The RFK Presidential campaign launch

 All the MSM covered it, which in itself is a magic trick. Maybe his voice will get through...

Tickets ($5 so they weren’t scarfed up by Bots) were sold out. Security was maximal, and very serious. Loads of old friends attended, including doctors Pierre Kory, Ryan Cole and his wife, Robert and Jill Malone, Liz Mumper and so many others. There were so many people whom I’d known from Zoom or through email and was finally able to see and talk to in the flesh, which was very wonderful. The air was electric.

There was a band. There was a short movie. There were brief introductory remarks by Jamal, a Democrat and New Jersey state Senator whose party made war on him for resisting mandates, and now he is out of office. Former Congressman and former presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich introduced Bobby and is assisting with his campaign.

Then Bobby spoke. No notes, no teleprompter. A tiny glitch here or there. Lots of talk about corruption, about agency capture. The futility of the Ukraine war. A broad, big picture speech about what was wrong with our country and how to heal it. Many standing ovations.

“My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is threatening now to impose a new kind of corporate feudalism in our country,” Kennedy said.

In the middle of his talk, a loud beeping started, then a recorded voice told us this was a fire alarm and we all needed to leave the building! However, the security chief told Bobby it was a false alarm, and that he should continue. Bobby did so, everyone stayed put, and Bobby said, “Good try!” And so it begins.

When he was done, people said he had spoken for an hour and 45 minutes. I had no idea; if you’d asked me, I would have guessed he spoke for 30 minutes.

Bobby said he would be a terrible candidate in normal times. He joked that he had so many skeletons in his closet, if they could all vote, he would be king of the world. But in this special time, when we are on the verge of losing the world as we know it, he said he is the right candidate.

And he is correct. He is an honest person. He has the common touch. He has a soaring intellect and extensive knowledge base, which were on display in his talk. He is a gifted speaker. He has gravitas. He has travelled everywhere, he knows the way our government works, he knows a zillion people in government.

He doesn’t need to run, he is risking everything to run, and he is running not for his ego, not for fame or money (since he already has them, and the beautiful wife) but because he needs to tell the world the truth with the biggest possible megaphone, to help save it. He is putting his body against the machine.

Even if you don’t agree with everything he says, no matter what quibbles you might have with him, you know he is risking his life for us, to preserve America and our Constitution and to make things better, not worse. He is somebody you have to respect. You have to take him seriously. Godspeed.