There is little doubt the Kennedys dislike the Clintons, probably about as such as Klein dislikes both. To use a literary metaphor, the Kennedys (like the Bushes) have been around long enough to delude themselves into believing they are like the Buchanans, a family once just midwestern parvenus before they successfully bought themselves into eastern entitlement. The Clintons' first generation white trash version of Gatsby is obvious, but don't count on them winding up dead in the pool again this time.
And with Ted dead, the influence of the Kennedy legacy leftovers pales in comparison, and the scenario between '16 and '08 just doesn't compare. Klein will have to be content with this fantasy game of thrones in his own imagination. Ted didn't have the guts, even as the patriarch of a pseudo royal kingmaker family, to actually endorse Obama, and cross Billary, until the upstart Illinois Senator actually won something, and proved himself the role of giant killer in Iowa. And Obama, as a then viable African-America presidential option, the first in American history, was in a position to do something to the Clintons that no other politician on earth, then, or quite frankly now, could ever do.
Elizabeth Warren included.
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