After weeks of criticism that she had not opened up to the public or the press, Ms. Kennedy has embarked on a series of interviews. But in an extensive sit-down discussion Saturday morning with The New York Times, she still seemed less like a candidate than an idea of one: forceful but vague, largely undefined and seemingly determined to remain that way…
She provided only the broadest of rationales for her candidacy for the Senate, saying her experience as a mother, author and school fund-raiser, her commitment to public service and her deep political connections had prepared her for the job…
With several weeks to go before Mr. Paterson makes his decision, she is doling out glimpses of her political beliefs and private life. But when asked Saturday morning to describe the moment she decided to seek the Senate seat, Ms. Kennedy seemed irritated by the question and said she couldn’t recall.
“Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or something?” she asked the reporters. “I thought you were the crack political team.”
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It's Vintage, Duh on December 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM
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Anton on December 27, 2008 at 8:44 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/28kennedy.html?hp
Ouch.
pedestrian on December 27, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Dang! That sounds just like a description of Precedent-Elect BHO’s actual campaign. The New York Slimes loved it, then. What’s changed?
progressoverpeace on December 27, 2008 at 8:54 PM
…And since she was so lovely with the reporters LOOK at the lovely Photo they used for her on that interview.
CREEPY!!
*Shudders*
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on December 27, 2008 at 9:11 PM
Wow!! Not only has she no experience and the vocabulary of a Valley Girl–she also has no manners or class!!! What a gal is Caroline at least to herself!
jeanie on December 27, 2008 at 9:13 PM
The media deserves no manners or class. Politicians should talk to them like they were Conan the Barbarian or Tarzan. I like this woman. At least, I like her as much as I could possibly like a democrat, which isn’t much.
Darth Executor on December 27, 2008 at 9:18 PM
Anton on December 27, 2008 at 8:44 PM
I got the same error message……..
Jim708 on December 27, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Affected by the economic crisis……….yeah right.
Cry me a river, Valley Girl
Knucklehead on December 27, 2008 at 9:26 PM
Maybe the media deserves no manners or class, but she needs to remember that she might possibly want to exhibit these at least in public. Now the issue becomes, does she have any and does not want to exhibit it or is she lacking in any quality except her own opinion of herself. I think the latter.
jeanie on December 27, 2008 at 9:30 PM
What, is Kos supporting Caroline or what?
Marcus on December 27, 2008 at 9:32 PM
Sweet Caroline has her dad’s restraint and her uncle’s manners and morals….
“cute kid”
sven10077 on December 27, 2008 at 9:35 PM
Honestly, it’s like listening to Paris Hilton.
I never thought Caroline, or John Jr. for that matter, were outstanding intellects by any stretch of the imagination but Caroline is actually a complete boob. Were it not for her name and money she would be a laughingstock.
Rocks on December 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM
Rocks on December 27, 2008 at 9:36 PM
She’s not?
Jim708 on December 27, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Hey! That’s a Harvard, Columbia Law grad, there. She has to have a “first-rate intellect”. After all, she wrote 2 books on Constitutional issues (with the help of some Ellen Alderman, who seems to be very unavailable for comment). And she managed to edit some other stuff all on her very own. There is a rumor that her office was surreptitiously stocked with erasable pens, but that is just unsubstantiated gossip.
But we really cannot fight it. Caroline Kennedy belongs in the Senate, because the Senate belongs to her. How many times does she have to say this before people will get it?
progressoverpeace on December 27, 2008 at 9:51 PM
“Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or something?” she asked the reporters. “I thought you were the crack political team.”
Heh.
I don’t know what she could have said in an interview of this kind that would change my view of her as a sheltered nitwit unqualified to run for a local school board seat, but her comment that she’s “lucky that her husband still has a job” is priceless.
Planning on burning through $200 million in the next 30 years, Princess? Give me a break.
Jaibones on December 27, 2008 at 9:54 PM
I believe you have been hacked, I got this message when I tried the link:
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rob verdi on December 27, 2008 at 10:18 PM
now its working.
rob verdi on December 27, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Against school vouchers… Imagine my surprise… She gets ’school choice’, but her maid doesn’t.
darkpixel on December 27, 2008 at 10:49 PM
She had to postpone buying the new yacht for her vacation home up in Cape Cod.. Duh.
Illinidiva on December 27, 2008 at 10:56 PM
She “wrote” those two books in the same way that her daddy “wrote” Profiles in Courage.
Illinidiva on December 27, 2008 at 10:58 PM
Much as I relish the media treating a Dim like they treat Republicans on a regular basis, much like they did to Hill, I can’t help but still feel like it’s outrageous they’re being so very blatantly subjective about everything.
OneGyT on December 27, 2008 at 11:34 PM
I have no problem with a regular Joe becoming senator. Look at Joe the Plumber. He has the knowledge and ideas of what it is to be a public servant of the people. If he seeks such an office, many people would probably vote for him as I would if I lived in his city or state.
Palin started her political life to change the school her daughters were in and subsequently change Alaska for the better and end corruption.
As for Caroline, there is no reason for me to believe that she actually has the passion to be senator. To me, she wants the adage that she was in politics as her family was. Her interviews lack enthusiasm or passion for being senator. Instead of talking to the people, it seems as if answering questions is a waste of her time.
jencab on December 27, 2008 at 11:38 PM
There’s part of me that’s hoping she gets her precious Senate seat, alongside Stuart Smalley, if only increase the electorate’s disdain for the Democrats a little more.
I for one, am looking forward to using the phrase “Al Franken Democrats” for the next 6 years. Think of it as a strategic victory.
Fallen Sparrow on December 28, 2008 at 12:03 AM
If Hillary had been paying attention to what was going on in her state instead of preening for POTUS, Congress might have gotten around to reigning in the stupidity and fraud that was going on Wall Street. Princess Airhead is going to let even more slip by her while she has her hair done.
pedestrian on December 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM
What a snot. I thought her mother did a better job than that. Jackie would be ashamed.
doppelganglander on December 28, 2008 at 12:52 AM
From the article:
Apparently she thinks using Kennedy in her signature for forty some odd years qualifies as a “lifetime of experience”.
soundingboard on December 28, 2008 at 2:13 AM
Presently Caroline is talking to voters and reporters more than my senators do. I have Feinstein and Boxer and no one expects to hear from them except during an election year. And it will be the same with Kennedy if she gets the appointment. I think the press should confront all of them about such habits during the rare periods when they do communicate.
snaggletoothie on December 28, 2008 at 2:15 AM
What an effing twit. In the first paragraph she talks about unity among Democrats and Republicans. In the next paragraph she talks about building consensus on a Democrat health care plan, as if the Republicans are all on board.
To idiot liberals, unity means “seeing it all my way.” Dream on sister.
Mallard T. Drake on December 28, 2008 at 3:52 AM
Ah, so one of her qualifications is that she’s a MOTHER! Well, then, let’s just drag her kids out onto the national stage and humiliate ‘em, and it’ll be all her fault, because she’s the one who chose to seek higher office and thus use them as tools! Oh, wait, she’s not a Republican. Scratch that. Her kids are sacred and have nothing to do with this.
(Democratic female politicians always remind me of Dickens’s Mrs. Crupp, who went around proclaiming “I’m a mother myself” as an answer to and justification for everything. I swear that man was a prophet.)
Gina on December 28, 2008 at 5:47 AM
Priceless:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjgyZmViZjlhYTQ4OGE1YjhjNzY1MmNkMzg0NjEwYWU=
Gina on December 28, 2008 at 6:03 AM
Quite the opposite. The Kos kidz are pissed at him b/c he writes post after post about how horrible she is for this job. Yesterday he “stretched” her quote about not running in 2010 just so he could bash her some more. Many quotes like this followed:
Wow, when you piss off flaming liberals so much they start demanding state autonomy, that’s impressive. Now if they would just stay there and stop moving to NC.
LastRick on December 28, 2008 at 8:43 AM
right on target, jencab. I believe the Founders intended that we’d be represented by citizen politicians, not an ongoing elite of career politicians.
Red State State of Mind on December 28, 2008 at 9:31 AM
Even if she became Senator, she would remain inaccessible to and aloof from her constituents. She speaks as one who wants to go in there and reform things to her liking and never bother with the particular concerns of the people in her district. She attempts to make little connection with her possible voters. And…I find it annoying when people say that graduating from the Ivy Leagues is a sure sign of intelligence. In many cases, it’s a sure sign of endowment and political pull. There are many, many just as, or more, intelligent people that get passed over. Kos has New England connections and a great deal of New England, outside of MA, has a very real contempt for the Kennedys.
jeanie on December 28, 2008 at 9:48 AM
Sigh… How is it that she gets to choose how she’s known as (instead of her real name, Mrs. Schlossberg), when they were always referring to Sarah Palin as “Ms. Palin” (which I’m quite sure Sarah never wanted)? Forget the whole Republican-Democrat difference in treatment for a second: Putting a Ms. in front of my name is, in my mind, just as bad as “offending” me by putting a Mrs. in front of it. Enough with the inconsistent PC already!
pookysgirl on December 28, 2008 at 9:56 AM
pookysgirl: Very true and you put me in mind of how Sarah handled the abuse that was heaped on her. She displayed balance, good manners and class in the face of a terrible onslaught. That’s more than one can say for Caroline.
jeanie on December 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM
I’ll grant her this… you seldom see a clearer statement of why Dems are so in love with celebrity, and most celebrities are so in love with Democrats. Celebrity is so much easier to pull off than the hard things like integrity or capability. And when you have the refs in your pocket, it’s almost stupid to bother trying anything hard, just ask Barry.
Unfortunately for our Princess, she must be in arrears on her bribes to the refs, and it appears they are working for someone else.
drunyan8315 on December 28, 2008 at 10:43 AM
Oh, this is just too much fun. They’ve GOT to get Caroline in there — we’ve got to keep the Kos kapers going.
Gina on December 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM
I just listened to Liz Trotta on Fox this morning talking about Princess Caroline’s interview that was broadcast on NY1. Liz is now contending that Caroline isn’t even bright to enough to have written the 2 books she keeps talking about.
But it got even better. According to Liz, Caroline said “ya know” and “um” 198 times during the interview!
Someone please find the video of the interview, I need a good laugh today.
Knucklehead on December 28, 2008 at 12:29 PM
I think they’re starting to treat Caroline a little harder now because they don’t like the obvious comparison people are drawing between the press treatment of Sarah Palin and Caroline Kennedy. If they give Caroline a free pass after the way they rode Palin, then they are admitting that they are complete liberal poodles. We all know that they’re liberal poodles, but they don’t like to think of themselves that way. They actually think they’re “objective” (yeah, I know, laughable — but what do you expect from these idiots?)
Caroline is proving herself to be both inarticulate and inexperienced. The press claimed that Palin was too, but Palin was able to deliver a knock convention speech, give the best stump speeches during the campaign, and perform wonderfully in her debate with a 35 year veteran of the Senate. It’s hard to imagine Caroline performing any of these things as well as Palin did. Palin also spent 16 years in elected office and was one of the 50 governors of these United States — a club just as exclusive as the Senate. Caroline has never been elected to anything and has never had to work a day in her life.
At least Palin actually ran for the job of vice president. She never expected anyone to appoint her to it.
ramrocks on December 28, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Poor little rich girl.
RobCon on December 28, 2008 at 5:56 PM
Wrong! They’re the “Political Crack Team”… When your entire qualifications are… um.
Nevermind. Nice to see a lefty get Palinized.
heldmyw on December 28, 2008 at 6:47 PM