[NonValueAdded]

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.

[goldstategop]

Ted Kennedy was a wholly singular force. He had no real successor and Coakley looks small next to the deceased liberal lion of American politics. She doesn't command voter allegiance the way he did.

"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

[katana]

Why, he could get away with murder if he wanted to

... and did.

[Political Junkie Too]

Still, it is shocking to see that in the Fishwrap.

It's Jeff Jacoby. He's their long-time conservative columnist.

Remember when the Globe suspended Jacoby on a trumped up plagiarism charge over a July 4 Signers of the Declaration of Indepence column just to get him off their editorial pages through the last four months of the Bush-Gore campaign in 2000?

-PJ