Caroline Kennedy's speech endorsing Obama

[DeepModem Mom]

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[ursi]

1. Kick and Rank!

[emilyg]

2. What are some of Caroline's accomplishments?

[truedelphi]

4. Number one: remaining a sane and

Concerned person, despite losing her father to a vicious assasination.

Most of us don't have to watch our father's head being blown off week after week, year after year. (Sometimes the scene is used to announce an upcoming TV special on the assasination. She doesn't even have time to turn the channel.)

Committed to working for the common good.

Raising her childen out of the glare of the spotlight.

I am pleased she came out for Obama rather than Clinton, but more than that, I am very very pleased that the media has given her respect.

She deserves it. If for no other reason than that after her dad died, she allowed herself to cry only twice. As a child, she felt she needed to be strong for her mom and her brother's sake.

She is a decent lawyer, and a decent writer.

But as Joe Kenenedy Sr. once told his son John, "The most important thing you have to do in this world is to do a good job of raising your kids." And I think that is a true thing. Nothing else is as important.

[jackson_dem]

5. Here is a list of presidential candidates she has endorsed in the past

1980: Ted Kennedy (primaries)
1980: (general)
1984:
1988:
1992:
1996:
2000:
2004:
2008: Barack Obama (primaries)

[Yael]

9. Now THAT is a statement.

[emilyg]

10. That's nice. But other than her name

why would her endorsement be important?

[jackson_dem]

12. It shouldn't be. If she was a committed Democrat where was she all those years?

[CANDO]

13. That's your second attempt....

why not try and be an absolute ASS a third time! Sheeesh!

[emilyg]

14. Hey little man - tell me what Caroline accomplished in life.

[CANDO]

16. Google her....

if you're that interested. But obviously you are not. You'd rather be an ass and make a completely over the top remark about someone who is endorsing a candidate other than yours. You're forgetting we Democrats do "nuance".

[Coexist]

11. .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Kennedy
Kennedy is an attorney, editor, and writer. She is one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually to a person who exemplifies the type of courage examined in her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. The award is generally given to elected officials who, acting in accord with their conscience, risk their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or powerful pressures from their constituents. In May 2002, she presented an unprecedented Profiles in Courage Award to representatives of the NYPD, the New York City Fire Department, and the military as representatives of all of the people who acted to save the lives of others during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.<3>

Kennedy is currently President of the Kennedy Library Foundation,<4> a director of both the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Honorary Chairman of the American Ballet Theatre. She is also an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father.

In addition, Kennedy has represented her family at the funeral services of former Presidents Ronald Reagan in 2004 and Gerald Ford in 2007, and at the funeral service of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in 2007.

Caroline Kennedy also represented her family at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas in November 2004.


Works published
Kennedy and Ellen Alderman have written two books together on civil liberties:

In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights In Action (1990) and
The Right to Privacy (1995)
On her own, she has edited these New York Times best-selling volumes:

A Patriot’s Handbook
The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children
Profiles in Courage for Our Time

[emilyg]

15. Thank you.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. K&R

[polichick]

6. Caroline said again in the Gibson interview...

It was partly the excitement of her oldest daughter, who votes for the first time this year, that influenced her. Some might say excitement is not much of a reason to vote for someone, but without it there's not enough momentum to rally people to the polls.

[cooolandrew]

8. Yes, we can be perfect on the issues but if no-one is motivated to vote we're at square one.Obama 08

[cooolandrew]

7. God bless ya Caroline. A wonderful daughter from a great father.