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Return to Camelot

Thje US Constitution expressly forbids a monarchy. Yet we come pretty close at times. Ethics can also involve a concept of fairness, everyone is for fairness but everyone has a different idea of what it is.  The situation involving the Il Governonr trying to profit from his Senate appointment for Barack's vacant seat is clearly illegal. The situtaion in New York is quite different.

recall that Hillary ran for President against Barack Obama.  She thought she had it wrapped up, got 18 M votes, and lost.  Carolyn Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama. Now Hillary stands to be Barack's Secy of State.  Carolyn meanwhile, never having run for office or earned a living wage to my knowledge, has decided she wants to be the Senator.  She brings the Kennedy name and good photo opportunity looks but gee, this sounds like entitlement!  No working one's way up the political ladder here. 

So what say you?  HIllary is upset but then perhaps she needs to remember she is now a team player for the new President.  What about deserving State Senators or mayors who have labored for many years winning elections and learning the political craft.  Fairness, hmmm, Princess Carolyn of Camelot?

I look forward to discussing this in our ethics class this spring!

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2 responses to “Return to Camelot”

  1. Yovela Rico Avatar
    Yovela Rico

    I agree that experience must be a factor in a political seat but, why is Hillary Clinton mad? She never ran for office before she ran for senate and she hadn’t lived in New York either. I understand she has done a lot throughout her life in various committee’s and campaigns along with everything she did in the White House back in the 90’s however, why is she criticizing Caroline Kennedy for aspiring to the same goals that she had? Perhaps Caroline is trying to get her foot in the door for the next presidential election.

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  2. Dennis Elam Avatar
    Dennis Elam

    English and French history is a soap opera of kings and queens and such vying for power, if Caroly is considered a Princess by tghe press, at 12 years her senior what role does Hillary see herself playing, Duchess, Viceroy, former Queen, remember that when she started running Hillary only had staged press conferences with pre selected questions and answers, it was only once she was behind Barack that she started grating real interviews to folks like O Reily, she thought her nomination for president would be a coronation, I doubt she has recovered from that shock yet, If names like Elizabeth and Henry dot the British throne and names like Marie and Louis the French then we have
    Dole, Clinton, Bush, Kennedy all of whose familiy names appear on ballots again and again as well as in office, elsewhere we have near permanent figures like Robert Byrd and Charlie Rangel, these guys are surely the Dukes of Washington they believe they are entitled simply by being there so long
    Yovela is of course perfectly correct from a citizen point of view but I do not think that is the Inside the Beltway POV!

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