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1.30.08 @ 12:01AM

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With Jean Le Kerry at your side, and now that beloved eternal manchild Teddy and most of the rest of the Kennedy Clan at your other side, you really need someone to watch your back.
-- A. C. Santore

While I was pleasantly surprised at the embarrassment this all brings to the Clinton Camp, I cannot help but wonder HOW and WHY anyone can see a likeness between Jack Kennedy and Barack Obama.

JFK is most famously known for his inauguration speech, which held the following quote: "and so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."

Reading that statement and understanding anything about what JFK stood for, how does Sen. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy Schlossberg match these two up in likeness.

The answer, friends, is merely on the surface: youth, vigor and likeability, young wife, two beautiful young children; and the likeness ends there.
-- Sandra Bellomo
Seminole, Florida

Livid is probably an understatement of the Clintons' reaction to the Kennedy endorsement of Senator Obama.
-- David Shoup
Augusta, Georgia

WORDS, NOT EATEN
Re: Larry Thornberry's McCain Peaks:

Wow. That article was probably the most biased article I think I have ever read.

You will eat your words when Romney wins tonight.
-- Jared Aller

I guess it's safe to say you have a love for McCain. Like most media, you seem to loathe Romney and I don't see a reason why except maybe jealousy. He is the one that will actually "change" Washington politics for the better and do good for the working people of this country. McCain is a liberal at heart and that is the one thing the U.S.A. doesn't need.
-- Mark

I am glad to hear McCain is peaking.

There are two things McCain is proud of -- his family's tradition in the U.S. Navy and his Republican heritage. McCain is a core conservative. He is religious, pro life, wants small government, is strong on national defense, adamant that Federal the budget should be balanced, keen of ethics, and utterly truthful.

McCain has a generous dose of idealism. His refusal to vote the Bush tax cut was consistent with his non-compromising idealism. He insisted that spending also be reduced. McCain intends to eliminate earmarks, a prime source of excessive spending and in some cases payback for campaign funding.

McCain will not compromise his core beliefs -- not for public office, not to befriend those who call him a maverick, not to make partial deals harmful to the public interest.

McCain's willingness to work with Democrats stems from his recognition that sometimes progress can be made no other way. The gang of 14 was a classic example of this. McCain did not yield on his desire that Samuel Alito was nominated for Supreme Court justice and he got it done without ratcheting up partisan bitterness.

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