All posts tagged "Ted Kennedy"

CHICAGO — Darnell Williams might be one of the most experienced convention goers at the Democratic National Convention this week, with seven under his belt.

The Massachusetts delegate, who works with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, first attended a Democratic convention in 1980 when he supported Sen. Ted Kennedy, the intra-party challenger to incumbent President Jimmy Carter, who would win the Democratic nomination but ultimately lose to Republican Ronald Regan.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has evolved — or devolved, critics contend — into an elder care facility.

Just don’t tell (most) senators.

Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s recent health episodes, coupled with the rapid decline of 90-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) — she’s now wheeled about the Senate and told by aides how to vote — has reignited the age-old debate over, well, age in today’s increasingly elderly Senate. ...

CNN's Howard Kurtz gave his not so supportive view on Ann Coulter's recent beeped out comments on MSNBC's Morning Joe about the late Ted Kennedy Sunday morning.

Elizabeth Warren, a popular figure on the left of the Democratic Party, is tied in a race to recapture the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat from Republican Scott Brown next year, according to a poll Thursday.

Between this Harry Reid scandal and months of watching fools like Ben Nelson carry on like shaming "girls in trouble" like it's 1955 is an acceptable thing to do, I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that one reason the leadership of the Democratic party is way more conservative than the actual citizens who vote them in is simply that the old white man-ness of the Democratic leadership is becoming a serious problem. Not that all old white men are completely out of touch and living in a bubble of privilege that prevents them from realizing or accepting that the world has changed dramatically since their youth---you see men like Ted Kennedy, and you realize open-mindedness is possible. But still, it's clearly not going to happen in many, probably most cases. We need more fresh blood cycling into the Senate, to inject more of a relationship to the outside world into their thinking and decision-making. But how to do this?

Most of the time, just in the quality of it department, though of course for you ladies out there, the anti-choice movement not only wants to strip you of basic freedoms, but if you roll the dangerous pregnancy dice, they will happily force you to die giving birth. Just the price you pay for having sex, you decadent liberals! And of course, now the anti-choicers are out there protesting your right to live if you get sick in America while being uninsured or underinsured.