Schwarzenegger's first lady, Maria Shriver: Obama: The Swamp
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Posted February 3, 2008 6:19 PM
The Swamp

by Michael Martinez and Mark Silva

This has always been a mixed marriage: The union of Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, she of the Democratic Kennedy clan.

But Shriver made it even clearer today, in Los Angeles, where she stood at a campus rally for Sen. Barack Obama to endorse the Democratic candidate for president. Shriver's husband, the GOP's own "Terminator,'' had already endorsed fellow Republican Sen. John McCain.

"I thought, if Barack Obama were a state, he’d be California,'' Shriver told the crowd jamming the rally at the University of California at Los Angeles. "I mean think about it. Diverse. Open. Smart. Independent. Bucks traditiion. Innovative. Inspiring. Dreamer. Leader.''

This, on the heels of singer and songwriter extraordinaire Stevie Wonder's testament to Obama. Standing alongside Obama's wife, after a long and emotional warmup of the crowd by televisioon's Oprah Winfrey, Wonder led the crowd in a little a capella chorus of Obama's name.

Wonder had sung at a closed-door fundraiser for Obama, but this was a very public appearance: "I now say yes to someone who I think can bring us together," the Mr. Morris said.

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Come on Clinton Loonies - attack some more of the Kennedy clan. You are as nuts as the Chickenhawk rightwingers you so desperately want to replace. Billary is the most isolationist candidate going. It's not worth it. She can not win a General Election. The 90's are over!


Just say NO: No to the baggage, scandal, and shame that a Billary co-presidency would BRING BACK to the White House. Enough is enough. It's time for them to go back to their *adopted* home state and pretend like they really care about New Yorkers. They don't care about anyone but themselves.


There's not much the Billary supporters can say after this latest endorsement.
This endorsement is big! Wonder what dirty trick the Clintons will pull out of their bag,to down play this?


Big deal.

Americans who support Obama have been bamboozled by the salesman himself.

The liberal agenda is much bigger & scarier than just the pitchman/puppet.

His campaign is a perfectly orchestrated marketing tool that has suckered millions of godless fools so starving for true sprituality.

He is a messiah for those who have sadly rejected Jesus Christ.

He'll never make it.

NObama in '08


Maria is an "Independent" woman. Watch this video ladies. Women are fueling Obama. YES WE CAN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62_ajoKkuHA


I'll give you looney. You Obama idiot! Nuts is what you call anyone who even listens to the Kennedys. They are all nothing but hasbeens, criminals, and spoiled brats. JFk and RFK were one thing. The Obama Kennedys are nothing and that goes for you too, you idiot.


Weird - last night the thought popped into my head - wouldn't it be cool if Maria Shriver came out and supported Obama?


GREAT news for Obama. But I wonder if the Kennedys are simply not trying to "cover their bets"!

http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/02/maria-shriver-california-governor.html#links


Oh goodie. The Nazi wing of the Kennedy clan picked Obama.


Rey flores, you wouldnt vote for a democrat no matter what. So your opinion is meaningless. We dont need your vote, we are going to get the black, latino, female/male democratic vote. We dont need racist rednecks to win the presidency anymore. Good luck with mclame and the Iraq will last 100 years campaign.


Ok Bill, I won't listen to the Kennedys. I'll listen to Billary tell me that through their mandated healthcare coverage, they can come after wages. I'll listen to Hillary say that she support Democracy in a place like
Kazakhstan while Bill is making $31 Million pimping his former President Status. The Clintons are the biggest isolationist phonies going. Your head is buried Bill. Who's next on your 'hit list' of Clinton Bashing? The island is getting smaller my friend.


Why are the Hillary supporters/campaign throwing the adjective "Nazi" at anything and anyone that comes out for Senator Obama? Is this yet another racially coded term in a negative attack to get American Jews to believe that Senator Obama is anti-semitic? Our own rabbis have now come out to state that the slurs that Obama is a Muslim are an outrageous lie, and that Senator Obama is a staunch moral and practising Christian, not like the ex-President whose sexual addiction has become a historical low-life farce and whose wife now says the US needs him/her to CLEAN up after Bush. Many of us have not forgotten the pornographic stories that came out of the Oval Office during the impeachment when Bill admitted he lied under oath. With Senator Obama, we must ask with Rabbi Hillel, "If not now, when? If we are not for ourselves, who will be? If we are only for ourselves, what are we?" With the Clintons, that last question underlines their fatal flaw. The Clintons are only for themselves. Senator Obama as a leader reminds us over and over again of our common humanity, "If we are only for ourselves, what are we?"


I can't wait for the scene from The Wizard of OZ to be played after Hillary is trounced by Obama. The one where the Munchkins sing "Ding Dong the witch is dead...."


Bring on Oprah! And what-have-yous. Obama has been getting free ride from the US media, celebrities, American heroes and their causes and philosophies.
Eventually, on her own strength and merits, Hillary will stump, trump and trounce Obama, as she always does in their debates, where Obama stutters and stammers.
Obama's rhetoric vs. practice? Check out http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon.html


Maria, I just called... to say... I love you! :)


hey rey,

be scared of the liberal agenda, we just might give people healthcare, improve the air you, your children and perhaps grandchildren breath, protect your rights as an american (yes, even if it includes trying to push your personal rendition of religion on others) and actually build up an educational system that doesn't flounder because schools teach to the test and not to expand minds.


david,

nazi clan? i hope you realize this is a very stupid statement. learn a bit about the political compass will ya'? you'll see that no one in u.s. politics comes close to the Nazi's. However, if you do want to find out who's closest to the Nazi's in terms of ideology, it's the Neocons.


Bill at 9:09pm -- care to rephrase your insulting characterization of Caroline Kennedy? I'm sure you don't really want to stand by such an outlandish comment.

It's sad, isn't it? To follow a leader who tells you to say anything in order to win an election...


Come on Children Play nice!


When liberal statists fight with each other, I root for injuries.

The "progressive" Democrats have a remarkable propensity for self destruction.


maria who?? get over it people, who fricking cares who's endorsing who? YOU should be really listening, studying what each candidate brings to the white house. experience, wisdom, strength REALLY DO MATTER. this is a new era, not the 1960's. and, with all due respect, what has history really shown about JFK? like nobama, he was young, attractive, and charming, but that does not a great president make. go hillary!


TED KENNEDY IS NO ROLE MODEL! http://www.ytedk.com/
Kennedy’s have been less than desirable and full of legal scandals in the last 25 years, relatives accused of murders, rapes etc and that give the Kennedy name clout? Don't think so... Ted Kennedy is now headed for a disgraceful end. The Massachusetts senator has been caught in a sneaky plot to kill a clean-energy project in Nantucket Sound. Seems he doesn't want to see wind turbines from his waterfront estate. "Don't you realize -- that's where I sail!" he famously said.
Kennedy was unable to answer this question The death of Mary Jo Kopechne forced Kennedy to withdraw from the 1972 presidential contest. In 1979 Kennedy made another attempt to become the Democratic Party presidential won 10 presidential primaries but he eventually withdrew from the race when it became clear that the public was still concerned about the events on Chappaquiddick Island. Instead of reporting the accident Edward Kennedy returned to the party. According to a statement issued by Kennedy on 25th July, 1969: "instead of looking directly for a telephone number for an undetermined time, walked back to the party was and requested the help of cousins Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham, Kennedy did not inform the police of the accident while he was at the hotel until 9am the accident happened at midnight.


Adam - "YOU should be really listening, studying what each candidate brings to the white house. experience, wisdom, strength REALLY DO MATTER. this is a new era"
What exactly is Billary bringing to the white house? Nothing - they won't get back in. It's McCain or Obama. Really study the Clintons. They don't have your interests in mind at all, but I'm sure you'll just keep parroting the party line and attacking anyone who isn't backing that horse.
8 years as a first lady doesn't make you a good president.


I can't wait for the scene from The Wizard of OZ to be played after Hillary is trounced by Obama. The one where the Munchkins sing "Ding Dong the witch is dead...."

Posted by: Reality | February 3, 2008 11:47 PM

Sorry, Reality. That's being saved for the day after Bush vacates for his bunker. I'd loan my personal copy, but that got long-since fried by 16 hours of back-to-back blasting the day Reagan died.


To Ronald Loui, I didn't mention Caroline - since you did she is just one in a whole family of shady, schemers. Read above about Ted Kennedy and the rest of the Barrack Hussein Obama supporters. Lets not forget Joe Kennedy. He taught them well. You must be young. You apparently are not old enough to remember the embarassment they caused our country. They caused a lot of their own tragedies by the way they behave thinking they are better than the law of the land. Buying themselves out of criminal car accidents, etc. Go Hillary.


One word for you, Alex...

SUCKER!


NoBama '08 Obama fans are like a creepy cult.


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