When Markey said he'd visited every town in Massachusetts, the kid soberly said how sad it was he'd left out half a dozen places "not in Ed Markey's Massachusetts." They were in fact flooded in the 1920s and are now under a reservoir.
Think how Markey must feel. He spent his life eating chicken dinners with White and Menino and Gerry Studds. Now this little bastard comes along.
I only met old Joe Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, twice. The first was outside "21." The second was on a plane going to California. He was with a young girl. Beautiful girl. He introduced her as his niece. I don't know if he had a niece. But she was beautiful.
Kennedy-Markey comes down to one thing: shockingly enough the older fellow, who came up with Barney Frank and Gerry Studds and O'Neil and Menino and all that crowd, is a better politician than the younger one. Markey is dead center in his personal politics. But he'll pull it off.
Maybe you like young Joe Kennedy. A lot of people here do. Fair enough. But if you jump the gun and don't prepare for your weaknesses and let them define you and run back on your heels, that is malpractice.
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