The more than slightly right wing, tabloid-ish website NewsMax has been pushing an idea that they call “the Gang of Four” for a while now.
The Gang of Four? Ted Kennedy, Al Gore, John Kerry and Howard Dean united in an attempt to derail the Clinton nomination attempt.
This pair too…
Bet on it.
I must admit that when I first read some of these allegations last June I disregarded them as just more Rovian hustle. But since Kerry and now Kennedy have publicly come out for Obama…I am beginning to wonder.
Read on for more.
You remember the old July 4th celebrations? YOU know…where the fireworks would build slowly over half an hour or more?
Same here.
First the comparatively little explosion…Small K kerry for Obama. Then the bigger one, preceded by a teaser. Teddy Kennedy a couple of days after Caroline.
Hmmmm…
Now we know that Dean can’t say anything in public, chairman of the Dems that he is.
But the big Nobel Prize dog?
Al Gore?
Here’s what NewsMax has to say:
Will Al Gore Endorse Obama After Kennedy?
Monday, January 28, 2008 4:06 PMSen. Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination should come as no surprise to readers of Newsmax’s Insider Report, which has disclosed Kennedy’s membership in the so-called “Gang of Four” Hillary Clinton haters.
The Four — Kennedy, John Kerry, Howard Dean, and Al Gore — have pledged to stop Hillary from getting the nomination, and each has his own reason for detesting Clinton.
Newsmax has learned from Democratic sources that Gore is said to be waiting until after the primaries on Super Tuesday, Feb. 5 to enter the fray with an endorsement.
The word in political circles is that if Obama appears the winner that day, Gore will endorse him — in hopes of driving the final nail into the coffin of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
As the Insider Report has disclosed on several occasions beginning in June 2005, Kennedy and Gore have been disgusted by Bill and Hillary Clinton’s moderate politics.
Both were disturbed by Hillary’s hawkish stance on the Iraq war. Early on in the 2008 race, Kennedy had even endorsed Kerry for the 2008 nomination.
In his endorsement speech Monday, Kennedy praised Hillary Clinton, but then made veiled comparisons with her and Obama, noting that the Illinois senator opposed the Iraq war from the beginning and that he does not “demonize” his opponents.
Who could Uncle Ted be referring to with those comments?
Former White House hopeful Gore blames his 2000 loss on Hillary, whom he says siphoned off key resources to her Senate race.
Howard Dean blames the Clintons for his 2004 campaign woes. A year earlier, Clinton had launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to pressure fellow Democrats not to support Dean for president.
As the Insider Report disclosed in July 2006, Dean supporters were unhappy with Clinton’s stand on Iraq and her cautious shift to the center. And Sen. Kerry feels Hillary stabbed him in the back, promising to go all out to support his 2004 White House campaign but then doing as little as possible to help him.
Newsmax.com cited Kerry’s membership in the Gang of Four on Jan. 10 after Kerry announced his endorsement of Obama for president. Now Kennedy has joined him.
Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has not yet endorsed a candidate, but insiders say he is working behind the scenes to promote Obama’s candidacy, in the belief that Hillary is too polarizing to win a general election.
Hmmmm…
We shall soon see.
If Gore comes out for Obama after Feb. 5th, it will be clear that these people were right on the money.
Dean? I dunno. He’s gotten quite sly in his old age.
No more “AAAARGHHHH!!!”s from him.
Only from his opponents.
But with the sole EXCEPTION of Dean, an endorsement from the rest of these people should come as cold comfort for Obama as far as I am concerned.
Small K kerry is a total loser, ol’ Chappaquiddick Ted has nothing whatsoever to recommend him except his name, the reps of his two assassinated brothers and an apparently fair to middling capacity to hold his liquor and Gore? Gore is a tendentious, flatulent, puffed-up poseur in my view. As he is in the view of the Clintons as well, I am sure. (Who was Gore’s running mate of choice again? Need I say any more? Please.)
As bugged as I have been in some respects about the Clintons’ “It’s only business. Nuthin’ personal. Bada BING!!!” campaign against Obama, Mr. Obama is being surrounded by the wrong friends and they have the wrong enemies. (Again…excepting Dean, who is smarter than the other three. I hope. And who can give no public hint of his own desires anyway, so we’ll not know until well after the smoke clears just where he stood no matter what happens.)
The support of this group may well get him the nomination…rank and file Dems have never been the sharpest tacks in the carpet…but it may equally well work against him in an election (which I am sure is why NewsMax is pushing the story) and as a sitting President as well if he has to pay back political debts to these three high-level mediocrities.
Some “change”, Barack.
I know you have to get nominated and all, but…
Choose your friends wisely.
Really.
All four of these people have the distinct odor of defeat hovering around them.
Be careful what you wish for, and who you choose to owe in your quest to get it.
You be bettah off as Hillary’s VP than with these guys skulking in the corner of your Oval Office.
Much bettah off.
Bet on it.
MUCH bettah off.
Hillary will survive and prosper.
Two terms.
And you will follow her for two terms.
With these guys? It’s four and out.
Carter style.
Word.
Later…
AG