There are a few strains of post-debate coverage today. Some (including the Philadelphia Inquirer) see the debate as semi-disastrous for Barack Obama and the spin from the Obama camp as self-contradictory. Others, including online reporters and high-octane MSM outlets like the New York Times and Chicago Tribune, have picked up on the Bill Ayers and handgun answers.
Then there is the meldown in the Left blogosphere, apparently mortified that Obama had to answer these questions. But some concede that The Great Orator simply did not do his job. So it is to be expected that the Clinton camp is doing a victory dance. They are having a field day reinforcing favorite themes (Obama has a glass jaw, is untested, and can’t take scrutiny).
But, alas, the latter only serves to emphasize the former: the louder Obama’s fans whine, the more obvious it is that their candidate bombed and that tough questions are Obama’s kryptonite. It would be best for the Obama supporters to say it doesn’t matter, they’re all only words, words, words. Oh, wait: maybe not. . .
“That doesn’t quite ring true, especially to anyone who can read a calendar. Senator Kennedy’s health has been front-page news for almost a year now.”
His health couldn’t have deteriorated lately???
Caroline went from a nobody to a has-been without ever being somebody.
#2 She was a Kennedy
J.G., don’t be so harsh– we all know that “personal reasons” is an artful dodge made to save face. In this case, let Caroline Kennedy save face.
That’s a VERY small price to politely pay in return for keeping her far, far away from the U.S. Senate.
Look on the bright side: The job is likely to go do Andrew Cuomo, who is an experienced political infighter, a great fundraiser, endorsed in the most conservative upstate areas of New York, and every bit as liberal as Caroline.
Maybe you should have thought this through? Nah, why start now.
Cuomo is atrocious, to be sure. Still, dynastic connection and all he is at least an individual of some, albeit quite minimal, personal accomplishment. The trouble for so many young Kennedy’s, and chivalry aside the term can be applied to Caroline only very very loosely is that they so extravagantly betry the perversity of the admissions “porcess” that allows them to collect their elite degrees. One hardly knows a graduate of Columbia Law who wouldn’t be emberassed to say that many “you knows” in a month, much less a half an hour.
Does this at least mean we can stop talking about her?
Ask an impartial outsider, the Governor of Illinois, to fill these vacant seats.
I’m pretty sure she’ll go back to being Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg now, too.
One of the quickest divorces and remarriages in media history outside of Hollywood.
so…. what y’all think of Representative Kirsten Gillibrand’s two year voting record?
She is better off out of the spotlight. Even with all of their personal flaws, JFK and RFK tried to out the secret societies controlling our world, along with the crooks in the CIA. JFK jr was murdered for wanting to get the guys that assassinated his father. I don’t have any good things to say about Ted, but only God is the judge.