It is certainly a moment, when Ted Kennedy comes out for Barack Obama and disses the Clintons.
The implication is clear. The Clintons are corrupt and it is time for the Democratic Party to move on. Kennedy, according to Peggy Noonan, is part of
a great rebellion, a coming together of former officials, members of the commenting class, and the Kennedy family to stand athwart the Clintonian future and say, Stop.
Well, maybe. Actually it is more accurate to say that in the last couple of weeks the Clintons have held up a mirror to the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party didn’t like it.
Bill Clinton played the race card, and everyone swooned with disgust. Oh yeah? But the Democratic Party for the last 40 years, from the day after the signing of the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960s, has been the party of race baiting and of race counting. What’s new about Bill Clinton’s efforts in South Carolina?
Only that he was playing the race card against another Democrat. That was too much for Ted Kennedy.
Clinton Corruption? Please. The Democratic Party since at least the days of the big city political machines has been the party of corruption, that is, using government money to buy votes. When the buying of votes is limited to the odd subsidy, you could say it was pretty harmless. But when you are buying votes with 10 percent, 20 percent, 30 percent of GDP, then you have created an almighty stench that corrupts everything.
It is an especial irony that it is Ted Kennedy who has called out the Clintons on their corruption. Ted Kennedy is the uber-liberal who has spent a life voting for programs to hand our money-for-nothing to Democrat-voting Americans. The consequence is that half the country is corrupted by an addiction to government programs and the other half is in a foul mood about paying for a bunch of addicts to get their fix. The human cost of Ted Kennedy’s political career is incalculable.
But Ted draws the line at the Clintons. That’s a comfort, if you like.
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