Friends Of Caroline: Stop Digging

So I guess it falls to the New Yorker to try and rehabilitate the image of Caroline Kennedy. Obviously the target audience is somewhat selective given statements like this.

That her days would consist of drudgery—fund-raising phone calls, trudging up to frozen, decrepit towns she’d never heard of?

The nerve of elitists never ceases to amaze me. Too bad so many of them, including Kennedy, are all hat and no cattle. Unfortunately, even the rehabilitation makes her look like a weak, clueless woman who couldn't make it on her own without a trust fund. All she has is fellow elitists a bit too desperate to defend and slobber praise over a bascially empty suit. This below from Lawrence O'Donnell is priceless and timely. Where was all this insight and compassion when Sarah Palin made her national debut? Oh, that's right, like the vast majority of the country, she isn't one of them. That alone is a reason why Palin will likely have a future in politics and Caroline Kennedy won't.

The basic problem, the friends felt, was that reporters had failed to see the smart and decent person behind the stammering. In fact, they believed, it was precisely because she was smart and decent that she had found herself in this mess. “Most people have never had the experience of selling themselves publicly with TV cameras on,” O’Donnell, who worked for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan for many years, says. “Most of us have modesty impulses—you don’t want to brag—and you have to learn to defy these basic human impulses and say, ‘I am the greatest, and here is why you need me for this job,’ and do it without any hesitation or any doubt. Which is inhuman.” Her attempts at jokes somehow fell flat. When one of the Times reporters asked her at what point she decided to seek the Senate seat, she’d said, “Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or something?” “That was an example of her wry sense of humor,” a friend says. “She’s always ready with a quip. It’s disarming, it’s meant to undermine the reverence that people sometimes attach to her.”

Comments

[Lala]

“Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or something?”

Sounds snotty to me.

[Lala]

How about Ambassador? The wittiest people in the world, except for the Irish, will laugh their heads off at her little quips.

Caroline Kennedy says no to Senate but may become London envoy
James Bone in New York

Caroline Kennedy's surprise decision to drop her attempt to take Hillary Clinton's vacated US Senate seat revived speculation yesterday that she could follow in her grandfather's footsteps and become ambassador to Britain.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5570068.ece

[mike191]

I am an inhabitant of those ".. frozen.. decepit towns..." ad nauseum ,of Western New York,and I am sick and tired of subsidizing the parasites of New York City via taxes,fees,and electrical power from Westen,N.Y.To the editors of The New Joker-drop dead.

[Philip McDaniel]

“That was an example of her wry sense of humor,”
?!!
Oh. what a scream! I can hardly contain myself for all the laughter. Oh, how clever! How witty!
How sad we have lost this great wit and intellect for the Senate. How…Oh, just shut up.

[Fred Beloit]

Oh, Phil, you were always a sucker for a brilliant wit like Juvenal, Jon Swift, Sam Johnson, Bill Shakespeare, Sam Clemmons, Will Rogers, and Caroline Schlossberg.

[Philip McDaniel]

LOL!
Hi Fred.

[Fred Beloit]

What a sappy article in The New Yorker. Oh well, they still have good cartoons. The one of Obama as Washington was a real hoot.

[mary]

During this entire debacle everyone was thinking "gee, why does this seem so obvious" and it sort of made a lot of people just a tad bit uncomfortable. At least in previous administrations reporters had to dig to find connections that would enable them to know which were the political, "pay back" appointments and who was issuing the payback. The Governor of New York seems to have held his own and actually appointed someone he thought could and would do the job.

Interesting that he kept Cuomo as the Attorney General. Maybe Cuomo still has to redeem himself after his last government job. Although wait, is the NY Attorney General's office required to issue a budget?

[Todd]

"Where was all this insight and compassion when Sarah Palin made her national debut?"
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Sarah Palin was an attack dog from the get-go, starting right at the GOP convention. Attack dogs aren't magnets for compassion. Plus, she shredded her credibility by stating the lie that she said "thanks but no thanks for that Bridge to Nowhere" and repeated it many times on the campaign trail, despite many media accounts (including video) showing Palin fully supported the Bridge to Nowhere. People who lie or stretch the truth aren't magnets for compassion, either.