Who is Caroline Kennedy?

What has Caroline Kennedy done other than being daughter of JFK that was noteworthy before the Obama endorsement?

To be honest, and I'm not exaggerating, I did not know who Caroline Kennedy was until she endorsed Barack Obama. I automatically knew she was related to JFK as soon as I saw the implication in the media that someone huge had endorsed Obama.

Please enlighten me.

Something about the 60s?!!

You should have been there.

In CA-ME-LOT!

Oh, the hypocrisy.

Thanks for your answers guys.

Hey, Bernie...ain't it time to do your paper route.

TRY READING SOMETHING FROM THE HISTORY SECTION OF YOUR JR. HIGH LIBRARY

The Latin: Douchius Bagius


The man in the MIDDLE is RFK- you'll have to "google" that name, dipstick

Good question.

:hi:

And I Google told me she's JFK's daughter. And she endorsed Obama.

She is also an author but she isn't really politcal. Her opinion really shouldn't count for much.She said her kids asked her to endorse Obama! But she has sentimental value for many Dems.

Got a link to back up your claim that "her kids asked her to endorse Obama!?"

According to this article, Caroline credits her children for getting her to take a closer look at Obama.

She does works on a lot of noble and charitable issues but you don't hear much about it because she doesn't advertise it. I saw her being interviewed a while back and she seemed very down to earth, even though she is very rich.

Kennedy is an attorney, editor, and writer. She is one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually 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. In May 2002, she presented an unprecedented Profiles in Courage Award to representatives of the NYPD, the New York City Fire Department, and the military as representatives of all of the people who acted to save the lives of others during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.<3>

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.Works published

Kennedy and Ellen Alderman have written two books together on civil liberties:

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

On her own, she has edited these New York Times best-selling volumes:

* A Patriot’s Handbook
* The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
* A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children
* Profiles in Courage for Our Time

She is also the author of "A Family Christmas" a collection of poems, prose and personal notes from her family history.

Here is the long list of Democratic presidential candidates she has endorsed:

1980 (primaries): Her uncle
1980 (general):
1984:
1988:
1992:
1996:
2000:
2004:
2008 (primaries): Obama

:rofl:

I have been at DU for many years, but I think this is the first time a post has every REALLY made me laugh out loud!

you were supporting him!

At the 2000 Democratic National Convention, Caroline gave a great speech about Al Gore. If that's not an endorsement, then what is?

primary fray. :-)

are you 12 yrs old or something? She is an author.


These are the books she has written:

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

Kennedy is currently President of the Kennedy Library Foundation and director of both the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

She's written several books, one on the bill of rights. She's a lawyer. She's written several childrens' books, or more accurately edited books of poetry for children. She's involved with public education in NYC and has been for years. She's on the board of the NAACP and several other organizations. There's more.

And just being the only surviving daughter of JFK makes her endorsement a huge deal, particularly as she's only endorsed in the primaries once before and that was for Teddy in 1980.

has made public endorsements such a rare event is what makes it something out of the ordinary.

She's the only daughter of President Kennedy. Her last name has changed since she is now married and has children. She's pretty much kept out of politics considering her father and brother were assassinated.

She spoke at some DNC conventions but that's it. Yes...Google it.

Google is your friend..... http://www.who2.com/carolinekennedyschlossberg.html

Hi bernice!

Don't mind some folks around here. It's full of rude people but I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you didn't know. Don't be afraid to ask questions. That is what DU is suppose to be for.

That's really all I need to know.



From wiki:

Kennedy is an attorney, editor, and writer. She is one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually 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. In May 2002, she presented an unprecedented Profiles in Courage Award to representatives of the NYPD, the New York City Fire Department, and the military as representatives of all of the people who acted to save the lives of others during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

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

What has Hillary Clinton done other than being Wife of Bill Clinton that was noteworthy before the DLC endorsement?

To be honest, and I'm not exaggerating, I did not know who Hillary Clinton was until she endorsed herself. I automatically knew she was related to Bubba as soon as I saw the implication in the media that someone huge had endorsed Hillary.

Please enlighten me.




























(this post is :sarcasm: .....at least mostly)

among other accomplishments.

may have some merit; but a public speaker she is not. And by the way, didn't Robert Kennedy's son, Robert Kennedy Jr. endorse Hillary Clinton way back. So what's all the hoopla about Caroline Kennedy's endorsement anyway. :nopity:

who switched to Obama from Clinton after she heard. The older folks voted for her dad and believed in him. They not just believed in him they all cried when he and his brother died.

That is who she is to us...nothing to the young but everything to those who remember....

Yes, we cried and cried some more. It was bad enough to lose JFK. Then to lose RFK and MLK. I remember burying my face in my hands and screaming out "what is happening to our country?" The dignity of Jackie throughout that terrible time and the picture of her with Caroline and John holding her hands and John saluting the casket as it passed before them was so symbolic of the loss the whole country felt. Caroline has led a life of service and she's done so while keeping her private life private. I admire and respect her. She has brought honor to her family. And I suspect, Bernice, she doesn't know who the heck you are either. Can you match her resume? Dig your head out of the sand.

Thank you.

:applause:

Seriously, its time to get a grip.

so that you vote just as she is going to vote. Don't you get it?

Consider yourself ALERTED ,Candy Girl!

She was a beautiful little girl who lived in a big white house on Pennsylvania Ave and rode around the grounds on her pony named Macaroni.

it should also be noted that Caroline Kennedy is the closest thing to a princess that this country has ever had. Not only was she the daughter of an extremely dashing president and his beautiful, elegant and brilliant wife, she spent her early years in the spotlight as the darling of much of the country - one of the few young children to ever live in the White House, the object of much affectionate obsession by the press and public. Called "Buttons" by her father, Caroline captured the nation's imagination (and mine) by seeming to be, despite all of the attention, a very normal little girl - walking around in her mother's shoes, skipping about the Oval Office, and riding her pony Macaroni (well, maybe she wasn't all THAT normal).

Caroline was just a few days shy of her 6th birthday when her father was so cruelly ripped away from her family. While her little brother John-John fidgeted obliviously during the funeral and then snapped the perfect little salute that broke the nation's heart, Caroline stayed by her mother's side throughout those horrible days, watching her closely and comforting her with a little gloved hand.

If she did nothing else in her life, many people would always remember and love Caroline just for that.

But she DID do something with her life. Unlike many other youngsters of her generation and her social and economic class (including some of her own cousins), Caroline not only stayed out of trouble, but - largely thanks to her amazing mother - grew up to be a strong, hard-working, socially-committed woman who put her nose to the grindstone, shunned the spotlight and never embarrassed her family with inappropriate behavior. No Paris Hilton, she.

JeffR described many of her accomplishments. But I think that one of her most significant accomplishments is that, although she could have lived a life of great comfort, ease, and detachment, this woman instead chose to make a life that would have made her parents very, very proud.

This little girl who once made us smile and who lost so much so young and so unfairly has grown into a strong, beautiful woman who helps us remember, makes us care, and inspires us to do just a little bit more than expected of us.

THAT'S who Caroline Kennedy is.

A beautiful post!

I was too young to remember those days,but for some reason she touches my heart as no other endorsement has. Teddy is a great endorsement but for me Caroline was the catch.

That was a wonderful tribute to her you just wrote there and I thank you for it.

So Caroline Kennedy passed the bar exam, and co-wrote a couple of books, and does charity work, which is pretty easy to do when your family is rich and famous. It's been a little funny to see the Obamatrons with all their "No Dynasty!" rhetoric go all weak at the knees because the daughter of JFK endorsed him.

Ted Kennedy counts for something after all his long service in the Senate and his great legislative work over the years; non-dynastically, Caroline Kennedy, not to put too fine a point on it, doesn't.

(Oh, but weren't she and "John-John" such adorable tow-headed little moppets hiding under the Oval Office desk in those celebrated photographs from almost half a century ago! :sarcasm: )

Her father and uncle were assassinated by the MIC for trying to end the conflict in Vietnam.

Her brother, was killed in a plane crash after exploring running for what is now Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. (JFK, Jr., an accomplished pilot, died when his plane crashed while flying in perfect whether.)

When she takes the stage to make a political endorsement, or enter the political fray, her life is in jeopardy.

Few other "celebrity" endorsements come with the same risk.

She's one of the most accomplished Americans alive.

I agree with others here in this thread: get googlin'.

Who is caroline?
Bullshit,dipstick...WHY DID IT TAKE YOU 7 YEARS AND 1 MONTH TO FIND D.U. ?????

Disruptor in the worst sense.

Only if she endorsed your candidate. But since she is endorsing the other candidate she is a nobody.

and I apologize for the many rude comments that you are getting. I fear that the closer to the election, the worse it will get.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4330764

:hi:

Do you not know about the Bay of Pigs, either? :eyes: