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It does take some brass neck to suggest that Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg was chosen for the VP selection committee just because her smile is winsome. "The torch is passed to a new generation" Uncle Teddy is now quoting in relation to Barack Obama but unfortunately for Mary Jo Kopechne and her family she was fated never to produce "a new generation". The Kennedys did eveything they could to limit the damage to their reputation, even managing to have an inquest in Massachusetts conducted in private (on the orders of the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court). This is very similar to what the British ROYAL FAMILY did when Princess Diana's inquest was conducted ten years after her death; the difference is that the British monarchy didn't get away with an attempt to preclude the public while the Boston Royal Family did.
Joseph Kennedy, the Hitler-appeaser, made his money during Prohibition and had a lovely "friendship" with a star of that era, Gloria Swanson. Ah yes, but that's so long ago....That's true but slavery is even longer ago and some people are not prepared to let go of that, are they? It's coming up in this thread and every other one that offers an opportunity to blame every white person for what happened in America from the l7th to the l9th century.
There must be vacancies for despots around the world and there are some prime candidates in the letters section of Salon; they'd like to decide who can voice an opinion and who cannot, they'd like to suppress all views which are counter to the Obama orthodoxy and theyr're not above harassment of other writers (often in the crudest language) when it suits their purpose. It's a fairly widespread phenomenon that women are afraid to go on to the Net to express a viewpoint because it's male-dominated and the veiled threats are disturbing. However, to avoid abusive langugae, moderators use a form of sifting. Salon states that abusiveness will not be allowed but, day after day, there are refernces to excrement, genitalia, mental capacity in furtherance of no cogent argument, or facts, but with the sole purpose of intimidation.
