The Democratic National Committee and the Biden campaign are working demanding to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. off the ballot. As activist Scott Presler has noted, they are preventing him from appearing on the North Carolina ballot along with presidential candidate and professor Cornel West. While it is unlikely that Kennedy could win the presidency, the fact that he is an alternative to both President Joe Biden and former president and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump is a major incentive for many who despise the alternatives on offer. Kennedy has positioned himself as an real truth-teller and white knight for Americans’ freedom of speech and medical autonomy.
The machinations of the Democrats in North Carolina
The Democratic-controlled State Election Board blocks the election of Robert Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Cornel West.
despite the fact that both political parties (We the People and Justice for All) met the petition requirements of state law. … pic.twitter.com/YMUn7d8Q7p
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) 27 June 2024
But journalist Maureen Callahan’s recent book could facilitate to destroy this image and Story complete.
A recent book Don’t Ask: The Kennedys and the Women Who Destroyed Them by Maureen Callahan, out July 2 from Little, Brown and Company, examines the scandals that have long been intertwined with the complicated history of America’s most notable political family, from Chappaquiddick to the death of Martha Moxley to Rosemary Kennedy’s disastrous lobotomy and more.
In an exclusive excerpt below, Callahan writes about Mary Richardson Kennedy, a talented architect who married Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy Jr. in 1994. They had four children together and separated in 2010. They were still formally married when she committed suicide on May 16, 2012.
The excerpt paints a truly horrific picture of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., particularly in the way he treated his estranged wife after her suicide.
In Bobby’s account here and in the press, he was the victim endured by his mentally disturbed, alcoholic wife, who, at the depths of their divorce, was found unconscious at the dinner table, face down in her food.
The funeral, however, was elegant. The service ended with “America the Beautiful,” a tribute to everything the Kennedys gave to their country.
A week later, Bobby Jr. had Mary’s casket dug up from the Kennedy family plot in Massachusetts in the middle of the night and carried 700 feet away without informing Mary’s siblings or obtaining the necessary legal permissions. When reporters learned of this and asked why, Bobby had a family spokesman say he had not realized how crowded the Kennedy family plot had been.
Mary had to face the traffic, her grave was buried alone and without a tombstone.
Journalist Megyn Kelly interviewed Callahan on her podcast and went even deeper into this story, the good, the bad and the ugly of the Kennedy men and the legends that surround this family. In reference to Kennedy Jr. and his run for president, Callahan asked this crucial question.
Maureen Callahan: It’s not just about this marriage, this adultery, this cruelty. It’s about a very central question: What does Bobby Kennedy really think about women? How can we expect women to vote for him and believe that he really respects us and has our best interests at heart?
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Kelly also brings up a great point. This information would be fair game if it were Trump – in fact, it would be on the news 24/7. So it should be fair game for a Kennedy, and even more so since he comes from that bloodline.
Why isn’t that the case? Why do we pretend that bad behavior isn’t bad behavior when we support the person’s political views? Why are men like Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy held up as standard-bearers, but Donald J. Trump is labeled as the lowest of the low, even though his behavior has similarities in terms of marital fidelity but is nowhere near as egregious as what Bill Clinton or the Kennedys did? Case in point: When I typed the words “wandering politician” into my Brave browser (not Google), both the first hits in the AI ​​summary and the search results were Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich. Then came a list of articles about politicians whoring around in the Philippines and China. William Jefferson Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Teddy Kennedy, not even John Edwards made the top ten. So to say that the established media and algorithms intentionally favor the marital misdeeds of Republicans and conservatives over those of Democrats and the left is an understatement.
Callahan and Kelly also discussed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s defense of his cousin Michael Skakel. In 1975, Skakel was convicted of murdering his 15-year-old neighbor Martha Moxley and spent 10 years in prison. The conviction was overturned and the state decided not to retry Skakel. Kennedy written a book“Framed,” in which he proclaims his cousin’s innocence and lays out who he believes the real killers were. He names the potential killers, men from the Bronx who happen to be black and biracial. So not only does this give insight into Kennedy’s view of women, but one can also question his willingness to continue to portray people of color as rapists and murderers when the evidence dictates otherwise.
Callahan and Kelly began by focusing on Teddy Kennedy and the death of Mary Jo Kopechne and Skakel’s actions, and talked about how the Kennedy family’s money, power and influence allow them to cover up their crimes and protect each other. Callahan made it clear that Kennedy’s complicity in defending his cousin and creating an alternate scenario in which non-whites are scapegoats is another reason to think twice about voting for him as president. “He has a lot to answer for,” Callahan said.
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Callahan reiterates her view that the Kennedy family’s damaging view of women and their treatment of them has infected the culture and the way other women talk about the Mary Jo Kopechnes and Martha Moxleys who were caught up in the Kennedys’ web.
“Women themselves are defending this indefensible behavior toward their own sex,” Callahan said. Women considering voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should take a closer look at his first marriage, his background with his current wife and his views, and then reconsider their choice of presidential candidate.
