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Election Betrayals

May 13, 2008

Ah, the fun of politics. The intrigue and the down right nasty betrayals: that’s why it’s called POLITICS! One does whatever is politically beneficial for the “I’. It’s why our government is so in debt. A politician gets elected and then they bring home the PORK so you’ll elect them again- as though the next person wouldn’[t do the same?

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Remember the pictures in 1997 with Bubba and Hillary sailing on Ted Kennedy’s yacht? Those were the days!

But this is 2007, a decade later and the person running for president isn’t a MALE, but a FEMALE. New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has learned this painful lesson all over again this year: first in January, when Sen. Edward Kennedy, the liberal lion from Massachusetts, endorsed Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination; and then again last week, when Kennedy seemed to suggest — with words he later claimed were misconstrued — that Mrs. Clinton would not even be fit to serve as a running mate to Obama.

Now, that one hurts! Did he really say that?

“I would hope,” Kennedy told Bloomberg’s Al Hunt on Friday, “that (Obama) would also give consideration to somebody that has — is in tune with his appeal for the nobler aspirations of the American people.” Influential Democrats, including Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel, promptly rebuked Kennedy for his remarks. But in the case of Emanuel, himself a former Clinton White House aide, the display of loyalty to Clinton was mitigated by the fact that it came almost in the same breath that Emanuel declared publicly: “Hillary can’t win.”

Rahm speaks with forked tongue.

But she will win West Virginia (big time) today!

The contentious Democratic primary has made this a veritable season of betrayal. Party superdelegate and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Joe Andrew, named to the latter post by President Bill Clinton, defected to Obama shortly before the crucial Indiana primary. In this, Andrew merely followed the lead of other fickle superdelegates. The first such turncoat was Georgia Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon who announced he was leaning toward Obama exactly 125 days after he had endorsed Clinton.

Are you getting the picture here?

Just in case you think this is some sort of anit_Hillary thing, it’s not all about the Clintons. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry also endorsed Obama in January, at a time when former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, Kerry’s own running mate of four years earlier, was still in the race. I mean even the pollsters are turning on the politicians (can you say Rasmussen?)

Enough. Simply stated- in politics watch your back!

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Election News 

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