Caroline, you’re no Kristin Gillibrand..
Yep, if we remember how things worked, first, Obama got elected. Then, Hillary left the Senate to open a New York Senate seat for Caroline. Then Caroline went on her disasterous listening tour and her campaign to be appointed to replace Hillary in the Senate was stillborn.
Caroline’s payoff was supposed to be the Senate seat vacated by Hillary. Now, whose fault is it that things didn’t go as planned? Caroline found that she couldn’t pull off the “listening tour” the way Hillary Clinton herself did when Hillary went for the N.Y. Senate seat.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/item_eOTkpvBWwmBddAR64OeJAJ;jsessionid=E1DBB6CC6FDBCBA29715D1C72BD1777F
December 8, 2008
A Democratic source said Clinton would be dead-set against seeing Caroline take her seat.
“Why would she want to see that seat go to someone who essentially double-crossed her?” the source said, noting the Kennedy family’s endorsement of Obama in the primary. “It’s a nightmare scenario for her.”
http://www.newser.com/off-the-grid/post/7/caroline-runs.html
When the New York Post pursued a story about antics (Kennedy-type antics) involving her then 18-year-old daughter, Caroline went to Rupert Murdoch’s primary aide, Gary Ginsberg, formerly her brother John’s right-hand-man, who went to Murdoch, who quashed the Post’s story. In turn, she wrote a letter to Brearley, the private school in Manhattan where she sits on the board, when Murdoch’s daughter, Grace, was applying for kindergarten there.
Likewise, when Murdoch wanted an audience with Barack Obama, he went through Caroline (who, at that moment, was riding with Barack Obama in his car). All this is not in any way an indictment of her insiderism. Indeed, the attraction to her is precisely because she seems like the ultimate insider, the person who most knows the truth about power and celebrity, and the darkness of American public life (everybody else has to claw their way to insider status, compromising themselves as they climb the pole—she was born inside).