'I boil when I think of him': For former aides of Senator Robert Kennedy, his son's campaign strikes a raw nerve

[Nevilledog]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/04/nation/rfk-jr-campaign-father-aides-reject-legacy/

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Like a lot of people who worked for the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Peter Edelman still has strong, reverent feelings for the man, more than 50 years after he was assassinated.

“I think about him every day,” said Edelman, who worked for Kennedy for four years in the 1960s and is now a professor at Georgetown Law School. “I love him. He was wonderful.”

Edelman has equally strong — but far less warm — feelings about Kennedy’s son, the third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“Terrible. Sad. And really dangerous,” was how Edelman described RFK Jr.’s long-shot bid for the presidency, in a recent interview. “The point is that this person is not serious.”

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[Biophilic]

1. I can't imagine how hard it must be for these people to see RFK's son this way.

He makes my blood boil and I was way removed but saw what a wonderful person he was. His son not even close. My one consolation is that this isn’t a new story in history. The sons of many great leaders have often fallen way short of their father’s legacy.

[Irish_Dem]

2. It's pretty upsetting to me.

I became a political junkie when JFK ran against Nixon.
I was just a kid.

JFK was an Irish Catholic from Boston, just like my dad.
Sounded just like my Dad's family.

JFK's murder was my first big dose of political reality.

John and Bobby are rolling over in their graves at RFK Jr.

[hlthe2b]

3. The 96 yo Ethel Kennedy was supposedly behind the family's endorsement of Biden on St. Pat's

Since I'd not heard about her in some time, I had assumed she was really frail or might even suffer dementia, but if this article (Daily Mail, I know) is to be believed, she is not only WITH it, but very disgusted with her son RFK JR. If this is the case, I am incredulous that he is going ahead. His own Mother can't stand what he is doing! Supports the periodic reporting and rumors that Ethel long ago wrote off her third-born son

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13241033/Ethel-Kennedy-RFK-St-Patricks-Joe-Biden-White-House.html

EXCLUSIVE
RFK Jr.'s mother Ethel, 95, was behind Kennedy clan's humiliating endorsement of Joe Biden - as her combative history with her presidential candidate son is exposed

Ethel Kennedy is 'the force behind the family's decision' to support Joe Biden for a second term over her son RFK Jr.'s presidential bid, sources tell DailyMail.com
Kennedy family insiders claim the clan's St. Patrick's Day photo-op at the White House was another snub against RFK Jr., 'based on Ethel's wishes'
'There's no doubt the Kennedy-centered St. Patty's Day scenario on the steps of the White House Rose Garden was a big middle finger to Bobby,' the source said