It’s sad news about Ted Kennedy. He has inoperable brain cancer and is lucky to be alive on Inauguration Day.
What’s amazing to me is the heartfelt best wishes being issued by everyone on Capital Hill. It’s a tribute to his work as a Senator for the past 30 years…and how well he has overcome questions about his competence.
Part of that was due to his youth-he was only 30 when elected to the Senate on his brothers’ coattails.
Part of that was due to his own demons-drinking and Chappaquidick.
The prognosis is grim, but even his political foes say Kennedy is a fighter.
Barak Obama won the primary in Oregon yesterday, and now has the majority of elected delegates…and is less than 100 shy of the number needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.
Despite that Hillary Clinton won’t quit. Her only hope is to convince the Democratic Party to accept the delegates from Ohio and Florida, disallowed because those states held primaries on dates not sanctionned by party bosses. Even then, it seems unlikely she can derail the Obama campaign.
As for his presumptive rival, John McCain is sitting pretty, racking up money and just waiting for the Democrats to choose their nominee.
If it’s Obama, McCain faces new questions about his age. If elected, he’d be the oldest U.S President to take the Oath of Office. A website- thingsyoungerthanmccain.com-has posted a funny video.
McCain is older than McDonalds, Coke in a can, nylons and velcro!
Mary Ellen Beninger
