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Ask yourself, Is my life better now than it was 153 days ago?
Do I feel safer than I did 153 days ago?
Do I have more financial security than I did 153 days ago?
Am I more confident than I was 153 days ago?
Does the future look brighter worldwide than it did 153 days ago?
Do I have more hope and change than I di 153 dyas ago?

@The Unshrub

Henry Miller:

The question should be: where in the constitution does it prevent government from helping the people? Thomas Jefferson once said that the reason of government is to make peoples lives better.

Basically in the Tenth Amendment:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. "

The Federal government can't just give itself powers–doing so implicitly takes them away from the states or the people.

If the Federal government wants to impose socialised medicine on the US, the only legal way to do it is by the passage of a Constitutional amendment to that effect.

These two crooked never worked day in their lives Liberla hacks make such a nice couple.

Dumb and dumber was the name of the movie I think.

Can't wait till Mary Jo gets to slap kennedy in the face for COWARDLY leaving her to die.

Jon in Ca put it best, the two faces for term limits and that includes the Republicansas well.

Can you Liberal sheep make the same type of statement, nevermind, bahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Obama is great, bahhhhhhhhhh.

Dodd is being "helped" by the person who left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown?

Dodd, weren't you involved in a mortgage loan scandal?

Dodd – can you give me one example of your leadership capabilitiy?

We read some angry and irrelevant comments about healthcare from some readers who showered their dudgeon on the Dems. for dumb things happenin' in Iran. One does not see the connection between Iran and healthcare. Enlighten us, CNN, if you can!

I love Ted Kennedy, John Kerry and Barack Obama- There, now that I have gotten the moderator to post this.

America Wake UP! Do the Math- we cannot afford anymore welfare.
Social Medicine is not what Senator Kennedy got during his recnt hospital visit. The senator was not rationed like you and I will be.
Free healthcare is not free and if you want 3rd world quality healthcare go to Mexico.

Wow, the WHARGARBLers are out in full force today.

Out with the old. This country will be much better after about a decade, or maybe two. Actually, the world will be a much better place after a decade or two. Sorry guys, but... we don't need trees, we need flowers. Keep power on the younger (comparatively) end of the spectrum and the world will blossom.

Senator Kennedy, you are the greatest. I live in Greenwich, CT and I still support Senator Dodd.

I hope Caroline will do something in the Obama Administration if that's what she wants to do.

elite helping the elite.

so much for the ordinary citizen politician in america. and we complain about other "freely" elected despots.

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand

Come on CNN!! Really getting tired of the bias around here. Harder than heck to get anything posted. You continually don't post our comments we will get bored and abandon this site, just like your ratings on TV, we get tired of the bias and leave!! Your decision!

we will NEVER make any progress in this country, until voters become intelligent enough to tell the good ol' boys to go home... chris dodd has been a stereotypical element of the mess that is our federal government.. it is time for voters to tell legislators like dodd and arlen specter, "thanks for NOTHING." and, the list should include MANY other members of congress, on both sides of the aisle..

J.P., that's hilarious and sadly true at the same time.

Henry Miller:

The question should be: where in the constitution does it prevent government from helping the people? Thomas Jefferson once said that the reason of government is to make peoples lives better.

This guy is a windbag. Health care is not a fundamental right, because it requires someone else to give up their money or their services to provide it. Your rights stop when they require me to give you something for free. If this guy thinks everyone should have health care, then he should set up a foundation with all the millions he has and provide it out of his own pocket. These libs are all the same....everyone is entitled to all sorts of stuff as long as someone else pays for it. Go away Ted, you've been irrelevant for the last 40 years.

A crook teams up with a murderer to ask YOU for cash. SWEET MARKETING!

Dodd, keep distracting and ignoring your ethical shortcomings, ties to AIG, Fannie and Freddie, and your houses in Iowa and Ireland and hope the voters of CN forget all about it.

Yes, when I see those ads I think, AIG donations, countrywaide preferential treatment, Fannie and Freddie, lying about his roles, allowing langauge that allowed bonuses and then scapgoating those who recieved them...and the list goes on- a charge card bill that gives the companies 9 months to prepare and after it passed my rate going from 6.6% to 13.1 % and fees for late payments going up to 29.9%. Yeah...that'sd a bill to sing about. More smoke to save a job he should have lost before he did the damage he did.

Senator Kennedy would like to see this come to fruition before his days are up. America needs affordable health care for evrybody!!!!!!!

Ted needs to retire for medical reasons. Endorsing Dodd is proof positive of irreparable brain damage for Teddy. As for Dodd would be supporters, Senator Kennedy's endorsement is meaningless as Ted would endorse a bucket of worm doo doo if it were marked Democrat.

I cannot believe how stupid Democrats are for thinking Kennedy's endorsement makes Dodd a worthy candidate for reelection. Dodd is the poster child for campaign finance bad behavior; pork spending wizard; bearacrat on the take kingpin -- everything that is wrong with Washington and our government

I can't imagine why Dodd faces a tough reelection bid, with the economy the way it is.

The best thing about being a Connecticut resident is being able to vote against him and I am looking forward to it. His perfromance, as well as his role in our economy, has been horrendous. as far as I am concerned, anyone who would speak for this man hurts themselves more than helps him. It is time for change and removing Dodd is a good first step.

I'm sorry Ted, but if everyone in America got the health care you do the country would be broke unless our tax rate was 100% for everyone. I hope Conneticutt is smart enough not to re-elect Chris Dodd, one of the fathers of our housing bubble burst.

since ted has been out of the loop, maybe dodd can get him back on track, and provide him with the mysterious copy of the Freddie Mac report..you know the one that doesn't exist, but was due out a month ago..how can this continually go unreported by the media..

Can somebody tell me why Dodd and a bunch of other democrats are not in jail for running the economy into the ground???

thats bologna ..........
Dodd should be ousted..

NB: I am a Democrat.

Dodd's third tv ad will feature the former Chairman of AIG, praising Dodd for the loophole that allowed AIG to pay millions in bonuses to company executives, all at taxpayers expense.

Since they were old drinking buddies always harrassing the women in the bars of Georgetown this only makes sense. Dodd didn't kill anybody like Kennedy did though. These two old perverted dirtbags should have been put out long ago.

Is this supposed to be a god thing for Dodd...

Nice to see CNN covering this story, so warm, so much love for Dodd.
Much nicer than that nasty little story about the deal Dodd got on a property in Ireland that just happened to have been brokered by a person he helped to get a presidential pardon. And if it was below market, that gift he failed to report, well, that was just an oversight, kinda like Timmy "Turbo Tax" Geithner's oversight. Completely harmless. Move along, nothing to see here.

20 yrs. old...

If anyone thinks we ought to keep Dood in office, you have been living in a cave for the past year. This is the man who took more contributions from AIG and Fannie Mae than anyone else in DC over the past three years; he did this while he was chair of the Senate Finance Committee given the responsibility for oversight over these two entities. After AIG took $60 billion from the Government, Dodd pushed to help the executives of AIG to keep their bonuses. This gu is part of the problem and a big reason for our financial system meltdown. Keeping him in office is dumb. For Kennedy to endorse him does not mean anything as Kennedy would endorse a pile of camel dung if it were Democratic dung.

When you listen to Ted Kennedy speak about his lifelong fight for Health Care Reform, how can you not want to see substantive changes? Clearly, we've needed Health Care Reform for a long time – so why are people still standing in the way? Because they are being bribed by the big insurance and pharmaceutical companies, that's why.

How desperate is Dodd that he would have Ted plug for him? If the voters of Connecticut have any sense they will vote a replacement for Dodd.

Kennedy is still Alive! Seriously, I thought he'd died.

When the going gets tough, the DC establishment sure does stick together.

Dodd is everything that's wrong with Washington, no good deed that he does is worth ignoring the corruption that he brings. 2010 will be known as the year of the non-incumbent.

Obama is a coward for not responding more aggressively to the crackdown in Iran. People are dying..... Neda...

Given how old Sen. Kennedy is I have to wonder whether he would qualify for the level of care he is currently receiving under the Singer Payer plan he is advocating.

Wow, if the cost of this add were applied to purchasing health insurance, you could probably cover quite a few families. Make an aggregate of ALL of the campaign spending toward the same goal and we could make one hell of a dent toward this. Add all of the dough Dodd has received from the Fannie/Freddy/Countrywide interests and it stretches even further. If these guys would put their money where their mouth is, they wouldn't have to worry about getting re-elected, it would come naturally.

But alas, that won't happen. Remember, the government isn't going to 'pay' for your healthcare, the citizens of the U.S. are. If you are a beneficiary of "free" healthcare, take a look around at your neighbors, odds are that your upkeep is being paid for by one or more of them.

Isn't that a commandment or something, don't covet your neighbor's stuff?

Have a great day!

I am a firm committed President Obama supporter and I hope Dodd is NOT re-elected.
It is time for him to retire because he makes not effort at all work across party lines. All our elected officials need to know how to work together to aid ailing Americans. Dodd's role in the banking industry meltdown was unforgivable.

OBAMA & KENNedy please take aim at getting rid of McCain of Arizona & orgy Arnold of California GO DEMS!!

Of course Dodd faces difficulties getting reelected. Some people have trouble voting for someone who looks into the camera with millions of americans watching and blatently lies. Which is exactly what Dodd did concerning the AIG bonus fiasco.

Awesome, one out of touch person who should've reitred a long time ago supporting another out of touch person who should've reitred a long time ago. Hopefully CT voters will see right through it.

I am a firm committed President Obama supporter and I hope Dodd is NOT re-elected.
It is time for him to retire because he make not effort at all work across party lines. All our elected officials need to know how to work together to aid ailing Americans. Dodd's role in the banking industry meltdown was unforgivable.

Everything that the Democrats try to do for America.
Is bound for failure.

EVERYTHING!

Dodd, Kennedy, Byrd, etc....... poster-children for Term Limits!!

(And yes – Strom Thurmon and some conservatives fall into that camp)

The senate will be a far better chamber when both of thease idiots are gone.

CNN – please, you're going to get chapped lips....Kennedy's been a worthless drunk most of his life, and now we're going to "recognize, " his achievements...? And Dodd? Recipient, along with OBama of unscrupulous "bonus," money from FREEBIE MAC...via Raines, last year? AS the economy and it's citizens are suffering? And you're trying to erect some sort of virtual monument to these crooks?

what?? was Hugo Chavez busy??

One New England thug stumping for another! One New England dynasty of crooks and thugs endorsing another.

Isn't that special!

"Quality health care as a fundamental right has been the cause of my life," Kennedy says.

Oh? Where in the Constitution is that right granted?

Dodd will need all the help he can get after the AIG bonus screw up and his head in the sand approach to legislation and life in general. I just don't understand how the Dems think that they can "reform" health care in less than 90 days without totally screwing up everything good about our current system. The CBO tells us that St. Obama's proposal will insure an addtional 14 million, far less than the 46 million who supposedly lack coverage. The math just does not add up.