Ted Kennedy’s
endorsement of
Barack Obama will be no bridge over the looming
troubled waters of the not-yet-a-one-term-senator in his bid to secure the
Democratic Party’s nomination for the presidency as a colorless candidate.
Troubled Ted Kennedy, brother of slain president John Kennedy and
assassinated Bobby, who never quite measured up to the grandeur of his two
brothers, after years of personal and professional struggle found a home
for himself in the Senate where he is the second-longest serving current
Senator, trailing only Robert Byrd.
Kennedy is also
the leader of the Democratic Party’s liberal wing-Nut who with his Obama
endorsement might be seeking to wrench back control of the party from the
moderates who have been controlling the Democratic agenda since – well,
Bill Clinton came into office.
Kennedy tried to
Yank-ee back control from the center when he endorsed Al Gore in 2000 and
John Kerry in 2004. Of course, both Gore and Kerry got their nominations
but neither made it to the Oval Office, which doesn’t leave Obama with a
lot of hope if he’s thinking that Senator Kennedy’s endorsement is some
kind of magic-Johnson - who happens to be supporting
Hillary Clinton.
Senator John
Kerry-YOU BACK TO OLD MASSACHUSETTS WHERE YOU BELONG - no big surprise
- has
also endorsed Obama as have a number of Senators from the far-out left
wing of the party including
über
liberal Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Me thinks me smells a
New
England liberal plot, perhaps one long in the making to push those
moderate "sell-outs" out of power?
If you haven’t
heard of Deval Patrick, he is the first black to become the
Governor of
Massachusetts in its 218 year history. Deval had a little more experience
before he ran for Governor than Obama has running for President of the
United States. Deval served as assistant attorney general under, well,
Bill Clinton.
I mention Deval Patrick only partly because he’s black and won the
governorship touting hope and change, but also because he’s a liberal.
More importantly, when he gave his acceptance speech after winning the
governorship, smiling hopefully and standing to his left was Senator John
Kerry while to Patrick’s right (or left of left as Mr. Kennedy is) stood
Senator Kennedy.
Now maybe I’m just
looking for a Kennedy conspiracy theory, after all, both Senators
represent Massachusetts so why wouldn’t they stand next to the new
democratic governor-elect?
But the tableaux
could easily presage the one to possibly come with Barack Obama standing
in the center of the two icons of the liberal wing of the DemoCRACKED
party, which it will be should the liberals have their way. Forget the
battles with the Republicans. The infighting among the
Democrats would be
most unpleasant.
But back to Deval
and how this all connects: it turns out that the man who got Patrick to
the Massachusetts State House yet failed to help John Edwards in his 2004
bid for the presidency but is working furiously to get Barack Obama
elected President of the United States is a political operative named
David Axelrod who hails-to-the-chief from Chicago, Illinois.
Axelrod is the
senior partner of AKP Message & Media, and was once a political writer for
the Chicago Tribune. Widely regarded as the top political
consultant in
Chicago,
he is a longtime strategist to Mayor Richard M. Daley and considers
himself a "specialist in urban politics."
Not exactly
squeaky-clean (accusations of voter fraud abound), the man is effective
and maybe will be considered a genius should he pull off rebuilding the
liberal coalition of the Democratic Party.
And you
have to wonder if
as a result of all these interesting connections a deal hasn't been
made with John Edwards so that he stays in the race and splits Hillary’s
vote with the promise that when Obama is elected Edwards would get the job
of Attorney General, to become the most liberal attorney general since,
well, Bobby Kennedy?
Oh, those troubled political waters Ted Kennedy has risen from before.
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