Posted on 12/19/2008 2:59:59 AM PST by Kaslin
"I don't know what Caroline Kennedy's qualifications are. Except that she has name recognition, but so does J-Lo."
-- Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y.
WASHINGTON -- Right idea, wrong argument. The problem with Caroline Kennedy's presumption to Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat is not lack of qualification or experience. The Senate houses lots of inexperienced rookies -- wealthy businessmen, sports stars, even the occasional actor.
The problem is Kennedy's sense of entitlement. Given her rather modest achievements, she is trading entirely on pedigree.
I hate to be a good government scold, but wasn't the American experiment a rather firm renunciation of government by pedigree?
Yes, the Founders were not democrats. They believed in aristocracy. But their idea was government by natural -- not inherited -- aristocracy, an aristocracy of "virtue and talents," as Jefferson put it.
And yes, of course, we have our own history of dynastic succession: Adamses and Harrisons, and in the last century, Roosevelts, Kennedys and Bushes. Recently, we've even branched out into Argentine-style marital transmission, as in the Doles and the Clintons.
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O. I thought you meant the Princess of Monaco. I was about to volunteer.
Given Carolines craptacular performance on her recent foray into Upstate New York, there is an outside chance that this appointment might not happen. People are beginning to grumble...
Some woman (didn’t catch her name) was on Dennis Miller’s Radio show today and she was giving all the reasons why CK should be ‘anointed’ and not one of her reasons came within a mile of the Consititution. All of them were in the realm of Marie Antoinette and ‘Let them eat cake.’
She's perfect for the U.S. Senate.
I think enough of the media is making a stink about this, it may not happen.
Of course government has been flipping us off for a while now, so who knows.
Didn’t the press used to refer to her as Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg?
Neither Caroline Kennedy's virtues nor her talents, if indeed there are any, have been evidenced. She wrote a book on the Constitution? Really? Has anyone read it? That qualifies her for the Senate? If she really wants in, let her run for the soon-to-be-vacated seat in Massachusetts. Paint me as sick and tired of a royal class in the US of A, a royal class which generally shows no class (the Kennedy instances are too many to list here).
Entitlement just because of the name seems to run in the Kennedy family. Didn’t Uncle Teddy say he wanted his senate seat to go to his wife when he died?
The Kennedys are white trash. They also happen to be communists.
Caroline Kennedy hates the limelight.
She has been convinced that she could get this senate seat without having to campaign.
She has been convinced that she could hold this senate seat without having to campaign.
Democrats are convinced that they can hold this senate seat without having to campaign.
I agree!
—oh, but she doesn’t drop her “aitches”—twice I saw that as reason Sarah Palin was unqualified—
—oops, pardon me—it’s the “gee’s” not the “aitches”—
I,m from West Texas and live in the South. Can't understand a word that those Easterner's utter.
I heard her speak. She makes Cynthia McKinney look almost bright.
Think President Kennedy...... then extrapolate
It is the Kennedy way. Why work for something when you can have it handed to you?
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