The Maria Moment, And More

1.  With Caroline and her cousin anchoring this pic, the Obama campaign is just buzzing with Kennedy mystique.

2.  The site of Maria Shriver -- completely out of the blue -- joining the Obama party was just riveting here in CA.

3. When has Michelle achieve this kind of visibility on the threshold of a primary day?

4.  This shot reflects a sharp departure from what had essentially become a Billary vs. Barack "two-on-one" in the media eye.  With Bill having hit the wall in S. Carolina, it appears like the spousal scales have almost evened out for Super Tuesday.

5.  You know you've got it going when Oprah is fifth mention.

6.  Also, of course, you have some real field-leveling here in terms of Hillary domination of the "girls-only" photo op.

LA Rally: Maria Shriver Announces Her Support for Barack (YouTube video. Michelle Barack intro, Shriver's moment, and the rest of the craziness.)
Maria Shriver by kos
Shriver backs Obama, Schwarzenegger for McCain (Reuters)

(image: Danny Moloshok/Reuters. caption: (L-R) Michelle Obama, Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver and Oprah Winfrey stand together after they each spoke during a rally for Democratic presidential candidate US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California, February 3, 2008)

Comments

[corinne]

If you think Maria Shriver joined in "completely out of the blue," then you don't know the Kennedys. For all their faults, they've got one of the best political machines around. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg's NY Times op-ed was carefully coordinated with her uncle Ted's endorsement and her aunt Ethel's.

And as for Oprah, my only reaction is "whoop-de-damn-do." She doesn't rule my world.

[chris in sacto]

Educated, check. Experienced, check. Accomplished, check. Leaders, check. Unite us not divide us, got it. I'm voting for Obama tomorrow. Maria's appearance yesterday convinced me. It's a message I've not allowed myself to hear until she spoke. You go girls!

[mdhatter]

The Kennedy's, especially Ted, also have a legacy they don't throw around lightly. I have never before heard any of the Kennedy's compare anyone to JFK or RFK.

[Blanche]

She's married to Arnold---nuff said. Her endorsement means squat.

[Quiet Jim]

Caroline really seems to be having fun. who knew?

[jtfromBC]

The Camelot Singers

With clarity and political savvy of a master spin artist, the 34-year-old widow spoke to the writer, Theodore H. White, for four hours, urging him to tell the world -- through LIFE magazine -- that Kennedy was truly "a man of magic," that his presidency was truly special, that the era was, to use the words she borrowed from a Broadway musical, "one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot."

A year after Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' death of cancer at 64, the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston made public Mr. White's notes [see next article] from that Nov. 29, 1963, interview in which the romantic Camelot myth--one that would remain fixed in the public's mind despite ensuing revelations of chinks in the Kennedy armor -- was born.

No small portion of the glamour of the Kennedy stewardship that lives on today came from her standards of public propriety and majesty."

http://www.jfklancer.com/pdf/Camelot.pdf

[Lamb Cannon]

If there was any question in my mind, seeing these ho's on stage would convince me to avoid NoBlack O'Bummer like the plague.

Maria Shriver suck's Arne's steroid-shrivelled peepee (or she's supposed to anyway)

And this gives here and Schlussberger cred? Hangin with Okra?

EEEEeeeeewwwwwwwwww

[chris in sacto]

Ya know? Hillbots are positively stoooopid. Obscene. Kennedy, jealous? Enjoy the Kool-Aid. The Republicans have all ready drawn up articles of impeachment against Hillary. They're charging her with overstepping authority that the current Unitary Executive claims (that's the joke MF'er). While the current Democratic leadership fails to righteously impeach Bush, Hillary will be impeached by the Party of Mischief and the Dems will stand by impotent. There's no way in Hell (the Republicans), Hillary will be able to rehabilitate her husband's presidency. Republicans aren't interested in governing, they're only interested in mischief. They're the Tanya Harding of politics, they'll knee-cap her. And we get to live through another four or eight years of that crap.

[Blanche]

Hillary wins! Oprah and Shriver boo hoo hooing.

[chris in sacto]

Hillary wins? Why does she need to reach into her own pocket to finance her campaign then? She wants to debate Obama every week for the next month for the free publicity.

Oprah and Maria don't need to cry to manipulate the vote like Ms Inevitability did. How many more times do you think Hillary will turn on the tears to get her way again?

[MonsieurGonzo]

Obama! were frustrated in SoCal by Latino- and in NoCal by Asian- Americans, (the latter a 'minority group' rarely labelled as such, remain strangely missing from The Conversation = our media), both ethnic identities, each being about 1/3 of the population, voting massively for TheClintons...

...look who's missing from this picture.

YouTube => I wish they all could be California Girls, 1965

For what, almost a quarter-century The Left Coast, and Californians in particular have been almost an afterthought in national elections. indeed the obsolete stereotypes of SoCal being "Hollywood Liberals" and NoCal being "Cakebread Chardonnay sipping, hot-tub dipping MarinCounty-ites" is hopelessly passé. Instead of acknowledging the message = this new knowledge of the plurality of California's electorate, the MSM (in apparent conversation with itself) expect us to swallow their own ugly prejudice: "Spics won't vote for a Nigger."