That would explain why Kennedy was all "concerned" about Bill Clinton's "unpresidential behavior"..

Ted Kennedy's endorsement.

The kiss of death for Republicans and conservative leaning Independents.

No Frank,
I think its Bill's "unpresidential behavior" that partly explains why Obama's going to get this endorsement.

SWEET, Caroline!

I'm looking for a Jim Webb endorsement soon

All the HillHaters in the USS

For those of you who view the Sunday morning pundits, how was it? Have not seen the crew at Fox yet! Chris Matthews was recorded before the election, and is dated. NBC and ABC provided Obama with mucho air time, CBS gave Hillary a bit of time and she spoke of Michigan and Florida; she almost choked!

In short these pundits collective view is that the contest is between Billary and Obama; Billary lost the S.C. real bad on all accounts.
The exist polls suggests many voters made their choices in the last three days; Wed. Hillary & Co. ran a radio aid that back fired very quickly; suspect that in large part accounted for the large blowout; Blacks shifted to Obama and Whites shifted to Edwards and Obama. Obama had about 20% White voters in earlier polls and at the end got more. In short the Clintons efforts back fired, and the question is will the blowback continue. The meme of Michigan and Florida is a dog that will remain sleeping. All the press coverage in post S.C. will give Obama a boost. Stay tuned folks!!!! It ain't over until.......

To Kyle and all those that think Teddy Kennedy endorsing Barack Obama will kill any crossover appeal from Moderate to Liberal Republicans and Moderate to Liberal Independants.
Your lack of political analysis is only matched be the shear stupidity of your unrealistic wing nut views.

Listen up.
When Teddy Kennedy starts his speech about "The Future" and "Passing the Torch" to a new leader for the United States of America, and referring back to his two older brothers, the emotional response will be so great, that those Moderate/Liberal Republicans and Democrats will come running home to the Democratic Party where they originaly came from pre-1980.
The Reich Wing Republicans that you are basing your assesment on so foolishly were never crossing over anyway.
What is really hysterical is the fact that those same knuckledraggers have nowhere to go even in the REPUBLICAN PARTY without Billary as the Democratic Nominee to motivate them to hold their noses and pull the lever for McCain or Romney. The Reich Wing Zealots are once again to be vomited from representation in the Government of the United States, to the frozen tundra of the wilderness of Reich Wing blogs like Powerline and the John Birch society. They have no candidate to vote for.
So, please excuse us if we don't take your insightful political analysis seriously. Just like the fallacy of responsible governance on every level from fiscal responsibility to foreign policy by the extremist leadership of what used to be the Republican Party, the American People are about to watch with glee as the Republican Party goes back to where it was in 1932. A party broken, fractured, and utterly exposed as being not only a bad idea, but a nightmarish blip on the history of the United States. Go ahead and take another 40 or 50 years to figure out who you are, and we'll be careful to let you rant and rave on talk radio while we the people govern ourselves.
Have a nice time.

KyleXY spins "I am astonished people think Obama can actually win when he gets 25% of the white vote in SC."

And Hillary can win by getting 29 percent of the White vote?

Obama has had strong convincing wins in Iowa and South Carolina, two very different states by region and demographics. In both states, he drew record numbders of voters into the process.

Hillary in comparison has had very narrow wins in NH and Neveda, both aided by dishonest tactics that most Democrats with at least an ounce of integrity dispise.

Further, by deferring to her husband in what has become a co-candidacy, Hillary is rapidly diminishing any illusion that she is an independent woman capable of winning the presidency and leading the world. What will she do when Iran, or Russia, or Korea, or China challenge her? Does she plan to send Bill out to defend her and attack her opponents with red-faced, finger-wagging lies and distortions?

Obama has vision, integrity, thoughtful positions on major issues, a capacity to bridge divisions, unite the nation, lead for change. He has enormous appeal for a nation starved for honest leadership.

The Clintons are self-interested, dishonest dividers, who serve corporations and bid donors. They simply cannot compete with Obama on vision, substance, judgment and leadership. So they try to bring him into the mud pit, where they are world champions. IT IS NOT WORKING! For anyone undecided, the Clintons are making the choice easier.

Although Bill and Hillary and their scuzzy machine say "No one can beat us," Obama and a growing number of Americans of every region, race, economic status are saying "Yes WE can"

As someone who was inspired by Kennedy's words "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" as a young person of 17 (only to see that cut short and pass by his coffin in the Rotunda at age 18) I too feel that same inspiration from Obama at the age of 62.

I can do no more but add my own (small) endorsement and my hope that we can have for our next president someone who can inspire us all to make the necessary sacrifices for the good of all of us.

We need a united country. We need to heal.

Thank you, dear Caroline.

Yes. We. Can.

KyleKY - Why is Obama not viable for 25% of whites but Billary is viable for 35% of whites? Your argument is bs. Iowa was white and all the other races were close right? Right.
Closet racist shillary hit men like you will be out in force after your ice queen is permanently put on ice.

Teddy K's endorsement of Obama is huge.

To KyleXY -- republicans running to the polls? Eight years of Bush are sending the Dems running to the polls in the largest numbers ever. There are more of us. Right-leaning independents? There aren't many of those left these days.

GMFORD- That's really the Billary TalkingPoints Kyle is putting out. Repubs have switched to dem and indy in droves. This might be the most one sided election in history.

Yesterday I was part of the CA Obama 100,000 calls, 1 day

We called "decline to state" voters aka "independents"

Guess I should get on the horn to Barack and tell him to put the breaks on EMK's endorsement so we don't undo all that work!

NOT

WASHINGTON - More than half the states holding presidential contests next month on Super Tuesday allow unaffiliated voters to participate, giving millions of independents a chance to shape what is usually an insider affair among Democratic and Republican loyalists. Two of those states — California and New Jersey — together have nearly 6 million unaffiliated voters who will be allowed to cast ballots. Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts and Alabama are among other prized catches with millions of independents eligible for the Feb. 5 contests

FIRED UP
READY TO RUMBLE

I'm willing to bet that obama takes cali. Alot of the polls are close and cali in general is not for maintaining the status quo by giving the clintons a third term.

I'm not willing to bet a damn thing on the CA outsome.

All I know for sure is that the statewide vote percentage will be meaningless.

This campaign is being fought CD by CD..and CD PCT 3523 is breaking 2 to 1 in my canvass for Obama

As far as the outcome in other words, all I will bet is that we take my precinct big

Keep up the good work, John!

We're going to organize our way to this nomination!

It's funny watching the Concern Trolls bemoaning the endorsement of "Chappaquiddick Ted" (no, I don't endorse that derisive nom de plume). This is a democratic primary and Ted Kennedy is rightly known as the Lion of the Senate. He's a staunch liberal and gives Obama street cred with that wing of our party that may have been taken aback by Obama's perceived nostalgia of the Reagan era. This can not be seen as anything but a huge boost for Obama in Massachusetts, where he's woefully behind Clinton, as well as the more liberal districts of California.

I'm thrilled that Ted is throwing his weight in this critical primary season. Remaining neutral is tantamount to an endorsement of the "status quo" aka Hill/Bill 08 campaign.

Well see if it creates movement in Massachusetts and elsewhere.

And before we read any posts from Hillbots that they aren't disappointed or that the Clintons didn't want the endorsement:

Two sources say she's directed a flood of calls the senator's way, with everyone from union leaders to his Massachusetts constituents scrambling to stop what Clinton's camp is worried could be an endorsement of Obama.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Fullcourt_press_on_Teddy.html

Great endorsement for Senator Obama.

To Anonymous at 1:20pm and Angry Vet, and others.

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Hillary has no real control over Bill.

I've been insisting during the last week that Bill was doing serious harm to the Clinton campaign. None of the narrative that Bill was spinning was passing through the media filters, and generally the media was reporting negatively on Bill. That played out as expected during the primary yesterday, where the majority of people who say Bill played a role in their vote voted for Obama.

The question is, going forward, will Hillary be able to reign Bill in and keep him on message. Playing attack dog using the methods normally reserved for republicans is backfiring in a democratic primary. People are going to begin questioning Hillary's judgment in the handling of her campaign.

...and the media's circlewank on Obama goes on!

So much for TPM's critical look on politics... Obama Cheerleaders, nothing more.

Setting aside the fencing for a little inside baseball, I'm wondering whether Ted's endorsement will shake loose any of the uncommitted superdelegates before Supercalifragilistic Tuesday. Kerry and Leahy didn't, but Ted is sui generis.

I'm also wondering if we'll see any movement in Massachusetts. In another post, on the Massachusetts polling numbers, I referred to the possibility of a Teddy ex Machina being the only thing that might move the voters of the P.R.M. off their natural affinity for visionless technocrats.

Aaand, most of all, I'd love some dope on the campaigns' media strategy. But since I expect that there's probably no information the campaigns would be less happy to see on the blogs, that's kind of like wishing for a pony for Chrismas.

Hillary's campaign is in full spin mode. Kennedy's endorsement will hurt Obama. I guess that's why Hillary has had a full court press for months trying to persuade the Kennedys to endorse her. That's why she reportedly flew into a profane rage when her aids told her Kennedy had sent a headsup so his announcement would not catch her offguard.

The clunking you hear is the mean Clinton machine falling apart.

Nice nice nice. I hope the superdelegates already pledged to her start switching over. The party is tired of being defined by the Clintons, especially after their despicable actions over this campaign.

Keep in mind:
Very Big States
California
Texas
New York
Florida* (delegate issue)

Big States
Illinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan* (delegate issue)
Georgia
New Jersey
North Carolina
Virginia

Where does big stop? Massachusetts (next) is under 7 million (2% of the general population).

Of these, California, New York, Illinois, Georgia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, if we count it, are super Tuesday. Michigan is over and Florida is day after tomorrow.

Virginia is later in February
Texas and Ohio are in March
Pennsylvania is in April
and North Carolina is not until May

ted kennedy is of a particular political stripe, true, but his endorsement nicely rounds out obama's support in the senate, like RINO Ben Nelson of NE and Claire McCaskill of MO. large parts of the establishment are finally going the same way as the grass roots. bout time.

any chance someone here is close to the Obama campaign and can tell him to ditch the "you know"'s. He has this bad habit and its a pain in the ass to hear so often. I mean 4 sentences and 2 "you know"s.

sorry, DINO Ben Nelson of NE. same difference.

rgo wrote on January 27, 2008 1:48 PM:

any chance someone here is close to the Obama campaign and can tell him to ditch the "you know"'s. He has this bad habit and its a pain in the ass to hear so often. I mean 4 sentences and 2 "you know"s.

Good to know you are on top of things, you know! Or you don't know what you know, you know? Harvard Law Review?

Kinda thin, don't ya think!

To Anonymous --- not thin at all - there should be consistency between the great oration and the highly contrasting one-on -ones and the debates when the "you know"'s give the appearance of being tongue-tied.

Besides, who asked you, you know.

The Caroline and Ted endorsements are huge, and the latter perhaps a harbinger of other party leaders who can now clearly see which candidate represents a future of an expanding Democratic party and which represents an effort to eke out victory using old paradigms and a party with a decidedly limited upside.

My wish list of my Obama endorsements for the next two weeks, in rough order of electoral value (not actual likelihood of endorsement):

1. John Edwards
2. Al Gore
3. Jim Webb
4. Bill Richardson

Would also be nice to see some of the many people, especially in CA, who jumped on board the HRC train early when it seemed she would walk away with it, switch their endorsement in light of the Clintons' desultory campaign tactics. It is never too late to turn back from the wrong path. This means you, Mayors Newsom & Villaraigosa!

Sounds like the Hillary brigade would turn down an endorsement from Senator Kennedy. Sure they would. They really are a bunch of perverse habitual liars. Hillary tried her best to get it, so it is a little late to now start to discount his endorsement of Senator Obama.

Is Ted Kennedy part of the status quo? When republicans want to talk about liberals, who is first mentioned? How will this help unite the country? Ted Kennedy's endorsement goes againist everything Barak Obama is preaching from the pulpit. period. If you think republicans don't notice this endorsement you are kidding yourself. You just joined the polarized club Barak, as you so often say Hillary is. What a hypocrit.