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Caroline Kennedy sees Obama carrying on JFK legacy

January 27, 2008

BY MONIFA THOMAS Staff Reporter/mjthomas@suntimes.com

Former first daughter Caroline Kennedy has thrown her support behind Sen. Barack Obama, calling him the presidential candidate most capable of carrying on the legacy of her late father, John F. Kennedy.

Caroline Kennedy's endorsement is a key one for Obama, whose camp has sought to portray him as a worthy heir to the former president's "Camelot" image.

Yet it remains to be seen whether Kennedy's uncle and Democratic party heavyweight Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) will also come out in favor of Obama ahead of the Feb. 5 primaries.

In a column today in the New York Times, titled ''A president like my father,'' Caroline Kennedy said she is backing Obama because he offers the same uplifting message of hope and change that her father did when he ran for president in 1960.

"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president -- not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans," Kennedy wrote in the editorial.

She also credited Obama with making "the right call on the most important issue of our time by opposing the war in Iraq from the beginning."

Obama, who scored a big win Saturday in South Carolina, issued a statement calling it "a special privilege to have [Kennedy's] endorsement because I've always believed that Caroline's father was one of our greatest presidents."

It isn't the first time the daughter of an iconic politician has helped boost Obama in an important race.

In an interesting parallel, Sheila Simon, daughter of the late Sen. Paul Simon, vouched for Obama on her father's behalf in a powerful TV ad that some strategists say helped Obama win his U.S. Senate seat.
 
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Campaign tries to shift ex-president's disposition after Obama's latest win


ET, Mon., Jan. 28, 2008

Democrats inside and outside the Clinton campaign on Sunday debated and in some cases bemoaned the degree to which former President Bill Clinton ?s criticism of Senator Barack Obama last week had inflicted lasting damage on his wife?s presidential candidacy.

?I think his harsh style hurt Senator Clinton ? it polarized the campaign and polarized the electorate, and it also made it harder for Senator Clinton?s positive message to break through,? said Celinda Lake, a Democratic strategist and pollster who is not affiliated with any of the candidates.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton ?s campaign team, seeking to readjust after her lopsided defeat in South Carolina and amid a sense among many Democrats that Mr. Clinton had injected himself clumsily into the race, will try to shift the former president back into the sunnier, supportive-spouse role that he played before Mrs. Clinton?s loss in the Iowa caucuses, Clinton advisers said.

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:142smilie :142smilie

in other words stfu Bill !
 
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but honey, I thought you said you liked the dirty side of politics
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Congress Probing Clinton Excesses
NewsMax.com
Friday, Feb. 2, 2001

Congressional investigators are looking into two garish aspects of Bill Clinton's legacy ? trashing of the White House and high rent for his Manhattan skyscraper office.
The Washington Times is reporting that, despite efforts of President Bush's administration to downplay the former president's parting excesses, the probes are developing on two fronts:

Damage of White House facilities perpetrated by Clinton staffers even as Bush was being sworn in Jan. 20
The General Accounting Office, the investigative agency of Congress, had said it would look into the White House trashing if a member of Congress requested it.

Rep. Bob Barr, R-Ga, did so immediately.

Barr filed a formal request with the GAO to begin an "immediate investigation" into the cost of the destruction, which included cut telephone lines, overturned desks, trashed offices, graffiti-sprayed walls, mutilated computer keyboards, glued-shut cabinets and closets and removal of labels on thousands of phones, rendering them inoperable.

"While some damage can be expected during the course of the transition and moving process, I am concerned this damage may have been deliberately caused by employees of the outgoing Clinton administration," Barr said in a letter to Comptroller General David Walker.

Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., who chairs a subcommittee overseeing the White House budget, said he "won't take any special action" on the vandalism, but will review the expenses "as part of the normal appropriations process."

That means the exact cost ? which has been estimated at almost a quarter of a million dollars ? would come to light when the subcommittee considers the White House's next budget request.

It was not known whether the GAO will investigate reports that the presidential Boeing 747, known as Air Force One, had been looted by Clinton's party while he was flown, as the ex-president, to New York after Bush's inauguration.

As with the case of the White House damages, the new administration has been trying not to fan the public furor over the Air Force One incident.

Bush's spokesman, Ari Fleischer, said: "As far as we're concerned, it's over."


What many believe is excessively high rent for Clinton's post-presidential new office space in New York City
Federal law provides that ex-presidents may have the costs of an office paid for by taxpayers.

For example, Gerald Ford's cost $99,000, Jimmy Carter's $93,000, Ronald Reagan's $285,000 and George Bush's $147,000.

Clinton requested $57,000 to cover his new office space for the first three months, and the GSA paid it. It would have come to $228,000 for the year.

But, as Istook told ABC News, "Now they're saying, 'Oh, we're actually wanting three times that amount, but we're not even going to bother to come back to you to ask for it.' "

In fact, the actual one-year lease Clinton is now demanding for his new offices ? the entire 56th floor of the Carnegie Hall Tower in midtown Manhattan, a space larger than the Yankee Stadium infield ? will come to $650,000.

"Where is this going to end?" Istook asked.

So the Oklahoma Republican, whose subcommittee sits on the White House budget, is asking the GAO not to honor Clinton's request and to conduct an investigation.

But a Clinton spokesman, who referred to it all as more "Clinton bashing," insisted that even with the rental of the 8,300-square-foot office space, the cost of Clinton's transition still will come in under its $1.8 million budget.

Since the continuing cost to taxpayers to rent the Manhattan office space would be an annual expenditure, it was unclear who would foot the bill after this initial year.

Sean Rushton, spokesman for Citizens Against Government Waste, found nothing unusual about extravagant Clinton expenses.

"The Clintons have always played with taxpayer money with a sense of entitlement," he said. "They have shown an expertise at finding the loopholes and exploiting them to their advantage."

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How can Americans forget all this chit happened.

Who wants to allow this to happen again.

Geez Louise..... are we just stupid
 
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Me and Toldeo Prophet are keeping low key when we bash the Clintons.

Have you seen any helicoptors following you this
morning ?
 
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Atleast he'll know where all the bars are in Mass!
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"... and then, er, ah, the bridge collapsed underneath the cah, and it took me 9 hours to, eh, re-build the bridge so i could cross the water and, er, ah report the incident to the proper, eh, authorities.".......:drinky:
 
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Just saw ole Ted give his endorsement speech and must say--thats the most enthusiam I've seen out of him since they extended happy hour from 6 to 7 o'clock.:mj07:
 
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NOW Just came out with scathing rant on Kennedy endorsing Obama
http://blogs.timesunion.com/capitol/?p=6285

NOW >National Org of Women
but don't let the name fool you--they are liberal left wing org-with politics not women as agenda

Case in point--

They championed -who else--Slick as their poster boy

and dissed-who else GW who was responsible for freeing millions of women in middle east--and has appointed more women to head positions than any pres in history.
 
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