Living in New York City can really warp the way you see the rest of the country. Only on the tiny island of Manhattan is the idea of giving a senatorial seat to a woman because of her family name considered to be a brilliant political move, but that is the case of one of New York’s favorite philanthropists Caroline Kennedy.
It takes a liberal Democrat to form the concept of the “royal” politician as so many liberals have done in the sycophantic worship of the Kennedy family. The United States media christened the John F. Kennedy’s administration Camelot based on the shallow premise that his model looks wife wore designer clothes, spoke some French and the vibrant “Jack” Kennedy supposedly inspired a young generation to join the Peace Corps, when so many of them wanted to avoid the military service.
The media myth of the Kennedy presidency quickly met with the Cold War realities of the early ’60s.
Within his short-lived administration, John F. Kennedy botched the invasion of Cuba by refusing to provide air support at the Bay of Pigs, signed a blank check for American troop involvement in Vietnam and capitulated to Soviet pressure at the Cuban Missile crisis by withdrawing military support from Turkey and allowing the Soviets free reign in a very unstable part of the world. It is not difficult to connect the dots between Kennedy’s withdrawal from areas like Afghanistan, to the invasion of that country by the “godless communist” and the eventual backlash of both the Taliban and al-Qaida.
But for the media and much of America the king of Camelot could do no wrong. The hysteria of political royalty made the president’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy, publicly acceptable for the job of attorney general, despite the obvious charges of nepotism.
“Bobby” Kennedy was unduly credited with aiding in the fight for civil rights when, in fact, he was mostly doing his job by enforcing earlier legislation and was more prone to dragging his feet on equal rights legislation for fear of alienating the southern Democrat base. Attorney General Kennedy ordered the FBI wire-tapping of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., a surveillance that continued for nearly seven years.
Despite the lackluster results, the media viewed “Camelot” as a political paradise lost, but there was still another chance for utopia.
Democrats placed their hopes in the youngest brother, Edward Moore Kennedy who lived up to the Kennedy legacy by literally getting away with murder. Late one night after a party “Teddy” drove a car into a lake at Chappaquiddick and left his female passenger, political assistant Mary Jo Kopechne, behind to drown.
Through family connections, Ted Kennedy avoided jail time, but many loyal liberals lamented how Teddy may have ruined his chances to become president and restore the escapist magic of Camelot.
New Yorkers will proudly tell you how different they are, and the bizarre cult to the Kennedy clan proves it. Every type of national scandal from the former first lady’s arranged marriage to an oil tycoon, to the sexual dalliances of a Kennedy with a babysitter only improved the Kennedy name in the city that doesn’t sleep.
John F. Kennedy Jr. was expected to fulfill the political destiny his father had set for him, despite “John-John’s” lack of motivation as an attorney, questionable business acumen as a publisher and inadequacies as a pilot of small aircraft.
Always deep-thinking, liberals main justification for JFK Jr. to become the next president was the fact that People magazine had voted him “Sexiest Man of the Year.”
Years after the death of JFK Jr., little has changed. The consideration of Caroline Kennedy for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat is a bailout attempt of the Kennedy family name, since those who can remember where they were when President Kennedy was killed are losing ground to those who can only associate the Kennedy name with political scandal.
With a degree from both Harvard and Columbia University, Caroline Kennedy’s résumé consists mainly of throwing parties to raise money to improve the New York’s public school system – one of the worst school systems in the country.
Despite the name recognition of her family clout, Caroline Kennedy has had enablers in reaching her political pop star status. During the presidential election, Ms. Kennedy was mysteriously tapped to help vet a vice-presidential candidate. The fact that the only surviving child of John F. Kennedy chose Sen. Joseph Biden as a running mate for Obama should already cast serious doubt on Kennedy’s political prowess, but the success of the Obama campaign may change this Park Avenue honorary chairwoman of the American Ballet into a senator of one of the most influential states in the country.
New York City is a place of highly educated people with prestigious resumes, and yet so many New Yorkers are willing to sheepishly pay homage to the Kennedy legacy.
Despite a multi-billion dollar budget gap, New Yorkers will pay out approximately $4 million to change the name of the Triborough Bridge to the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge. The high cost for the simple name change is mostly to rewrite “nine large signs” with the Kennedy title. Kennedy worship does not come cheap. Many New Yorkers gush about the prospect of having a Kennedy, any Kennedy, represent their state, but New York will pay a much higher price if the “Empire State” chooses to downgrade a senate seat by just giving it away.
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