Posted on 12/15/2008 2:16:28 PM PST by COUNTrecount
Caroline Kennedy, the first daughter of Camelot, has decided to seek Hillary Rodham Clinton's U.S. Senate seat - a decision that rocks the landscape of the race to be appointed to succeed the outgoing senator.
"She has decided she wants the Senate seat," a source close to Kennedy told The Post.
She called Gov. Paterson today to let him know.
The move makes official what some Kennedy family members had been urging her to do for weeks.
Kennedy has already signed up powerhouse consulting firm Knickerbocker SKD, which advises Mayor Bloomberg - who sang her praises recently as a qualified candidate.
The firm is run by Josh Isay, Sen. Charles Schumer's former campaign manager, and several sources said the move suggests Kennedy has the mayor's tacit support for her candidacy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
It's an heirloom that Dems pass from one generation to another.
At least Caroline atually lives in NY --unlike her Uncle Bobby and Hillary.
I assume if the princess wants it she gets it.
Although I generally despise Wash Po, here is an op-ed from yesterday’s edition ... against the appointment of Caroline ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/12/AR2008121203334_pf.html
Caroline will hand the seat off to Chelsea just as soon as she in installed in the White House. These things take time don’t you know.
Legacy admissions into the Ivy League are no guarantees of intelligence.
The question is - what did Caroline offer Uncle Ted for this opportunity to materialize out of nowhere? A sandwich? /sarc
None of the Kennedys have spent any part of their fortunes on braces!
The Mayflower Pilgrims were hardly blue bloods. Regarding Brit aristocracy, so are Kerry, Bush, Obama and countless other Americans and Brits.
The Palins and Heaths are workers and teachers. She was elected Mayor and Governor. Sarah is an average American girl who achieved everything on her own.
The Kennedys are aristocratic nepotists who think their family is entitled to every post in government even without being elected. Limousine liberals.
Did she marry her brother or something?
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Absolutely correct.
Other than having a morally corrupt, fat, loudmouthed uncle in the senate already, what are her real qualifications? Has she got any experience? Has she got any ability? Has she ever done anything that would qualify her for the position. There aren’t any monarchies in America and there never will be...I don’t care what her name is!!!
“Think whatever you like.”
I just did! The Kennedys are inbred, idiot, dynastic, and stupid scum.
So, trisham - going back to your point. How does calling Caroline Kennedy stupid translate to taking the “gaze off the enemy”? Just wondering.
I have the answer, they won't. There is a need for legislation, a law that PROHIBITS any family member, including extended family, of any elected official from holding any office. The nation needs to end nepotism in government.
I can name rabid bug-eyed lunatics who have Ivy degrees. Kerry and Barry were also Ivies. It’s not a secret that commie faculty have turned colleges into factories cranking out liberal goons. Some of the most evil and politically (and morally) stupid folks come from Ivy universities. It says nothing about her competence or wisdom.
Odds are she won't be popular with the Obamistas or the Clintonistas either.
Then, there's that Leftwingtard who shot her dad ~ she may have dark thoughts about that crowd. Or, maybe she's nuts.
We need to find a strategy that will work for us.
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