While this election season has been consumed by nasty media attacks on the Republican presidential candidates, 16 years ago the airwaves were dripping with positivity, as so-called reporters giddily celebrated the confluence of the ultra-liberal Kennedy family (a.k.a., “Camelot”) and the hard-left Obama campaign.
Just one week before the big Super Tuesday primaries (held on February 5 that year), and only a couple of days after Obama trounced Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina primary, Senator Ted Kennedy, along with his son, Patrick, and JFK’s daughter, Caroline, endorsed Obama for the Democratic nomination.
The New York Times helpfully donated its op-ed pages for Caroline Kennedy’s endorsement (headlined: “A President Like My Father”) on January 27. She wrote admiringly of Obama: “I have never had a president who inspired me the way people…
