I caught a talking head today giving his two cents on the importance of Ted and Caroline Kennedy's endorsement of Obama.

The question posed was "Who's endorsement carries more weight, Ted's or Caroline's?"

He jumped and said Caroline's. I thought to myself WTF?

He explained it this way... Ted is a member of the old Democrat Guard and as such doesn't mean give an impression of hope for the future. Caroline he went on to say, invoking the "memory" of her father meant much more to young people.

I have to disagree, I would bet you that 7 out of 10 under the age of 55 couldn't identify Caroline in a F-ing line up. And as for her father's memory, we weren't alive to remember or were so young we know little more than what the history books covered about his brief stint in the Navy as a PT boat commander, Cuba and the missile crisis and his death followed by the outpouring of grief. My sisters are pushing 50 and neither one "remembers" a thing about it. This means that with an average lifespan of 86 years, most of America is too damn young to remember him.  In fact, as a young person told me today, "All I know about Kennedy (the President) is that the country was on the brink of ending twice in his short presidency". (I'm sure this was in reference to the missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs f*** up he managed)

Caroline's endorsement means Jack "Kennedy" s*** to most of America. She's another spoiled Kennedy brat who thinks she can shape the world by bringing up her long ago dead father. To be honest, Ted's doesn't mean s*** either except to the insider power brokers inside the beltway.

Do you think that Ron or Mike Reagan's endorsement would matter a s*** to anyone? Despite the fact that only one of them apparently feels he got enough hugs from Ronnie while the other was frying his brains on whatever dope he could get, it would mean nothing, Even if he had died when Hinkley shot him. But Kennedy is supposed to really mean something? Bulls***.

The entire Camelot bulls*** story just doesn't stand up to the historical record save for a "feeling". Sure unemployment fell from 6'9 to 3.5 by 1968, but Kennedy died in '63, and it was Johnson who pushed through the novel idea of TAX CUTS. May have been Kennedy's idea, but so what, you get credit for what you do, not what you say (unless you are a Democrat, then good intentions mean more than actions). We almost had Soviet missiles 90 miles from our coast because of Kennedy's lack of Gravitas (if Moscow had thought he was a strong leader they never would have even tried it) and then his lack of follow through in the Bay of Pigs left us a Communist country within rafting distance from us for the last 40 plus years.

Ya, invoke the memory of the late, great Kennedy. History gets it right over time and his time is not looked upon all that favorably outside of he made people feel good.

But what would I know; I'm just an Average 21st century American.