The musings of an obscure assistant district attorney about the national political scene don’t typically generate any buzz.
But when said ADA is named Kennedy and his utterance comes on the floor of the Great and General Court, almost 50 years to the day after his great-uncle John F. Kennedy took the rostrum to deliver his “City on a Hill” speech, things can be a little different.
So when Joseph P. Kennedy III on Tuesday publicly deplored the “atmosphere of hate” enveloping American politics, hitting themes similar to those uttered by the president-elect 50 years ago — “men of dedication, with an honor mortgaged to no single individual or group, and compromised by no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the public good and the national interest” — the discussion on Beacon Hill rapidly turned to whether the family had, at last, found an heir to the great family legacy, and a real politico among the fourth generation removed from the ward politics of Boston. A run against Republican Sen. Scott Brown next year, perhaps, or a bid to take one of the state’s nine post-redistricting House seats.
Full Story: NationalJournal.com – The Next Kennedy? – Wednesday, January 12, 2011