Was Teddy’s Endorsement Of Obama Just For Revenge? Probably
I would have used the word honor in the title, but we all know Teddy and honor are like a senator standing on the banks as a woman claws the ceiling of a car as she gasps for her last breath of air. Obama was just a means to an end for Teddy. Seems Ted was rather angry at Hillary over comments concerning civil rights:
Sources say Kennedy was privately furious at Clinton for her praise of President Lyndon Baines Johnson for getting the 1964 Civil Rights Act accomplished. Jealously guarding the legacy of the Kennedy family dynasty, Senator Kennedy felt Clinton’s LBJ comments were an implicit slight of his brother, President John F. Kennedy, who first proposed the landmark civil rights initiative in a famous televised civil rights address in June 1963.
One anonymous source described Kennedy as having a “meltdown” in reaction to Clinton’s comments. Another source close to the Kennedy family says Senator Kennedy was upset about two instances that occurred on a single day of campaigning in New Hampshire on Jan. 7, a day before the state’s primary.
The first was at an event in Dover, N.H., at which Clinton supporter Francine Torge introduced the former first lady saying, “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” signed the civil rights bill into law.
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Kennedy was also apparently upset that Clinton said on the same day: “Dr. [Martin Luther] King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Ac. It took a president to get it done.”
Both comments that day, by Clinton and her supporter, were meant to make the point that Clinton would be better equipped to get things done as president than Obama, her chief Democratic rival. Sources say Clinton called Kennedy to apologize for the LBJ comments. But whatever she said clearly wasn’t enough to assuage Kennedy, who endorsed Obama earlier this week.
This is so typical. JFK was a minor part of the civil rights movement, but it was LBJ that got the laws enacted. I guess Teddy doesn’t want the facts to get in his way..
It just goes to show that at the end of the day, the Kennedys still don’t care about anything more than their own dynastic identity. If they really cared about real “change,” they would leave the political scene. The Kennedy soap opera should have long past run its course.
Kennedy’s have a way of revising history: Ted Kennedy Should Not Speak For His Brothers, Get Your Facts Straight Senator Kennedy! and The CIA Declassified ‘family jewels’ detail assassination plots, break-ins, wiretaps:.Has The Kennedy’s Fuming
For the times they are a-changin’
January 31, 2008 - 10:24 AM on January 31st, 2008
Yeah, well, that’s great and all but the Kennedy family as well as every other liberal today totally forgets the contributions republicans have made in the way of civil rights. For those too young or who didn’t get all of their history lesson in school, it was the Democrats who started the KKK and instituted the Jim Crow laws of the south and who continued on a bloody avenue of revenge against blacks. Kennedy was incidental.
January 31, 2008 - 10:40 AM on January 31st, 2008
The old sot is deeply angry that people remember his botched waterboarding of Mary Jo Kopechne.
January 31, 2008 - 10:51 AM on January 31st, 2008
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January 31, 2008 - 11:04 AM on January 31st, 2008
People’s actions reveal their true character; once again this shows ChapaTraitor to be a selfish, vindictive a-hole.
But it’s all good to me; the more the Democrites fight amongst themselves the better.
January 31, 2008 - 11:49 AM on January 31st, 2008
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