Reply #14: Well, I don't know. She could do that or not, but in pragmatic terms, [View All]

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she is on a fast track to that job. Senator Clinton yesterday sent word to her people "not to impede" any possible appointment of CK to the post.

Schumer is evidently on board, if quietly.

Al Sharpton weighed in in favor of CK as well. Sharpton and CK share more consultant connections than is generally known.

The argument I hear on DU and elsewhere is that 'legacy' should not ensure itself, that a daughter or son of an established political celebrity is in some way tainted by virtue of that bloodline or legacy.

I reject that argument on grounds that the Kennedy legacy, to choose one, is a legacy of public service, where the Bush legacy, to choose another, offers no examples of the same public service because none was at its source. John Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, but the audio tapes of the phone calls he and his Attorney General brother made to southern governors are astonishingly forward-looking.

Needless to say, the southern Governors on those tapes were playing their own backyards, which from South Carolina to East Texas were strewn with Strom Thurmond Democrats. The Kennedys were back-east and up-north boys, and the southern Governors didn't like them much.