Kerry to Endorse Obama – Clinton, Edwards Relieved?

  •  January 11, 2008

MSNBC is reporting that purported Vietnam veteran and US senator from Massachusetts, John Kerry, will endorse the candidacy of Barack Obama this afternoon.

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Barack Obama is being endorsed by fellow Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats’ 2004 presidential nominee who lost to George W. Bush that year with John Edwards as his running mate and gave up his own plans for a 2008 run a year ago.
Kerry, a senator from Massachusetts, planned to announce his support Thursday at a rally with Obama at the College of Charleston, arguing that the Illinois senator can best unite the country, said a Democrat familiar with the decision. Kerry was timing his announcement before South Carolina’s Jan. 26 primary, a contest that has taken on extra importance for Obama after Hillary Rodham Clinton beat him in New Hampshire…
Besides any potential help for Obama, the endorsement was a slap at Edwards, Kerry’s former running mate. The two had their differences during the campaign over strategy and spending, and Edwards has said he would have been more aggressive in challenging the unsubstantiated allegations of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth questioning Kerry’s military record.

What Edwards never really understood was that the Swift Boat Vets “allegations” were indeed substantiated, focused as they were on Kerry’s unfitness to serve as Commander-in-Chief.
Kerry, perhaps the most hapless presidential nominee in recent history, has yet to release his entire military records file as promised.
This is most likely an endorsement that Barack Obama could easily do without… and that’s being charitable. But Kerry, who has yet to do something meaningful or substantial, couldn’t help himself, and Obama couldn’t stop him.
What’s interesting is that the practice of stabbing one’s former running mate in the back is becoming positively epidemic among Democrat candidates. Bill Clinton stuck it to AlGore, who then put the knife in Joe Lieberman’s back. And now Kerry passes the “favor” on to his former running mate, John Edwards.
There’s another Democrat convention this summer and another election in November. Stay tuned.

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  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    I suppose you still believe that Richard Nixon sent Kerry into Cambodia Christmas 1968 don’t you?

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    All the more reason to pull for Hillary just to make Kerry look even more irrelevant.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    It is not evidence in any way. It does not substantiate the allegations.

    Holy Cow, Hawk! I thought at least the dictionary would help you understand English! When 20 or 30 guys testify that something is true or untrue, you could say it was

    affirmed as having substance

    could you not? Well, maybe not YOU, but certainly anyone who understands English!

    Absolute verity? Perhaps not. Substance? Watch here, Hawk, it gets tricky…YES! There was substance because of the sheer number of witnesses to John Kerry’s alleged heroism and their testimony.

    Who are you going to believe? John Kerry or your own lying eyes?

  • pparets

    Check out the Obama retinue… first Oprah and now John Kerry. Whats next.. Mickey & Minnie? Dare we hope that even the most close-minded liberal/leftist will begin to see through this charade?

  • Hawk

    Definitely the third. Arguably the first and second!

    Whether or not Kerry was fit to be President does not make the allegations any more or less true. It is not evidence in any way. It does not substantiate the allegations.

    On the other hand, if you are arguing that the allegations against Kerry were factually incorrect, you’re full of shit.

    Nobody on his boat, you know the guys who served the most closely with him, ever substantiated any allegation. It was all rumour and innuendo by others from afar.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Is losing Kerry’s endorsement the same as being told by Bob Schrum that he won’t manage your campaign.

    It’s better than being told by Bill Clinton that you’re losing his dry cleaning business!

  • Bat One

    Nobody on his boat, you know the guys who served the most closely with him, ever substantiated any allegation. It was all rumour and innuendo by others from afar.

    Hawk,

    If you want me to address your question, you’ll have to be more specific. To which allegation are you referring?

    And which boat?

  • Bill Mitchell

    Obama:

    “uh, thanks but no thanks…”

  • Hawk

    What Edwards never really understood was that the Swift Boat Vets “allegations” were indeed substantiated, focused as they were on Kerry’s unfitness to serve as Commander-in-Chief.

    Maybe you need to go look up the definition of substantiated. Because they were focused on his unfitness to serve as CINC, does not substantiate the allegations.

  • Bat One

    Hawk,

    If you are attempting to make a semantic argument about the linkage between the specific allegations and the conclusion that Kerry was unfit, you might have a very marginal argument.

    On the other hand, if you are arguing that the allegations against Kerry were factually incorrect, you’re full of shit.

  • Pilgrim

    He just poked his former running mate in the eye with a sharp stick.

    You’d think he would endorse the guy he picked as his VP, wouldn’t you?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Well, Gore endorsed “front runner” Howard Dean last time around. Look how well that worked out for him!

  • Tuna

    Obama is on a losing streak–first he gets a wedgie from the broads in NH–then he lands an endorsement from the only guy on the planet, who could manage to lose 2 out of 3 debates to W–what’s next, a photo-op with OJ?

  • Hoss

    Is losing Kerry’s endorsement the same as being told by Bob Schrum that he won’t manage your campaign.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
    sub·stan·ti·ate /sÉ™bˈstænʃiËŒeɪt/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[suhb-stan-shee-eyt]
    –verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.
    1. to establish by proof or competent evidence: to substantiate a charge.
    2. to give substantial existence to: to substantiate an idea through action.
    3. to affirm as having substance; give body to; strengthen: to substantiate a friendship.

    Definitely the third. Arguably the first and second!

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