An Open Letter to Caroline Kennedy
By GRL on July 15, 2008 at 2:04 PM in Barack Obama, Qualifications
Dear Caroline,
I hope you don’t mind if I call you “Caroline,” but I feel like I’ve known you all my life. I’m only a few years older than you are and I remember you when you were riding your little pony–Macaroni. I thought that was such a great name and I loved horses, too, although I never really had much of a chance to ride one except for one time at a little animal park once when I got to sit on a big horse, which was pretty frightening!
Caroline, early on you seemed to have taken after both your father and mother. You interned for your uncle Senator Ted Kennedy, then worked for awhile at the The Daily News in New York (your mother was a roving photo/interviewer for a newspaper once) and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (we all know how culturally-oriented your mother was).
Caroline, I’ve really admired how you’ve grown up and raise a family, and have watched you represent the Kennedy family at events like the funerals of Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, and Lady Bird Johnson, as well as that miserable, rainy day in November 2004 when the Clinton Presidential Center was dedicated.
But until now, the thing I remember the most about your public life is your many appearances when you first book came out in 1990, the one co-authored with Ellen Alderman, called “In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action.” I remember it got rave reviews, as did the next book on civil liberties which you wrote with Alderman in 1995 titled “The Right to Privacy.”
You’ve seemed to gravitate more to the political world as you’ve gotten older, although some of your activities may be less known to the general public than your writing. You’re the current President of the Kennedy Library Foundation, a director of both the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and also an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial your father. A bit of your mother’s love of culture, however, is still evident as you serve as the Honorary Chairman of the American Ballet Theatre.
And, of course, I remember the sad time during your brother’s death. You know, Caroline, I remember the night JFK, Jr.’s plane went down just as vividly as the day your father was assassinated. I was in 8th grade passing between classes the day your father was killed. And the night your brother’s plane disappeared, I remember going outside and standing on the patio looking up at the stars simply too stunned to do anything other than praying out loud that he and his wife and sister-in-law would be found alive. And I can’t imagine how you endured the aftermath when you had to negotiate a settlement with his wife’s family.
Caroline, when you decided become more publicly active in a presidential campaign than ever before by endorsing Barack Obama I was truly surprised. Surprised at how strong your endorsement was and how actively you began to make appearances on his behalf.
Needless to say, when you wrote your piece that appeared in the New York Times on January 27, 2008 entitled “A President Like My Father,” in which you said that “qualities of leadership, character and judgment play a larger role than usual” this election season and that Obama had “demonstrated” these qualities, I was somewhat bemused. You also wrote that:
Senator Obama is running a dignified and honest campaign. He has spoken eloquently about the role of faith in his life, and opened a window into his character in two compelling books. And when it comes to judgment, Barack Obama made the right call on the most important issue of our time by opposing the war in Iraq from the beginning.
Caroline, were those your words then, and, if so, do you still think the same things today?
I don’t think I have to go into much detail about what has ensued since January. Gestures, words, supporters…tolerance of sexist comments and often Obama’s own misogynistic gestures. His use of race to divide the party. (Yes, Caroline, it was Michelle Obama who, just prior to the horrible South Carolina primary, warned that blacks would be “waking up” and we saw how this was accomplished with leaked memos and turning Bill and Hillary Clinton into racists). His operatives threatening some of the old guards of the civil rights movement like John Lewis over their support of Hillary Clinton even as he skipped the memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 40th anniversary of his death. Civil liberties–his voting for the FISA bill? His backtracking on Iraq. Trivializing the “mental distress” of some women in late pregnancy. And the most recent situation with Bernie Mac and his comments about women and how Obama essentially let them pass. And let’s not forget how the Democratic Party enabled the disenfranchisement of voters both in Florida and Michigan, through actions at caucuses, and at the RBC meeting at the end of May. Caroline, have you embraced the “Chicago Way,” which probably helped your father win the 1960 election and has come to the fore this election cycle?
Have you talked to your cousin, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., lately? He never was swayed by Obama. He recognized, apparently, how Obama was using the Kennedy mystique even as he brushed aside the ’60’s. And do you recall the Reno-Gazette Journal interview where Obama praised the politics of Ronald Reagan and put-down Bill Clinton at the same time? Caroline, this interview in the Reno-Gazette Journal came BEFORE you wrote your New York Times piece. Didn’t you take time to reflect on what was going on before it was published?
I know you are one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award. According to the site:
The Profile in Courage Award seeks to make Americans aware of the conscientious and courageous acts of their public servants, and to encourage elected officials to choose principles over partisanship – to do what is right, rather than what is expedient.
The award is presented annually to a public official or officials at the federal, state or local level whose actions best demonstrate the qualities of politically courageous leadership in the spirit of Profiles in Courage.
Caroline, can you honestly say that Obama has demonstrated the type of “politically courageous leadership” that this award is supposed to represent? His history of missed and “present” votes alone should make you question Obama’s “leadership” qualities, not to mention how he rewrote his nuclear safety bill to accommodate Republicans to the ire of his own constituents. (Some may view the list of recipients as being a “mixed bag,” by the way…so maybe this award itself has been lowering the bar at times? I guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder…)
You’ve published a book called “Profiles in Courage for Our Time” which focuses on some of the award recipients, but it seems that it is really a collection of essays written by others, including well-known media types like Albert R. Hunt, Bob Woodward, Ron Suskin, and E.J. Dionne. Although Ted Sorenson has admitted in May of this year that he actually did most of the actual writing of your father’s own book “Profiles in Courage,” the two had a close working relationship up until JFK was assassinated and the words in the book were, in the words of one reviewer, “If his active service to Kennedy is now concluded, we are still left with the inescapable sense that the words that the two men crafted together — however one divides the credit — will live on.” (A brief discussion about the eight Senators profiled in the book is here.)
Caroline, perhaps it is now time to commit an act of courage on your own. Would you consider retracting your endorsement of Barack Obama considering what has transpired over the last few months? Please do consider it. By doing so, you would acknowledge the concerns of many courageous people among the grassroots who are speaking out against a pre-ordained coronation of Obama and who want 18 million voters to be heard. People who want women and the old guard of civil rights leaders to be respected.
Thanks for reading this,
GRL
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Obama resorts to violence in order to prove his patriotism
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/kvh3
I wonder what he will say about that one?
What happened to the group hug and ponies for everyone?
what can you expect from a publication owned by MSNBC?
Thanks…I never knew that.
Opps sorry that is newsweek in partnership with msm….lol
The nation just writes for those who pay them, like Obama’s campaign….lol
Oh look, she’s wearing Reagan Republican Red. How many stars on that flag?
And she has her kegs crossed. Must have to go pee.
Yikes…legs not kegs.
kegs… lol
Her thighs are about the size of kegs…lol!
Good thing it’s not considered sexism if you’re talking about somebody that you don’t like.
Until Caroline has been announced as the VP, she’s fair game. She seems pretty content with her restricted job opportunities for the time being… housewife and living legacy.
yes I remember Nancy Reagan wore that exact dress.
57 OF COURSE
Is that supposed to be Hillary knocked down, with a bloody nose, a brace around her neck?
Why did they put Hillary on that picture, saying “round 2″? Why are they approving Obama’s past violence toward Hillary and her supporters. Why are they encouraging further violence against women for no reason, Hillary had nothing to do with the right wing slurs or the cartoon on the NYer.
Go and look, it is shocking! Here is an email address for associates@thenation.com.
No, sweetness. That is the logo for the New Yorker magazine … please ….
He will probably say nothing, fucking retards! What would you people have done is the New Yorker had done a pic like this about you fucking hero Bush:
http://bp0.blogger.com/_H44IkuSV9qQ/R3Obdu5txQI/AAAAAAAACc4/MsdSHs61YCQ/s320/Newpinheadbush_dees_50.JPG
Whoa!
I think somebody has anger issues.
Once you learn how to spell and with proper grammar, we can respond…Now run along, time to fill your sippy cup with Kool Aid.
Hey potty mouth, since when did Bush become our hero?
Response from Large White Man.
If Obama didn’t have questionable ties to Anti-Americans then there would be no cover such what has appeared on the New Yorker.
All the regulars here at this site were true died in the wool democrats and were very much prepared to vote Democrat this year.
However, we have been shocked to see the true underpinnings of the democrat party which has been exposed for it’s Marxist totalitarian socialism which allows it to fix elections with no shame and present a nominee which is unelectable.
Now you Obamabots reap what you sow.!!
Absolute defeat in the fall!!
It takes the lotion from the bucket; it does it when it’s told to. Damn troll
Very enlightening. Thanks for sharing.
Large Black Man = Large Dumb Rude Black Man
Oh, no, no, no, no, NOOOO!!! Don’t take that silly hook. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Large Black Man = Short, obese, flabby, pasty pale, junk-food addicted, pizza-faced, potsmoking caucasian NIKE (no income kid with education) living in Mom’s basement, whining at the “rents” to recharge his little debit Visa card, pecking away at his keyboard, and stressing over the fact that he has to choose between buying that weed or putting gas in the car his parents gave him, because they’ve taken away his SUNOCO credit card. He’s a “Blogger For Obama” getting minimum wage to make an ass of himself on the internet! And maybe earn enough to afford that pot AND that gas! And maybe a pizza or two, as well!
Those insufferable jerks at Campaign Obama haven’t quite yet realized that this sort of attack isn’t depressing resolve, it’s hardening it. They’re using teen-aged marketing tactics and an army of Children Who Were Left Behind to go after middle-aged and senior citizens, the insular little morons.
We’ve been there, done that, bought way too many tee shirts, and aren’t swayed by that idiotic nonsense. But hey, keep pumping up the economy by throwing mini-checks at these minimum wage dunces…you’re actually forcing some of them to spellcheck and use proper grammar, so they don’t all sound alike! Maybe one or two of them will actually learn a little something, too.
Hey Mr. Large Black Man with smooth brain,
The New Yorker has. The Katrina cover and the Brokeback Mountain cover with Bush and Cheney. Most probably you don’t read the NYR so you come out with a stupid thing like that.
We are talking about the content of character not the color of skin. Don’t make this a racial issue we will not accept intimidation, which by the way, is thuggery. Comments like yours just leave you vulnerable to all kinds of ridicule.
Petite Latina with wrinkled brain.
Do you realize this link is to a cartoon? Or are you so delusional that you can’t recognize satire?
they forgot the obama presidential seal ……on the floor of the original new yorker.
the whole thing brings to mind the Danish
cartoons of ‘the prophet’
Apparently old BO can only be depicted
in pictures which present him in an
iconicly religious and beatific light!
All Hail Barry and the Blessed MEEEEEchelle!
pukity puke puke puke!
He didn’t seem to care too much about it when asked on Larry King. You don’t have to believe it, though. I know the people around here don’t like to believe anything about Obama that isn’t a smear.
LOL! Have you been paying attention for the past 6 months? He feigns indifference or “rises above it all” while his surrogates and the pandering media scream and yell and stomp their feet. It’s a tired routine.
Yes. I have been paying attention, and what his campaign has done is significantly different than “resorting to violence”, don’t you think?
Smears, Tire Tread marks from the bus, whatever, as long as there is proof, yep we believe. We don’t need to stretch for untrue smears when so many disturbing truths exist. Let me name a few, FISA, Gun Control, Public Financing, Revs’ Wright and Pfleger, and Iraq. Of course I could see through his rhetoric from the beginning. I checked his background. What I found I did not like.
You really must have drank gallons of the KoolAide to still support him after FISA. Either you are not a true DEMOCRAT or you don’t keep up with the news!
Calling the truth, the ugly unvarnished truth about Obama
A smear
Is the biggest smear of all.
Honest! Mc Cain actually won a profile in courage award, along with Feingold. Ah, this is quite the bit of irony, considering BHO’s recent flip-flop. See picture here:
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Education+and+Public+Programs/Profile+in+Courage+Award/Award+Recipients/John+McCain/
Thanks for your effort to make our fellow Democrats come to their senses.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Ro3TATqG8
If you are sending this letter, I would suggest taking out the part about her father winning his election the Chicago way. It is not constructive, IMO.
I don’t think it will change anything, seems a deal was done months ago.
Yeah, that one little change should make that letter ready to go. I’m pretty sure the lunatic ravings in the rest of the letter will really sway her.
I didn’t send the letter to her. It is an “open letter.”
The reference to “The Chicago Way” is constructive if it helps Caroline face some truths about Chicago politics…she may or may not believe the Chicago vote business occurred in 1960 or embrace it if she does know it happened…but to accept it NOW with Obama, after all that’s happened since then (2000 election, Ohio in 2004, current primary shenanigans) just doesn’t sit well with me. I think it doesn’t reflect well on her (and other Kennedys who are in politics) at all.
NICE…….
ADD MORE praise for her father while comparing obama to a thug chicago politician …..
It’s a hopeless endeavor.
Our nation is rife with AGING losers who think they can stay young and hip forever.
So, instead of TEACHING her kids something Caroline thinks she can be pals with them.
A lost cause.
A better cause would be to play up and THANK the BOBBY KENNEDY clan, who
seem to have gotten more than their fair share of the Kennedy brain cells and who actually CARE about legacy.
Zee,
1. One day you are going to be old.
2. These aging losers were the ones that fought in the streets to end the Vietnam war, to move foreword for women’s rights, for civil rights, for gay rights.
3. These losers are the core of the progressive movement. They stormed campuses, Columbia in NYC, Kent in Ohio, etc.
So please understand that you would not be tapping away merrily at your keyboard if it wasn’t for these losers who paved the way to continue and insure your free speech while Nixon was trying to shut it down. Brush up on your history so that you can pass that on to your children and the generation that will follow you. Democracy is always hard fought.
Gather you dignity and toast those aging losers who have made it possible for you to even say such a thing. How different are you from Obama if you harbor the same hubris and ignorance!
Racist Obama Campaign Site: “A Honky Named George [Bush]“
http://husaria.wordpress.com/
I beg you! Don’t do it! Don’t do it America. They are not ready. I beg you please, don’t do it. Don’t give the whitehouse keys to the negro. They are not ready. ~quote~ Pastor Manning.-2008.
What John F Kennedy and Carolyn Kennedy represent is not compatible with what Obama represent.
Obama is all myth.
You’re being too kind.
Obama is all lies.
Yeah, at least the stuff you’re willing to believe about him.
Don’t you have some SPAM to write?
And yet no sign of the truth about him. Where’s his BC? McCain showed his. There were Congressional hearings about McCain’s eligibility. Then Auschwitz? Selma? Kennedy airlift? Not to mention his ever-changing positions. FISA. NAFTA. Free markets. Welfare reform. Iraq. Iran. Israel. Campaign finance. His record. Obama lied in his ad about the veterans bill. He deliberately mislead the public about his vote for the 2005 Energy Bill. And on and on…
She walking around like she’s been brainwashed. Don’t think the letter will register with her but a worthy effort! The way the entire family (almost) rushed to gush at Obama’s side, you would think they were in on the fix from day one … or being blackmailed … or both. Sad. A major sell out.
Daddy would NOT be proud.
I Agree..
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Great video. You may enjoy this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1TmxhbdyA
that was good, thank you!
Wonderful Video, thanks so much!
I loved both videos, Thanks
And Mommy JackieO too.
Michelle is copying JackieO but could not pass the character test. Michelle is NOT fitted to be first lady (I refuse to give her the title)
Caroline is in Obama’s payroll: she is one of the people in-charge of selecting the VP for BHO’s ok, the job of BHO! Lazy guy.
A dignified, honest campaign? Caroline is being duped. From the trenches where the party faithful toil away:
http://www.hillbuzz.blogspot.com
A Comment Posted on CQPolitics:
“I haven’t had much time to post lately but usually can read the blog when I am at work. I have been dealing with repairing a flooded basement, helping get the State Convention completed, learning a new job at work, and fighting some kind of respiratory ick but wanted to share something that happened this week. This is a little lengthy but some background is needed in order to understand the events.
I went to my county central committee meeting Thursday and something like a PUMA meeting broke out. This committee is made up of the base of the party, the activists who show up and donate time and money to get things done. There are many Obama supporters among the crowd since he is the presumptive nominee and there are people who will do whatever it takes to get Democrats elected.
The Obama campaign sent a representative to tell us they would not be donating to the coordinated campaign. Instead, they will have their own field offices with their own field people. Their reasoning is they don’t want anyone to be able to say they take money from lobbyists so they have to run a separate campaign. Huh? Even if it were true that they don’t take money from lobbyists, how would that preclude them from donating their money to help other candidates get elected? It is a flimsey excuse that doesn’t pass the smell test.
One former union state president grilled the Obama rep for 15 minutes and still couldn’t get him to say their doorknockers would be saying anything about down ticket candidates. The only thing he said was they would be allowed to do so if they wanted to. One long-time Obama supporter stood up and said, “I have been an Obama supporter from the get –go but I am my precinct’s captain for all Democrats and I will be contacting my neighbors to help all Democrats get elected.” Another long-time activist said, “Why doesn’t Obama take his marbles and go home. We have good candidates here that we need to get elected and we don’t need anyone siphoning off the money and volunteers. So much for party unity.” And there were several other speakers sharing the same sentiment.
I could tell the county party chair (Obama supporter) was not happy with the situation, he was counting on some of the money to take care of the county’s responsibilities for the election. Our county party did manage to weasel their way into the field office for the Obama campaign. Our state party is in their own office. They started out with 12 regions and are now down to 5 due to lack of money. What that means is there is only one field organizer per district and that is not nearly enough to manage offices and organize volunteers. Things are getting interesting.
We’ve said this before, but will say this again (because, let’s face it, we enjoy repeating ourselves): Obama is not a Democrat. His supporters are not Democrats. His campaign is structured not to help the Democratic Party win, well, anything, but to help Obama and Obama only. Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/Reid’s whole purpose in advancing Obama’s candidacy since 2004 was to, allegedly, help down-ticket Democrats by driving a blank-slate, young candidate for president to increase voter turnout and excitement at the polls on election day. Well, if Obama isn’t using his field organization to help down-ticket Democrats, as he promised, and he’s not raising enormous sums of money for the DNC and down-ticket Democrats, as he promised, then why exactly, again, is he the DNC’s selected nominee in 2008?”
IMO, Soros only wants his money spent on Obama, not other Democrats. The same goes for the money coming into the Obama campaign for his Middle Eastern backers. They only want their money spent on Obama, and it has nothing to do with “lobbyist” monies.
Like I keep saying, this is a giant conspiracy by George Soros, the DNC, Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and Middle Eastern oil money, and possibly the Rand corporation.
Or one little egomaniac run amuck with other people’s money to back him.
They’re all lowlifes, and you can judge a man by his deeds and the company he keeps.
I think it has to do with vote gaming. If he gets his own paid people to work the offices, he can pull on McCain what he did to Hillary and no one will stop him.
For starters, the phone bankers and door knockers pulling any number of tactics including terrible slandereous lies about the rival that Obama is guilty himself of the things said about others. This is serious. He plans to game the election again.
We have to stop this man who belongs to no party and stands for nothing that has to do with democracy.
Congress needs to take a good hard long look at this candidate because there will be no turning back ever.
(sorry for my run on sentences)
I was frankly waiting to hear this story, and I’m not surprised. I was convinced early on that Obama had merely taken over the Democratic Party logo. You are accurate. He is not a Democrat in any traditional sense of the word.
He is going to destroy the party with this strategy. There will be no feeder groups to support the Democrats locally.
It could happen very fast.
This experience should be switched into an article format and distributed widely.
House Democrats are already complaining that Obama is not helping a bit with reelection. They find out he’s visited their states and districts after the fact, when they could have been with him and gotten some PR. That type of action on his part is unheard-of in politics, or it used to be.
So please consider reformatting this and getting it out.
I think it’s very important.
The article below was saying something similar, but it’s good to hear it from one of our own, actually out there in the trenches at the local level. I admire her stamina and resolve. Thanks for sharing!
Politico article: “Hill Democrats Miffed at Obama”
(Hill = Capital/Congressional, not Hillary)
“http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11750.html
Did you watch tonight’s Larry King’s Show when he interviewed BHO? I missed the half part , so I could not tell if Larry asked Obama about his birth certificate.Obama was all praised to President Bill Clinton & wanted him to campaign for him!(Obama never say the title “President”,just Bill Clinton (how disrespectful!)
President Clinton, according to the AP, has a busy global schedule this whole year!
Obama needs the Clintons!
Perhaps Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/Reid/Soros can fund BHO BHO on their own. After all, they said they didn’t need us.
PUMA
The Caroline Kennedy endorsement was one of the hardest specially becuase she is from NY, she had previously campaingned for HRC. Therefore her endorsement was hard to swallow. I have lost all respect for her.
ditto kiki (not Hillary’s kiki?)
I feel sorry for Caroline that she is totally alone. Her dad, mother and only brother and she’s still young enough they should ALL be alive!
Still she has LOTS of other family so I can only excuse so much before concluding I didn’t KNOW her at all. (doh)
The Difference between Obama and JFK is JFK actually help the AA community unlike Obama who help Resko with his slums
OT, but no one seems to have an answer to it.
Who is paying for Obama’s trip around the world to get educated in foreign affairs?
Should the taxpayers do so when Obama stated he is the best candidate on forgeign affairs already?
Should the DNC pay for it when they are broke?
Should Obama’s campaign pay for it since they are doing an about face on Bambi’s experience?
Hope it is not billed as a senate something — I do not want to pay for it. Let Soros pay for it.
Soros is the boogieman. Boo!
I see the kids are up from their naps!
Time for somebody’s ritalin.
Caroline Kennedy could care less about women and supporting them. Just take a look at the Kennedy Center’s annual honorees every Dec. One woman for every four men. As if their aren’t any women to be honored.
She’s hoodwinked by Obama.
Obama is more like KFC than JFK
PUMA
Obama is more like KFC than JFK
omg..LOL
Hey I know KFC…I’ve eaten at KFC, I have a friend who eats at KFC and Senator you’re no KFC.
OMG … This is the best I have read all DAY …. LAUGHING SO HARD THAT I AM GASPING FOR AIR!!!!!!!
They are changing their name to Kentucky Grilled Chicken and he is no KGC either.
KGB maybe.
Me too. LMAO KFC phuking too much.
We will give her a “profile in courage” award if she takes her endorsement back. That phrase coming from her sounds so ridiculous now.
youre not kidding!
clear up the name Caro dump the Uhhbama empty suit
caro for waffles!
finally
Shame on you, Caroline Kennedy! Shame on you for not supporting the corrupt carpetbagger from NY/Little Rock/etc.
BOBO is from chicago.. and she supported him.
Remember who helped JFK win the white house?
Mayor Daley’s Chicago Machine!!
Things that make you go Hmmmm…
It was Sam “Momo” Giancana that got the vote out for JFK in Cook County, out of the graveyards.
Thank you, but it was within Daley’s chicago, right?
Supposedly, the same thing happened in the primaries. Dead voters voting again!
Heavens. You back? I was so hoping that perhaps you had successfully completed the six week koolaide detox. Obviously I was wrong about you … we had such a nice, sane, normal Kevin here that I was holding out real hope versus the faux hopey changey that you seem to traffic in. :: Sigh ::
You notice everytime Obama gets in trouble with the poll numbers he pays Quinnipiac and PPP to fixed the polls numbers for him…Americans are on to him
Caroline just wanted to get into politics, and doesn’t care how, apparently. She was part of the “deal”, Senator Kennedy gives bo his endorsement, and bo in return has to give Caroline a role. It’s all about deals and it’s only we, the people, that get the raw end of it.
Open letters tend to have more impact when the author has enough commitment to actually sign the letter.
You think that just maybe the author did sign the letter and just doesn’t what slimebag trolls to get their real name?
stupid is as stupid does
you mean like every one of Obama’s open letters for contributions that he never signs troll?
I was silently cheering GRL, as I read your letter to Caroline Kennedy. I have been so incensed by her involvement with Obama and his despicable actions.
I have lost all respect for her. She will forever be associated with this morally bankrupt candidate and his group of thugs.
All those people that love JFK are the same people that criticize Bill Clinton for being a lousy president because he fooled around. DUH!
It’s such a ripe time for a significant new party to be born. There are so many Americans that have been pushed out of the Dem party by these Obama idiots along with a lot of minor party citizens out there. If Hillary had only given strong consideration to leading the way to a new party, she would have truly had an army of votes for her. That would have been historic and life changing for all of us. I think a new party called PUMA would be ideal. Wishful thinking I know, but why not start now for the future?
It’s a great idea, so whats wrong with wishful thinking/
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Did you guys see this poll!!
The weakest dem candidate - Obama vs. the strong GOP candidate McCain.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/obama_leads_bush_by_twenty_but_clinton_does_better_against_mccain
At a time when Obama and McCain are locked in a tight race, the poll shows that Obama would rout President Bush 54% to 34%. Looking at the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll, McCain is outperforming Bush by more than 15 percentage points.
The poll results also show that Obama would have an easier go of it against two of McCain’s chief rivals for the Republican nomination. The presumptive Democratic nominee leads former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney by eight points 49% to 41% and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee 50% to 39%.
However, McCain fares better against Obama than he does against two other prominent Democrats. New York Senator Hillary Clinton leads McCain by eight points, 50% to 42%. Former Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000, leads McCain 50% to 43%.
These numbers help explain why Election 2008 is competitive even though events so heavily favor the Democrats — because the Republicans are on course to nominate their strongest possible general election candidate but the Democrats are not. Perhaps even more importantly, the data suggests that voters don’t see a potential McCain Administration as the third term of President Bush.
In all five hypothetical match-ups featured in this article, the Democrat leads the Republican among unaffiliated voters. In the match-up between the two presumptive nominees, McCain holds a slight edge over Obama among those voters.
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That was a really good read, thank you!
Barack will prove as brilliant at war in defeating the terrorists in Afghanistan that he is in bringing peace to Iraq. Barack, like Tolstoy, will author his own War and Peace that will fit side by side with that great classic.
hahahahaha! man, you made me spit out my soda! That’s a good one little troll
BoBoBolinsky, you are DuDuDumb as a BaBaBagg of rocks and BliBliBlind as a bat.
The only thing GreGreGreat about Obama is his ears!
LMAO That was funny.
GET OFF THE PIPE!
Did you just cut and paste that and press send, or did you read it first? I have saved it to my desk top so that they next time I need to vomit, I can just pull it up. It should work nicely for constipation as well ….
No one will ever know that you’ve had a lobotomy, if you wear a wig to hide to the scars and learn to control the slobbering.
You’re living in a dream world, buddy. Fortunately, you’ll fit right in here.
Your name seems to fit you.
Don’t forget to mail in your EMPTY Obama envelopes!
Don’t send them back empty. Stuff’em with other junk mail. You know the adressee is picking up the postage.
I prefer to stuff mine with some monopoly Hillary money template that I found online.
It’s great! Just got my second envelope last night.
I wonder how much this is costing the DNC.
When you get Obama’s begging letter, return his postpaid return envelope attached to a brick or a box of bricks or even an old broken appliance or two. Who knows? Maybe Saint Obama can change it into something useful.
Yes, this really works, and it’s legal. See the following website for details:
http://officeofstrategicinfluence.com/bulkmailer/
P.S. if you’re feeling particularly frolicsome, write “Hillary ‘08″ on the box.
Those who see Obama, seem to want to see something God like in him , from what I see he is just another ambitious man, with a story to sell , he has handlers who package him well and polish his scripts well, it is not his birth right, no matter how much some might want it to be.
those who see Hillary seem to want to see something like the All Woman, every hope for womanhood - mother, career woman, nurturer, and now denied presidential candidate. You all forget how she stood by her philandering husband as he humiliated working class women that he had affairs with, how she and Bill ditched their long time friend Lanie Guanier under the bus when she was up for a presidential appointment. I saw an ambitious politician (a good one in many ways I admit) who believed she was entitled to be the nominee. She stayed in when it was numerically impossible for her to win and drove many older women into whining, excuse makers for her failed candidacy. No matter how much many of you may want it she will never be president.
Yes we want her to be president, but we don’t want obama to be president more! Come November you’ll feel the pain. Furthermore, she did not lose the primary. Do a bit of research and you might find this to be true. Oh I forgot, you’re high on koolaide.
I would say that there is enough slime here to cover a great number of people! I guess old money and connections are no insulator from corruption! I think some regret jumping on the “O” bus too soon, but they will NEVER admit it! Marie Shriver took the stage in L.A. like she was Tina Turner…she just looked foolish in all that leather!
I agree, all those women took the stage for Obama and Hillary still won California.
Only because Hill had (smartly) banked over a million early votes.
shudder
A message for the supers:
Lets flip flop on Obama and run Clinton.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/07/lets-flip-flop-on-obama-and-ru.php
Keep dreaming. Short of Obama’s untimely death or incapacity, Clinton won’t be the nominee, although I fear Obama may ask her to be the VP (chills) to placate the crazy Hill whiners.
who the hell raised these Obama trolls?? Some dried up old pot smoking hippies it sounds like. They don’t have a lick of sense.
I’m not a big fan of the Kennedy’s so I’m not suprised by Caroline Kennedy. Many people seem to have character until it is tested. I withhold my faith in someone’s character until they have been in a situation where they have actually proven they have it. I don’t care what boards or committees they sat on. If you can sit on a renowned board and give a arrogant, dishonest punk like Obama support, than you don’t have very good judgment.
The Kennedy’s have been involved in many immoral, dishonest and even criminal situations and almost always gotten away with it. Again, no integrity or character. It’s a good letter, go ahead and send it, it can’t hurt.
Nicely written letter. But, expect:
(((((CRICKETS)))))
Fantastic letter. I hope Caroline reads it.
Great post GRL, I almost fell off of my chair, when I had heard that Caroline had endorsed Obama. I can understand why alot of people endorsed him in the beginning, as I have to admit, that I also felt that way for a very, very short time. But, I listened to his “pretty empty” speeches and did tons of research on him, I quickly realized that he is not the right person to ever lead our country. That he will be a danger to our country.
Caroline, If you do happen to read this. Obama will never ever come close to being the “Man” that your father was. And should never be compared to as such.
Good letter but I don’t think it will do any good. Ted Kennedy got pissed off at President Clinton about the South Carolina “supposed racist remark”. Ted was looking for anything to deny Hillary his support. The Kennedys are jealous of the Clintons. I think there is a power play going on in the democratic party between Kennedy/Pelosi/Dean and the Clintons. I don’t have any respect for Ted and Caroline Kennedy anymore. You know they know what we all found out about Obama. They can do computer searches and research just as we did. They probably have better access to information the rest of us wouldn’t be allowed to get. It is a shame, RFK and JFK would not be happy with right now. I don’t want to sacrifice my country so we can elect the first black man. Give us a black man who deserves our vote. Not Obama.
It is a good letter, however I have to agree that Caroline knew exactly what she was doing. Comparing her father to Obama is almost sicking. Obama will never be JFK, not even close! There is more to this endorsment than we know, I am sure. I honsetly cannot see any other reason for all who have endorced him. 10 min. of a google search tells alot!
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Caroline Kennedy is what she is and that is just another Camelot Kennedy dreamer.
I write on other discussion and message boards as “justanothervet”, “63yearoldvet”, “64yearoldvet”, and “imavet2″, - the reason I say this is that my opinion varies as I assume the identitity of each. Mostly I am a conservative republican with some leanings toward democrat issues that do not include give-away governemnt programs and or charity for Darfur (not so simple). In other words I believe in some democrat programs but wonder and worry how and or who will pay for all the charity. I am charitable but damned near broke form giving as are most Americans. Charity begins at home is really hitting home with me these days no matter who I am writing as. I get ripped a lot and some messages of mine get removed (not often) because I rip blacks as N****r$ ( I spell it out) and that is understandable - I should be censored for that kind of flagrant remark about lazy, shiftless, criminal, playful, takers and not contributors to society. Caroline Kennedy needs Obama because there is no other Kennedy male stupid enough to take the plunge (excuse the pun) since Uncle Ted tried but could not dive deep enough or clim high enough to resemble JFK or RFK. Caroline may be posturing herself as a leader or a VP candidate someday - after all she does have more experience than Obama. Wake up and save your reputation Caroline before the Obama train crashes. I believe this country loves you and even some left wing can’t understand your infatuation with Obama as a Kennedy comparable to JFK and RFK.
I wonder how much Caroline is getting paid to endorse Obama. No one in their right mind would do it for nothing.
It has to be enough money where she can’t resist. A few million maybe? He has never gotten anywhere without paying off people or “stripping them bare naked so they can’t win” ~quote~barack obama 2008
He is not very ” chosen”
I hope Caroline reads your letter, too. I felt like I grew up with them (Caroline and John, Jr.). If JFK Jr. had lived, he likely would have run for the Senate seat now occupied by Senator Clinton. Somehow, I wonder if that figures in her feelings. Also, how many of Caroline’s 3 kids are even voting age. Perhaps the eldest, not sure if the other two will be eligible by November. And yet they persuaded her to endorse Obama?
News I heard on the way home on Sean Hannity’s radio show: “Hill Democrats Miffed With Obama”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11750.html
(Note: never used to listen to anyone on Fox, being a True Blue Democrat, but after the Primaries - well, you all know about the other MSM - totally in the tank for Obama). The report features discontent with the Obama Campaign not supporting Congressional members, not even telling him when he was to campaign in their districts (missing the joint appearance and big-$ fund-raising opportunities), and not even telling the Convention Chairs, Pelosi and Reed, that he was moving his acceptance speech to the Denver stadium! In other words, it’s been all about Obama dominating, with a few gestures recently (sounds like only after complaints). And to think Obama was to be the DNC Cash Cow for Congressional Races, or the reason for throwing Hillary, Florida and Michigan, and ~$18 million under the Obama Bus!
Alas, I came home from work to find the only piece of mail in the box from - you guessed it - Barack Obama asking for my $. Thought I already sent back one response with $0.00 donation, or Not One Red Cent annotated. What do you suppose I should try next? Play money?
Anyway, will read the link after I take a break. If it’s true that “Hubris Breeds Nemesis”, Obama should breeding some whopping forms of Nemesis, if people would just pay attention, get past the MSM spin.
What Nemesis can you all conjure up?
Re: donation - every time I get an envelope I go to the http://www.dncmonopoly.com/ website and print out some PUMA dollars, stuff it in the envelope and mail it back to them on their dime.
Makes me smile every time…
How’s that working out for ya?
Um, I print them, I don’t send them on-line since that could so easily be ignored. Plus, I enjoy the fact they have to pay for the mailing.
But, you can keep kidding yourself that we’re not making a difference….
I’ve got a new post going up tomorrow (Wednesday) on the subject of this latest mailing….I was assisted in my analysis by none other than Charlie Chan!! (really!)
http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com
Of course Obama should use his money to support only his campaign. The important thing is to win the Presidency. Obama is the one who gives us hope and change. Not some obsure local Democratic politician. I don’t want to have anything to do with them. They should be sending money to Obama, not the other way around.
Correction - meant to say 18 million voters under the bus, not $. (It’s been a long day…)
Obama spent that much during the primaries every other week it seemed.
Caroline Kennedy has chosen to step into the ring with the king-makers, therefore, lets not sugar coat it for her.
Sure she has been a face of the Kennedy legacy here and there on boards and written books and articles.
But, this is the FIRST TIME CAROLINE KENNEDY HAS STEPPED INTO THE RING, NOT JUST WITH AN ENDORSEMENT, AND NOT JUST WITH A SPEECH, AND NOT JUST WITH AN ARTICLE IN THE NY TIMES……..CAROLINE KENNEDY IS IN THE RING IN A HIGH RANKING ROLE ON THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN AS IN WHO ADVISES ON WHO SHOULD BE VP.
NO……….Stop sugar coating it for Caroline.
She jumped on the bus. Everything she stands for is blown to bits by her very moral standards as reflected in her support of Obama. Especially as her role as King-Maker.
Sorry Caroline, you are motivated by a hidden agenda so strong that you are in this arena as a king-maker when in the past you have basically been a non politician, a recluse in the political realm.
What is Caroline’s hidden agenda?
What could move this woman to get behind Obama?
Don’t sugar coat it people, Camelot is gone and it really was not what the American People thought it was!
One word-MONEY LOTS OF IT! Maybe Soros is picking up the tab. Soros wants to be Pelosi and Reids replacement.
They better read the blogs more or they will remain out of touch and be bamboozled by Obama.
This is important. Cynthia McKinney has accepted the Green Party nomination for the POTUSA.
I believe that we will see all of Barry’s disillusioned supporters flock to her. It’s already all over big Hip Hop sites See by posts on
http://democratsforrealchange.info
Cynthia McKinney and her reparations of 40 acres and a mule. WTF?
Frankly, who cares what opportunistic action Caroline Kennedy performs? Maybe if she had a notable accomplishment of her own - but this trolling of the name of her dead father in itself disgusts me profoundly. Like all other royal/aristocratic airs.
So now it’s “people of melanin” (re: Nation article). And anyone who believes in ghosts or bigfoot is an oaf. The New Yorker doesn’t have any melanin-rich cartoonists, so what can you expect, huh? Katrina, your cartoon-like cartoonists have no sense of humor, so why don’t you fire their useless asses? Anyone who believes BO is a jihadist aint voting for him anyway, and seeing him presentied thus on the New Yorker cover won’t make a bit of dif!
I take Caroline Kennedy at her word, that it was her children who inspired her to get behind Obama. I just really believe she was totally misguided, and it’s an honest mistake - she was caught up in the moment experiencing her children get involved in politics for the very first time. For any parent, that is an incredible experience. I can’t imagine the feelings it evoked for Caroline, knowing her family’s legendary place in history.
I am so disappointed in her endorsement. This letter is heartfelt and if she ever did read it, I wish she would examine one question:
Barack Obama never mentioned JFK in either of his books in making reference to his philosophies and how they were formed, who were his heroes or inspirations. How can Caroline honestly pass the torch to someone who wrote 2 self-aggrandizing books and never once acknowledged JFK’s role as a great Democratic president until Ted and Caroline endorsed him?
KennedyEdwardsGoreKids? They’re all lazy, dumb, and naive. I won’t forgive kids until they support Hillary Clinton.Kids, Teenagers, they go with the hype. Caroline, please try to examine and reconsider. A lot of people are wondering how you could make that decision. I am a teacher but I could see through Obama right at the beginning, and the sight is not pleasant. Since I came from a Third World Country where politics is a big game, I could see attributes of a dirty, corrupt politician in him. There are lots of them back home and they really did more harm than good and they always get a free ride because they employ tactics like he does. Think it over Caroline! Look at the events objectively at both sides. A lot of people who are outraged with how things developed are just plain citizens, hard core Democrats. They are not seeking anything but what is best for the country, the reason why they are Democrats. They have nothing personally at stake if Obama or Hillary is the nominee. But seeing what Obama has been doing they could not close their eyes and vote for him. In short, a lot of people don’t believe in him, because the way he conducted himself, he is a fake. Everything that he said from his opposition to Iraq war up to almost every issue in this election, his stand is questionable. The Iraq war… he has no qualms saying that he opposed it and damn Hillary she did not; but how could he oppose it when he was not yet a US Senator at that time? He said he gave a speech,but what event and what was the impact? Anybody could give a speech on a street corner, well and good but will you make it as a credential for running for president. Now, it is known that he had to stage that speech for his ad. For me this act is insulting. Very unAmerican!… You can research for more.
then you won’t be forgiving kids at all because they are not going to be supporting Hillary in light of the fact that she is no longer in the running.
Caroline Kennedy: Paris Hilton without the legs…
If her name was Caroline Rubinsky she’d be someone your wife’s sister would be trying to, “fix you up,” with for a date.
You know: “She has a wonderful personality, is a great dancer AND she makes her own clothes!”
It is so obvious what happened with Caroline and Ted. Hillary said this:
“Dr King’s dream began to be realised when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done.”
Then Caroline and Ted endorse Obama. They were totally pissed that Hillary didn’t mention the Kennedy’s.
I lost respect for them when they endorsed him. They can endorse whoever they want. It was the fact that they talked like there hasn’t been ANYONE inspiring since JFK. UMMMM…Booby Kennedy…who I think would have made a better president than JFK. That’s why I was so happy when RFJ Jr endorsed Clinton.
The Kennedys endorsed Obama right after South Carolina. It seemed to me that it was out of revenge for Bill being racially insensitive - calling Obama’s stand on the Iraq war a fairy tale. (I still didn’t make the connection yet, but it is probably my own fault.)
I watched that endorsement. I was wondering, why Kennedy would squander away the Kennedy family’s most valuable legacy to an unknown nobody.
I hope God will forgive me, but I still have a burning hope that Kennedy will live long enough to see Obama crumble, taking the Kennedy legacy with him in oblivion that awaits him.
GRL - this is a fantastic letter, and I wonder if you’ve actually sent it to Caroline? I would love to see it sent to her with signatures from as many PUMAs as possible - myself included.
Thank you very much! I didn’t know about PUMA dollars, and will have to try stuffing their envelope with them. Maybe they won’t bother me after that (or else we’re getting ourselves on BO’s Enemies List, and thugs will be sent to our doorway…)
PUMA power!
P.S. - Heard on the news reports of either a lion or large dog on the prowl in Colorado Springs, CO. Perhaps it was really a PUMA on the way to Denver…
Profile in courage award?
John McCain won it not too long ago.
I can just see the McCain campaign running ads showing him getting the award from Caroline and Ted.
LOL!
Some of the Kennedy’s nostalgia projected unto Obama is near pathological. Where is Lloyd Benston to bring some of these folks back to reality.
Now we want speeches at the Brandenburg Gate and Mile High Stadium. JFK was the man of his time. He rose to the challenges of that time and admitted his mistakes. We do not become like JKF by re-enactment of the symbols without substance It reminds me of the Civil War re-enactments; historically acted and totally fake.
If Obama would ever figure out who he is…He would be able to rise to his own occasion and champion his own causes. But he does not know himself and would rather sell out and pretend the myth of others making.
GRL and LARRY JOHNSON:
THANK YOU.
This is a phenomenally insightful corner for readers and writers of things political. And how these stripes tend to be blurred and sorted out so majestically by your posters!
By now, the Obama bus is engulfed in toxic fumes that we may expect any moment his hundreds of ex-friends, colleagues, advisors and relatives to be resuscitted, if they’ve survived BHO’s cruelty. Perhaps Caroline may decide that she no longer is willing to compromise her moral and political health by traveling on a shaky, creaking, precariously unfit bus driven by a man who has no clue as to where he’s heading or as to who he really is. BHO’s identity crises are many and surely he should consider therapy at this time.
Perhaps Caroline should reconsider in view of Bernie Mac’s degrading, reprehensible remarks diminishing women of all colors to “Hos” and Barack admonishing him–only to add that he “was just messing with you, Bernie…you’re a great friend”! Wow!
Caroline, please reconsider and stop excusing this immature anorexic resume (Chancey the Gardener) in his arrogantly presumptous ride to the nomination post. For this ultimately reflects on your values and those of your esteemed father. Surely, you cannot compare this immature, misogynist megalomaniacal impostor to your father’s historical presidency! For this would be SHAMEFUL indeed!
Can you contemplate the consequences of sending Obama to Vienna to meet with Nikita Krushchev…or Ahmadinejead…And Hillary is not anywhere near the White House to answer the 3:00 AM phone call. Just pray, Caroline, and get off that damn toxic ObamaBus before it’s too late!
Support Hillary’s name on that first ballot. JFK would endorse and applaud your action! Thank you!
I dont get the fixation with the Kennedys. Caroline is a nobody.
I always thought that the Kennedy Legacy was more of a media invention than a real happening. Camelot and magic, bluff and bluster. Caroline should stick to teaching the Obama girls how to be camera friendly, more Macaroni Pony anyone? This woman is not politically knowledgable, she’s just someone’s daughter.
caroline for senator in new york..lets see if she has all the credentials…dad was a whore chaser..uncle ted was a murderer, and got away with it, uncle robert continually got jfk’s hand me down women, (mm), robert perhaps had a hand in mm death, of course i can’t see him sticking the drugs of death up mm ass hisself, paid large for that, caroline is snob, absolutely hates to shake hands with the little people, would not get out and politic for senator, she feels entitled, mom was a bitch, and uncle ted negotiated her marriage entitlements from the greekcoon, and as he said she could spend money quicker than his ships could deliver cargo, forcing ari to actually pay interest on the credit card bill, brother had good looks of screen actor, but was actually stupid in picking his soul mates, truth be known jr. probably was in threesome and thought plane on autocontrol, but lest the little people forget, she was born into family of cheaters, liars, murderers, and above all else entitlement..can you imagine someone with the balls to say i want that senate seat, and yet not talk to the press, or shake hands with anyone…hell she will have more security around her than husien (since he never used middle name in election, how do u expect me to be able to spell the middle name…now for all you new yorkers, remember this, she is anti everything that new york stand for..she is a self-centered, overated,narcissist, and brother/sister you is just plain trash to the princess of cameolot…well with that said that should be a ringing endorsement for caroline, princess from hell…by the way, will she hire any blacks,pr,half/breeds, or stick to the program of are u white catholic…and what is she running for, do we know what she stands for other than herself…my gosh folks, i would like to think the govenor of ny is legally blind, but not stupid.