Caroline Kennedy

[Full Quiver]

I agree Rusky and then we may add why was Palin not qualified to be VP or even the prez?

[Dr. Ron]

Tim,
I am interested is seeing/hearing/reading where you feel that Obama had all those qualities you describe.

I listened to debates, read his articles, his books, listened to his speaches.....didn't hear any of what you describe. It had nothing to do with being a republican...which I am not....but rather looking for that "whatever" he was supposed to have that I could not find.

Granted I am not the "brain" that you and some others are, but please enlighten me.

As for Palin not being "presidential", I have to agree with you on some of that....but it was not anything she couldn't have learned. I mean, after all, we had 8 years of the "idiot". He didn't know it before he became VP and didn't learn while he was VP. And I have known him since we were in HS. I kicked his butt in debate.

But, I still didn't see/hear/read anything that nearly placed Obama in the light you have concluded.

[Tim Elston]

The denouement. I hadn't seen any footage of Caroline Kennedy, but on CNN today there were clips of her showing herself to be a veritable empty dress--not in terms of being skinny, but in terms of having nothing politically intelligent to say. Seems an appropriate end to her political career. You have to give it to her, though, for still looking good at fifty-one.

[DaJudge]

The denouement. I hadn't seen any footage of Caroline Kennedy, but on CNN today there were clips of her showing herself to be a veritable empty dress--not in terms of being skinny, but in terms of having nothing politically intelligent to say.

I agree. The thing is, though, her whole family was that way (with the possible exception of Bobby). Jack Kennedy was great at giving a speech, but his words were written by Ted Sorenson. All he was really interested in was chasing skirt. Teddy is a drunken moron. Have you ever heard him give an off the cuff talk? He sounds drunk even when he's sober.

[Full Quiver]

What a laugh that she dropped out. Someone that wanted the job so bad and then when the time comes I can't do it.

[Tim Elston]

Teddy is a drunken moron. Have you ever heard him give an off the cuff talk? He sounds drunk even when he's sober.

I haven't followed Ted Kennedy much. When he had that stroke, or whatever, last year or so when they thought he might be breathing his last breaths, some station, probably CNN, showed a notable political speech that he gave sometime in the '80s or '90s maybe. I listened to a bit of it. It reminded me of sermons I used to hear at COGOP General Assemblies. It had a lot of pathos and conviction, and if you believed what he was saying he probably came off like "the Lion of the Senate," similarly to how we used to think that churchy Assembly sermons that raised the house were "anointed." As I listened, I tried to put myself in the shoes of a "Democratic believer," and doing so I thought his speech was politically ingenious. Yeah, he sort of has a stupored diction, but Nixon had something like that, too. I don't think diction matters as much as substance, and, no, I don't think that Ted Kennedy is a moron, even though I doubt I agree on much with him.

[Dr. Ron]

The smartest Kennedy we have seen to date.
She knew she was in over her head and she backed away.

Good for her.

I agree with many of Tim's observations here. Knowing that the GAs of old were tailored for the exact responses they recieved....and having been a part of that.....I can easily recognize the similarities.

However, the Kennedy clan has always been a huge joke ....with the possible exception of Bobby and he likely killed Marilyn......

So......"Power corrupts..and absolute power corrupts absolutely".

[Billy n NC]

And there again.

If a republican who had put themselves out there like she has the last
few weeks and drops out at the last minute declaring Personal reasons would be ripped apart by the media.. There Enquiring MInds would have busted at the seems till they knew what Personal Reasons meant..

and nada about Caroline K...

go figure..

[Tim Elston]

and nada about Caroline K...

Sometimes I get the impression that the reason some of you think what you do about the media is because you never watch them. For the first time in several weeks I turned on CNN and what did I see? Anderson Cooper and Candy Crowley showing clips of Caroline Kennedy looking like a political empty head and commenting that she wasn't prepared and had bungled her own bid for the seat.

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