Posted on 12/23/2008 5:37:08 AM PST by Shellybenoit
Supporters of Caroline Kennedy point to her record in the NYC Department of Education as proof that she has the experience to be Senator from NY. But on close examination, that argument doesn't really work. During her 22 month tenure as fundraiser for the NYC School System Ms Kennedy rarely showed up to her workspace and did little to raise funds, she was a figurehead whose job it was to ad "star power" to the efforts of others:
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So then... she IS qualified to be a U.S. Senator?
At least Sarah Palin kicked butt and took names.
DemocRAT double standard...
She’s just a NAME!
>rarely showed up to her workspace and did little<
Just curious. I wonder if she also “rarely” took pay and compensation for the “little” that she did do?
Or was this just another of those taxpayer funded “positions”?
Change for hope we can believe in. It's all for show, so what's the problem?
Queen Caroline, experienced education czar.
Sounds about like a U.S. Senator to ME!!
;^)
And she is now being promoted to be installed as a Senator for some other reason than her name?
She visited Rochester, NY recently for the FIRST time.
Turns out, people live up there. It’s not all wilderness. There’s indoor plumbing. Businesses. Heck, there’s even other cities nearby! Buffalo, Syracuse. Some city called Albany even claims to be where NY has it’s capital - really!
I could start to have a sense of humor about her if she had a record of being an active presence in NYS. If she ran a business. Cashed a paycheck using her law degree. Inspired commerce in NYS in some way.
Our country needs qualified leaders. It’s an insult that she’s not-so-quietly campaigning for Senator.
All the more reason she should be the junior Democrat Senator from New York. A batam-weight indeed.
Albany to Upstate: Screw you.
The lack of reporting about her background even for the NY
liberal press is unbelievable!
I didn’t know the NYC school system was a charitable institution that had fundraisers. Guess you learn something every day.
I stated in an earlier post that Kennedy’s don’t do fund raiser’s, they lend them their name, show up for the perfunctory photo-op and sit back and let others do the work.
I watched this personally one day at a special Olympics event in Washington DC. The kids were there doing their thing, trying their hardest, when of a sudden things stopped: Ted Kennedy and the Shriver woman arrived,they came in and hugged the kids while the camera’s clicked
and 15 minutes later they were gone. Like a quick gust of wind.
Others do the work, they take the credit.
In fact that is pretty much what a Senator does. Their staff does the work they merely meet and greet and live off the fat of Capitol Hill politics.
Kennedy: No financial disclosure now
Now I'm really ticked....
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
Harry Reid will make a PUPPET of any NY appointee to that Senate seat . Let Caroline be their Marie Antoinette.
If she doesn’t show up, she can’t do much harm.
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