Thank you, Ted Kennedy

Hello, All!

An Obama candidacy will result in the Democrats getting set back at least
ten
years.  I cannot see Obama winning anything more than VT, IL and DC. 
Perhaps at
most winning 40 EVs.  Even MA will become a battleground state.  It will
not be
as bad as the GOP landslides in 1972 and 1980, but there will be many
Democratic
politicians attending job fairs for wannabe lobbyists.

In my political lifetime which goes back to "keeping clean for Gene
[McCarthy]"
I have never seen a candidate so successful at stratifying the Democratic
Party,
with the exception of George Wallace and Ross Barnett, as Sen. Obama.  To
assume
Clinton's support will simply migrate to Obama is sheer fantasy.  Obama is
more
than disliked. It is bordering on abomination and no political party can
last
long with a standard bearer that evokes such negative emotions.   At the
same
time, no politician in the US has been so highly regarded (rightly or
wrongly)
as McCain.

I do not want the GOP controlling all three branches of government once
more.
We all know how that kind of GOP control fucked up our country and we're
still
paying for it, but that's what my crystal ball is showing me.  Thank you
Ted
Kennedy for giving us another one of your fuckups as a presidential
candidate.

With best regards, Lubow.