Nov 6, 2008

Robert Kennedy Jr in line for Obama Cabinet post?

President-elect Barack Obama is strongly considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (pictured) to be in his Cabinet as head the Environmental Protection Agency.

Kennedy is an expert falconer and white-water rafter.

He has a condition called spasmodic dysphonia, a specific form of an involuntary movement disorder called dystonia that affects only the voice box.

Kennedy gained Washington experience by fighting anti-environmental legislation in Congress in 1995 and 1996, when Newt Gingrich took over as House speaker.

Robert Kennedy Jr. is to be admired for kicking a drug habit and his valiant efforts to deal with his spasmodic dysphonia which gives him a stilted, strained voice.

If asked to serve on Obama’s Cabinet, will the media bring up Kennedy’s 1983 arrest in Rapid City, South Dakota for heroin possession? Probably not, even though the media widely publicized a DUI arrest of the husband of Sarah Palin which happened 25 years ago.

Link to the possible Kennedy appointment here.