For Clinton, Ties To JFK's Cmelot are OVER!

Odd, I never saw those ties anyway.

For Bill Clinton, the Ties to JFK's Camelot Have Been Severed

Submitted by mark karlin on Sun, 01/27/2008 - 4:27pm.
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January 28, 2008

A keystone of Bill Clinton's presidential image was a photo taken when he, as a high school member of the Arkansas "Boys State" delegation, visited Washington and he shook the hand of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States:

So, it must cut to the bone that the Kennedy family is endorsing Barack Obama for president, instead of Hillary Clinton.

First, there was the eloquent, emotional and compelling letter of endorsement written by Caroline Kennedy in the Sunday, January 27, New York Times:

"I want a president who understands that his responsibility is to articulate a vision and encourage others to achieve it; who holds himself, and those around him, to the highest ethical standards; who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved.

I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."

While Bill has, at least at this point, sacrificed his legacy in an attempt to get his wife elected to the office he once held, others were indeed still holding onto the American Dream of hope and change that he had abandoned due to a political strategy that backfired, as it should have.

Meanwhile, in a second blow to that photo that symbolized the passing of the JFK mantle to Bill Clinton and was shown repeatedly throughout his campaigns, it has been announced that Senator Ted Kennedy -- the only surviving Kennedy brother -- will formally endorse Barack Obama on Monday.

Furthermore, in a New York Times article previewing the Ted Kennedy endorsement, it notes:

It was on a November day in 2005, near the end of Mr. Obama’s first year in the Senate, when he was asked to deliver a keynote address at a ceremony commemorating the 80th birthday of Robert F. Kennedy. The invitation was extended by Ethel Kennedy, who at the time referred to Mr. Obama as “our next president.”

“I think he feels it. He feels it just like Bobby did,” Mrs. Kennedy told me that day, comparing her late husband’s quest for social justice to Mr. Obama’s. “He has the passion in his heart. He’s not selling you. It’s just him.”

It is painful to see how someone of Bill Clinton's stature so squandered his legacy in such a short period of frenzied, ill-advised campaigning.

Hillary Clinton may yet be the Democratic nominee for president. But for Bill Clinton, the ties to Camelot have been severed. It was his loss -- and a loss to us all -- that he stopped believing in a town called Hope.

We have now all see the true colors of our former president. It would have happened a long time ago, had his enemies not been bigger jerks than the big dawg, himself..

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