The Kennedys' Endorsement

In what has to be, to a non-Democrat, a ludicrous spectacle, Democratic Senator, corrupting influence, self-parody and untried accessory to a killing, Ted Kennedy, endorsed Obama Bim Baden today.

The Tedster's looking typically corpulent and out of place/touch these days. Skipping the eight successful years of the Reagan era, Tedster opined that Obama is the most impressive politician, or somesuch, since the late President Kennedy.

Then we have John Kennedy's nephew and daughter weighing in.

Who cares?

"My dad was President, and he got shot.
That's why my endorsement means a lot"

Please.

What would Caroline or Patrick Kennedy know about the late President?

That he regularly cavorted with women in the White House pool while Jackie was away? That his father made arrangements with the Mafia to win Illinois for Jack?

That he and his brother shared women, while married, including Marilyn Monroe and Sam Giancana's mistress?

But let's review Kennedy's actual, if brief, record in office.

He green-lighted the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion. Then his Dr. Feelgood got him too buzzed on meds and Nikita Krushev took his measure and decided he could be pushed around.

The result was the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which Kennedy narrowly avoided our first nuclear exchange.

Then there was the time he broke the steelworkers' strike. Good union man, Jack.

And what about sending advisors to Vietnam, in America's interests?

The only lasting, positive contribution Kennedy made was his tax cuts.

Funny thing. If you review Jack Kennedy's record, you get the feeling that, were he President today, Obama would be criticizing nearly everything he did.

In fact, Kennedy was very similar to George W. Bush- tax cutter and taking action abroad to protect American interests.

So it's richly ironic that red-faced, fat Teddy Kennedy, along with his niece and nephew, endorse a candidate who eschews almost everything John Kennedy did. In fact, John Kennedy was what today would be a centrist- to right-leaning Democrat, putting Hillary on his left. Obama wouldn't even come close to agreeing with him on anything.

Instead, the most liberal wing of the Kennedy family endorses Obama, and pretends it's like an endorsement from the grave by JFK.

Far from being a "uniter," Obama, if elected, is likely to be the most divisive President since Lincoln. A glib tongue and nicely-tailored suit doesn't qualify someone to be President, even if it makes them more pleasant to whom to listen as they campaign for the office.