2016 US Presidential Election: Caroline Kennedy as the Democrats Candidate

Promising the "Change", Barack Obama won a landslide victory at the 2008
US presidential election against the old Republican candidate John McCain.
Obama will restore the lost world popularity caused by Iraq War and the
current financial crisis through the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq
and a series of reforms in US financial sector and Auto/Car industry,
hopefully during the coming two terms (2009-2017). There is no doubt that
he will run for the 2012 US presidential election and be re-elected for
his second term. There is a huge vacuum in the Republican side, and no
Republican candidate can beat the full speed Obama.

Thus, naturally our focus on the US politics would be shifted to the 2016
US election, in which Obama will not allowed to run for a third term, even
if he would be extremely successful during the first two terms, as FDR
who served US presidency for four terms. Who would run the presidential
election as the Democrats side in 2016? It is rather unlikely that Hillary
Clinton would run again, because she would be around 68 then, and would be too
old to become the first woman US President. That is why she took a cabinet
job as the Secretary of State which appears to be her last political ambition
to be fulfilled. So the case seems to be against her.

There is a strong rumor that Caroline Kennedy (51), an attorney and the
only surviving child of John Kennedy (JFK), seeks the US Senator seat in
New York State which Hillary Clinton occupied since 2001. Caroline strongly
supported Obama's presidential campaign, representing her Kennedy Clan led
by Ted Kennedy. This Senator seat was occupied by her uncle, Bobby Kennedy,
from 1965 till he was assassinated toward the end of 1968 US presidential
election. After her father JFK was killed in 1963, two younger brothers of
JFK ran for the US President. Bobby Kennedy (RFK) in 1968, and his younger
brother Ted Kennedy in 1980, but unsuccessfully. Caroline could be the last
chance for the Kennedy family to have a second US President.

Although Caroline was not involved in US politics until the 2008 Obama's
presidential campaign, she seems to be quite popular among the US voters,
mainly because of her (Kennedy) family legacy. She has obviously a strong
liberal view as the whole Kennedy family, although she has never expressed
her own political view in public until recently.

There is a significant change in US political tide favoring the idea for
the first female US President, which was enforced by Hillary Clinton, although
the "dark horse" (black American) Obama, snatched her chance, at the last
moment of Democrats nomination in Denver. Hillary was exhausted of both
her money and energy.

Thus, the younger Caroline would have a good chance to represent the "woman"
political power in 2016 election. Her popularity and Kennedy's wealth would
sustain her long election campaign, and there is no more opposing "dark
horse" in the scene and no strong Republican candidate, perhaps except for
the rather silly local governor in Alaska, Sarah Palin (now 44), who served
as the running mate of John MaCain, the VP (vice-president) candidate in
Republican side. Sarah is an "ultra-conservative" and ignorant politician
who thought, can you imagine? that "Africa" were the name of a country,
instead of the black continent. She might be good for governing the remote
northern state of Eskimos, moose and polar bears, but not for the whole United
States or the rest of world.

Caroline graduated from Harvard University and Columbia Law School, while
Obama graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Her major
expertise has been in NY school education, rebuilding the US education system
to regain their "intellectual" competitiveness. I am sure that the energetic
former "dark horse", Obama family, will give a strong support to the campaign
for both her first NY Senator election in 2010, and US presidential election
in 2016, directly from the White House, using his powerful internet network.

So I wish Caroline all the best with her bold political adventure for the coming
years, to realize the dream of all American women's, as someone said, YES WE CAN!