Caroline?
by Hal_10000
I haven’t commented on the idea of Caroline Kennedy taking over the New York Senate seat because I assumed it was a joke. Well, it just got a lot funnier. Behold the New York Post:
Caroline Kennedy has made it official: She wants to be appointed to the US Senate seat that Hillary Clinton presently will vacate.
Gov. Paterson would be well-advised to select Kennedy as New York’s next junior senator.
Her uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, held the very same seat from 1965 until his assassination three years later. But the arguments for her selection go far beyond mere symbolism.
No they don’t. If here last name were Hackenschmidt, you wouldn’t be writing this.
Consider her unusually high profile: As the only surviving child of President John Kennedy, she’d enter the Senate with considerably more political clout than the average freshman.
While she hasn’t been especially involved in New York’s political wars, she’s hardly unaware of the issues.
This may be one of the stupidest sentences I’ve read. She “hardly unaware” of the issues? What the sam hell does that mean? Is “hardly unaware” better than “somewhat aware”. It seems slightly short of “mostly aware”. Is she “not completely clueless” about Iraq? Is she “not totally in the dark” about the economy? I bet she’s even “not unopinionated” about abortion.
Of course, awareness doesn’t necessarily translate to being able to actually do something about the thing you’re hardly unaware of. In high school, I was hardly unaware of how much I wanted to shag the head cheerleader. Sometimes I was so not unaware, I thought I would spontaneously not uncombust. But that did not get me into her pants.
Kennedy’s biggest achievement is fund-raising for public schools and snuggling up to Obama. Those are commendable achievements. Neither would qualify her for the Senate if her last name were Manfredjensenden.
Moreover, Kennedy’s selection would be a welcome sign of Paterson’s willingness to reject the politics of pander and special-interest pressures merely to satisfy some ethnic or geographic quota.
What? What?? This is pure pander. It’s nothing but pander. You ask how much more pandering it could be and the answer is none. None more pandering.
There are, by my conservative estimate, 642 million people in the State of New York who are more qualified to be Senator than Caroline Kennedy (numbers provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Madoff Division). The only reason to pick this one is because she shares 50% of her DNA with a romantic figure from the 60’s.
I have never understood the bizarre fascination some people have with the Kennedy clan. I attribute it to a suppressed longing for an aristocracy. Still, you could pick a better family to get the stomach butterflies about. The offspring of Nazi-sympathizing swindler Joe, Sr. and daughter-lobotomizing Rose have been a ridiculous soap opera propped up into our consciousness by a drooling media. I can still remember, after John Jr.’s avoidable death, someone mentioning Chappaquiddick as though it were a tragedy for the Kennedy family. I was in Maryland when they ran that clueless bimbo Kathleen Kennedy Townsend for governor based solely on her middle name.
Enough already. Caroline seems like one of the more decent Kennedys. Fine. I laugh at the idea of her as Senator not because she’s evil or stupid but because she wouldn’t be even mentioned if her name were Jethro Q. Walrustitty. Let her continue to raise money for schools, which she is good at. Don’t make her one of the 100 most powerful people in the country out of some weird obsession with her stupid family.
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YESYESYES, Hal. I work in NYC and the amount of press she is getting in amazing. Andrew Cuomo’s name was floated for like 37 seconds when she was first raised as a possibility and now it seems like he has no chance to get the seat. I really have a hard time beleiving that She is the MOST qualified. I’d rather see Bloomberg be nominated.
Flame on;) I know how popular Bloomy is around here…
"I was in Maryland when they ran that clueless bimbo Kathleen Kennedy Townsend for governor based solely on her middle name.”
Well, she had been Lieutenant Governor for eight years.
What? What?? This is pure pander. It’s nothing but pander. You ask how much more pandering it could be and the answer is none. None more pandering.
So was HRC. New Yorkers must be fucking gullible or just plain stupid.
Well, she had been Lieutenant Governor for eight years.
And she was very good at handing out mints at official dinners. But the gubernatorial campaign exposed her as pretty clueless. I man she lost Maryland to a Republican. That’s hard to do.
Until the classic-era Boomers (born 1938-1956 or thenabouts; basically, the ones who were aware during the Kennedy administration) start dying off, the Kennedy Kult will go on. Also, the media’s heavily dominated by people suffering from a severe case of “Camelotus Interruptus” and who have been longing for a new JFK ever since 1963. Carter and Clinton were both partly propelled by Kennedy-nostalgia.
We just elected a president and vice-president with no record of significant accomplishments. Why should Caroline Kennedy be held to a higher standard?
and daughter-lobotomizing Rose
Com’n Hal, this is beneath you. Why pick on her?
What the sam hell does that mean?
There’s not much point in having “Sam Hill” as a euphemism for “hell” if you are going to spell it out anyway…
Hey, I’m just sayin’ is all.
Carter and Clinton were both partly propelled by Kennedy-nostalgia.
Back in 1994, I read a book satirizing Generation X and it mentioned this same phenomenon--that ever since Kennedy was killed, the American public had been trying to find his replacement. It was speculated that this is a big reason why guys like Reagan and Clinton were popular but Bush 1 and Carter weren’t, because Reagan and Clinton had personalities that echoed certain images of JFK the Icon rather than JFK the President. Maybe, but I think the larger point still stands--that people have been trying to elect JFK for the last 40+ years.
Which is why the whole Obama cult is concerning, because with all these dumbshit college students voting for the guy who is promising them the most goodies, I’m afraid were going to have to deal with this crap all over again thanks to the spoiled-ass rotten Baby Boomlets. Thankfully, unlike the Kennedy clan, Obama does not have a large family that can be set up as a perpetual political dynasty.
FWIW, Joe Kennedy, Sr. was not a Nazi sympathizer. He was an isolationist---like, oh, about 3/4 or more of the American public up to Pearl Harbor. A lot of Americans felt that we’d been swindled into getting stuck into WWI, and were pretty P.O.’d about how our erstwhile allies had borrowed frantically from us, but then refused (except for Finland, IIRC) to pay the loans back when we asked them.
He also had a slew of sons for whom he was insanely ambitious, and didn’t feel like losing them in a war. I can’t honestly say that I blame him for that---nobody knew just how bad the Nazis were at that time.
He bloody well was a Nazi sympathiser. He was a racist and an anti-semite, and he would (and did, by proxy) stab his own daughter through the eye with an icepick if it helped his political ambitions.
did or did not Old joe turn a blind eye to brit reports of the treatment of jews in germany and the concentration camps
While she hasn’t been especially involved in New York’s political wars, she’s hardly unaware of the issues.
Neither are any of us, so we should all be qualified. Probably more so.
Consider her unusually high profile: As the only surviving child of President John Kennedy, she’d enter the Senate with considerably more political clout than the average freshman.
Congrats, you’re one of the few in your family who either didn’t get shot, or do something stupid to terminate your own life. Here is a Senate seat for you.
The thing that’s really irritating about this is the unwarranted entitlement Caroline is displaying here. Hilary had no experience when she ran for Senate either, but at least she ran in an election that she had to win to earn her seat. Caroline is demonstrating that all you need is a name and you should be crowned.
I wonder if her apologists would feel the same way if Jenna or Barbara Bush, or Jeb Bush’s kid, did something similar?
Charles Krauthammer, as usual, is right on the money about this. His closing paragraph:
No lords or ladies here. If Princess Caroline wants a seat in the Senate, let her do it by election. There’s one in 2010. To do it now by appointment on the basis of bloodline is an offense to the most minimal republicanism. Every state in the union is entitled to representation in the Senate. Camelot is not a state.
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