By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Last month Caroline Kennedy really, really wanted to be a U.S. Senator from New York.
Suddenly, Kennedy is out of the picture for "personal reasons." What changed? Two things:
-- The more New Yorkers heard from Kennedy and knew about her, the less they wanted her to fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. That's what discouraging polls showed about Kennedy, who earlier had surged into contention based mostly on name recognition.
-- Others wanted the job more, campaigning for it harder, led by Atty. Gen. Andrew Cuomo who still may or may not get the appointment this week from New York Gov. David Paterson.
In December Kennedy had mounted a public campaign for the job, saying at one point, "I think I bring a lifetime of experience to this."
And at another point, she said, "I wouldn't be here if I didn't think I would be the best (for the job)."
But in the end the Kennedy magic wasn't enough to convince Paterson to quickly appoint her.
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What our dear rockslide
fails to realize is that the VP will replace the President in the event that something happens to the Prez.
But Rockslide is rather ignorant, isn't she? She didn't even realize that Constitutional protections extend to non-citizens.
Someday, someday...
Rockslide will reveal to the world why she's so damn worried about what's going on in New York State with their Congressional delegation. In other news, Sarah Palin was presented as a candidate for national office, and became the concern of every member of the polity of the United States.
arguably the Vice President
arguably the Vice President has less power than a U.S. Senator. Yet the same crowd who blasted Palin as unqualified, etc all came running to Caroline's defense.
If Caroline wants to be a Senator, then she should do what her father and uncles and cousins have done and that is face the voters, tell them what you believe in and ask for their vote.
OK, "one's grandma"
Someday the right will come up with a wonderful new way of doing things that will blow out expensive, market-distorting, bankrupt-the-country Medicare. In the meantime millions of people get to have some semblance of medical treatment while the free-market crowd sorts things out. I'm uncomfortable with the alternative, which is essentially, Sorry, granny, you should have prepared for this, now die.
Edith
My grandma has been gone 40-years. And she received fine medical care before he did anything in the Senate. No, Missouri hasn't been the smartest state in the union either (electing a dead man), but we seem to know how to correct things once in a while.
I think her personal reason
I think her personal reason was that she didn't think she would get the job.
Good reason
He's the reason your grandma can afford to have medical care. Imagine, all those stupid, uneducated Massachusetts voters electing this loser year after year, not smart like the enclave of geniuses in Missouri, hein?
Well, you know, Caroline
has been rumored for the Massachusetts senator job as soon as uncle Teddy resigns. The rumor is she is taking up Massachusetts residence (like Hilary did NY) so she would qualify. It all makes sense. As dumb as the NY voters are, the Mass. voters are even dumber. Why else would they have kept electing Teddy?
You Know
Like I really, you know, wanted to see, you know, Caroline get the job, you know? You know, she would have been, like, you know, gang busters, with you know, the Swimmer? You know?