Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Joseph P. Kennedy III, grandson of the assassinated Bobby Kennedy, today announced his intention to explore a candidacy for the House of Representatives in Massachusetts' Fourth District, which will soon be vacated by the retiring Barney Frank. Having apparently plotted every moment of his 31 years of life to assume the mantle of the Kennedy family legacy, "Joe" Kennedy attended Stanford University, then joined the Peace Corps, then took his law degree at Harvard, then became a prosecutor. He's also said to speak fluent Spanish. Unfortunately, a look at the statement he released today, reveals that he follows in the mold of the late Ted Kennedy rather than his other great-uncle, the tax cutting President John F. Kennedy.
Fairness, the foundation of America’s social compact, seems to be in short supply these days. We wage war, pass skewed tax breaks, and expand benefits by spendthrift borrowing, saddling the next generation of Americans with unsustainable debt. Then when it comes time to restoring fiscal sanity to our budget, we see the middle class and the poor take the hit while the wealthy get more tax breaks.
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Apr '11
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Apparently he thought that Brown's line was about the mis-identification of which seat was the Kennedy seat. "This is the people's seat; that one over there is the Kennedy one".
May '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Ugh. Will we ever be free from the Kennedy family?
Dec '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
then took his law degree at Harvard
I think that that isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. Re: Obama.
The graduation rate from Harvard Law is 97%.
97%
Kindergarten has more academic integrity than Harvard Law.
You cannot tell me that a Kennedy grandson just happens to be one of the top scorers on the LSAT.
Maybe as a mathematician I'm biased, but I think if you swapped the native English speakers at UMass' math dept. with the class at Harvard Law, the math students would pass the law classes easily and the Harvard Law students would almost - to a man - flunk out.
Dec '11
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Why is he getting 'free press' on a supposedly right-center right site? (Most of us here are capable of reading the NYT and The Nation on our very own.)
Feb '11
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Senator Brown will be opposed by a Marxist from the Harvard law faculty Elizabeth Warren, who could not get confirmed by the Senate for the consumer regulatory agency she helped create. Even Democratic senators thought she was too much. In socialist Massachusetts, Brown will have a tough time winning.
As for the prospect of yet another Kennedy, Barney Frank has his most difficult race in years the last time around. Sean Bielat may run again; he will announce his decision on January 17th. The district has been substantially reconfigured (Mass. lost one Congressman), but retains about half of the district Bielat ran in. Bielat is a very attractive candidate.
The Boston media are giddy at the prospect of another Kennedy. His father, former Congressman Joe Kenned,y now runs a nonprofit providing poor seniors with cheap fuel oil (from Hugo Chavez) and his free TV ad (featuring Joe himself) runs frequently. In fact, his ad ran up right up to the lead of the 6 p.m. news tonight. And guess what the lead was. All about Joe's son forming an exploratory committee. Coincidence? Maybe.
Feb '11
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
AmishDude: then took his law degree at Harvard
I think that that isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. Re: Obama.
The graduation rate from Harvard Law is 97%.
97%
Kindergarten has more academic integrity than Harvard Law.
You cannot tell me that a Kennedy grandson just happens to be one of the top scorers on the LSAT.
Maybe as a mathematician I'm biased, but I think if you swapped the native English speakers at UMass' math dept. with the class at Harvard Law, the math students would pass the law classes easily and the Harvard Law students would almost - to a man - flunk out. · Jan 5 at 5:27pm
Clearly, games are now played at Harvard Law. The only way Obama could have graduated with the mcl he got was because he had the favor and support of two influential HLS professors, not because of his grades on tests. Kennedy went to very liberal Stanford (the undergrad is worlds apart from the Hoover institution), which is a feeder for Harvard Law. Speaking as an HLS grad, I would indeed probably flunk at math.
Aug '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Barney is not leaving any legacy . The destruction he wreaked is all. Kennedys can handle this , easier than driving off a ....
Dec '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Speaking as an HLS grad, I would indeed probably flunk at math.
No disrespect intended, I'm a Rutgers math grad and I'm pretty sure I would have been bored with Harvard Law.
No math.
No dissertation.
No competition from international students.
I understand the value of lawyers and the legal profession...to a point. But I have seen genius...real genius...up close. And they weren't going to lower themselves to something as pedestrian as law school.
It really offends me that we simply assume that the best and brightest of our society come from elite law schools. No other country does this. The fact that Tony Blair was a lawyer was an outlier in the UK.
I think it's a fundamental problem that we have with our ruling class in this country, it is singularly undiverse.
Dec '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
I wonder if the people of Massachusetts will vote for him out of a sort of magical thinking that having a Kennedy in office will somehow bring back the good old days of prosperity.
I suppose it's marginally better than sacrificing a virgin -- and there aren't any volcanoes in Massachusetts to throw a virgin into anyway.
Jan '11
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Is Joe Kennedy III a "ginger?"
Dec '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Stuart Creque: I wonder if the people of Massachusetts will vote for him out of a sort of magical thinking that having a Kennedy in office will somehow bring back the good old days of prosperity.
I suppose it's marginally better than sacrificing a virgin -- and there aren't any volcanoes in Massachusetts to throw a virgin into anyway. · Jan 5 at 6:06pm
With the Kennedys around there probably aren't any virgins either...
May '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
He has a twin brother who works for Obama.
Mar '11
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Political dynasties are not only a Democratic phenomenon. If I had my druthers, Jeb Bush would be the next president.
Sep '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Geeze, man, is there any other job a Kennedy is suited for other than politics? How about plumbing? Couldn't he be a plumbing contractor instead? I mean what's so special about politics that it draws three consecutive generations of a family?
May '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
There is some interesting information about his parents' troubled relationship here.
Nov '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
I think he'll do a perfectly fine jo...
Wait a minute!
Barney Frank? I thought you were talking about Barney the Dinosaur.
Forget it.
Jun '11
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
I sort of thought all Kennedy men were in the plumbing business....
Aug '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
My idea of a political dynasty is a bit different.
You have this in a Borgia perhaps ?
No, no the Medici gives me cramps.
Edited on Jan 5 at 8:18pmDec '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
The dems are so predictable. First it's the perverse exponent of perversity. This is the dems favorite cause. Frank should have been tarred and feathered and thown out of Congress. Instead he was given vital senior positions and contributed to the economic debacle greatly.
Now they put in the rich young pretty boy. These peddlers of class concern for the poor are the most sychophantic goof balls when it comes to the wealthy.
A Republican thinks of money as a tool for creating jobs and useful products. A dem thinks money is a sign of some special virtue.
About 80 years ago, my father, in his required college english course, was asked by the young female professor what he thought of F. Scott Fitzgerald's quote. "The Rich really are different." My father thought for a moment and said "Yeah, they're different. They have money!"
You had to watch out for my father. Wish he was still around.
Edited on Jan 5 at 8:57pmAug '10
Re: Grandson of Bobby Kennedy Hopes to Succeed Barney Frank
Here's hoping Sean Bielat gives it another go. We need someone like him in that seat.