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Originally Posted by chelsea24
SteveZ, you say you don't like people that would choose a Kennedy just for the name and yet, you're making it clear that you would oppose a Kennedy just because of the name.
Why don't you listen to the people that actually live in the state. No one wants to hear about Chicago from someone that's actually lived there, i.e. Kahuna and me and now you completely ignore Rekop's opinion about New York!  I don't get it? Do you know better than everyone in this country that has lived in every state?
And BTW, I don't know if you guys are even reading what you're writing because much of what you say would apply to Bush, Palin and McCain. 
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If you read the entire posts, they specifically stated that the voters in the state (or their duly elected delegate) are the ones to choose whom they want as their representative. That's the way it is. The "star-power" attitude and "select families" concepts (and I said that
both major parties do this) is turning the nation into a two-class system - rulers and serfs.
As far as Chicago is concerned, if you read the posts, they stated that Chicago is no different than any other major city in the US, in that the "political machine" concept applies elsewhere and provides the same results - exploitation, institutional racism, selective disposition of services, and patronage to the devout. Those who feed the machine and become the primary recipients of its output tend to ignore the effects upon others.
There is no difference between how the "political machine" concept works and that applied in any dictatorial regime elsewhere in the world - no matter how many potholes are filled.
As ar as the Kennedy's are concerned, if one became a candidate for office here in the Florida Fifth, or for the soon-to-be open Senate seat, or any state office, the
eligible and
qualified criteria appies. They would get no special break, as I don't see where there is anything within their DNA that automatically makes them the best person for a job simply by having notorious ancestors. They would not be biased - just treated as "equals" as explained in the Declaration of Independence.
Sometimes it seems the Democratic (or Republican) Party believes that people should follow as sheep behind Party aristocracy, as it is their birthright to lead us. And it happens again and again. Is that "shame on them" or "shame on us" for being so easily star-struck?