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Caroline: UK Ambassador?

If Obama wins, Kennedy gets Ambassadorship in London

By Elizabeth Wolff,  Newser User

Posted Aug 22, 2008 12:20 PM CDT

(Newser) – Should Barack Obama win the presidency, he will reward Caroline Kennedy’s efforts by appointing her ambassador to Great Britain, predicts the Mandrake gossip column in London's Daily Telegraph. The payback would place JFK’s only surviving child in the position once held by her grandfather, patriarch Joe. He shot himself in the foot politically there by famously declaring in 1940 that "democracy is finished in England."



Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg sits in front of an image of her father at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg sits in front of an image of her father at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.   (AP Photo)
Sen. Barack Obama waves to supporters with Caroline Kennedy in January.
Sen. Barack Obama waves to supporters with Caroline Kennedy in January.   (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., followed by his niece Caroline Kennedy, enters the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 9, 2008, for the first time since his brain surgery.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., followed by his niece Caroline Kennedy, enters the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 9, 2008, for the first time since his brain surgery.   (AP Photo)
Barack Obama and Caroline Kennedy, before addressing supporters at a rally in Scranton, Pa.
Barack Obama and Caroline Kennedy, before addressing supporters at a rally in Scranton, Pa.   (AP Photo)
Joseph Kennedy Sr., not a favorite among Brits.
Joseph Kennedy Sr., not a favorite among Brits.   (Archive Photos)
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