Posted on 12/16/2008 8:44:41 PM PST by jessduntno
Kennedy hires insider to soothe critics By BEN SMITH & GLENN THRUSH | 12/15/08 7:19 PM EST
Caroline Kennedy’s trial balloon candidacy for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat was springing a few leaks over the past few days — so she’s made her ambitions more explicit and hired one of New York’s top political consultants to gain some altitude.
After a week of coy courtship and low-key feelers, Kennedy began working the phones in earnest Monday — and signed up major Democratic fixer Josh Isay, who has deep connections to New York powerhouses Sen. Charles Schumer, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Rev. Al Sharpton.
Kennedy spoke with Sharpton on Monday, and he said he told her about another “lady that wanted to run for U.S. Senate [who] came to Harlem, to the House of Justice, and they told me she wasn’t qualified; they told me she was just there because of who she was married to — and that was Hillary Clinton.”
Sharpton said Kennedy chuckled.
“She had to work to undo the buzz for the last week — New Yorkers were starting to say, ‘We don’t know her,’ ‘She’s got no experience,’ ‘She’s presumptuous,’” said a top New York Democrat, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“That’s why hiring Josh makes a lot of sense,” the person added. “She doesn’t know anybody, and he’s the guy to make the introductions and guide her through the process.”
Hiring Isay accomplishes several goals for Kennedy. It signals her seriousness to Gov. David Paterson, who has been cool to her weeklong whisper campaign; it initiates her courtship of state power brokers who know her only through the media and the History Channel; and it “scares the s—-” out of lesser-known Democrats actively pursuing the appointment, the New York Democrat said.
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like dude, you’re not qualified!
Entitlement, thy name is Kennedy.
It is time to overthrow the corrupt ruling class of America: Kennedys, Clintons, and Bushes.
ENOUGH!
“like dude, you’re not qualified!”
How do you know I not a former community activis?
Something about all of this talk of being scared sh*tless and Hillary’s seat, I dunno, kind of like revolting, yet can’t look away...real Freak show stuff...almost feel sorry for anyone caught up in the Clintoon drama...the Kenyan better have eyes in the back of HIS seat...
Unfortunately, I’m sure that the entire corrupt ruling class of America goes way beyond just the Kennedy’s, Clinton’s, and Bush’s.
agree.
my congress woman’s husband skied into a tree,
and he left his estate and u.s. congressional office to her.
figure that out.
It appears to me that Democrats are very good at buying there way into power.
Putting Grandpa Joe’s liquor smuggling money to good use. Funny thing about NY Democrat politicians—they love to feel bought.
Maybe we should have kept King George (of England) if we are going to have dynasties.
Caroline is as qualified to be a Senator as Obambi is to be President, probably more so given the relative demands of the respective offices.
Watching the media NOT ask probing questions is fascinating. Wasn’t it just a few months ago that very same media was pouring over every speck of Palin info and sanctimoniously concluding that Palin wasn’t qualified? Now here waltzes in Caroline Kennedy without so much as Gov Palin’s starting PTA/mayor expperience, and our beloved MSM is . . . is . . . silent.
But if she is pro choice and she gets the appointment (I'm sure she will), it could get interesting if the bishops get serious about denying communion to Catholic pols who are pro choice.
It ain't gonna happen, but can you imagine if she is denied communion? It would really cause an uproar.
FMCDH(BITS)
Hey you dumb New Yorkers....Caroline has thrown her CROWN into the ring.......she wants it, you must GIVE it to her.
OMG! Her posture...and she walks like a man.....plus she is CLASSSLESS....she DISSED Laura Bush.
Man you sure got that right.
Hiring an insider suddenly makes her more experienced?
I hearby nickname her Caroline Slouchy.
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