Tag Archives: Sen. Ted Kennedy

Would any Democrat really challenge Barack Obama?

Posted on December 9th, 2010

POLITICO By JONATHAN MARTIN & BEN SMITH Some angry liberals may want to see President Barack Obama face a primary from his left in 2012, but they have no answer to a basic question: Who? Two of the Democratic Party’s most well-known progressives – Howard Dean and Russ Feingold – have both indicated that they [...]

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O’Connor: Is Nancy Pelosi radioactive or retiring?

Posted on March 8th, 2010

By Colleen O’Connor Who can forget the images? Just over a year ago. Hillary Clinton, defeated in her quest to become the first woman elected President of the U.S.— returning to the U.S. Senate for an agonizing and awkward reunion with her colleagues — and suffering the embrace of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who endorsed the [...]

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It’s Not the Kennedy Seat, Take Two

Posted on February 10th, 2010

By:  Kathryn Lopez No seat belongs to the Kennedys, not even in the House of Representatives. Announcing his candidacy on the same day that Sen. Scott Brown took his oath as successor to Edward M. Kennedy in the U.S. Senate, John Loughlin, a former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve who was deployed to [...]

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Obama admits health care overhaul may die on Hill

Posted on February 5th, 2010

Obama said, in refering to his attempt to pass his Health Care Bill that:  “Here and now we will meet history’s test.” Mr. President, the voters just graded your test paper and your score is……F. ~~John Cronin~~ WASHINGTON – No, maybe he can’t. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had [...]

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