Here's a long article about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from New York Magazine. From the article, "We'd been talking, on and off, for days, the last half-hour or so at the North Castle Diner in White Plains, up the road from the Pace University Environmental Litigation Clinic, where Kennedy is the supervising attorney training 'the youth of America to exercise their free-market rights to sue the pants off polluters so they don't steal what's left of the planet.' Kennedy, the third of his murdered father's eleven children and a man in no short supply of facts-on-hand (Tom DeLay started as a pesticide salesman!), a familiar alpha-male handsomeness, Eddie Bauer chinos, and everything else you'd expect from someone of his pedigree, had been far from shy in dispensing his views on the current state of the republic.
"For one thing, Kennedy, also the senior attorney for both the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Hudson Riverkeepers, doesn't need Al Gore -- whom he accuses of 'bailing out' on the environmental movement in the 2000 campaign -- to lecture him about global warming. Just a few unseasonably warm mornings before, buzzing up the Palisades Parkway in his dinged-up Toyota Prius with the pile of newspapers in the backseat, Kennedy, a world-class bird-watcher since growing up at Hickory Hill, the family manse outside of D.C., spied a black vulture. 'Those birds never went north of Virginia ... until now,' said Kennedy. 'Soon we'll be visiting the wilderness formerly known as Glacier National Park.'"
Read the whole article.
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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