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Caroline Kennedy for HRC's Senate seat?
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Anonymous
Uh yeah, but these are exceptionally safe Democrat seats. Mass. hasn't elected a Republican senator since Edward Brooke, who left the seat (was defeated) 30 years ago! |
Anonymous
What does she know about actually running a campaign? So far, she's been unwilling to answer many media questions and now it has come to light that hasn't regularly voted since 1989. |
Anonymous
| I think it would be great if Caroline Kennedy were appointed to the U.S. Senate. She's smart and liberal, and she has that Kennedy clan rolodex. I'm impressed she came out of relative obscurity (for a Kennedy) to support Obama over Hillary. If she does a bad job, she won't get re-elected. Being a U.S. senator is hard work. If she can't cut it, she'll be out. And Ted Kennedy, for all his sad personal behavior, has turned out to be a great voice for liberals. You have to use what you have, and Caroline is a Kennedy. Every word she breathes will be scrutinized. Give her a chance. She could grow into the job and turn out to be a great senator. |
Anonymous
| Yes, PP, she could be a fantastic Sentaor. And of she is interested in the job, she should run for it and win it fair and square. |
Anonymous
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Interesting op ed comparing Caroline and Sarah...
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/desperately-seeking-caroline/ |
Anonymous
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NY Times reports that she will not provide the financial and other disclosures required of candidates unless and until she receives the Senate appointment from Patterson.
What's with that? She either wants to be a public figure subject to the requisite public scrutiny or she doesn't. Why is she entitled to a different set of rules? http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/nyregion/23kennedy.html?_r=1&ref=politics |
Anonymous
She's a Kennedy! Don't you read the news? The Kennedys don't follow the rules. I hope she's appointed. It will be fun to have another celebrity senator. The Kennedys are so glam, let's face it, we'll have loads to read about in People Magazine. |
Anonymous
Anyone who thinks Caroline should be appointed, but criticized Palin, is a major hypocrite. There is simply no justifiable argument for supporting her appointment, other than her money and her name. Woman supporting her on that basis should be ashamed. How about supporting someone who is actually qualified--ie has ever served in any type of public servant capacity. I thought my disgust with liberal democrats was complete with their hateful treatment of Palin, but now that I read adulatory bits on Caroline Kennedy (e.g. Post article by some ex-patriate in today's paper), it is complete. Excuse me while I go puke. |
Anonymous
Well, hopefully we're not all total hypocrites - count me as one liberal Democrat (from MA no less) who is offended and outraged that Ms. Kennedy expects a Senate seat to be handed to her on a silver platter. I was also disgusted with the Wash Post column today defending her as an example of the broader phenomenon of well-educated women "opting out" of the workforce to take care of their kids during the critical early years. Whatever you think of that phenomenon (and a FT working mom, it strikes me as purely a class issue), it has nothing to do with Caroline Kennedy. Caroline Kennedy never opted in! She didn't work because she didn't have to work, lucky heiress that she is. Fine. But don't use mommyhood to justify a skimpy resume of do-gooder writing and charitable board service - with zero evidence of political interest/activism until just this year (at least in terms of donations or voting)! |
Anonymous
| I think she could do the job just not as well as many others. Appointing her would send the wrong message. |
Anonymous
| 19:17 I love you-- totally agree. Accomplished my ass. |
Anonymous
Fear not. Did you read the front page story in Sunday's NYT? Caroline just shot herself in the foot. Gov. Patterson will have a tough time appointing that stuck-up b*tch to HRC's seat. If she'd shown some humility or political savvy, she'd have had a chance, but no more. Good-bye Caroline! |
Anonymous
Please, puke away. Caroline Kennedy is a Harvard graduate with a law degree from Columbia University. She's authored two books on constitutional law, plus five others, served on boards of the Kennedy Library, NAACP legal defense, ABT and many others, and had a part-time job setting up a public-private partnership in the NYC schools. She's certainly as qualified as many men who joined the U.S. Senate with zero political experience, such as your own Orrin Hatch (lawyer) and Bill Frist (doctor), as well as our own Bill Bradley, (pro-athlete) and John Edwards (attorney). Sarah Palin is a poorly-educated, one-term governor of a state with fewer than 700,000 residents, smaller than Charlotte, NC. She was mayor of a city home to less than 6,000 people. She's demonstrated her ignorance of national and international issues on national television. She's charismatic, and popular with born-again Christians and right-wing Republicans who give knee-jerk approval to anyone in favor of unleashing the reins of government on any type of business. "Drill, baby, drill" is a perfect theme song for a woman who doesn't believe in global warming and sees no reason to protect endangered species from extinction. Sarah Palin had no business being a candidate for vice-president of the United States. Had she been running for U.S. senator from Alaska, it would have been a different story. Hillary Clinton had never held elected office before she ran for the U.S. Senate from New York, a state where she had heretofore never resided. At least Caroline Kennedy is a lifelong New York resident. She is a celebrity, so she gets a lot of press and a lot of attention everywhere she goes. Plus she has the ear of Obama, which has to be advantageous to New York. Kennedy is getting kicked around now for her ignorance of politics, but if she's smart, and I think she is, she'll figure out what what it takes to make it in elected politics. If not, she's gone. Certainly there are more qualified candidates, but no one with her name and political heritage. (Palin, unlike GWB, dosn't even come from a political dynasty.) Are you done puking yet? |
Anonymous
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PP, your defense of Caroline doesn't even sell for this liberal Democrat. Sorry, I'm not terribly impressed by most of her qualifications - it's not terribly hard to get into an Ivy League school or serve on a charitable board when you're the daughter of a President and a national martyr. Her professional activities have mostly been those of a dilettante - PT work with the NYC school system where she was rarely seen and her influence considered mainly in the form of name dropping; zero involvement with politics until a few months ago -- she didn't even vote regularly, for pete's sake.
And whether or not she is more or less qualified than all the men you cite, they actually competed in elections and won their places. (As did Hillary Clinton, whom I not a fan of but have to grudgingly respect.) I'd certainly consider voting for Caroline Kennedy. What outrages me is that she wants the job without putting in any effort, or even being willing to disclose her finances as would any candidate for an appointed federal position. If she's suddenly seen the light and decided to devote herself to public service through national politics, let her run in 2010. |
Anonymous
| I just hope Katie Couric puts some pretty tough questions to her (yeah, right. That's going to happen.) |