abyss. And they have the gall to blame the Republicans. The latter aren't knights in shining armor, but their supposed screwups are nothing when stacked against the millions of unborn that have been murdered, ironically in Christian or formerly Christian countries. It is a terrible irony to me that mostly in Muslim countries is abortion outlawed, and where it is allowed, it is for more justifiable cause, faulty though they may be otherwise. Sometimes I think they are being used to scourge us, and I didn't get that idea from any tv preacher.
I don't understand why what they stand for seems so wrong to me mainly on life issues but also heavy taxation, giveaway programs, keeping people dependent, keeping people down and beholden to them, and not letting us drill our own oil. On some issues I could find middle ground with them, but they have gone too far off the deep end and blame Republicans for all the ills in society and the world.
Like the Republicans aren’t?
THe Swimmer, BJ, The Beast and Patches in sunnier times..
Huh? Opposites? JFK came in as what we might now call a "neoliberal." He was for tax cuts, remember? Bill Clinton gravitated towards a similar position after his big plans failed. It's only later when Teddie and Hillary found that road blocked that they became "old fashioned" liberals.
I did as you sugessted, and it was very sweet. Hope they stay that way until the election.
“.....the radiant Kennedys...” Does ‘radiant’ mean inebriated?
The comments section was priceless! Thanks for posting. And thanks for reading Salon because I don’t. ;o)
If there is a bigger oxygen thief on our planet than “Patches,” I don’t know him.
This line definitely required a barf alert.
har....
and not a nano-second tooo soon either...
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