Caroline Kennedy does Very Powerful Ad for Obama

daughter goes all out in the Kennedy-Obama comparison here, with an ad that begins with a series of Kennedy images, fading into a series of images of Obama.

The campaign says the ad will air in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Boston, and on cable.


The Ad is at the link

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Obama_Caroline.html

great ad!

if you didnt act like a sour puss every time something positive happens with the obama campaign. Its like your whole attitude symbolizes whats wrong with hillarys campaign.

Last night, he said he is uncomfortable comparing himself to JFK.

However, it appears that JFK's children, nephews and brothers have no problem
comparing Obama to JFK, and Obama has no problem with their assessment of himself.

:wow:

but making an ad and appearing with him.

to advance an argument?

:shrug:

its an unfair election advantage :evilgrin: :pals:

absent from our Clinton friends, to not to try and advance and argument when they aren't

:eyes:

Personally i think she is one of the very few who are in a position to actually make such a judgment/comparison, i also think she is being sincere in her words

After he got called on it, he made the claim that he never claimed to be jfk.

Now he puts out an ads basically having JFK's kids call him JFK.

I could care less how they wish to characterize it, its his claim that he and by extension his campaign have nothing to do with that comparison.

I'm telling ya, the outright lies on this board are just amazing!

First off, Obama NEVER compared himself to JFK. EVER.

Hillary criticized Obama for making inspirational speeches, and accused him
of being pretty much an orator--while suggesting that she was the experienced one.

I actually have no problem with her arguing that point. I disagree with her,
but it's no big deal to have this discourse.

Obama shot back and said, "What's wrong with a good speech? Martin Luther
King and JFK made inspirational speeches!" I was there, in Iowa--at his victory
speech when Obama said that.

He never said, "I am JFK" or "I am like JFK". He was making the point that
there is nothing wrong with giving inspirational speeches--and many others
before him have done the same thing.

It was the Clintons who then turned around and screeched, "He's comparing
himself to MLK and JFK!!!"

Lies. Big, bold, steamy lies.

So typical of the Clintons--her surrogates and the baby shills on the blogs. You
twist what someone says. Then your opponent corrects the record. Then you call them
a liar for denying the original lie you said about them.

Unfrickinbelieveable.

http://www.barackoblogger.com/2007/09/jfk-advisor-sorenson-stumps-for-obama.html

Barack Obama is JFK heir, says Kennedy aide

By Toby Harnden in New York

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/10/12/wobama112.xml

But I love how his campaign can tout this, he can have commercials state this but his supporters will claim "well he never said it".

Funny because you seem to get all raged up about the Clinton and their parsing. Guess it was all bullshit.

What i see is somebody who obviously knew Kennedy well and as such gave his view

If he thinks that and wants to say it, should the Obama campaign tell him that he shouldn't say it?

Here's video introduction of Obama himself

http://www.webcastr.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&id=735

WaPo coverage of the same event

Now, the Obama campaign is seizing on the comparison itself to rebut one of the main arguments against his candidacy, his rivals' charge that he lacks experience. At campaign stops yesterday in Chicago and Iowa, Obama was introduced by Ted Sorensen, the 79-year-old former Kennedy speechwriter, who went to great lengths to knock down the inexperience charge by invoking his former boss. In a packed hotel ballroom in Coralville, outside Iowa City, Sorensen spent several minutes on the podium retelling Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, "the most dangerous crisis in the history of mankind."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/03/post_109.html

if that is what Sorensen believed and wanted to say?

And out of curiosity, would you say that Sorensen were/are in a position to make a judgment on that topic?

Is this every Obama supporters first campaign? :shrug:

and orchestrated or not, i don't think he would make such a claim if he didn't mean it

(Some) People here make empty allegations alleging lies, misconduct, criminal acts by Obama and when well-meaning posters post refutations with documented evidence to the contrary, people just breeze just by them. And they keep posting their original allegation, as if the conversation never took place.

It used to be that posters here chronically complained about the misinformation spread by the MSM. That complaint was used as a reason for sticking to the news and information acquired on the Internet. But now websites host posters that are involved in that same technique, deliberately spreading misinformation. In that effort, they not only demean themselves, the website but their candidate as well. It's very demoralizing.

And why do these people who participate think we will join them at the end of the road for the sake of party unity? We still risk that same stink rubbing off on us if we stand with them as they continue to utilize these underhanded tactics in the general ....

"It used to be that posters here chronically complained about the misinformation spread by the MSM. That complaint was used as a reason for sticking to the news and information acquired on the Internet. But now websites host posters that are involved in that same technique, deliberately spreading misinformation. In that effort, they not only demean themselves, the website but their candidate as well. It's very demoralizing."

It can be. Which is why I despise most of the Obama supporters on this board.

Both of us has each our views on the matter and i doubt anything would change with our back and forth posts :hug:

and why the clinton and their supporters are scrambling

Only the Kennedys can say if a candidate is of the caliber of John

such a comparison without them wanting to and actually believing it

:headbang:

:party:

The Kennedys campaigning in FULL FORCE.

Beautiful, and a first for Caroline

I can't wait to see it tomorrow

I plan on taking pictures, maybe you could tell me how to post them here.



AWESOME ad!!

in the newspaper was awesome.

Which news article are you referring to?

Democrats old enough to remember JFK as president LOVE Caroline ~ she and John were seen as the whole country's children. This will really help with older voters!

but when I hear her talk like that, I just cry.

Caroline!

it gave me chills.

1980 (primaries): her uncle
1980 (general):
1984:
1988:
1992:
1996:
2000:
2004:
2008: Barack Obama (primaries)

It doesn't reflect well on you.

with my endorsements as well, her family holds a rather special position amongst democrats and i think it wise of her not to endorse anybody unless she really believes in them.

And i wasn't aware that you had to endorse somebody regularly to be a 'great' democrat

are not real democrats, that makes for many million democrats that are not real ones

Like 1980, 1992, 2000, and 2004...

i see no reason why she should endorse somebody tho without really believing in them(unless i'm wrong Caroline has mostly avoided politics)

ergo this conversation has no purpose and is a waste of my time

I'm getting from back and forth posts I've just had

And I hope you really want to take that comment back.
It does not become you to say that about the last living child of Jack and Jackie Kennedy.

She didnt have a responsibility to endorse anybody ever.

She has never endorsed a candidate besides a Kennedy

History in the making here, proud to be a part of it!

Run Al Run! :D

:kick:

bypasses all my mental protections and tugs at my heartstrings

:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Great, great ad.

I hope it gets a lot of play in Super Tuesday states.

Nicely done. Thanks for the link, hnmnf. :-)

edited for typo

:cry:

Just taked about the ad and that Hillary has to fight against Caroline and her endorsement tonight or get "rolled over"

rollin, rollin, rollin down the river

n/t

I think it could make a difference

I am stunned and disappointed that Caroline chose or agreed to use comparisons to her father in her endorsement of Obama.

She has always been so circumspect and tasteful as an adult; I thought she would be the LAST person in the universe to whore out his image that way.

For Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg to endorse Obama, yes; for JFK's daughter to say Obama represents Camelot redux is an ATROCITY.

Wow that some hatred you have unleashed. A little objectivity might be in order.
She is an adult of sound mind and is able to choose whom she likes.

Obviously whether you can handle it or not she has been dramatically moved by Obama.

May of us have.

You don't get the difference between a political endorsement and a moral benediction.

Owl call it what you will. You know it is powerful.

She is the one who calls it an endorsement. And it is exceptional for her to make an endorsement
let alone one that alludes to the qualities of her father.

You can call it what you want. It clearly hit a nerve for you.

Me, I am in gratitude.

other person on the face of this earth.

She did not make a hasty or rash decision to do this. It has been under consideration for months.

This is the first time she has ever endorsed a candidate and compared him to JFK.

It is the first time Caroline has ever asked this country for anything.

Your derogatory and insulting remarks towards her say a lot about you and NOTHING about Caroline.

I would be just as offended had she endorsed Edwards or Clinton and said the same about him/her, although it's a little more awkward in presentation to make it jump the gender divide.

You don't get it, either. I suppose if anyone wants to turn her dad's image into a commercial property or political resource, she has the filial and hereditary authority to do so; I don't challenge that. That she CHOSE to use it in this manner-mystifies me. It is totally unlike her.

And by the way, this country doesn't "owe" Ms. Schlossberg anything.

He can connect and that's what a President needs to do. He's also got good policies and isn't a wh*re for the MIC.

what a ludicrous post.

:rofl:

And you gave it such a scintillatingly intelligent rebuttal.