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RFK Jr. 2008

Our Goal: To Persuade Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Enter The 2008 Presidential Race

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RFK Jr. in 2008: For All The Right Reasons.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr., son of Robert F. Kennedy, the slain U.S. Senator, former U.S. Attorney General, and 1968 Democratic Presidential contender from New York State, RFK Jr., the nephew of the slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy of The State of Massachusetts, Bobby Jr., husband to his loving wife, Mary, and proud father to a total of 6 children: Robert III, Kathleen, Conor, Kyra, William, and Aidan, ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY Jr. serves as the Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeepers and as the President of the Waterkeeper Alliance. RFK Jr. also works as a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at the Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace University School of Law in New York. Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York City. RFK Jr. has worked on several political campaigns over the years and was the New York State Primary coordinator for his uncle Senator Ted Kennedy's 1980 challenge for the Democratic Presidential Nomination versus the incumbent President, Jimmy Carter. Mr. Kennedy has been a force for change on environmental issues across the globe and has assisted several indigenous tribes in Latin America and Canada in successfully negotiating treaties protecting their traditional homelands. ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr. has been at the forefront of the battle to protect New York City's water supply. The New York City Watershed Agreement, which he negotiated on behalf of environmentalists and New York City watershed consumers, is regarded as an international model in stakeholder consensus negotiations and sustainable development. RFK Jr. has been a frequent guest on television's political talk show circuit and is a respected speaker at college lecture forums across the nation. He also currently hosts a weekly political radio show, "Ring of Fire", on Air America Radio. http://www.ringoffireradio.com/
Over the past decade or so, many people have asked ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr. to run for political office as an advocate for the environment and for other issues as well. He has considered campaigning for the U.S. Senate seat which his father once held. He has considered running for Attorney General in The State of New York. He has seriously considered all of these options and others as well.
On December 17th 2006, http://www.myspace.com/rfk_jr_for_the_usa, was established as an organized effort to persuade ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr. that THE TIME for him to seek political office IS unquestionably NOW. For a number of reasons, ranging from the mythic to the historic, we think that THE COUNTRY NEEDS RFK Jr. TO RUN for The Presidency in 2008 as The candidate of The Democratic Party or even as a Third Party Candidate under the banner of The Unity08 Party (www.Unity08.com). ROBERT F. KENNEDY Jr. is FULLY AWARE of the fact that this fledgling draft/petition movement exists. Please SHOW YOUR SUPPORT for the Draft RFK Jr. in 2008 Movement by leaving INSIGHTFUL COMMENTS requesting Mr. Kennedy to at least CONTEMPLATE tossing his hat into the political ring in 2008.

My Interests

Below, you will find a link to an article, several video clips, and two polls. Thanks for your interest.
When the Place Went Mad: The Deeply Satisfying Anger of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

We're taking an educated guess that RFK Jr. is interested in Parenting Activities, Fishing, Gym Workouts, Sailing, Swimming, Hiking, Kayaking, Falconry, Speaking Truth to Power, and Chess.

I'd like to meet:

President Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on January 20th, 2009, just after he gives his Inaugural Address and just before he and his family restore some dignity to The White House by taking up residence there.

We're taking an educated guess that RFK Jr. would like to meet the following people:

HE'D like to meet any and all concerned, responsible, and highly motivated CITIZENS and GROUPS OF CITIZENS who have as their top priority, the comprehensive restoration of America's perceived reputation abroad and at home, amongst our friends and our foes alike, and also, as a matter of course, all those who naturally seek fundamental improvements in the conditions right here in The United States of America, on all domestic fronts, for the sake of the common good and for the general welfare and security of our innately peace-loving, resourceful, and infinitely capable nation. That is to say, potentially, HE'D like to meet you, your friends, your co-workers, your neighbors, and your and their extended families. In other words, HE'D like to meet, and to better yet, know you and all other like-minded individuals of strong and potent substance, of good and profound conscience, of dynamic and resilient character, whose ambitious and unfearful goal it is, and always has been, for our great country to live up to, at long last, the collective promise of our cherished values and traditional ideals and, after having accomplished these noble objectives, to then proudly and ingeniously enact, the as of late, and up until now, tragically unrealized visions and reluctantly postponed dreams of an independent and diverse and determined people with a higher calling, and with a soul, as of yet, unborn.

DISCLAIMER NOTICE: This MYSPACE PROFILE is an attempt to DRAFT and/or PETITION and/or SOLICIT Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a citizen of New York State and The U.S.A., to run for The Presidency in 2008. He has NOT announced his candidacy for The Presidency. RFK Jr. has HOWEVER, IN recent MONTHS, in TV interviews, stated that THE COUNTRY needs HIM to RUN for something. WE AGREE with him WHOLEHEARTEDLY. That is why the folks who maintain this profile, are staging a CONCERTED multi-front CAMPAIGN to CONVINCE HIM TO RUN for the office of The Presidency. THAT IS OBVIOUSLY WHY WE HAVE ESTABLISHED THIS PROFILE on myspace.com. And guess what? WE'D LOVE YOUR HELP !!! Any views or statements made on this page or in posted bulletins or in responses to YOU via myspace messages originate within the minds of the individuals who maintain this profile, and do not in any way, shape, or form, reflect the EXACT actual views or thoughts of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. We're not him nor do we claim to be him nor do we represent him. WE'RE A CANDIDATE DRAFT MOVEMENT. There have been other attempts like this, both large and small scale efforts, to convince reluctant political warriors to seek higher office throughout the annals of U.S. history. Read our blog for further details and resource links.

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Music:

We're taking an educated guess that RFK Jr. owns recordings by some of the musicians listed here: Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Van Morrison, Motown and Stax recordings, The Beatles, The Byrds, The Yardbirds, The Doors, The Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Traffic, Led Zeppelin, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Yes, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Frank Zappa, The Band, Nick Drake, Genesis, Merle Haggard, Cat Stevens, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bruce Springsteen, The Talking Heads, U2, Prince, R.E.M. Coldplay, Wyclef Jean, Jeff Buckley, Outkast, Wilco, and many others.

Movies:

We're taking an educated guess that RFK Jr. has seen some of the following films: All Quiet On the Western Front, City Lights, Grand Hotel, Duck Soup, It Happened One Night, Man Of Aran, A Night at the Opera, Modern Times, The Plow That Broke the Plains, Lost Horizon, The River, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Young Mr. Lincoln, Citizen Kane, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, Pinocchio, The Magnificent Ambersons, How Green Was My Valley, Casablanca, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, The Best Years of Our Lives, It's a Wonderful Life, Red River, Hamlet, All The King's Men, The Treasure of The Sierra Madre, Tulsa, The Bicycle Thief, The Third Man, Rashomon, High Noon, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Quiet Man, Singin' In The Rain, The Living Desert, From Here to Eternity, On the Waterfront, Salt of The Earth, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Wild Strawberries, The Searchers, Invasion of The Body Snatchers, A Face In The Crowd, 12 Angry Men, The Defiant Ones, The Bridge on The River Kwai, On the Beach, Wild River, The Magnificent Seven, La Dolce Vita, West Side Story, Spartacus, Lawrence of Arabia, The Longest Day, The Manchurian Candidate, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Great Escape, Fail-Safe, Dr. Strangelove, Goldfinger, Seven Days In May, Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun, Born Free, Blowup, Don't Look Back, Cool Hand Luke, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Wait Until Dark, The Battle of Algiers, The Dirty Dozen, The Graduate, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Planet of The Apes, Medium Cool, Charly, Bullitt, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Easy Rider, Z, Take the Money and Run, Woodstock, Kes, M*A*S*H, Billy Jack, Ryan's Daughter, Love Story, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Harold and Maude, Survival of Spaceship Earth, The Candidate, The Lorax, Executive Action, Silent Running, Deliverance, The Day of the Jackal, The Last Picture Show, Sounder, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Godfather, The Paper Chase, The Wicker Man, The Godfather II, American Graffiti, Badlands, Enter The Dragon, Hearts and Minds, Young Frankenstein, Nashville, Chinatown, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Man Who Would Be King, Dog Day Afternoon, Barry Lyndon, Harlan County, U.S.A., All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Grey Gardens, Network, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Last Waltz, Coming Home, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, An Enemy of the People, The Deer Hunter, Norma Rae, Being There, The Tin Drum, The China Syndrome, Breaking Away, Coal Miner's Daughter, Ordinary People, Raging Bull, Gallipoli, Koyaanisqatsi, The Verdict, Victor/Victoria, Gandhi, Blade Runner, Reds, The Right Stuff, Silkwood, Stop Making Sense, This Is Spinal Tap, The Times of Harvey Milk, The Killing Fields, Brazil, The Brother from Another Planet, Platoon, Matewan, Eight Men Out, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Milagro Beanfield War, Gorillas in the Mist, Full Metal Jacket, Mississippi Burning, Glory, My Left Foot, Driving Miss Daisy, Field of Dreams, JFK, Miller's Crossing, The Commitments, The Panama Deception, The Doors, Indochine, Dazed and Confused, Unforgiven, Powaqqatsi, Schindler's List, Groundhog Day, In the Name of the Father, Forrest Gump, The Secret of Roan Inish, The Shawshank Redemption, Il Postino, Michael Collins, When We Were Kings, Naqoyqatsi, Good Will Hunting, Braveheart, Angela's Ashes, Saving Private Ryan, The Insider, Erin Brockovich, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, A Beautiful Mind, City of God, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Fog of War, Mystic River, Thirst, Syriana, March of The Penguins, An Inconvenient Truth, Hello Shannon, and many others.

Television:

We're taking an educated guess that RFK Jr. doesn't watch much television. He was on TV though on 07-07-07 at The Live Earth Concert. View the video clip below of RFK Jr.'s speech at the event.

Books:

We're taking an educated guess that RFK Jr. has read books, novels, poems, short stories, essays, passages, psalms, tracts, and discourses, by some of the following authors: Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Ovid, Plutarch, The authors of The Old Testament and The New Testament, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Machiavelli, Thomas More, Erasmus, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Thomas Hobbes, Rene Descartes, John Milton, Benedict de Spinoza, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Henry David Thoreau, Alexis de Tocqueville, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Stuart Mill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, George Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Gustave Flaubert, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, William James, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, George Bernard Shaw, John Dewey, Van Wyck Brooks, George Santayana, James Joyce, Sinclair Lewis, Lenin, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Ezra Pound, Upton Sinclair, William Butler Yeats, Eugene O'Neill, Robert Frost, Pearl S. Buck, Albert Einstein, John Steinbeck, Gabriela Mistral, Thomas Mann, Sinclair Lewis, Herman Hesse, Andre Gide, E.E. Cummings, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Bertrand Russell, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, James A. Michener, James Gould Cozzens, Bruce Catton, Robert Lowell, Arthur Miller, Robert Penn Warren, Herman Wouk, Theodore Roethke, MacKinlay Kantor, Sir Winston Churchill, Wallace Stevens, Albert Camus, Boris Pasternak, William Saroyan, Kenneth Patchen, William Carlos Williams, Archibald MacLeish, Samuel Beckett, Pablo Neruda, Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, J.D. Salinger, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Edward Albee, William Styron, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, John Updike, Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Kesey, Daniel J. Boorstin, Noam Chomsky, Gary Snyder, Barbara W. Tuchman, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Octavio Paz, Gore Vidal, Theodore White, Studs Terkel, Philip Roth, Sam Shepard, Neil Sheehan, Czeslaw Milosz, Alice Walker, Carl Sagan, Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Golding, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney, David Mamet, Daniel Yergin, Robert Caro, Galway Kinnell, William Kennedy, Jose Saramago, Lanford Wilson, Gunter Grass, August Wilson, Harold Pinter, Neil Simon, Gordon S. Wood, Larry McMurtry, Robert Bly, Tom Robbins, David McCullough, Mark Strand, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Patrick Shanley, David Foster Wallace, and many others.

Heroes:

We're taking an educated guess that RFK Jr. numbers some of the people we've listed below as amongst his heroes and/or influences: St. Francis of Assisi, Thoreau, RFK, JFK, MLK, Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt for The National Forest Service, FDR, John Muir, E. F. Schumacher, Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., Cesar Chavez, and many others.


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WHERE did ALL our BLOG entries go ???

We removed our blog entries but they will be back in the future.  We suggest that you "google" Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a search term if you don't know anything about him.   We had plen...
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