Maria Shriver In Surprise Obama Endorsement At Rally With Oprah In LA

In a dramatic moment at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, California First Lady Maria Shriver just strode out onto a stage that had already seen its share of celebrities -- Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder among them -- and announced that she was joining the Kennedy half of the family backing Barack Obama, reports our colleague Mark Z. Barabak, who is there.

More details will be posted shortly and in tomorrow's print edition, but Shriver reportedly was waiting backstage wavering over whether she should make her support public, and then finally strode out on stage. Her husband, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, earlier this week announced his endorsement for Sen. John McCain.

The Kennedy family has split over the two top Democratic contenders, with Ted Kennedy joined by Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg -- daughter of his brother John F. Kennedy -- and his son, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, all going with Obama. Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy, also went with the Illinois senator.

But Hillary Rodham Clinton picked up the support of three of Robert and Ethel's children -- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Kerry Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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[Bulbul]

Huffing to Post is trying to play a small part for Obama ,it is more of a buisness decision on their part.
Now, these three ladies are telling us, their Candidate is much better than the other Woman who has worked tirelessly in the Senate and before that to prove to us she is capable to run for the WH...
One of the them is the talk show host and the giveaway lady and the richest celebrity.
The second one, is married to th repug. gov. of the state and keeps her Kennedy name to show her power.
The third is the daughter of the Camelot.

Now, whay should we jump to what they say and vote for their choice ?
They assume we are idiots and they are right with absolutely no agenda.

[raider08]

Everyone, including man, woman, child, black, white, whatever, should read this blog post from the Huff site here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-rosen/i-am-not-for-hillary-bec_b_84783.html

Read it if you dare.

[NYC07]

This is all we need to know about the Neo-Con Hillary Clinton :

Hillary Votes YES on Iraq War Resolution

Hillary Votes No on Levin Amendment then lies about what the Levin Amendment said.

Hillary Votes Yes on 1st Bankruptcy bill then claims she hoped it wouldn't pass.

Hillary Votes YES on Kyle -Lieberman

Hillary Votes YES in 2001 for the Patriot ACT

[sarnold49]

Good to see Obama is soooo ANTI-WAR
"ALLAN NAIRN: Well, Obama’s top adviser is Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski gave an interview to the French press a number of years ago where he boasted about the fact that it was he who created the whole Afghan jihadi movement, the movement that produced Osama bin Laden. And he was asked by the interviewer, “Well, don’t you think this might have had some bad consequences?” And Brzezinski replied, “Absolutely not. It was definitely worth it, because we were going after the Soviets. We were getting the Soviets.” Another top Obama person—

AMY GOODMAN: I think his comment actually was, “What’s a few riled-up Muslims?” And this, that whole idea of blowback, the idea of arming, financing, training the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets, including Osama bin Laden, and then when they’re done with the Soviets, they set their sights, well, on the United States.

ALLAN NAIRN:

Another key Obama adviser, Anthony Lake, he was the main force behind the US invasion of Haiti in the mid-Clinton years during which they brought back Aristide essentially in political chains, pledged to support a World Bank/IMF overhaul of the economy, which resulted in an increase in malnutrition deaths among Haitians and set the stage for the current ongoing political disaster in Haiti.

Another Obama adviser, General Merrill McPeak, an Air Force man, who not long after the Dili massacre in East Timor in ’91 that you and I survived, he was—I happened to see on Indonesian TV shortly after that—there was General McPeak overseeing the delivery to Indonesia of US fighter planes.

...

Another Obama adviser, Sarah Sewall, who heads a human rights center at Harvard and is a former Defense official, she wrote the introduction to General Petraeus’s Marine Corps/Army counterinsurgency handbook, the handbook that is now being used worldwide by US troops in various killing operations. That’s the Obama team."

[nerakami]

This is the phase where we will have to wean ourselves from reacting to our fears of change with attacks and negativity. Deep in our hearts, we want to believe again, that this IS the greatest country in the world, that we are one nation, one people united in the experiences of our humanity. We want to dream again that our generation, our NOW will leave this planet a better place for the continuity of life for generations to come. These are the underlying components to the survival of mankind. Making decisions with our minds only, is one dimensional. The completeness of the human being involves integrating what our intellect, our hearts, our intuition are all saying.... it is with our full faculties that we should make our decisions.
Integrity matters, character matters as the guiding forces behind every one's actions.
It's not naivety, it's feeling the O-BAMA MAGIC !

[spitts77]

The audacity of . . . . Obama? If you are still hypnotized by Obama, read these articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon.html?ref=politics

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irwin-redlener-md/obama-hires-harry-and-lo_b_84716.html

[JackWOrf]

Teddy Kennedy is a medium. He has channelled the thoughts of JFK and determined that JFK would vote for Black Wonderboy. But could he also channel the thoughts of another very important dead person? Yes, MARY JO KOPECHNE.

Gee, I wonder if Mary Jo Kopechne would also endorse Obama?

And how about William Kennedy Smith? Who is HE endorsing? Seeing as how every Kennedy alive and dead seems to be endorsing a candidate, who is the choice of rapists? Does anybody care about rapists' rights?

But it was good to see that Maria Shriver is still alive. I thought that Ahnoold had (f-word)ed her to death. After spending the last 20 years giving birth to 7 little Republicans, she emerges from her kitchen to tell the Democratic Party who to nominate. Talk about sleeping with the enemy.

But I certainly won't say anything bad about the Holy Virgin Caroline, whose father, JFK, art in heaven. The Holy Virgin Carolina has conferred with her father, JFK, who art in heaven, and determined definitively that he would vote for Wonderboy.

I listened briefly to Oprah. She was talking about her struggle. HER struggle??? The lady is worth a billion dollars! And that's a struggle???

Then she says that she isn't endorsing Wonderboy because he's black, but rather because he's brilliant. Gimme a break. How many brilliant crackers has she endorsed lately?

And truth be told, President Clinton is more brilliant than Wonderboy by a country mile. He could also get us out of this recession, rather than just sitting around and gas-bagging about it.

To conclude, if there are any additional Kennedys, alive or dead, who plan to give any more endorsements, please do so now.

Personally, as a Florida Democrat, whose vote has been officially IGNORED by the DNC, I find it rather interesting that people are more interested in how every Kennedy and their mother-in-law feels, and that they are totally uninterested in how Florida and Michigan Democrats feel.

[NASCARLiberal]

WOW! Yet another good reason NOT to support Barack. Skeleton woman Shriver, and her goomba-ReThug hubby like him ... ummmmm? Not good.

But, if you are looking for LOTS of good reasons to vote for the best woman for the job, here's an article that says it ALL!

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802030313

[JackWOrf]

Teddy Kennedy is a medium. He has channelled the thoughts of JFK and determined that JFK would vote for Black Wonderboy. But could he also channel the thoughts of another very important dead person? Yes, MARY JO KOPECHNE.

Gee, I wonder if Mary Jo Kopechne would also endorse Obama?

And how about William Kennedy Smith? Who is HE endorsing? Seeing as how every Kennedy alive and dead seems to be endorsing a candidate, who is the choice of rapists? Does anybody care about rapists' rights?

But it was good to see that Maria Shriver is still alive. I thought that Ahnoold had fucked her to death. After spending the last 20 years giving birth to 7 little Republicans, she emerges from her kitchen to tell the Democratic Party who to nominate. Talk about sleeping with the enemy.

But I certainly won't say anything bad about the Holy Virgin Caroline, whose father, JFK, art in heaven. The Holy Virgin Carolina has conferred with her father, JFK, who art in heaven, and determined definitively that he would vote for Wonderboy.

I listened briefly to Oprah. She was talking about her struggle. HER struggle??? The lady is worth a billion dollars! And that's a struggle???

Then she says that she isn't endorsing Wonderboy because he's black, but rather because he's brilliant. Gimme a break. How many brilliant crackers has she endorsed lately?

And truth be told, President Clinton is more brilliant than Wonderboy by a country mile. He could also get us out of this recession, rather than just sitting around and gas-bagging about it.

To conclude, if there any additional Kennedys, alive or dead, who plan to give any more endorsements, please do so now.

And you know, as a DISENFRANCHISED Florida Democrat, whose vote doesn't mean SHIT, I find it rather interesting that people are more interested in how every Kennedy and their mother-in-law feels, and that they are totally uninterested in how Florida and Michigan Democrats feel.

After all, us Florida Democrats are EVIL-DOERS!!! Just ask Black Donna Brazile.

[in4success]

should be an interesting day -- super tuesday eve. whew!

[tumblewind]

Maria and Arnold remind me of my son and daughter-in-law. They don't ever ever discuss politics! It always winds up a scream fest.

[Dendy]

Hillary, tonight on Hallmark channel 9pm.
Lets see who has the last word.
Hillary doesn’t need so many people to defend her case to the American people.

[batmanindy]

The only one missing from the stage was Arriana.

Bunch of older women having a gab fest about a young dude.

Reminds me of when Dolly and the girls all got fired up about Billy Ray Cyrus and the achey breaky heart thing. That blew over too.

Obama in time, not just now. Go home ladies.

[scandals&skeletons]

win

[scandals&skeletons]

national polls have obama beating mccain in a general election. national polls have mccain beating hillary in a national election.
the writing is on the wall.........nominate hillary and dems will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.......nominate obama and the dems can actually