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December 19th at 2:50PM

On Caroline Kennedy Following in the Footsteps of Other Great Politicians, Like Sarah Palin

POSTED BY: Dennis DiClaudio

Emily Bazelon, over on Slate, sees something disturbingly familiar in the possible appointment of Caroline Kennedy as senator from New York...

Obviously for some women (including me), it's exciting and somehow fitting to imagine a woman taking over Hillary Clinton's seat. But is that reason to overlook Kennedy's lack of most of the usual qualifications, like holding public office?

Framed this way, how different would her ascension be, really, from the pole vault that Sarah Palin tried?

Excuse me, but did Bazelon just call Kennedy a pig that wears lipstick?

No? Oh, okay. Well, let me know if anybody does. I much prefer that kind of political debate. It's much easier to make funny.

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DaveW, Everywhere around the world, we're coming to America! (Man why did he have to tell us about Caroline? I was force fed Jazz Singer as a kid and now it's just worse) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fctclmU5hUc&feature=related

by Cube December 21st at 10:57AM
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September 26th at 11:49AM

The Specter of Michael Dukakis Rears Its Ugly Head

POSTED BY: Ethan Ris

Wow! For a guy who's been off the political radar for about twenty years, you certainly have seen Michael Dukakis' name in the news lately!

The former Massachusetts governor and former Democratic nominee for president has been pretty much off the radar screen since losing to George H.W. Bush in 1988. Served on the Amtrak Board of Directors, a little college teaching... you get the idea.

But now he's back!

First off in countless articles previewing tonight's scheduled debate, which unfailingly mention his botched response in a 1988 debate to a bizarre question about the hypothetical rape and murder of his wife.

Then there was the harsh Christopher Hitchens piece in Slate, titled "Is Obama Another Dukakis?" and subtitled "Why is Obama So Vapid, Hesitant, and Gutless?" Ouch!

And finally there was a comparison of Obama to Dukakis by... Dukakis himself!

Seems he did an interview with PolitickerMA.com in which he warned the Democratic nominee against getting the same "Willie Horton" race-bating smears he suffered in 1988.

The only appropriate way to cap off this media blitz would be to take one more ceremonial ride in the tank!

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