Comments on: The New Ted Kennedy http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 04:32:58 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: bigfoot http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966781 bigfoot Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:38:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966781 <p>John McCain the new Ted Kennedy? No way. At his age I doubt he could get a young woman into the back seat of his car.</p> John McCain the new Ted Kennedy? No way. At his age I doubt he could get a young woman into the back seat of his car.

]]> By: AngelsAwake http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966585 AngelsAwake Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:08:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966585 <p>What? McCain was a terrible candidate and a worse person. How in the hell did they ever think he was president material?</p> What? McCain was a terrible candidate and a worse person. How in the hell did they ever think he was president material?

]]> By: doctordawg http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966569 doctordawg Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:50:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966569 <p>Jesus H. on a popsicle stick… McInsane is the ANTI-Teddy. The beard has grown into his brain and strangled it.</p> Jesus H. on a popsicle stick… McInsane is the ANTI-Teddy. The beard has grown into his brain and strangled it.

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966506 libbyliberal Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:07:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966506 <p>Wow, you sure are projecting a lot of wholesome gamesmanship on him. I feel like he is beholding to others who are darkly empathyless and power obsessed but are alas the money brokers, and they are pulling HIS strings. Why would they let a real leader in, these rapacious fat cats who control elections and governments and wars. More and more Obama seems like a crazymaking, endearing FRONTman which is heartbreaking to me.</p> <p>I hope YOU are right. I wish he had the heart of a reformer. Communication skills, playing the cards close to your chest and a nice smile…. not the same. </p> <p>Citizens got crumbs from Bush. Now we are begging for croutons from Obama?</p> <p>Bonkers, he invited EVERYONE to the table EXCEPT the single payer guys. You think that was strategy to help single payer? He wants the approval of the insurance and drug industry. To keep them happy and is hoping he can do that and cover himself with his naive constituents who will forgive him because of the mean old Repubs. My take.</p> Wow, you sure are projecting a lot of wholesome gamesmanship on him. I feel like he is beholding to others who are darkly empathyless and power obsessed but are alas the money brokers, and they are pulling HIS strings. Why would they let a real leader in, these rapacious fat cats who control elections and governments and wars. More and more Obama seems like a crazymaking, endearing FRONTman which is heartbreaking to me.

I hope YOU are right. I wish he had the heart of a reformer. Communication skills, playing the cards close to your chest and a nice smile…. not the same.

Citizens got crumbs from Bush. Now we are begging for croutons from Obama?

Bonkers, he invited EVERYONE to the table EXCEPT the single payer guys. You think that was strategy to help single payer? He wants the approval of the insurance and drug industry. To keep them happy and is hoping he can do that and cover himself with his naive constituents who will forgive him because of the mean old Repubs. My take.

]]> By: shell http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966472 shell Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:37:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966472 <p>Wolf is so CLUELESS! I haven’t made up my mind what CNN is doing (I don’t think they know either). They are either trying to out-right-wing Fox, which is impossible, or compete against them for what they think is the sane Republican. Also, a laugh. In 2009, there are 0 sane Republicans. None.</p> <p>I tell you this, though — many things media people have said are embarrassing — and I could NOT say it on air without cracking up. But Wolf did it. Does he realize how stupid that makes him sound — either that he really believes it — or that he thinks he is playing a shrewd game?</p> <p>Either way — EMBARRASSING. How long have the blogs been out, so to speak? At least since the 2004 election. And they STILL don’t GET it? Lieberman’s defeat, and the takeover of the House and Senate, and the presidency. And they STILL can say, with a straight face, that 2010 will be a GOP takeover, definitely of the House? Really?</p> Wolf is so CLUELESS! I haven’t made up my mind what CNN is doing (I don’t think they know either). They are either trying to out-right-wing Fox, which is impossible, or compete against them for what they think is the sane Republican. Also, a laugh. In 2009, there are 0 sane Republicans. None.

I tell you this, though — many things media people have said are embarrassing — and I could NOT say it on air without cracking up. But Wolf did it. Does he realize how stupid that makes him sound — either that he really believes it — or that he thinks he is playing a shrewd game?

Either way — EMBARRASSING. How long have the blogs been out, so to speak? At least since the 2004 election. And they STILL don’t GET it? Lieberman’s defeat, and the takeover of the House and Senate, and the presidency. And they STILL can say, with a straight face, that 2010 will be a GOP takeover, definitely of the House? Really?

]]> By: bonkers http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966428 bonkers Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:09:20 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966428 <p>Oh, and just remembered this I saw recently. Liked a lot of it:<br /><a href="http://wwww.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/8/23/771424/-Obama-Executes-The-Take-Away" rel="nofollow">http://wwww.dailykos.com/story.....-Take-Away</a></p> <p>Ooooo…and just saw this one from the same guy. Nice:<br /><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/8/28/773566/-Providing-Cover-for-Blue-Dogs" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....-Blue-Dogs</a></p> <p>And then there’s this:<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8C_JH2eQc" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8C_JH2eQc</a></p> <p>Don’t think we should underestimate a guy who comes from nowhere, takes down the DLC Dem Establishment, Repubs and BigMedia all at the same to become America’s first melanin-enhanced President. He might know some things.</p> Oh, and just remembered this I saw recently. Liked a lot of it:
http://wwww.dailykos.com/story…..-Take-Away

Ooooo…and just saw this one from the same guy. Nice:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…..-Blue-Dogs

And then there’s this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8C_JH2eQc

Don’t think we should underestimate a guy who comes from nowhere, takes down the DLC Dem Establishment, Repubs and BigMedia all at the same to become America’s first melanin-enhanced President. He might know some things.

]]> By: Hugh http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966419 Hugh Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:59:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966419 <p>I came late to this thread. Stephanopoulos, Blitzer, etc. What we are seeing is not commentary but them beating off on television like they always do. They are intellectual voids.</p> I came late to this thread. Stephanopoulos, Blitzer, etc. What we are seeing is not commentary but them beating off on television like they always do. They are intellectual voids.

]]> By: libbyliberal http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966407 libbyliberal Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:48:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966407 <p>:)</p> :)

]]> By: bonkers http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966404 bonkers Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:45:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966404 <p>Don’t have time to really dive in, but basically the fascists have had over 200 years to subvert the Constitution and create the cesspool that we call DeeCee.</p> <p>It will take a long, long time to undue just some of the damage.</p> <p>As I pointed out earlier, there’s been great progress, and some great success, on so many issues in just 7 months that I’m honestly amazed at how much Obama’s been able to get done so far. It seems completely unreasonable to me to think one person can come in and snap fingers and tackle every issue in a few months, and let’s be real, this “Obama suckz!1!!” attitude has dominated around here and other places since before he was even President.</p> <p>The main part of my optimism has to do with the re-newed emphasis on community organizing and a more engaged electorate. This must keep going. Obama deserves much credit for this, and this also highlights what’s so comical to me when people deride the “32-dimensional chess playing while upside down under water blindfolded in a straightjacket” strategies, when really so much of what he’s doing is community organizing 101. People go to school for this sort of thing, like MLK, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks, and Ralph Abernathy did in 1957:<br /><a href="http://www.highlandercenter.org/images/h-library.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.highlandercenter.or.....ibrary.jpg</a></p> <p>Something tells me the people in that photo understand what it takes, and how long it can take, to change a corrupted system rigged by fascists, literally. Things have improved immensely these last few months, and this would be the absolute worst time for Liberals to get discouraged and disengaged.</p> <p>History is as much about the future as it is about the past. Onward and upward, brutha!</p> Don’t have time to really dive in, but basically the fascists have had over 200 years to subvert the Constitution and create the cesspool that we call DeeCee.

It will take a long, long time to undue just some of the damage.

As I pointed out earlier, there’s been great progress, and some great success, on so many issues in just 7 months that I’m honestly amazed at how much Obama’s been able to get done so far. It seems completely unreasonable to me to think one person can come in and snap fingers and tackle every issue in a few months, and let’s be real, this “Obama suckz!1!!” attitude has dominated around here and other places since before he was even President.

The main part of my optimism has to do with the re-newed emphasis on community organizing and a more engaged electorate. This must keep going. Obama deserves much credit for this, and this also highlights what’s so comical to me when people deride the “32-dimensional chess playing while upside down under water blindfolded in a straightjacket” strategies, when really so much of what he’s doing is community organizing 101. People go to school for this sort of thing, like MLK, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks, and Ralph Abernathy did in 1957:
http://www.highlandercenter.or…..ibrary.jpg

Something tells me the people in that photo understand what it takes, and how long it can take, to change a corrupted system rigged by fascists, literally. Things have improved immensely these last few months, and this would be the absolute worst time for Liberals to get discouraged and disengaged.

History is as much about the future as it is about the past. Onward and upward, brutha!

]]> By: PJEvans http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966400 PJEvans Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:43:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/08/28/the-new-ted-kennedy/#comment-1966400 <p>My theory is that they’re the mirror-universe versions of the real thing, sneaking in through a wormhole somewhere around DC. (I wish it <em>was</em> snark.)</p> My theory is that they’re the mirror-universe versions of the real thing, sneaking in through a wormhole somewhere around DC. (I wish it was snark.)

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