Somehow, this went undiaried, although it was mentioned in a comment or two:
Rory Kennedy: Two fine choices, one clear decision - Obama
Recently, my mother, Ethel Kennedy, said of Obama: "I think he feels it. He feels it just like Bobby did. He has the passion in his heart. He's not selling you. It's just him."
I agree. Obama is a genuine leader. We Americans - women included - desperately need that kind of leader now. Not a president of a particular gender or a specific race, but a president with a different vision, one who inspires a sense of hope.
To elect Barack Obama is to choose a new direction, set a new course - to steer America toward a better place, better for women as well as men, better for us all.
Rory Kennedy, a documentary filmmaker, won an Emmy for her production and direction of "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib."
SFGate.com
Who is Rory? Come beneath the flip...
Oh, and who is Rory Kennedy? What makes her the progressive in the family?
The Washington Post had this to say about "the quiet Kennedy":
When Rory Kennedy has drawn attention to herself, it has been for a cause. There was the time when, still a teenager, she was arrested here during a protest in front of the South African Embassy. When she was a sophomore at Brown University, she organized a rally in front of a Providence, R.I., supermarket, urging shoppers to boycott grapes in solidarity with migrant farm workers. She didn't seem to mind that she was identified as "the daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy."
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Rory once told the New York Times that she did not attend Mass, but did do yoga and meditate. She was a free spirit and, at heart, an activist deeply committed to her causes.
Here's some info from Wikipedia:
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born December 12, 1968) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the youngest of the eleven children of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
(It's worth noting Clinton has been touting her 3 Bobby Kennedy children, although it's rarely mentioned there are 8 more, although a few are no longer with us.)
In 1999, Kennedy's film about a struggling Appalachian family, American Hollow, garnered critical acclaim and many awards. HBO picked up American Hollow for broadcast and publisher Little, Brown & Co released Kennedy's companion book simultaneously.
When asked in a Salon.com article [2] about her interest in the American South, Kennedy cited her father's experiences in the region as an inspiration and starting point. In the same article, she goes on to mention that showing class differences in American culture also motivates her.
Earlier in the 1990s, Kennedy formed a film production company with Vanessa Vadim, a classmate at Brown University and the daughter of Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda, called May Day Media based in Washington, D.C. It is a non-profit production and distribution house that specializes in films with a social conscience.
Kennedy also advocates for several social activism organizations and sits on the board of numerous non-profit organizations.
And for those curious about which "non-profit organizations" she belongs to, this, from what looks like her talent agent (she apparently gives speeches as well):
In addition to her impressive film career, Kennedy is a committed social activist and human-rights advocate, and has sat on the board for numerous non-profit organizations, including: the Legal Action Center, the Project Return Foundation and the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Foundation Associate Trustees Program. She was a member of the 1999 Presidential Mission on AIDS in Africa, and developed the Teacher Transfer Program between the U.S. and Namibia after her work at the Dobra Resettlement Camp. She also has been a member of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Human Rights delegations in South Africa, South Korea, Japan, El Salvador and Poland.