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Ted Kennedy’s Lesson For Barack Obama

Most of the changes the late Ted Kennedy made in this nation over his career were changes for the worst – but he did, over time, make real change because he worked at it instead of just saying the word “change” and hoping it would be so.

Obama’s JFK Mistake: All Glamour, No Game

When it comes to domestic policy, thus far there is no presidency that Barack Obama’s resembles more than John F. Kennedy’s. This is not a positive statement: Kennedy, equipped with a similarly strong majority on Capitol Hill, was nonetheless a legislatively frustrated president. By mismanaging his health care insurance reform, Obama now risks the same thing.

- March 19, 2010 -

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