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She's campaining hard for 1 vote

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Sunday, December 21, 2008 4:44 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/nyregion/21caroline.html To read these storys you'd think there was another election in a few days. The princess is really campaining for just 1 vote...Governor Paterson's, he will appoint the next Senator. Chances are good for her, she has the rite name, she's rich and is ofcource a Democrat. This is the seat many people think her late brother should be getting, but it looks like N.Y. will have to settle for a lesser Kennedy. To bad for her there is no election coming up, she'd win the "Bored housewife" vote hands down.

I'm going to microwave a bagel and have sex with it - Peter Griffin

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Sunday, December 21, 2008 5:29 PM

DREAMTROVE

More dynastic politics, and a major slip up or two. She said something about mexicans should be rounded up and put to the back of the line until they can learn english.

A little word about the america I grew up in. My dad lived in little Italy, and my parents were separated, but we'd go down and visit. It was a sicilian neighborhood, so there were no taxes, and no crime, Everyone spoke italian, everywhere you went. Those people were americans, and I thought to myself "I must learn italian some day."

The nation is and has always been full of people who don't speak english. No reason to make the requirement of immigrants. We have no national language. Here's a better idea: Criminal background checks. A lot of people come to this country from all over the world to flee real criminal charges that they're really guilty of. That's not helping. But people not speaking english, that's just Miami as usual.

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Monday, December 22, 2008 11:22 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

Heard a talking head on the Today Show this morning talking about how Ms. Kennedy's handlers were "Palinizing" her by requiring written questions and no free-form press conferences - just meetings with the Democratic movers ahd shakers. So will the folk who demonized Gov. Palin for her 'lack of experience' do the same for Ms. Kennedy, who has no experience in elective office at all?

At least Ms. Kennedy can probably afford her own wardrobe.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Monday, December 22, 2008 1:48 PM

DREAMTROVE

I agree that Sarah was sabotaged. And there has been a little reaction against her from liberals, because all of that distance also resembles aristocracy, and with Ted on the way out, the need for a Kennedy in the Senate is more dynasty than anything else. Of course there will be no reaction of the Palin sort from the left...

Sorry, I seldom post partisan things, I think it's divisive, but everyone has to appreciate this:

Ah the audacity of Hope.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 11:37 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by whozit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/nyregion/21caroline.html To read these storys you'd think there was another election in a few days. The princess is really campaining for just 1 vote...Governor Paterson's, he will appoint the next Senator. Chances are good for her, she has the rite name, she's rich and is ofcource a Democrat. This is the seat many people think her late brother should be getting, but it looks like N.Y. will have to settle for a lesser Kennedy. To bad for her there is no election coming up, she'd win the "Bored housewife" vote hands down.

I'm going to microwave a bagel and have sex with it - Peter Griffin

What is your opposition to her? I can think of gazillions more repugnant politicians.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 1:46 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Beats me, but anyone wanting the press to actually start grilling politicos hard has my support - so long as they're willing to grill them ALL, not grill one 'side' and throw the other softballs.

So get out the hibachi and get to work, here.

-F

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 2:47 AM

RIVERLOVE

I'd like to see her get the Senate job. She's an American icon; the picture of her and her saluting baby brother at JFK's funeral is an image I grew up with. She never stole a freight train, and she likely knows as much about things as any of the other 99 idiots in the Senate. The gal has shown dignity and class all her life, likely learned from her gracious mom Jackie.

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:19 AM

WHOZIT

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Originally posted by jewelstaitefan:
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Originally posted by whozit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/nyregion/21caroline.html To read these storys you'd think there was another election in a few days. The princess is really campaining for just 1 vote...Governor Paterson's, he will appoint the next Senator. Chances are good for her, she has the rite name, she's rich and is ofcource a Democrat. This is the seat many people think her late brother should be getting, but it looks like N.Y. will have to settle for a lesser Kennedy. To bad for her there is no election coming up, she'd win the "Bored housewife" vote hands down.

I'm going to microwave a bagel and have sex with it - Peter Griffin

What is your opposition to her? I can think of gazillions more repugnant politicians.

She's a bored house wife who wants the seat handed to her, once she's in she'll be in forever and she knows it. She's in a strong Democrat state, she can raise mega bucks for the 2010 election and let TV commercials do the talking for her. FYI, her real name is "Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg", is she running for that 1 vote as "Caroline Schlossberg?" Nope, Mrs Schlossberg wants this seat given to her on a silver plater (she has several) and expects the Kennedy name to get it for her.

I'm going to microwave a bagel and have sex with it - Peter Griffin

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 3:48 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Heard a talking head on the Today Show this morning talking about how Ms. Kennedy's handlers were "Palinizing" her by requiring written questions and no free-form press conferences - just meetings with the Democratic movers ahd shakers. So will the folk who demonized Gov. Palin for her 'lack of experience' do the same for Ms. Kennedy, who has no experience in elective office at all?

At least Ms. Kennedy can probably afford her own wardrobe.

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Originally posted by Riverlove:
I'd like to see her get the Senate job. She's an American icon; the picture of her and her saluting baby brother at JFK's funeral is an image I grew up with. She never stole a freight train, and she likely knows as much about things as any of the other 99 idiots in the Senate. The gal has shown dignity and class all her life, likely learned from her gracious mom Jackie.

I find myself feeling both of these sentiments at the same time. Sure she's a Kennedy, and as such a political icon, and probably no worse than others in her family, and quite possibly a lot better. But at the same time, a United States Senator as your first political office ever? That seems a stretch.

Grill her, give her hell, and see how she stands up to it. We'll see if she's another Palin with her own wardrobe or if she actually has the goods to do the job.

Of course, none of it matters anyway, since it's Patterson's pick to make. Right now, it looks like the choice is going to be between one political offspring (Cuomo) or another (Kennedy). I'm not sure either of them are ready for it.

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Wednesday, December 24, 2008 9:26 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Not to be rude or indifferent, but acts performed as a child don't weigh much for me as Political Officeholder.

Some here seem to think that Statesmen and elected Officeholders should be career politicians, while I oppose that sentiment and greatly prefer Citizen Statesmen, as our founders intended and hoped for.

I would suspect she has a profound understnading of politics, and statesmanship, being surrounded by it from birth.
There is a reason JFK and, to some degree, RFK were so beloved by America, yet Teddy was so repulsive. JFK was a conservative, as well as a Catholic. His was the last of the Decent Democrats, with conservative fiscal policies, most closely aligned with Reagonomics. Teddy was a miserable liberal masquerading as a kinght of Camelot.
Don't know if Caroline is as fiscally conservative, or her religious followings, but I'd tend to think she is much more conservative in many regards compared to much of her family, and certainly most of her political competitors - who are mostly career politicians.

One of my favorite Congressmen was Scott Klug, whom I strongly campaigned for and whose first campaign (against an "unbeatable" 32-year incumbent) pointed out that the Navy trains High School Graduates for a year to run Nuclear Reactors, so why does a Representative need more? The Congress has a newbie indoc class for all incoming freshmen anyhow. Klug only ran for one office, held it until he self-limited his terms, and has not run again for another office, although the GOP has courted him.

Of all the names I've seen positioned up for this seat, Caroline woulod be my choice. If it takes putting Hilary in the Cabinet to sneak a conservative into New York as a Dem, more power to her. I won't say detractors don't have a point, but nobody is perfect and She seems better thatn the alternatives.

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Monday, December 29, 2008 7:29 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

OK, now I get it. She is not qualified for the job: She is not from Arkansas or Chicago, and she has actually lived in new York State not only for a short period of time, but practically her whole life, not avioding the state during her lifetime - clearly not qualified to replace Hillary.

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