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« on: January 30, 2008, 09:20:44 pm »







                                                 KENNEDYS FOR CLINTON


                  "She stands for Democrats and for the nation," these family members say.



By
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and
Kerry Kennedy

January 29, 2008


This is a wonderful year for Democrats. Our party is blessed with the most impressive array of
primary candidates in modern history. All would make superb presidents.

By now you may have read or heard that our cousin, Caroline Kennedy, and our uncle, Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy, have come out in favor of Sen. Barack Obama.

We, however, are supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton because we believe that she is the
strongest candidate for our party and our country.
 
While talk of unity and compromise are inspiring to a nation wary of divisiveness, America stands
at a historic crossroads where real issues divide our political landscapes. Democrats believe that America should not be torturing people, eavesdropping on our citizens or imprisoning them without habeas corpus or other constitutional rights.

We should not be an imperial power.

We need healthcare for all and a clean, safe environment.

The loftiest poetry will not solve these issues. We need a president willing to engage in a fistfight
to safeguard and restore our national virtues.

We have worked with Hillary Clinton for 15 years (and in Kathleen's case, 25 years) and witnessed
the power and depth of her convictions firsthand. We've seen her formidable work ethic, courage in
the face of adversity and her dignity and clear head in crisis. We've also seen her two-fisted willing-
ness to enter the brawl when America's principles are challenged.

Her measured rhetoric, political savvy and pragmatism shield the heart of our nation's most determined and most democratic warrior.

She has been an uncompromising and loyal ally for each of us in our battles to protect the environment and to promote human rights around the world and juvenile justice in America. Hillary is a problem-solver, listening to people and then achieving solutions by changing attitudes.

Her transformational leadership was on display when she ran for the Senate seat in New York that had been held by our father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. She faced rabid, heavily funded attacks from the far right and the challenge of prevailing in traditionally Republican upstate New York.

Traveling with her, we watched admiringly as she persuasively articulated an inspiring and unifying vision rooted in American values and history. Then, through patience, hard work, leadership and poli-
tical acumen, she transformed many of those rock-solid conservative counties into solid Democratic strongholds.

We look forward to working beside her in the general election as she uses those same talents to change once rigid opinions and political affiliations across the nation.

Like our father, Hillary has devoted her life to embracing and including those on the bottom rung of society's ladder -- giving voice to the alienated and disenfranchised and working to alleviate poverty and injustice, while urging that we cannot advance ourselves as a nation by leaving our poorer brothers and sisters behind.

She's been an equally effective champion for human rights and for women's rights, a worldwide cause that will profit enormously by her elevation to the presidency. She has worked for peace in Northern Ireland and fought to bridge religious, racial and ethnic divides from Bosnia to the Middle East to South Africa. She has shown a rare understanding that American values can only be exported by moral leadership, by a strong home economy and by a detailed understanding of the history and cultural backdrops of the nations we engage.

She understands, as our current administration does not, the uses of power. The world, she says, is hungry for U.S. leadership but will not accept our bullying. She knows the difference and will reestablish America's lost prestige and moral authority.

Hillary Clinton's political career has been centered in comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable and reminding Americans what it means to be American. As a young lawyer, she focused on children's issues and legal aid. As first lady of Arkansas, she brought healthcare to rural areas and helped reform the state's lagging education system.

As first lady, she courageously took on healthcare reform. When a massive propaganda campaign by Big Pharma and the radical right derailed her efforts, she didn't give up. She helped create the nationally acclaimed Children's Health Insurance Program. That kind of persistence in pursuit of our highest ideals is the brand of leadership America now requires. Inspirational leadership comes in many forms.

Seldom has history confronted America with such daunting challenges: a catastrophic foreign policy that has cost us our international leadership and aggravated the threat of terror; a misbegotten war that is squandering precious American lives and treasure; a healthcare system that leaves millions of Americans without coverage; irresponsible corporate power that is corroding our democracy and outsourcing our jobs, aggravating global warming and other environmental crises and reducing our economy to shambles.

We need a leader who is battle-tested, resilient and sure-footed on the shifting landscapes of domestic and foreign policy. Hillary Clinton will move our country forward while promoting its noblest ideals.




Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
is an environmental advocate and Kerry Kennedy is a human rights activist.


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« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2008, 09:36:31 pm »







The Smirkingchimp.com
January 29, 2008




                                                      Kennedy family split



This is actually a bigger story than you might think,and bigger than any MSM will report.

Rfk jr. is on what I would call the cutting edge of democratic Ideals.

It looks like the old guard of the Kennedy gang found an establishment promise that they like.

Like I said before...the best thing that could ever happen to Hillary is to be NOT endorsed by
Ted Kennedy,Michael Moore..etc.


I am really interested in WHERE JIMMY CARTER will go,if he gives it up...He is the Grandfather of
the Demo party...what he says WILL REALLY MATTER....


This endorsement means a lot more.

The RFK branch is the Left/Progressive branch, who are out there laboring in the vineyards.

RFK brought the Civil Rights Movement to JFK.

JFK was not on their side to begin with.

People forget that JFK was a true Cold Warrior.

The argument between him and Nixon was the made-up Missile Gap that the Eisenhower/Nixon
administration had permitted to grow, and should we protect with our Navy, Qumoi and Matsu
off the coast of China, claimed by Taiwan.

It was Johnson that made the New Deal-style legislation happen, Kennedy's and his.

Kennedy had a hard time getting his stuff through Congress, but after his death, Johnson was
able to get it through, plus all the Civil Rights and War on Poverty legislation.

Ted Kennedy has many years left, but he is old. Caroline is totally non-political and only knows
her father through her mother's eyes, home movies and books she reads.

I hope Carter stays out of this. He is fading a little and it would be better if he waited until there
is a nominee, and then just a speech or two would be nice.

John Kennedy was a man of vision, but it took a man like Lyndon Johnson to make it happen. Robert Kennedy, I think, could have done both.




As always M M, Your insight and grasp of history is a nice refuge from the bullarky that goes around-even on this board.

There is an old guard establishment in both parties, J McCain is the G.o.p. old guard.  If anyone,
 Ted Kennedy is the Demo old guard....he must have gotten some assurances from the Obama
people that it would be "business as usual".

As I have said before,I think this can only help Hillary.

Anyway it should be interesting.  It is shaping up to be the most energized,and unpredictable
election in our lifetimes.

Thanks again for the great historical context that you bring to the table...


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