Well, either way, Joe Kennedy was a scumbag. When you give your daughter a lobotomy just because you're afraid that she'll embarrass you, you forfeit your right to call yourself a member of the human race. No matter how many of your scumbag descendants con their way into government office. It's a shame, though. If there was any justice in this world, Old Joe would have caught a bullet in the head back in the '40s. Then maybe the so-called "Kennedy Curse" would have ended with him.