Bobby's oldest son, Robert Kennedy, Jr., is under attack from the right for his post at
The Huffington Post in which he talked of Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's role in dismantling the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Kennedy wrote:
Now we are all learning what it's like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and--now--Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.
Of course he's right. And for this, he is now being soundly trashed by the right who claim he is blaming the hurricane on Barbour. Any sane reading of the piece shows this isn't true. But to expect sanity from people who still support Bush is, well, you get it.
What this is REALLY about is that the right still fears the Kennedys above all. They brought people together from all segments of society. And as I wrote last night,
Bobby Kennedy (Sr.) showed us what real leadership looked like.
This latest rant against Robert Kennedy, Jr. seems less based on anything he said and more based on the fear that he is gaining in national prominence and may some day reach the office his father was seeking when he was assassinated. I hope I live to see that day. I hope HE lives to see that day. Martin Luther King quoted another philosopher when he said the arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice. I wonder. Maybe it peaks at justice, and then descends again into tyranny. I hope not. I'd like to think there is light at the end of our political tunnel.