{"id":21969,"date":"2017-05-28T21:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21969"},"modified":"2017-05-28T21:33:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T21:33:40","slug":"jared-kushner-is-no-rfk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21969","title":{"rendered":"Jared Kushner is no RFK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I keep hearing chatter that compares Jared Kushner’s lack of experience to Robert F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n

I must now take up the cudgel for my first political hero … and it’s not Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n

Kushner is under investigation by the FBI and Congress for something<\/em> related to his father-in-law’s 2016 presidential campaign. He allegedly had some contact with Russian government officials that might be improper, it not illegal.<\/p>\n

One of the arguments being offered is that Kushner doesn’t have any experience with government or public policy. They note that his father-in-law, the president, got around federal anti-nepotism laws when he appointed Kushner to be a senior policy adviser in the West Wing of the White House.<\/p>\n

It’s the RFK thing all over again, some of them insist.<\/p>\n

Hold the phone!<\/p>\n

President-elect John F. Kennedy picked his brother to be attorney general shortly after winning the 1960 election. JFK joked at the time that a government job would give his brother some valuable experience when he decided to go into law.<\/p>\n

I want to make a couple of points about Robert Kennedy.<\/p>\n

One is that he had government experience. He had served as legal counsel to a Senate committee chaired by the infamous Sen. Joe McCarthy. He also served as a legal staffer working with his brother, Sen.<\/em> JFK, on\u00a0 a Senate committee that looked deeply into organized crime within the labor movement.<\/p>\n

After that, Bobby Kennedy then managed his brother’s presidential campaign. Sen. Kennedy won the presidency by a narrow popular vote and Electoral College margin over Vice President Richard Nixon.<\/p>\n

Compared to the absence of any government exposure as it regards Kushner, RFK brought much more experience to his job as U.S. attorney general.<\/p>\n

And, indeed, he used his Justice Department office as a bully pulpit against organized crime and in the fight to enact civil rights legislation. Oh, and he also played a significant role in heading off nuclear war<\/em> with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.<\/p>\n

With that, I shall now cease listening to any further comparison between Jared Kushner and Robert F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n

There is no comparison to be made, except to point out how utterly unfit Kushner is to perform the duties to which he’s been assigned.<\/p>\n\n

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I keep hearing chatter that compares Jared Kushner’s lack of experience to Robert F. Kennedy. I must now take up the cudgel for my first political hero … and it’s not Jared Kushner. Kushner is under investigation by the FBI and Congress for something related to his father-in-law’s 2016 presidential campaign. He allegedly had some … Continue reading Jared Kushner is no RFK<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1205,1424,1693,7029,2617,7117,4050,4343],"class_list":["post-21969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-cuban-missile-crisis","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-jared-kushner","tag-justice-department","tag-rfk-jfk","tag-russia","tag-soviet-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21975,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21969\/revisions\/21975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}