OOPS! Maybe We Went Too Far: Caroline and Ted Kennnedy Endorse Obama
The backlash against the Clintons’ naked self-aggrandizement and lust for power by invoking racist sentiments and code words against the liberals’ favorite candidate continues. Following his niece Caroline, Ted Kennedy is set to endorse Obama today. It has been reported that Ted was not pleased with the racial overtones and tenor of the Clinton’s recent strategy in South Carolina.
For Kennnedy, Clinton committed the unforgivable sin of disparaging a black candidate — and an extremely viable one at that. For a party which increasingly views it’s chief virtue as “sensitivity”, Clinton’s callous treatment of Obama by invoking subtle racism is an effrontery to the party’s hard-core multi-cultural liberal establishment. How ludicrously dated do these views of Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman appear now after South Carolina.
The endorsement has set up a rift within the Kennedy clan. Ted feels that Obama is the candidate who will eliminate purported “racism”. His other niece Kathleen Townsend Kennedy is playing the gender card: her endorsement of Hillary is ostensibly a vote to end “sexism”.
My criticism of the Clintons’ does not suggest that Obama is a wart-free candidate. In many ways, Obama is a severely flawed candidate: he is an unabashedly far-left liberal who is all rhetorical fluff and no substance. As a conservative, it is a real treat observing this fractious internecine warfare from the sidelines.
Since Kennedy represents the ultra left wing of the party, it is hard to predict how much the endorsement will ultimately matter. However, for Clinton apologists, there should be no illusion: Kennedy throwing his hat in the ring for Obama is a gigantic slap in the face to Hillary.
Beacon Street Journal
Monday, January 28, 2008
By Johnny K
