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December 16, 2008

16 Reasons I Like the Idea of Caroline Kennedy Replacing Hillary as NY Senator

By Rob Kall

She brings the same kind of credentials Hillary brought when she ran-- blood relation proximity to power. Hillary did pretty well. She'd cream Rudi Giuliani come 2010 when there's a competitive race.

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I like her. She played a powerful role in giving Obama momentum and worked for him, even going to farmers markets, getting in close with the grassroots folks.

She brings the same kind of credentials Hillary brought when she ran-- blood relation proximity to power. Hillary did pretty well.

There's magic in the Kennedy name that attracts power and support and love.

If she does eight years, and does well, she could be the first female president, following Obama. God save her from the Kennedy curse.

We don't have clear pronouncements of her positions yet, but she supported Obama. I hope she's more liberal than Obama.

We need more women in the senate. She qualifies.

She's smart, polished, knows the ropes in the world of power. Those are strong qualifications.

She's soooo different from Sarah Palin-- classy, smart, educated, sophisticated.

Even Republicans will have a hard time attacking the daughter of JFK.

She'd cream Rudi Giuliani come 2010 when there's a competitive race.

She's probably got the support of Michael Moore, who advised her to "pull a Cheney,", meaning, as a member of Obama's vice presidential selection committee, she should choose herself.

Besides Michael Moore, a poll of New Yorkers shows them favoring Kennedy over Andrew Cuomo 44% TO 23%, with all other possible candidates in the single digits.

She's a Harvard grad. Sound familiar?

She's a member of the NY and Washington D.C. bar associations.

Wikipedia reports:

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. The award is generally given to elected officials who, acting in accord with their conscience, risk their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or powerful pressures from their constituents.

That tells me she's thought a lot about what makes a politician not only good, but great and how those who become great do it by taking risks going for the big picture, visionary goal. 

She's co-authored two books on civil liberties:

  • In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights In Action (1990) and
  • The Right to Privacy (1995)

 



Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.


Check out his platform at RobKall.com


He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity


He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com


more detailed bio:


Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.


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