Caroline, then Ted Kennedy pulling for Barack?
I guess Camelot’s going for Obama. Which is to say, highly regarded committed liberals are now swinging his way, in addition to all the Blue Dog endorsements that came before.
I remain skeptical of Obama’s progressivism, but I’ve already seen Hillary’s lack of it, for years. I’m no longer skeptical that he knows how to campaign or could pull off an upset against the longtime favorite. Yet he remains a longshot based on the polling numbers for Super Tuesday states. Maybe these endorsements will change that.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Weirdly enough, while Jack’s baby girl is on team Obama, Bobby Kennedy has been stumping for Hillary and MLK, III is still telling John Edwards to keep the dream alive.
I’m still trying to grok what that all means.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:46 am
You are so wrong about Obama not being a progressive. He is my Senator and regularly meets with our progressive group. And guess what? He actually will take our postions.
On this point the blogoshere is no different then the MSM. You all have the same talking points. I guess you all weren’t paying attention when at the beginning of the campaign Obama was named as the most liberal of all the candidates.
The blogoshere is getting it’s ass kicked I am almost happy to say. They have tried to shove Edwards down my thoat and it sickened me. Edwards has done nothing but put America to sleep. My daddy worked in a mill, blah, blah, blah.
Edwards had his chance to be a progressive. He was a Senator and a VP candidate. If you saw anything progressive, you were living in a dream.
All I hear from the blogoshere is, Edwarsds is surging. And then he gets his usual 4% of the vote.
Still a long way to go. Edwards is far better then Hillary. But he is a snorefest.
January 27th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
That’s RFK, JR, btw
January 27th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Ken,
Name a progressive position of Obama that isn’t to the right of Edwards and, to some degree, Clinton?
You can’t even convince me that, had he been a Senator at the time, he would have voted against the war.
He doesn’t get a pass from me because he is black. I want to see these “progressive” positions. All I see is another DLC Senator with debts to be paid to lobbyists and corporate fat cats.
Yeah, he talks pretty, but not progressive. His is the cult of personality.
I mean, Ronald Reagan? “Republicans were the party of ideas”? (that’s a direct quote from BO). “I didn’t come of age in the sixties, so I’m not as invested in them”.
That is besides the point. Obama is not going to be President. Whether he loses it in the primaries or the general election, he is not going to win.
The Kumbaya let’s get along crap doesn’t work. It’s about fighting for what you believe.
I’m not real happy with any of the candidates, they all have votes that are embarrassing. At least Edwards is talking the talk.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
i see obama as the natural heir to camelot too. i really like all his pretty words and the much-vaunted hope.
i really like what he says on his website, in the issues section, about government ethics and transparency and what his plan would be to restore them. this is an important issue for me and obama’s won my heart on this issue. except that… he’s not the one who’s running using only public financing for his campaign.
i also spent some time tracing the history of the health care justice act in illinois that he was involved with. it started out looking like a possibility for universal health insurance for all of illinois [and probably even as single-payer] but the insurance corporations got their claws into it and basically gutted it. if this exemplifies obama’s reaching out to the other side, i don’t want any part of it.