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1. Derek says:

   December 29, 2008 at 12:32 pm

   Stop everything! I say Caroline dearest does belong in the US Senate. In fact she’s perfect for it. The voting dimwits – a perfect argument for a limited franchise – has elected, with only a few exceptions, mostly total idiots, crooks, celebrity nobodies and demagogues. A perfect compliment to the “intellectual” pretender, nobody president-elecr. Caroline Kennedy would be…well… a proverbial cherry on the cake in Washington.
   After this electoral debacle there is nothing left for United States but to go down in flames. I say do it in style.
2. Banjo says:

   December 29, 2008 at 12:42 pm

   Any decision will have to be run by Teddy for his approval. A good chance he’ll want McCain in the huddle for this one.
3. Captain America says:

   December 29, 2008 at 12:47 pm

   In a sense I pity Caroline. She is clearly out of her element and even she doesn’t apparently realize it.
4. CFB says:

   December 29, 2008 at 3:39 pm

   This whole thing is mind-boggling. Caroline Kennedy delivered zero votes to Barack Obama. Zero. Rod Blagojevich and the Daley machine in Illinois, on the other hand, delivered like 3 million votes to him. Blago is therefore 3 million times more qualified for a Senate seat than Caroline Kennedy. Talk about an empress with no clothes.
5. RFM says:

   December 29, 2008 at 5:48 pm

   The NY Times editors mischaracterized its reporters’ interview, in describing Caroline “as a candidate…forceful but elusive.”

   If one reads the full transcript of the interview with her, one comes away with a different impression of Kennedy: a dim bulb who can’t carry on a lucid conversation using college words.

   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/28kennedytranscript.html?ref=nyregion

   The NY Times reporters, to their credit, conducted a pretty pointed interview–not at all puffy. Kennedy’s responses, irritatingly punctuated by the well publicized “you knows” (as well as plenty of bonus “kind ofs”) were vapid. The reporters on several occasions tried to ask a simple question, posed in several different ways, the Kennedy just couldn’t give a straight answer to. Things like: why do you want to be appointed? why are you better than other candidates? would you run on your own? what do you think about teacher tenure?

   Of course, people will say that Palin had trouble answering Katie Couric’s questions, too. But the difference is that whereas Palin stumbled talking about areas outside her domain (foreign policy), she was quite articulate talking about things in her wheelhouse (energy, Alaska, political reform).

   On the other hand, for a self-touted education expert, Kennedy comes off as an inarticulate dilettante.
6. Janemarie says:

   December 30, 2008 at 12:38 am

   How about a position with the National Endowment for the Arts, or Humanities?
7. J Burke says:

   December 30, 2008 at 1:59 am

   It’s in her DNA — the sense of entitlement that leads her to come to media interviews totally unprepared to say anything interesting or even coherent.

   You have to listen to Caroline’s AP interview alongside Incle Ted’s rambling answer to Roger Mudd in 1979 to fully appreciate the extent to which they share the Kenendy family approach to public service.

   I’ve posted both at my blog:

   http://thepurplecenter.blogspot.com/