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The Kerry-Obama Embrace
From The New York Times's description of the Kerry-Obama endorsement event in South Carolina today:
When the two men embraced, beneath magnolia trees at a sun-splashed rally that drew a sea of people here, it brought the relationship of the men full circle.
Getting hot in here...
TPM Reader HS, who sent this one in, says that this shows that the "feminizing Obama" process is well underway.
I don't know about that, but I will say that the description does call to mind all those pics of Kerry and Edwards embracing that were all over Drudge after Edwards was announced as Veep candidate in 2004.
Separately, speaking of lame media coverage, The Politico's editors published a big mea culpa today about the failures of themselves and the rest of the political media in the run-up to the New Hampshire primary. Our take on it is here.
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"Feminizing obama," come on, that is a total stretch. It was a silly statement written by a reporter of clinton's hometown paper the NY times, but "feminizing"???? Give me a break.
January 10, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
all in good fun...
January 10, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
I kinda thought it was.
January 10, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree Michael.
In fact, the only one I see doing that is Greg. And that's a pattern I've noticed going back awhile. Bloggers bashing the media for pushing stupid storylines while pushing those same storylines just as much themselves, if not more so.
January 10, 2008 6:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just want to know does this mean Obama will sell us out the way Kerry did.
January 10, 2008 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
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really?
January 10, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
come on. lampooning this sort of idiotic political writing is not the same as pushing the storyline
January 10, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Chris Matthews is probably touching himself under the table right now.
January 10, 2008 7:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was funny cald, poor taste, but very, very funny.
January 10, 2008 7:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of journalistic nonsense bordering on gibberish, I point to Greg's comments earlier about Maureen Dowd's "fake dateline" in her on-target hit on Hillary's Sob Story. Does Greg imagine Dowd was never in New Hampshire? Was "Derry, NH" followed by a date? Was Dowd guilty of not hitting Send until her plane landed and she could link to the Internet in Israel? (Shocked! I'm shocked!) I suppose from HRC's viewpoint, desperate times call for desperate tactics: Andrew Cuomo's "shuck and jive," Obama's Kindergarten Papers, "My Sob Story," to say nothing of "South Side of Chicago." We will see more, and it will all redound on HRC. Sorry to see Greg is a such a willing, to say nothing of unsubtle, soulmate in the desperation. Speaking of geographical confusion, are you sure it's Horse's Mouth, and not some other exit?
January 10, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
The NH debacle was entirely the media's fault. This analysis here makes it clear that there were enough clues in the polls that something could happen that there was no reason for the media to treat the race as they did.
January 10, 2008 8:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama was forever feminized when Oprah got all her icky estrogen all over him. Have a butt grabbing hug with Kerry actually butched him up a bit.
January 10, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
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YES WE CAN
Anne
January 10, 2008 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why all these losers (Lamont, Kerry, Bradley) endorsing Obama? Do they have something in common?
January 10, 2008 8:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know, Anonymous.
Why did McGovern, Mondale, and Dukakis endorse HRC?
January 10, 2008 9:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oops, I retract the part about Dukakis.
January 10, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama, Kerry, Lamont & Chris Matthews in sauna rubbing each other...
January 10, 2008 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama to Kerry
Its getting hot in here..
January 10, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
While we're on the feminizing theme you could characterize Kerry's endorsement of Obama in John Edwards birth state a good old-fashioned bitch slap.
January 10, 2008 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
January 10, 2008 11:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kerry just won't go away, will he?...
This endorsement/embrace of Obama has little to do with Obama. It is all about Kerry's insatiable quest for relevance. It is over John, so please just go away! You had and blew it, buddy.
January 11, 2008 1:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
While I think Kerry's endorsement will be a minor help in infrastructure and with core Dems. Anecdotally, the Republican leaners that I know were very very derisive of it, saying they no longer could 'support' Obama. He's suddenly, 'polarizing.' So ends New Politics.
January 11, 2008 7:19 AM | Reply | Permalink