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2010-01-18 Home Front: Politix

From Hotline On Call reporter Felicia Sonmez's dispatch from a gaggle with Ted Kennedy's son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, after the Obama-Martha Coakley event:

"If you think there's magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown," Kennedy said. "If you don't, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole ... then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president's in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that."

(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as "Marcia," not "Martha.")

More Kennedy: "One thing the Democrats have done wrong? We haven't kept the focus on this disaster on the Republicans who brought it upon us. We've tried too hard to do that right thing, and that's to fix it, as opposed to spend more of our time and energy pointing the finger at who got us [here] in the first place."

Posted by Fred 2010-01-18 10:31|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 "If you don't, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole"

How quickly they forget how we got in this hole. The Dems need to take a long hard look in the mirror.

Posted by 49 Pan 2010-01-18 11:44|| 2010-01-18 11:44|| Front Page Top

#2 On a Sunday when Obama and some fellow
Held a rally that was much more than a hunch,
That Patrick referred to her as "Marcia."
That's the way we all became the Coakley Bunch.

Posted by Mike 2010-01-18 11:58|| 2010-01-18 11:58|| Front Page Top

#3 MLK Day the video is worth a view.

BHO is no MLK.

Posted by Grerens Bonaparte1348 2010-01-18 12:01|| 2010-01-18 12:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Like I said the other day. All that's left of the Kennedy's are a bunch of flawed, inept, self serving boobs surviving off the coat tails of the "legacy". I don't think I'd trust Patrick to valet my car.

Posted by tu3031 2010-01-18 12:07|| 2010-01-18 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 You mean he still has a driver's license?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2010-01-18 12:43|| 2010-01-18 12:43|| Front Page Top

#6 The gross thing with the Zero Coakley rally was the interviews with people lined up to get in. Most of them were college kids (Boston's biggest import) and many of them were from out of state.

Zero couldn't fill a smallish venue in the largest city/capital of MA with real adult voters.

Pathetic.

Posted by AlanC 2010-01-18 12:44|| 2010-01-18 12:44|| Front Page Top

#7 To those who Blame Bush(tm) for the lousy economy today I always try to point out two things. 1) When Bush had a stimulus, I got a few hundred $$$ of my taxes back in the form of a check from the govt. And 2) Clinton was the one who gave China MFN trading status, which is what triggered the massive flight of US jobs overseas, enriching the Chicoms and irreparably damaging domestic employment prospects.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2010-01-18 13:12|| 2010-01-18 13:12|| Front Page Top

#8 OOOh, yes, - I remember my Bush administration stimulus check. By one of those very weird coincidences that are just too dramatic to be thought deliberate -I received mine on 10 September 2001.
Yes, I was downstairs in San Antonio's Mercantile Building (which then and now houses a Wells Fargo branch and certain of their administration facilities), during the morning of 9/11, depositing that check into my bank account. The Laredo National Bank also has a branch in that building - it is in my memory that someone at LNB ran out an TV set on one of those AV carts, into the lobby, which was running continuous news coverage, all during that day.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2010-01-18 19:50|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-01-18 19:50|| Front Page Top

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