Comments on: Cold Enough http://jaimesblog.americasdebate.com/2009/08/27/cold-enough/ Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:24:44 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Doclotus http://jaimesblog.americasdebate.com/2009/08/27/cold-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-42242 Doclotus Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:36:43 +0000 http://jaimesblog.americasdebate.com/?p=508#comment-42242 What struck me about Kennedy's passing was the time perspective. If any of Rose's famous sons had emerged on the political scene in this era, I have little doubt, save maybe for Robert, that any of them would have gotten even a sniff of the White House. Ted would have been a one term senator after Chappaquiddick. John's indiscretions would have made Mark Sanford & Jon Kyl blush. I don't know enough about Bobby to say either way what his fate would be. That being said, Ted imo was an outstanding senator, especially for this era, and a very flawed human being who spent much of his life trying to atone for some of his more obvious human failures. Doc What struck me about Kennedy’s passing was the time perspective. If any of Rose’s famous sons had emerged on the political scene in this era, I have little doubt, save maybe for Robert, that any of them would have gotten even a sniff of the White House. Ted would have been a one term senator after Chappaquiddick. John’s indiscretions would have made Mark Sanford & Jon Kyl blush. I don’t know enough about Bobby to say either way what his fate would be.

That being said, Ted imo was an outstanding senator, especially for this era, and a very flawed human being who spent much of his life trying to atone for some of his more obvious human failures.

Doc

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