Reply #153: Caroline Kennedy's Wiki Resume: [View All]

[demwing]

For those that may be unfamiliar, I've added a link to Kennedy's wiki-bio. For those who doubt her, tell me honestly that ANY other person with this resume would be called unfit to serve. This doesn't pass the sniff test.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Kennedy

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author and attorney. She is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.

She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, after attending the Brearley School, and Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan, and Concord Academy in Massachusetts.

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.

After interning with her uncle, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, and at The New York Daily News...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.
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The concept that Kennedy may not be the best candidate is irrelevant, and impossible to call based on resumes. Another politician may have years of impressive service, but be no more or less effective that a newcomer. The proof is in the puding, and Kennedy certainly has all the right ingredients. The fact that she comes from a venerable democratic political clan is a plus, not a minus, imo.

If you disagree, explain in what way her family name would hurt her, her party, or her country.