Caroline Kennedy: A President Like My Father

[dailykoff]

Just a positive reminder of why Obama is winning the nomination to become our next president:



A President Like My Father
By CAROLINE KENNEDY
The New York Times, January 27, 2008

OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.

My reasons are patriotic, political and personal, and the three are intertwined. All my life, people have told me that my father changed their lives, that they got involved in public service or politics because he asked them to. And the generation he inspired has passed that spirit on to its children. I meet young people who were born long after John F. Kennedy was president, yet who ask me how to live out his ideals.

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

We have that kind of opportunity with Senator Obama. It isn’t that the other candidates are not experienced or knowledgeable. But this year, that may not be enough. We need a change in the leadership of this country — just as we did in 1960.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27kennedy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[candice]

1. Obama is not doing the Democratic brand much good right now...

...is Caroline doing ads to sell Obama currently?

[flor de jasmim]

2. She was with Michelle O. Wed. in Indiana

[dailykoff]

6. Yes it looks like she campaigned at a couple of Indiana events today:

Caroline Kennedy will be in Boonville
On campaign trail with Michelle Obama

By Mark Wilson (Contact)
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

The daughter of President John F. Kennedy will campaign with the wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama in Boonville, Ind., on Wednesday.

Michelle Obama and Caroline Kennedy will appear at a campaign event in the Alcoa Building at the Warrick County 4-H Center, 133 East Degonia Road, the campaign announced late Tuesday afternoon.

Preparations for the visit apparently were made in one day and took many county residents by surprise. Warrick County Democratic Chairman Terry White said he was not informed of the visit until he was contacted by reporters. However, he welcomed the visit and said he has had previous contact with the Obama campaign.

(snip)

Now an author, Caroline Kennedy is the only surviving child of Kennedy and the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Michelle Obama and her husband, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will appear at an event in Indianapolis earlier today that the campaign is billing as a "Discussion With Indiana Working Families."

Obama is locked in a tight race with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in the Tuesday Indiana Democratic primary. At stake are Indiana's pledged 72 convention delegates, increasingly important to the party's presidential nomination this summer in Denver. The high-profile political attention by presidential candidates in Indiana is unusual; the Hoosier state has not voted in a highly contested Democratic primary since 1968, when the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy won the primary.

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/apr/30/caroline-kennedy-will-be-in-boonville/

[dailykoff]

3. Hi candice, not that I know of.

I haven't heard of any since super Tuesday back in early Feb. I'm not sure how much they helped, but I think Obama is pretty much a done deal as far the nomination.

[JanusAscending]

10. He is doing better for the "brand" than Hillary is!

Just ask Teddy, his son, his sister Ethel, and neice Maria how they think he's doing. I think they would know much better than you. I also believe that JFK would be very proud of America if Obama were President!!

[Cha]

4. Thank you, Caroline!

I know she knows who and why she's supporting Obama and I guess that whole Wright thang didn't throw her off.

Sorry, m$$fm jerkoffs. :nopity: :nopity:

[bhikkhu]

5. Beautiful and moving article...

It could be said that nothing but hard calculation, brains and backbone are needed in a mechanical view of politics. This letter is a good example of a better view, and how much more we can hope for.

[FightingIrish]

7. Irony and goosebumps

I was in Indiana when her father was murdered. That was a tragedy that I shared with the Hoosiers and now I'm praying for them to help us get back on course we lost four and a half decades ago.

[dailykoff]

8. Here's what a Hoosier wrote yesterday to an Evansville paper:

Posted by sandraburkhart on April 30, 2008 at 5:33 a.m.

Thank you Caroline Kennedy for standing up and showing that a smart person would not vote for a lying political FAT CAT like Clinton, but would choose a politician like Obama who is more interested in the welfare of this country. The Kennedys have always promoted change and power to the "common" people of this country. "Ask not what this country can do for you, but what you can do for this country."

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/apr/30/caroline-kennedy-will-be-in-boonville/

[JanusAscending]

9. JFK looks like he is enjoying his children in the first pic!

They seem to be doing an Irish Jig!! The second pic is just too sad for words. I had lost the first President I ever voted for. I'm so proud that Caroline recognizes GREATNESS the same as I do! Thank you for this post.

[dailykoff]

15. Doesn't he?

They all seem so happy. I hadn't seen either of these pics before but they really tell the story. I think Caroline knows exactly what's going on and who's in league with the perps and that's why she's campaigning her heart out for the good guy.

[goclark]

11. I attended the rally at UCLA and Caroline Kennedy spoke

She is absolutely lovely and appears to be very shy.
Such class ~ her parents would be so proud of her.

[nsd]

12. Thanks for posting this.

It's good to have a reminder of what we're working for.

[dailykoff]

17. It sure is!

Caroline represents everything we've lost and I complete understand her support for Obama. I think it helps tremendously too.

And thanks for the thanks! :hi:

[Tellurian]

13. Jack and Jackie are spinning for Caroline to be duped by this shill!

The comparison is a disgrace in itself!

[dailykoff]

16. Do you really think she's naive?

If she knows half of what I know she has every reason to oppose the Clintons, and I'm sure she knows a HELL of a lot more than I do.

Why don't you try taking Hillary out of the equation for a minute and just judging Obama as an individual instead of as a rival? I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

[Raine]

14. I loved the Kennedys, I love the Obamas!

:loveya: Obama will be a TERRIFIC president. :bounce:

[BenDavid]

18. But obama is sure as hell not anything like your father's brother

Robert kennedy. Robert Kennedy said that if anyone comes across anyone speaking racism and bigotry they should stand up and make it known this is wrong....obama failed this test because he sat his ass in the pew for 16 years listening to his mentor speak vile, contempt words of bigotry and racist remarks about white america, Israel, jews and any others that he could.....

Yes obama you failed brother and in your press conference you were offended because wright said you were a politician, but never addressed the bigotted and racist remarks by wright. You need to lose because if you win the nomination you will sink the democratic party.....

[dailykoff]

19. Wright would not make such remarks if Obama was in attendance.

Obama has been a well-known public figure in Chicago for some time, so it's entirely possible that he saw a milder side of Wright than others.

Anyway can you point to anything specific that Wright has said?