Posted on 12/16/2008 10:42:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Caroline Kennedy's interest in the U.S. Senate seat now held by Hillary Clinton is making for lots of talk, about whether having the Kennedy name is enough to qualify her for the position.
Kennedy, who's 51, has been a very private person until her very public support of Barack Obama, and this week she's saying publicly she's interested.
Reaction here in Syracuse: Outgoing Congressman Jim Walsh, honored by the Onondaga County Legislature for 20 years of service to the area, says 'Well, I think you have to earn this." He points to Clinton's tenure and asks 'Why did she come here initially?' Walsh now thinks we should ask, 'Why is Caroline Kennedy interested?"
Incoming 25th District Congressman Dan Maffei is noncommittal on who he'd support, saying it's the Governor's decision. Action News caught up with him, as he was touring Sensis Corporation in East Syracuse, learning more about big employers in the district. Maffei says he has tremendous admiration for Caroline Kennedy, and that she could do anything she wants, including being a U.S. Senator, but he also says "I like her as a candidate, but I like other candidates, too."
Governor David Paterson will make the appointment, but Senator Clinton has indicated she will not vacate the position until her confirmation hearings.
these same DAMACRATS...
were the ones telling everyone that Sarah Palin would be a horrible VP because she had no experience..then they expect us to swallow this and forget about it?
No she doesn’t deserve it. She hasn’t earned it. It’s ridiculous.
At this point, it is all about finding a rubber stamping drone to follow Reid’s orders, and a competent staffer can be hired to insert the appropriate pork to any bill.
How hard could it be to be a Senator in a hyper-partisan era?
appointing her would be a joke, but so is obama
if she wants to enter politics let her run for office and earn it.
Are you kidding? She's a Kennedy! Why, they practically invented gov't.
New York put Clinton in, there’s no reason to believe they wont do the same for Kennedy. It’s sick, but it the truth.
She’s about as qualified as John F. Kennedy is.
No, she is not. Her sense of entitlement is ridiculous.
Does Rudy have any chance?
Rudy's on a train to nowhere.
He77-— 80% of the people there now don’t deserve to be Senators.
But at least most of them ‘earned’ it by conning enough people into voting for them.
Given the preponderance of twits and crooks (and crooked twits) that are in the Senate now, I don’t see Caroline Kennedy as making matters much worse.
I’ve heard that he wants to be governor.
She wrote a big, fat book on the sacred, Constitutional Right to Kill Babies. What more could she do to prove that she deserves to be in the Senate?
oh, dear God, she didn’t? that is just sick, sick, sick...and she claims to be Catholic.
In a word - NO!
A bootlegger’s legacy that keeps on giving.
About as much as Chelsea Clinton or Amy Carter.
no
New York has already heaped enough shame on their own heads by electing Hillary Clinton twice. There is no need to double the indignity by plucking Caroline Kennedy out of thin air to deposit her in the Senate.
When Hillary landed in New York, she displaced Nita Lowey, who probably would have won that Senate seat at a walk. Why isn’t Congressman Lowey at the top of the list, now that Hillary is leaving? (Not that I am a tremendous fan of Nita Lowey, mind you...)
Actually, the best person for the job, bar none, is Congressman Pete King. Unfortunately, he has an (R) problem.
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