[Vision2020] How Does This Sound?

[Tom Hansen]

We all realize that Caroline Kennedy  comes from an extremely renowned 
(globally) family.  But, also . . .

Courtesy of Wikipedia at:

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[Caroline] Kennedy is an attorney, editor, writer and member of the New 
York and Washington, D.C. bars. She is one of the founders of the Profiles 
in Courage Award, given annually since 1990 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.

>From 2002 to 2004, Kennedy worked as chief executive for the Office of 
Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education. 
During this time, she helped raise more than $65 million for the city’s 
public schools. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of The Fund for 
Public Schools, a public-private partnership founded in 2002 to attract 
private funding for public schools in New York City.

In addition, Kennedy is currently President of the Kennedy Library 
Foundation, 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.

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

It was reported on December 5, 2008 that New York Governor David Paterson 
has discussed with Kennedy the possibility of her filling the Senate seat 
currently occupied by Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton.[7] Her 
uncle Robert F. Kennedy was a senator from New York from 1965 until his 
assassination in 1968.

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 
She is also the author of "A Family Christmas" a collection of poems, 
prose and personal notes from her family history.

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In addition to all that, Caroline Kennedy is simply . . . HOT!

Take THAT, Sarah Palin.
http://tinyurl.com/CarolineKennedy

Now, if you will excuse me, I really must change the flowers in front of 
my Caroline Kennedy portrait.  Now that she will be a US senator, I am 
thinking of changing to a longer-lasting foliage.  Recommendations?

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



> On Monday 08 December 2008 07:15:10 Tom Hansen wrote:
> > Senator Caroline Kennedy (D-NY)
> > Thoughts, V-people?
> 
> Hereditary and ruling class come to mind, along with childhood pictures 
with 
> her father, and the thought of a wealthy, ambitious grandfather 
extending his 
> influence to the second generation of his progeny. She grew up never far 
from 
> the limelight, and never far from the attention of those who concern was 
some 
> aspect of the Kennedy family. When one types the name Caroline into the 
> Google search box, the first suggested additional search word is 
Kennedy, 
> with 9,410,000 links associated -- just one data point indicating she is 
part 
> of the national psyche.
> 
> As the granddaughter of a man of wealth and ambition, and the daughter 
of a 
> man of much public accomplishment, and a member of a larger family 
dedicated 
> to public service, she has personal life experiences that can ground and 
> motivate her own willingness to subject herself to the restrictions and 
> rigors of public service. One hopes her academic experiences as a 
Harvard 
> undergraduate and a Columbia law student have added to the depth and 
breadth 
> of her understanding of world and American history, of economics and the 
> environments that generate it, and of the history and utility of 
American law 
> and the positive social influences it can be drafted to encourage.
> 
> >From an understanding of her familial and educational background even a 
blind 
> man could understand the value of the hereditary social iconography she 
would 
> bring to a seat in the United States Senate. Whether all of this 
preparation 
> and potential can prove itself practical and productive in the 
performance of 
> a Senatorial role, only the rigors of reality will reveal to her 
observers. 
> And as history continues, the influence of of one President's daughter 
on one 
> or another Presidential daughter, not to mention everyone else, may 
reveal 
> itself in the fullness of time.
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
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