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aikoaiko

(34,127 posts)
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 08:32 AM Sep 2020

Joe Kennedy III: The Unlikely Kennedy Who Ended the Kennedy Dynasty


When Barney Frank announced his retirement from Congress, Joe III joined a crowded field to replace him. Taking nothing for granted, he worked hard and met thousands of voters face to face. His victory in 2012, with memories of Ted’s emotional send-off still fresh in voters’ minds, was both an affirmation of the power of the Kennedy name and a recognition of its limits: Joe seemed likely to succeed as long as he followed his anti-Kennedy script, earning his way ahead, respecting senior colleagues, taking pains not to appear presumptuous.

But a certain presumptuousness—a willingness to use fame to give voice to the voiceless—is built into the Kennedy image, and voters could only wonder if this new-generation Kennedy was really a Kennedy at all.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/01/joe-kennedy-end-of-a-dynasty-407474
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Joe Kennedy III: The Unlikely Kennedy Who Ended the Kennedy Dynasty (Original Post) aikoaiko Sep 2020 OP
Link? nt tblue37 Sep 2020 #1
Whoops. I just added it to the OP. Thank you. aikoaiko Sep 2020 #2
Thanks. nt tblue37 Sep 2020 #4
Attribution? SaintLouisBlues Sep 2020 #3
This is bullshit . . Iliyah Sep 2020 #5
pathetic hit piece bigtree Sep 2020 #6
agreed. CurtEastPoint Sep 2020 #7
Another shitty article from politico JI7 Sep 2020 #8
Kennedy picked the wrong year MacKasey Sep 2020 #9
Editor Peter Cannelos has an obsessive personal bias against "The Kennedys" Budi Sep 2020 #10
Purity now! Purity forever! BannonsLiver Sep 2020 #11
He didn't "end the Kennedy dynasty" What bullshit. octoberlib Sep 2020 #12

bigtree

(85,915 posts)
6. pathetic hit piece
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 08:44 AM
Sep 2020

...so he lost this round.

Markey isn't going to be in that seat forever ( and we're stil the richer having Markey looking after things as he's done for decades) and Kennedy still with a full future awaiting him, albeit out of office, for now.

 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
10. Editor Peter Cannelos has an obsessive personal bias against "The Kennedys"
Wed Sep 2, 2020, 09:56 AM
Sep 2020

Here's yet another article that exposes his disdain for & almost obsessive desire to write the Kennedys out of history, & anything that may remind him of the family.

Cannelos' personal bias against the Democratic Party is evident on his writings.


https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/07/beto-buttigieg-2020-campaign-kennedy-jfk-226575


Why Beto and Buttigieg Pretend to Be Kennedys
Decades after JFK and RFK were killed, the family’s political style remains the Democratic Party’s only winning path to the White House.

By PETER CANELLOS April 07, 2019


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Cannelos sounds as RW as one can get about the Kennedy family.
And today's latest from Politico is yet another RW hit piece
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