He had some bad deals come down due to bad US involvement that lead to crap starting in Iran. But he was one best Statesmen president we have had.

K/R

We can Bern it up.

won handily on the first ballot? I'm not sure why you think that bolsters your case, but okay.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)[/center][/font][hr]

And Bernie stands an excellent chance of getting the nomination.

Don't ever put Ted Kennedy in the same sentence with Bernie Sanders ever again.

Twice

That's better.

Bernie never has had as much money as Kennedy! That's about it!

as you might think. Kennedy lost and damaged his political standing within the party.

Let's hope nothing like 1980 occurs this time around.

Guess what?

It didn't work, it's not going to work, democracy isn't always pretty.

It was quite ugly.

I'd vote for her. That is if Bernie wasn't running.

Our party needs to appreciate what is happening. There are some lessons here. Almost half the voters who count themselves as Democrats want something other than what we have been giving them for 30 years. Many of the states where Bernie won represent deep blue territory, and are important to the success of the party, particularly down the ballot. The party cannot afford to dismiss voters who are not mainstream registered Democrats. There is a price to be paid by playing with racial politics. I'm sure we will argue about these and many other points for quite a while, but things are not as they were, certainly not what we expected, and we need to figure it out.

You have said it clearly and fantastically well.

legacy.

Poor Ted had a serious coke and booze problem around that time, too.

At least he had an excuse....

But go ahead, throw Teddy under the bus to. If we're going full republican, lets go all out!

Ted Kennedy was rightfully criticized for his behavior, and it -- along with his addiction issues -- ensured he'd reached his terminal rank.


He made the best of it, though, after he came to his senses.

He did a ton of good at his terminal rank, "too."

We were shut out of the Executive Branch for over a decade because of his "shenanigans."

And you seem to forget that Teddy was awfully "Fired UP, and READY TO GO!" in 08; and some of his last utterances were in favor of (gasp) Obamacare.

So if you're loving on Ted, you're loving on Barack, too--funny how that works.


If you hate being a Democrat, no one is holding you hostage, you know.

Keep feeding that lie.

I'm a democrat until we nominate a conservative. Then I'm whatever becomes of the real left in this country.

And again, the reason we lost in 80 was because we went with the worst candidate for the GE.

The greatest--and most delicious-- humor can be found in the truth.

It's not an endorsement, necessarily (though I am quite sure Obama wants Clinton to follow him) --it's just common sense, and everyone, save a very small cadre, sees it.

#FeelTheMath is funny, too--because it's an OBVIOUS joke.

Ronald Reagan.

He should have never ran against a sitting Democratic president.

A quick glance at the results in 1980 would suggest you are...