“It’s like when Tony Bennett suddenly became hip again after the kids discovered him,” observed Bill Carrick, a Democratic strategist and former Kennedy aide who attended the rally. “It’s the same thing with Kennedy. He’s MTV now. And instead of jazz clubs, he’s doing the Hollywood Bowl.”
Kennedy Revels in Limelight as He Stumps for Obama
By MARK LEIBOVICH
SANTA FE, N.M. — “Are you glad to see me, Santa Fe?” Edward M. Kennedy roared.
“Yes!” Santa Fe roared back. There were whoops and “Viva Kennedy” chants from the overflow crowd at a community college. A man in the back held an “Obama 2008, Kennedy 2016” sign. “Estoy muy contento estar aquí en Santa Fe con usted,” Mr. Kennedy said in perfectly accented Spanish — that is, perfectly Boston-accented Spanish. (“I am very happy to be here in Santa Fe with you, ” he was trying to say, somewhat imperfectly.)
But Mr. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat, is ever game for trying, and the crowd ate it up. The white-haired liberal legend with a bad back, halting speech and worn brown shoes has been called a “lion in winter” so many times that he has the political cliché version of frostbite.
Yet Mr. Kennedy, 75, is hot, hot, hot on the trail, stumping for Senator Barack Obama, who was 15 months old when Mr. Kennedy began his Senate career in 1962. He is drawing raucous crowds, invoking the family legacy, working the lunch crowd at the Flying Tortilla in Santa Fe and getting the kitchen staff together for a photo.
Arriving at a rally in East Los Angeles on Friday, Mr. Kennedy was swarmed by a couple of dozen reporters and the like, a big, fuzzy boom mike hovering over his head, autograph hounds and cellphone-camera paparazzi at the perimeter.
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Tony Bennett found a new
Tony Bennett found a new audience but he did not change the songs he sung or the manner and style in which he sang. Ted Kennedy, too, still supports and pushes for the same causes and programs that he has always promoted. Contrast their behavior with Billary. Senator Clinton still won't admit that she was wrong to support the American War in Iraq.
OT, but related. Bill's going on a Black Church Tour
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/2/11949/49964?detail=f
Means to me:
1. They're losing the White vote in CA
2. Obama's beginning to eat away at their Latino ' Firewall'
So suddenly, those Black votes that 'didn't matter' because they had a Latino 'Firewall' begin to count again.
I remember Billary, while he
I remember Billary, while he was still POTUS, appearing at a black church in Memphis and talking to the assembled congregation about how Dr. King would feel if he were to return here and see, among other things, the degree of gun violence and drug use that was taking place in America's black communities. I felt then and now a keen sense of outrage at the sheer, unbridled audacity of this white man lecturing members of a black Baptist church about their moral and ethical duties and responsibilities.
African Americans, as a group, are the most moral and ethically inclined people in this country. We always have been and there is no reason to think that it will ever be otherwise. We believe more fervently in the Constitution, laws and possibilities of this country than any other group of people in America. The prospect of these so-called ministers allowing Billary to come into their churches and preach, once again, to black people about anything is disgusting to me. They should be ashamed of themselves.
To quote Ourstorian: Must be some greens in the pot!
My take on Bill's Church Tour- hope this one works
My take on Bill's Church Tour. Please note how he humiliated Watson some more, on top of her already being a HHH. http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/02/bills-mea-culpa-church-tour.html