Continued.
His new business venture of JD PortalSmith.Com involvesd content writting and design and resources for blogs and websites. Its main headquarters functions as a internet cyber cafe. He wrote a regular essay or column on its website dealing mainly with issues of politics and culture, just like in George. His partner Dan Samson handled much of the day-to-day affairs of the company, or as John put it, "Minding the store." Even more so after after he's elected state senator in 2002. By 2005 JFK Jr sold his share of the business to Dan, so he could devote full time to his political career. After his divorce was fianalized he once again became one of the world's most eligible bachelors. He was briefly involved with Mariah Carey, and for a with while, with Mira Sorvino. All this gave ample fodder for the paparazis. At the end of the day he decided to go the route of his friend George Clooney and stay a single bachelor. After he turned 40 he started to look and dress a bit more conservatively; gone were the days when he appeared roller-blading shirtless and when he was playing frisbee or football in the park he always had at least a t-shirt on. In fact the only time he ever appeared topless was when he at a swimming pool or at a beach.
As I said previously he ran governor in 2006, well Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had seriously considered running for goverrnor that year but by the summer of 2005 it became apparent that JFK Jr was the clear front-runner and was out polling him, he dropped out of the race and decided to run for reelection as Attorney General in which he handidly beat Jeanine Piro in the 2006 elections. Many pundits have speculated that Spitzer would be next Attorney General of the U.S. if the Democrats win the 2008 elections and Spitzer himself was also eying on the job of Manhattan D.A, in the likely event that Bob Morganthal retired at the end of 2010. But all that speculation came to naught when he had to resign as Attorney General in March 2008. After being overwhelmingly elected governor in November 2006 JFK Jr chose David Patterson as Lieutenant Governor and Andrew Cuomo as Secretary of State. He is consistantly a popular governor and has enjoyed high approval ratings though his approval raing as of late has gone down to 52% due to some of his legislative agenda not being fullfilled. Relations between him and Senator Clinton have been diplomatic, cool and reserved but rarely cordial. So it's not surprising that he was not an euthusiastic supporter of her bid for the presidency in 2008, and it's not too surpising that he would endorse Barack Obama in late January of this year along with his sister Caroline and uncle Ted. Senator Clinto still won the NY primary and barely squeaked a victory in Massachussetts on Super Tuesday. His endorsement of Obama would have been a minor footnote were it not for the fact that Bill Clinton made a phone call to Governor Kennedy on Feburary 6th in which he exploded and verbally went off on the governor with explicitives, profanities and diatribes. What was very revealing about this phone conversation is the stark contrast between the two: How calm, cool, and composed JFK Jr was and never once taking Clinton's bait, and how out of control, petulant, and total lack of professionalism and class a former president had displayed throughout all this. Even then the details of this conversation would remain relatively unknown were it not for the fact that unbeknownst to the two that this conversation was being secretly taped was released to the public three week later on Febuary 27. It may have been taped by a zealous staffer of Governor Kennedy or someone from the staff of Senate Majority leader Joe Bruno. To this date no really knows who wiretapped the phones and the investigation is still officially "ongoing." Any rate the damage was done, Obama beat Clinton in a narrow victory in the victory of 51% to 48% in the Texas primary, Clinton beat Obama in the Ohio primary by 52.5% to Obama's 47% and Obama lost by 10 points in Rhode Island but won by 20 points in Vermont on March 4th. More importantly, Bill Clinton committed the "unpardonable sin" of the Democratic Party; verbally savaging the son and heir to Camelot. As a result of this, Bill Clinton did make any contact with Bill Richardson when he endorsed Obama later in March. Governor Kennedy is considered to be on the short list of Barack Obama's choice for VP. As such he adds the presige of the name and family and helps capitalizes on Obama's strength but really add anything to the ticket for both New York and Massachussetts are already in the bag for Obama in November and he has little over 6 years of elected office experience and no foreign policy and security credentials to boot. At any rate he will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Demcoratic convention in Denver and many pundits and analysists say that he will most likely be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2012 should Obama fail to win in November. Perhaps there will be a sequel to Camelot after all.
He he not acted on his instincts and decided to fly on that fateful night of July 16, 1999 with his wife and sister-in-law good chances are they would have most likely crashed and gotten killed due to the weather conditions that night, his inexperience in night flying and his injured ankle. Thus he would have been another casulty of lost youthful innocence and unrealized potential.