Posted on 01/11/2009 6:54:27 AM PST by presidio9
When community groups and the Board of Education were caught in an acrimonious dispute over an arts program, education officials brought in a fixer: Caroline Kennedy.
The daughter of a president and niece of two senators listened attentively, asked probing questions and proposed various scenarios to resolve the dispute. Under her prompting, a compromise was reached.
"People were pushing themselves back from the table and folding their arms," recalled Stephanie Dua, chief executive officer of the Fund for Public Schools. "She was very good at defusing the situation. ... She has a very easy style about her but she's very sharp."
The episode is an intriguing glimpse into how Kennedy might fill the role of U.S. senator if she is appointed to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In a series of interviews with The Associated Press, friends and colleagues of Kennedy painted a picture of a reserved but intelligent and tenacious woman who writes her own speeches and who, despite her vast wealth, still takes the subway.
Those interviewed did not provide an impartial view — but, with several speaking publicly for the first time about their relationship, they offered a rare look inside the private world of a woman America fell in love with decades ago as she rode her pony over the White House lawn.
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Much was made of Kennedy's decision last January to support Barack Obama's presidential campaign, but she is no stranger to politics. Paul G. Kirk Jr. remembers meeting her at the age of 16 or so, soaking in as much as she could while on the campaign trail with her uncle Teddy.
She was "lively, engaged, inquisitive," said the family friend and former head of the Democratic Party. "She might hear two or three people ask the senator the same question if he
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....lemmings I tell ya, lemmings!
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...SHE WAS ON “CRACK”!!!!
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If only Samanatha would write such platitudes about Sarah.
It’s funny how when you want to find out about someone, the press interviews the friends, if the subject is a liberal, but they interview the enemies, if the subject is a conservative.
Yeah, but it sure isn’t written that way!
LOL! Remember...we are reading the equivalent of a journalistic “Lewinsky” here. They don’t need no steenkin’ writing skills!
Such a good point — last fall every little liberal dipstick in Alaska suddenly received a platform to attack and smear Governor Palin, yet I don’t recall seeing much of anything from the 80+% supportive of her, and from her closer friends and allies.
A vacuous liberal twit with the “Kennedy” names wants to be appointed to the US Senate (avoiding the challenges of actually running for elective office) and the Mediascum can’t seem to find anyone who knows anything unfavorable about her. She’s a living Saint.......
Yeah, I kinda figured it would be that way. Senator Lugar (R, IN) has been in office for decades and is a pure RINO now. We face the same inertia here with him as you face with Teddy. I intend to work my butt off to get him tossed out of office even though I worked as an economic adviser for him in his first senate run.
Somehow Caroline’s litany of “like... you knows” in a recent interview make her look more like some airhead valley girl than a serious member of the US Senate. However she may be a very good compliment for Senator Al Franken.
All probably true, but I also hear his staff is absolutely top-notch at constituent services: need help with the VA, tangled mix-up with Social Security, need a ride to medical appointments? From what I hear, his staff always comes through.
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I would expect that from any legislator I vote for.
The majority of votes cast for him probably come from people who have never called his office.
But I know what you mean.
Not around here! Kerry doesn't even reply, never mind help -- again, from what I hear.
“... but she is no stranger to politics.”
God, wha an idiot the journalist who wrote this is!
Duaghter of a president and member of Kennedy family is ‘no stranger to politics.’
Next thing she will tell us with a surprised tone of voice - “Bears crap in the woods! They really do! I have it on film!”
An unelected but incumbant Kennnedy will probably be easier to beat than Andrew Cuomo. “
But is that what we are reduced to? Hope an unqualified airhead liberal gets a senate seat on the off chance that we actually win it in 2010?
You may be right in this sense: Illinois - Burris will likely take that seat and be a constant remider of democrat corruption. Colorado - a non-entity was appointed by the lib-Dem Governor. New York - airhead Kennedy. Let Coumo try to knock her off, could be good internicine warfare for Peter King to take advantage of.
And please, lets get RUDY TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR! WE NEED SOMEONE TO DEFEAT PATTERSON.
Well, thank the taxpayers for that - we pay for it!
Yours was probably the best picture that exists of Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, so here's another. OK looking, but not exactly a Bush twin. And as for her sister Tatiana (in the background)? Oink City, baby! Bill Clinton already proved you don't need a good looking daughter to get elected. And Al Gore and Walter Mondale proved that having one won't help.
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