Uncle Ted - End of So Much

Caroline Kennedy, at least all the breathless coverage of the Kennedys opined, was trained by mum Jackie not to be a team player in the dynasty.  She and brother John were supposed to approach their lives as entities separate from the Kennedy clan.  Eventually, as we all know, Caroline caved.  She would call in her uncle Ted to attend to crises such as her brother's death.  In the media, she was quoted as referring to the family patriarch as "Uncle Ted."

With Senator Kennedy's stroke-like symptoms today, we have finally come to the end of the Kennedy era.  Not that the power and influence of the family had been what it was in the 1960s through the early 1980s.  But they were still there.  The potential golden political future of JFK Jr. kept that alive.  Then he was gone.  And so were even vestiges of the mystique.  He seemed to have lived and died doomed by a curse that hung over that family.  We wanted away from all that.

And now we might get our wish.  As with any dark development, this medical crisis elicits some degree of identity and maybe even compassion.  It could happen to us, after all.

But part of me - and perhaps all of us - would like Camelot to be over, really and totally over.

Comments

[sarakanne]

On any slow news day, you can always find some "filler" story about the Kennedys and the media's ridiculous Camelot reference. Thanks to technology for remote controls that allow immediate channel changing. Enough already!