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CAROLINE KENNEDY MAKES DECISION AFTER LEARNING SHE WASN'T GOING TO BE PICKED AS SENATOR
NY POST ^ | Jan 21, 2009 | FREDRIC U. DICKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN

Posted on 01/21/2009 5:16:16 PM PST by COUNTrecount

Caroline Kennedy tonight withdrew her name from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate after learning that Gov. David Paterson wasn't going to choose her, The Post has learned.

Kennedy's decision removes the highest-profile name in the ring to step into Clinton's now-vacant seat, as she departs after getting confirmed today as President Obama's Secretary of State.

Sources said the reason Paterson had decided not to tap the daughter of John F. Kennedy was her poor performances in media interviews and in in private sessions with various officials.

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To: Army Air Corps

As the saying goes:

It is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool, then to open ones mouth and dispel all doubt.

Not that Ms. Kennedy had to open her mouth to dispel all doubt, but she sure solidified it.


21 posted on 01/21/2009 5:27:13 PM PST by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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To: VanDeKoik
Maybe we can trick him into appointing a Republican by placing him in a position where, when he reaches forward to fell the candidate, he'll think it's a Democrat.

Because, you see, the Republican mascot is an elephant.... Aw, screw you guys!
22 posted on 01/21/2009 5:28:38 PM PST by ClaudiusI
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To: This Just In
And to think, she had lunch with the Revrund Al Sharpton at Sylvia's, in Harlem and she actually 'ate.' Who sez she really didn't want it?
23 posted on 01/21/2009 5:30:08 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (Yoi and double Yoi!!! Pittsburgh is going to the Super Bowl!!!)
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To: VanDeKoik
Oh yeah, I went there.

I almost did, but erased it before posting... Shame on you! ;)

24 posted on 01/21/2009 5:30:24 PM PST by SunStar (Democrats piss me off!)
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To: libh8er
"You know.. you know...you know...you know...you know...you know...you know...you know...you know..."

Eh.

"Uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh..."

25 posted on 01/21/2009 5:32:27 PM PST by Mojave (Own a pit bull; own the consequences.)
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To: This Just In
Sources said the reason Paterson had decided not to tap the daughter of John F. Kennedy

He said, "Tap"... bwahahahahahahaha....

I wouldn't tap that either.

26 posted on 01/21/2009 5:32:30 PM PST by erman (Give a man a fire, warm him for one night. Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.)
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To: SunStar
Sources said the reason Paterson had decided not to tap the daughter of John F. Kennedy was her poor performances in media interviews and in private sessions with various officials. .... Article

Common sense and merit triumphs over Identiy Politics!

I expect Patterson to appoint another African-American, but we’ll see. ..... SunStar

All hands, belay my last!

27 posted on 01/21/2009 5:33:16 PM PST by Polybius
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To: COUNTrecount
Sources said the reason Paterson had decided not to tap the daughter of John F. Kennedy was her poor performances in media interviews...

So the bottom line is that Kennedy would not have helped (and may have even hurt) the Democratic Party therefore she was not selected. The public polling just didn't hold up for the Dems. Qualifications and service to the country were just after thoughts.

28 posted on 01/21/2009 5:33:16 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: Sarah Barracuda

I was rooting for her. I’d rather have a bumbling, dumber-than-a box-of-rocks leftist in the senate than a cunning, intelligent one.


29 posted on 01/21/2009 5:34:14 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Thank you, President Bush. You will be missed.)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

How charitable of her to patronize the common folk and condescend to nibble on ghetto food. Did she try the wine in a box, or throw back some Colt 45?

Power to the people, sistah.


30 posted on 01/21/2009 5:34:30 PM PST by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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To: COUNTrecount

Obvious to everyone but very impolite for the Post to say it out loud. :)


31 posted on 01/21/2009 5:37:25 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Confidential to MSM: "Better Red than Read" is a failed business model.)
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To: Mojave
"You know.. you know...you know...you know...you know...you know...you know...you know...you know..."
"Uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh...uh..."

What's that - a transcript of a phone call between Caroline and Barry-O?

32 posted on 01/21/2009 5:37:36 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

They’re cut from the same cloth. The only difference is that one gives orders, the other takes it.

Liberals are like the giant brain in A Wrinkle In Time. The brain representing evil/Communism.


33 posted on 01/21/2009 5:39:14 PM PST by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Pert much.


35 posted on 01/21/2009 5:39:35 PM PST by Mojave (Own a pit bull; own the consequences.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
Did I say that?

You did know Paterson is blind, right?

36 posted on 01/21/2009 5:41:08 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: This Just In
I could be wrong...but...I see Hillary fingerprints just all over this. The Kennedy's collectively hoisted the pertard of Obama dissing Senator Clinton bigtime. Infact, the Clintonista's may blame the Kennedy's for Hillary's loss...so, do we think Madame Secretary of State wants her seat (yes, it is her seat) just handed to the infidel Schlossssssssburg? Maybe Hil (and Bil) think a 'placemarker' should be 'tapped' so that the Clinton seat can go to the next generation of Hubbel, errr, Clintons--Chelsea? I think she would have had an easier time (and gotten alot of sympathy) if Mrs. Schlossssssssburg had tried for Uncle Teddy's seat instead (unless Teddy has one of his offspring--are they all out of jail?--at the ready to fill his seat).
37 posted on 01/21/2009 5:47:56 PM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (Yoi and double Yoi!!! Pittsburgh is going to the Super Bowl!!!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Another Profile in Courage! Little Princess Cawoline got a boo-boo on her ego! *snif*


38 posted on 01/21/2009 5:49:31 PM PST by pabianice
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To: COUNTrecount

Sources said she was the for sure pick. At the same time sources said she wasn’t going to get it.

This explains why sources are never wrong.


39 posted on 01/21/2009 5:51:33 PM PST by DManA
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To: muawiyah

you know, she probably get the MA senate seat, you know


40 posted on 01/21/2009 5:54:15 PM PST by 4rcane
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