Yes, in several ways:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/tedkennedy1980dnc.htm

“The tax cut of our Republican opponents takes the name of tax reform in vain. It is a wonderfully Republican idea that would redistribute income in the wrong direction. It’s good news for any of you with incomes over 200,000 dollars a year. For the few of you, it offers a pot of gold worth 14,000 dollars. But the Republican tax cut is bad news for the middle income families. For the many of you, they plan a pittance of 200 dollars a year, and that is not what the Democratic Party means when we say tax reform.
The vast majority of Americans cannot afford this panacea from a Republican nominee who has denounced the progressive income tax as the invention of Karl Marx. I am afraid he has confused Karl Marx with Theodore Roosevelt — that obscure Republican president who sought and fought for a tax system based on ability to pay. Theodore Roosevelt was not Karl Marx, and the Republican tax scheme is not tax reform.”

Marc continues:
“The stirring promise — and tangible success — of FDR’s New Deal had stagnated and atrophied into the rather enfeebled candidacies of Carter, Mondale and Dukakis. Can anyone remember any shred of hope that trio inspired?”

Not from that trio, but there was this stirring highlight from that election season:

“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

…which was echoed again this summer:

http://www.demconvention.com/senator-edward-kennedy/

“And so with Barack Obama — for you and for me, for our country and for our cause – the work begins anew, the hope rises again, and the dream lives on.”

http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/ralph_nader_for_president/

HST would have disembowled Palin. The night before he blew his own brains out–in despair over having taken on a ridiculous wife he couldn’t get rid of ( Juan, his son, begged her to leave)–he took a pot shot at her across the kitchen table. Next day he took one at himself, but didn’t miss.

It would have been nice if he had held on long enough to crack McCain and Palin. I think he could have maybe supassed his obit on Nixon.

I’d guess it’s only a matter of time till the whole paper goes under. The free weekly model may be viable in the Internet age, but certainly not through a recession and absolutely not through a recession like many are expecting us to have. Not unless the owners have very deep pockets.

Good thing there are so many fresh, well-done Web sites and blogs to take the Weekly’s place.

http://www.beautifulhorizons.net/weblog/2008/10/mad-men.html

HT has returned as Anna, and right off promoting his books. I’ve got to buy it just to read this one chapter. Capitalist bastard.

http://www.slate.com/id/2081042/

Another link takes you to the audio–set to music.

This was brilliant came out a few months ago.

This is amusing and well done: http://thisfuckingelection.com/

Therefore, he reasoned, Obama should be looking at the best and brightest from the hedge fund world to come up with fresh, realistic policy ideas to take on the credit collapse.

Instead, it looks like he’ll select from a menu of old Wall Street war-horses who stayed on at the higher levels of investment banks just long enough to reap the massive bonuses that came from gorging on yields from securitized mortgage bonds and from a global stocks rally that, we now can see, was fueled by consumers buying stuff with money they got from refinancing their mortgage, taking out a second mortgage or maxing out their credit card.

Hedge funds got a bad name, mostly because their operators made so much money a few years back. But really, their model is inherently capable of greater honesty than the broader Wall Street money game of investment banks and brokerages.

Hedge funds live or die by the gains or losses on their investments. Investment banks can much more easily bury year after year of losses by attracting more new investors.

Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson spent less than half their time at Goldman Sachs on buying and selling at the right price and more than half on sales — bringing in new money.

So Obama would do well to take advice from the top of the heap in the hedge fund world — George Soros, Jim Simons, Ken Griffin — when comes to money matters.

Some people talk about Wall Street like its a monolithic representative of greed and corner-cutting. There is plenty of that there, but there are also important distinctions between the various models and players in the industry.

The Treasury shouldn’t be run like a hedge fund, and it certainly can’t be run like an investment bank. But the people who’ve been behind the wheel at hedge funds at least have had to wake up every morning and know that if their strategies failed, they would pay an immediate price. You can’t say that for most investment banks — the executives had been too insulated from the consequences of bad decisions and only know, post collapse, are finding their comeuppance, when it’s far too late to matter.

Reading Hunter now should be required reading before being allowed to vote.

And don;’t forget to read Outlaw Journalist, my pal McKeen’s bio on HST. Even Hitchens liked it. ( For those of you that care what he thinks)

Recommended for right now: Better Than Sex about the 92 campaign. It has his unmatchable obit of Nixon.

Then go back and read Songs of the Doomed and Generation of Swine.

Leaves you drooling.

To call Nader “crabby” is so utterly shallow and stupid and pitiful a remark. Maybe Mavis would like to protest his not having his happy face on by UNBUCKLING her seatbelt, the kids seatbelt and no doubt the dog’s.

Maybe she would like NEVER to have had recourse for that tainted product that might have killed her child.

Maybe Mavis just prefers to be a cypher with a lifestyle–except, of course, when it kills her. And there is no redress.

Her remark was stupid and pointless.

“No one would be talking about routing entrenched interests if it weren’t for him.”

Oh, wait a minute…

Therefore, he reasoned, Obama should be looking at the best and brightest from the hedge fund world to come up with fresh, realistic policy ideas to take on the credit collapse.

Instead, it looks like he’ll select from a menu of old Wall Street war-horses who stayed on at the higher levels of investment banks just long enough to reap the massive bonuses that came from gorging on yields from securitized mortgage bonds and from a global stocks rally that, we now can see, was fueled by consumers buying stuff with money they got from refinancing their mortgage, taking out a second mortgage or maxing out their credit card.

Hedge funds got a bad name, mostly because their operators made so much money a few years back. But really, their model is inherently capable of greater honesty than the broader Wall Street money game of investment banks and brokerages.

Hedge funds live or die by the gains or losses on their investments. Investment banks can much more easily bury year after year of losses by attracting more new investors.

Robert Rubin and Henry Paulson spent less than half their time at Goldman Sachs on buying and selling at the right price and more than half on sales — bringing in new money.

So Obama would do well to take advice from the top of the heap in the hedge fund world — George Soros, Jim Simons, Ken Griffin — when comes to money matters.

Some people talk about Wall Street like its a monolithic representative of greed and corner-cutting. There is plenty of that there, but there are also important distinctions between the various models and players in the industry.

The Treasury shouldn’t be run like a hedge fund, and it certainly can’t be run like an investment bank. But the people who’ve been behind the wheel at hedge funds at least have had to wake up every morning and know that if their strategies failed, they would pay an immediate price. You can’t say that for most investment banks — the executives had been too insulated from the consequences of bad decisions and only know, post collapse, are finding their comeuppance, when it’s far too late to matter.