Chris Kennedy phoned Tuesday morning. We chit-chatted a bit -- about my recent vacation out West, about his melancholy journey to Hyannis Port to bid farewell to his aunt, Eunice Shriver, about the respective eulogistic styles of priests vs. rabbis -- and then, out-of-the-blue, he said, "I'm not running for office."
If he expected me to be bowled over, he was mistaken.
"Yeah, I kinda figured that," I said, though not everybody has -- some in the media were still speculating that very day that Kennedy might yet run.
And why not? With the Illinois Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama held by 72-year-old mediocrity Roland Burris, and ineffectual goo-goo Pat Quinn in …
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