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Posted at 4:20pm on Jan. 30, 2008 Obamelot This Will Be Not

Building Democrat Dynasties One Charade At A Time

By haystack

As perhaps one of the most cynical people around, I couldn't help but wonder what business Caroline Kennedy had endorsing Barack Obama and then, reading through the Teddy Wail as he gushed all over this "new Kid on the block," I finally understood. The Kennedys need the Clintons gone so they can retake the Democrat party and make it their own once again.

Of course, had Teddy-boy possessed even a thumbnail's worth of the abilities his brothers enjoyed, he might have been elected and served a second term as President. THAT might have been enough to keep the Clintons from ever having REACHED the top of the Democrat heap in the first place. Instead, Teddy's miserable failure(s) wound up playing a primary role in the decline of the family name [in politics, of course]...the crimes alleged and never proven for most of the clan will NOT be mentioned by me..what's that? I just did? Ooopsies-quite sorry...

Picking Obama to ostensibly re-live the glory days of the Families Kennedy is really a very bad idea, for what it's worth. You see, Joseph was able to build the dynasty on the back of err, umm, questionable activities later to be made illegal. Clinton, likewise (I did NOT mention Whitewater!). Obama is just too squeaky ckean to rise atop this pile (well, ok-so he played with a few "technically illegal" hobbies as a youth...but who HASN'T?).

Bedding down with Barack and the Oprah will likely NOT turn out very well for Teddy-boy...and frankly I think it only cheapens what little there is left of a fine heritage of political giants in their time and place in American history...but who am I to get in the way of Teddy making a fool of himself...AGAIN?

I can't help wondering what JFK, RFK, and even Joseph P. might have to say were they alive to see this mess Ted's making of the family brand.

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Posted at 11:35am on Dec. 15, 2007 On that Former Arkansas Governor, What's-His-Name

By Vladimir

For the most part, I've been on the sidelines so far in this Presidential circus. With the exception of TDSWSNBN, I have declared my intention to ultimately vote for whichever Republican emerges from the convention as the Party's standard bearer. To me, the endless string of bot-induced anti-Candidate X diaries is mind-numbingly boring and counterproductive to the Republican cause.

That being said, the potential nomination of Mike Huckabee as Republican candidate for President next November troubles me. The reason has nothing to do with policy. He has a major handicap as a candidate that will benefit whoever gains the Democratic nomination.

Huckabee was a two-term governor of the great state of Arkansas. Somewhere along the way, he is bound to have stepped on some toes.

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Posted at 2:33am on Oct. 23, 2007 Where There's Smoke . . . (Part Deux)

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

I don't know if there is fire here. Maybe there is an innocent explanation behind the fact that the Clinton Library is not more forthcoming with its materials. I like thinking the best of people and I would love to be informed that such an innocent explanation actually exists.

But just in case there is no such explanation, will all of those who denounce "penchants for secrecy" bother to focus a lot of public attention on the degree to which the Clinton Library appears to be frustrating those who want to conduct scholarship regarding the history of the Clinton Administration? That's what a Presidential library is there for, after all--enabling research into the history of the particular Presidency in question. Libraries are not monuments to the glory of the Presidents for which they are named. If they are not serving any particular educational purpose--and thus far, the Clinton Library is certainly not serving that purpose--then what good are they?

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Posted at 2:32am on Oct. 23, 2007 Where There's Smoke . . .

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

How is it possible that this isn't receiving more attention?

DONORS WHOSE addresses turn out to be tenements. Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or, as one said, "They informed us to go, so I went." Others who say they never made the contributions listed in their names or who were not eligible to give because they are not legal residents of the United States. This is the disturbingly familiar picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign presented last week in a report by the Los Angeles Times about questionable fundraising by the New York senator in New York City's Chinese community. Out of 150 donors examined, one-third "could not be found using property, telephone or business records," the Times reported. "Most have not registered to vote, according to public records."

This appears to be another instance in which a Clinton campaign's zeal for campaign cash overwhelms its judgment. After the fundraising scandals of President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign, the dangers of vacuuming cash from a politically inexperienced immigrant community should have been obvious. But Ms. Clinton's money machine seized on a new source of cash in Chinatown and environs. As the Times reported, a single Chinatown fundraiser in April brought in $380,000. By contrast, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry raised $24,000 from Chinatown in the course of his entire campaign.

Investigations, anyone?

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Posted at 2:27am on Oct. 23, 2007 Now Now . . .

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Does Charlie Rangel really want to open the door to various . . . er . . . conversations about the personal lives of certain Presidential candidates? And for that matter, does Tom Vilsack?

You would think that this kind of issue would be the last one that allies of the Clintons would dare touch. A little electoral arrogance that needs a comeuppance, perhaps?

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