Well, he didn't care too much for Mary Jo's legacy either, or the future of America...so, good riddance, I say.
Posted on 01/16/2010 5:57:12 PM PST by Saije
EDWARD M. Kennedy has been gone less than five months, but in political terms he is already ancient history. For 47 years he represented Massachusetts in the US Senate; in his home state, no one wielded greater influence or cast a longer shadow. As recently as a few weeks ago, it was taken for granted that the race for the seat he occupied for so long would be shaped unmistakably by his legacy.
But that’s not at all the way this campaign has worked out. As Tuesday’s special election approaches, Massachusetts voters are not being driven by their esteem for Kennedy’s memory or by affection for his family. Indeed, far from advancing what Kennedy called the cause of his life - universal health care - hundreds of thousands of Bay State voters are fired up in supporting a candidate who promises to derail it.
For the first time in two generations, the outcome of a US Senate campaign in Massachusetts is not a foregone conclusion. Whatever happens on Tuesday, this much is clear: Democrat Martha Coakley will not win in a cakewalk, and Republican Scott Brown will not be a sacrificial lamb. Heading into the final weekend, two of the country’s most respected political handicappers - Stu Rothenberg and Charlie Cook - pronounced the Bay State Senate contest a “toss-up.’’ A new Suffolk University poll showed Brown surging into the lead, with 50 percent of likely voters supporting him vs. 46 percent for Coakley.
How can this be happening? This is the bluest state of them all - a state without a single Republican in Congress or in statewide office, a state Barack Obama won in a landslide. How can the Senate race be too close to call?
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Maybe they are “being driven by their esteem for Kennedy’s memory” and are trying to make amends. Such a move would be most welcome.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Still, it is shocking to see that in the Fishwrap. Also, while health care was Kennedy’s pet, his support was based largely on the Kennedy cult-of-personality and his seniority in the Senate, not on the things he stood for. Why, he could get away with murder if he wanted to back in the day.
Even worse than Jimmy Carter.
Worse; they got a black FDR.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
I don’t know what they are worried about, the machine will still be recounting and reinterpreting ballots when the next election rolls around.
Not true. His campaign exposed dissatisfaction across the political spectrum in one of the bluest states. If the tide is turning in Massachusetts, that's not a good sign for the Dems nationally.
At the Web sites of liberal newspapers across the country, reader comments are overwhelmingly in support of Brown. This is not just a local phenomenon.
Dang it, warm me when you do that! Now I've got to clean my monitor. ;)
- Traveler
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
... and did.
Even people in blue Mass are sick of having crap shoved down their throats.
This is the beginning of a peaceful revolution.
Boy, you’ve got to be kidding....and the impostor is to be in Mass tomorrow and the globe writes an article like this...WOW...a complete left leaning newspaper and instead of blaming Coakley for the upcoming loss...they’ve blamed the impostor with his radical policies along with the dimwits in congress passing the radical policies...rightfully so...
That's worthy of a tag line.
"..Never had a new administration been greeted with such rapturous enthusiasm. “Obama’s standing above the country, above the world,’’ Newsweek editor Evan Thomas exulted. “He’s sort of God.’’.."
The article has good stuff and from the Boston Globe no less! Liberals can be obnoxious too.
Some people would debate your first sentence. Think President Truman. Thank God we had them both during the worse crisis of the 20th Century.
Your second sentence is a tautology and thus needs no proof whatsoever. Absolutely true without a doubt. Obama is absolutely no Democrat (or Republican) President. He is simply a wolf in sheep's clothing.
I dont understand what I am reading...who is that author? it reads like a conservative rag instead of leftiest of the lefts rag.How can this be from the libs who endorsed Coakley...
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