Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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As if it isn't enough that we have to absorb the profoundly sad event of Robert Parker's death, a very strange thing happened in politics today when a 57-year assumed fact was upended and one of Massachusetts' senate seats (the one seemingly owned by Democrats because it had been occupied by only two men - Kennedys - in all that time, since Jack defeated Henry Cabot Lodge in 1952 despite the Eisenhower landslide, and passed it on to his brother Ted after he was elected President) will now be held by Scott Brown, a Republican, the completely clear and competely puzzling reasons for which will be debated over cups of coffee and bottles of wine and mugs of beer (since water coolers are presumably long long passé) for days and weeks to come.
When Ted Kennedy died I calculated the odds of a Republican winning his seat as zero.
ReplyDeleteThe puzzling things for me are why it took so long and why he was even elected in the first place, why he was even running in the first place given his lack of a track record in anything his whole life. Well I guess the real puzzle in that is why the MSM gave him a complete pass, en masse they backed him while tearing into Sarah Palin as though she was the devil incarnate when she had a real and substantial track record. He is completely out of his depth in everything he's involved himself in from day one. Here is one example of just how inept he has been.
ReplyDeleteTony, I read your comments as being about Brown and was very puzzled since he's been a state senator for several terms. Now I realize you mean BHO. I also have never understood the ferocious and nearly unanimous attacks on Palin before she even opened her mouth. On the other hand I do understand the appeal of BHO, as you know, because he seemed refreshing, calm and articulate and had a sense of reestablishing the U.S. strengths.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I should be more clear and maybe not write late at night! As for O being articulate and re-establishing America's strengths, check this out.
ReplyDeleteI really dislike him.