Jack Schlossberg, former President John F. Kennedy’s grandson, speaks out against his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign. CNN’s Abby Phillip explains.
The linked video does not include the full statement. Below is a transcript (via Salon) for those who’d like to read it:
President John F. Kennedy is my grandfather, and his legacy is important. It’s about a lot more than Camelot and conspiracy theories. It’s about public service and courage. It’s about civil rights, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and landing a man on the moon. Joe Biden shares my father’s vision for America, that we do things not because they are easy, but because they are hard. And he is in the middle of becoming the greatest progressive president we’ve ever had.
Under Biden, we’ve added 13 million jobs, unemployment is at its lowest in 60 years. Biden passed the largest investment in infrastructure since the New Deal and the largest investment in green energy ever. He’s appointed more federal judges than any president since my grandfather. He ended our longest war. He ended the COVID pandemic, and he ended [former President] Donald Trump. These are the issues that matter. And if my cousin, Bobby Kennedy Jr., cared about any of them, he would support Joe Biden too.
Instead, he’s trading in on Camelot, celebrity conspiracy theories and conflict for personal gain and fame. I’ve listened to him. I know him. I have no idea why anyone thinks he should be president. What I do know is his candidacy is an embarrassment. Let’s not be distracted again by somebody’s vanity project. I’m excited to vote for Joe Biden in my state’s primary, and again in the general election. And I hope you will too.
Damn, seems we all have that dumbass cousin, you know, someone nobody likes to see because of their offensive stupidity.
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I want the record to show that I was one of the people who downvoted this, and I wanted to explain why. I agree that RFK Jr.'s candidacy is a complete joke. I just don’t think someone who happens to be related to him saying it who has no more political expertise than any of us deserves to make news.
Except that one time that guy ran for Congress or senate, and like 5 of his 6 siblings made an ad that he was not a good guy for the job. I believed that.
Gossar. Hes still in congress, even after going to the nazi sponsored (literally) “america first” confrence that runs alongaide CPAC.
I also googled it after I posted and noticed it was ALL SIX of his siblings
That seems like a good reason.
And, isn’t RFKJ’s candidacy itself a vanity campaign trading on the family name? He’s a politically incoherent, roided-out crank, with no qualifications, who would be shouting at clouds, but for the family name?
I think this dumb dynasty stuff is acceptable only because the only reason we know RFK Jr.'s name (vs. the other randos who throw their hat in the ring and get ignored) is because of the dynasty. If the media just treated him as a nobody who has no business running for president and clearly isn’t making a real bid to win, then they also wouldn’t treat his nobody relatives as having any legitimacy in political commentary, but since they do the former, they’ll also do the latter.
It goes toward character, your honour.
JFK Jr. Is alive. Q confirmed ✅ /s
