Sheesh! Why so tough on Seabiscuit?
Posted on 12/27/2008 12:04:44 PM PST by Leisler
Forget the Profiles in Courage award. For this interview yesterday Caroline Kennedy deserves the Profiles in Chutzpah Award.
See, JFK’s only surviving child wants Hillary Clinton’s seat in the U.S. Senate, although she has absolutely no qualifications for the position other than her last name, which by the way used to be Schlossberg until last summer.
Now all these dreadful, sweaty Albany and D.C. parvenus who actually had to run for political office are complaining about Ms. Kennedy’s ever-so-Kennedy-esque attempt to cut in line ahead of them. So Caroline grants - or should I say, grahhhhnts - an interview to the Associated Press, and she has the audacity to play the victim card. To get the Senate seat, she says, “I have to work twice as hard as anybody else.”
Huh? You’ve never worked a day in your life, honey. Your pampered-poodle existence makes Uncle Teddy look like a working-class hero. Poor Uncle Teddy is worth a mere $103.6 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Caroline’s gotta be good for at least three times that.
“I am an unconventional choice.”
No, Caroline, you are about as conventional as it gets. You’re operating under the oldest rule in the book, the golden rule. He (or she) who has the gold, rules.
“If I were to be selected,” she says, and that last word is the key one - selected. Not elected, but selected. “I understand that public servants have to be accessible.”
Wow. She pledges to be “accessible.” Her income taxes won’t be - that’s one pledge we can be sure she’ll never go back on - but she will be “accessible.”
You know just how preposterous this whole idea is by the convoluted paeans to her common touch that are being trotted out by the doddering sycophants of Camelot.
Remember Al Hunt, formerly of The Wall Street Journal and CNN, now of Bloomberg, as in Mayor Bloomberg, who is playing Cardinal Richelieu to her dauphin. Knowing quite well on which side his bread is buttered, Hunt wrote that Caroline is indeed One of Us - why, outside her mansion on Park Avenue, she has been known to hail her own cab! Was it raining too, Al?
She’ll have to work twice as hard, will she? You know how, when your basement or garage starts overflowing with junk, you have a yard sale? Caroline Kennedy knows what that’s like, only she calls one of her garage sales a “Sotheby’s auction.” In 2005, she made $5.5 million, which was a drop from the 1996 auction where she took in $34.5 million, including $2.5 million for her mom’s engagement ring.
And then there’s Mumsy’s cottage on Martha’s Vineyard. She only has 366 acres. On the ocean.
But she’d have to work twice as hard. Just like she’s always had to, right? Is it too late for her to buy herself a Pulitzer Prize? Does anyone have Ted Sorenson’s phone number?
"Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy is getting long in the tooth so Kerry is on the prowl. With a $400 million purse and 366 Vineyard acres, Caroline is going to find herself being stalked on Capitol Hill by a certain French-looking senator. Any spawn from this mating of long faces will resemble Seabiscuit. ... Instead of renaming the Senate the House of Lords, how about calling it the House of Lards?
I don’t want to get banned, so I won’t comment.
Hey!It’s too close to dinner time to be presenting stories like that.
Sheesh! Why so tough on Seabiscuit?
Seabiscuit? Sorry, but there’s no comparison. Seabiscuit actually accomplished something other than birth!
This womens only qualification is rhat she had her diapers changed in the White House.
Reading this isn’t half as bad as listening to the sound clips that Curtis Sliwa played on his show last night. She can’t even speak in complete sentences. She stutters, pauses, gropes for word and says “Uh” a LOT.
All these years I just thought that that’s what a drunk, pilled up Kennedy talked like.
I was wrong.
And I'd wager that her mommy and daddy never so much as touched those diapers.
Her nanny has more senatorial qualifications than she.
Probably ingested the same quality dope RFK Jr. did.
Now that was totally uncalled for. :)
Carr nails it in this article. Great sarcasm here.
The fact that she "wants" a Senate seat, doesn't mean she deserved it or has earned it. Obviously - she believes in the Camelot Monarchy... I don't!
The Kennedys have done far too much damage to the Republic already --- I don't want another from that despicable family in "Public Service"......
I hate to say it, but I feel it -- too many Kennedys survived their bootlegger and Nazi sympathizer roots.
She should just gossip with her menopausal friends over brunch and then go shop for shoes.
Hey New Yorkers,
Get out there and protest. If Caroline gets the seat without an election, you’ve only yourselves (and Patterson and Schmuer) to blame.
There a BIG difference between "breeding" and "inbred"
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