Posted on 12/29/2008 6:07:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
When she first made it known that she wanted to be appointed to take over Mrs Clinton's seat, Miss Kennedy, 51, the daughter of the assassinated President John F. Kennedy, seemed a near certainty for the job.
But in the course of a few weeks she has alienated Governor David Paterson of New York, who has the sole power to make the appointment, and the American press, including the elite New York Times, which is a powerful influence on Democratic officials.
During an interview with the paper she stumbled badly, fuelling comparisons to Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, whose bid for the vice-presidency was blighted by a series of disastrous interview with Katie Couric of CBS News.
Perhaps most damaging of all was her repeated use of the phrase "you know", which she uttered 142 times and was left in the transcript when it appeared in print.
Explaining why she would be a good Senator, she said: "So I think in many ways, you know, we want to have all kinds of different voices, you know, representing us, and I think what I bring to it is, you know, my experience as a mother, as a woman, as a lawyer, you know, I've been an education activist for the last six years here, and, you know, I've written seven books two on the Constitution, two on American politics.
"So obviously, you know, we have different strengths and weaknesses."
Now Miss Kennedy, who has never held an elected office and often neglected even to vote, is in danger of emulating her cousin Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, daughter of Robert Kennedy, who was shot dead in 1968 while he was a Senator for New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
SNL won’t do any rip on Caroline-they’ll do a 43 minute overlong unfunny skit on Bristol Palin’s boyfriend’s mother’s drug arrest.
Watch your spelling!
"She's an Embarrasment," is correct; Embarrasment being an older, ancestral form, of the spelling for "Kennedy".
Given the choice, when it came to "Bobby, Teddy, and me," I chose "Nick Bob, and John: the Kingston Trio".
“OK, fine..fer sure fer sure.....”
“142 times? You know, thats a lot. You know?”
A couple of months at Toastmasters will fix that right up.
But then again, you can’t fix vacuous.
That's half as many times as Sean Hannity does per hour on his radio show. You know.
I watched a video clip of Caroline, and it was awkward and gave me cognitive dissonance or unconfortable listening to so many parentheses (I had to look up if parenthetical expression has a noun form) of you know.
I've always kind of held Caroline apart from the other libs, but was devastated when she came out so forcefully for Obama, lots of surprises there. She seems ladylike like her mother. Maybe she was actually nervous. I'm not sure why she wants to jump in the ring now; I'm guessing she's inspired by hope and change that is as chimerical as the Kennedy Kamelot :-)
She's just as qualified as anyone IMO, just wish she were on our side. I will wait and see what her positions are on various issues, expect her to pretty much toe the party line.
In the words of Jack Nicholson's character in "As Good As It Gets" where he says:"You take away all accountability and reason..."
No, wait. That doesn't work either.
Why dosen't she like SPAM. I like SPAM you like SPAM, why dosen't she like SPAM.
Jackie worked for years and years as an "editor" for some publisher in NYC. Editor indeed...
She’ll never make it on talk radio. Just like AF!
I’ll take the blonde on the left, and $200.00 Gene!
Beavis: "You know."
Butthead: "Uhhhhhh."
Beavis: "You know."
Butthead: "Uhhh."
Beavis: "You know."
Butthead: "Uh."
only slightly less (or more) annoying that The Messiahs constant ‘um....um....um....um’ during every answer he gives which isn’t on a teleprompter.
There should be an entire website dedicated to his um’s. Maybe a shrine. Instead of chanting ‘ommmm’ at his shrine, his acolytes can chant ‘ummmmm’ to be closer to their Messiah.
And Gov. Palin is a lightweight?
Sheeeesh
Well, there went her shot at glory. I bet unkateddy is soooooo proud!
> LOLPart of the difficulty in being a Kennedy is that youre too good for something like, say, your local Toastmasters club!
or the local AA.
Ha!
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