Fare thee well, Queen Caroline; Update: Awkward! AP says she still wants in; Late late update: Spokesman confirms she’s out.
The commentariat will say it was the “uhs” and “you knows” that killed Caroline Kennedy’s bid for Hillary’s Senate seat.
The halting media appearances certainly didn’t help. But ultimately, it was the regal sense of entitlement that done her in.
Dynastic expectations coupled with lack of public disclosure and questionable work ethics do not sit well with the American public.
Fare the well, Queen Caroline. Or, as us serfs like to put it: DLTDHYOTWO*!
*That’s “Don’t Let The Door Hit You On The Way Out” for those who do not rub elbows with the commoners.
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Update: Via Allahpundit, the Associated Press reports late tonight that Caroline still wants in!
A person familiar with Caroline Kennedy’s decision says she has renewed her determination to win appointment to the U.S. Senate seat once held by her slain uncle, Sen. Bobby Kennedy.
The source says that after her surviving uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, suffered a seizure on Inauguration Day, Caroline Kennedy had misgivings about taking on the new job.
The source spoke to The Associated Press on Wednesday on the condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak for Kennedy. Earlier in the day, The New York Times and New York Post reported that Kennedy had ended her monthlong bid to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was confirmed as secretary of state.
Gov. David Paterson has said he hopes to make the appointment by this weekend.
Awkwardness. Intrigue. Grab the popcorn. It ain’t over yet.
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Update 12:35am Eastern. And the roller coaster ride comes to a screeching halt. Out. In. Out.
AP bulletin: Spokesman confirms Caroline has withdrawn.
Now, you can do like the moonbats did to George W. Bush and sing “Nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, goodbye…”
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Buh Bye.
It’s really no biggie whoever is picked will probably suck anyway.
Queen Caroline’s friends certainly aren’t a rogues gallery of con men, grifters, America haters, race baiters, and terrorists….are they?
Just askin’….
Hey Michelle, I am a commoner, for sure, I checked…and I didn’t know what the initials meant…in a way, I think we will need initials just to stay out of the goon squads that want to stifle free speech. Heh!
No matter whom Patterson picks will be an uber-lib Demonrat who follows directions from Reid and Schumer.
Must have a better sinecure waiting for here elsewhere.
for her
Nutz.
No. She wasn’t seated in the Senate.
I have 2 things to say:
1) That headline is hilarious.
2) Wasn’t Drudge spouting off on his site just 2 days ago how Caroline was a done deal?
I met Caroline down in Destin many, many years ago. She was very kind and personable. However, as a Reagan Conservative, I would never vote for her. Nevertheless, to me, she was just a regular person and good company.
Fox News said she dropped out for “personal reasons.” I guess if your qualifications are questioned and other than having the name Kennedy no other redeeming factor is found – that can go as “personal reasons.”
If this were true, President McCain would have been given the oath of office yesterday.
At least this blog post reminds me of one of the greatest songs of all-time:
Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline (BBC FOUR)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzsUOmqpaeg
ajmontana is so right. Whoever it is will suck just like the rest of them.
good we do not need another useless libtard kennedy in public service…let them all find another line of work….better yet let them join anyone of dear leaders new volunteer programs:
Enable All Americans to Serve to Meet the Nation’s Challenges
* Expand Corporation for National and Community Service:
* Obama and Biden will expand AmeriCorps from 75,000 slots today to 250,000 and they will focus this expansion on addressing the great challenges facing the nation. They will establish a Classroom Corps to help teachers and students, with a priority placed on underserved schools; a Health Corps to improve public health outreach; a Clean Energy Corps to conduct weatherization and renewable energy projects; a Veterans Corps to assist veterans at hospitals, nursing homes and homeless shelters; and a Homeland Security Corps to help communities plan, prepare for and respond to emergencies.
* Engage Retiring Americans in Service on a Large Scale:
* Older Americans have a wide range of skills and knowledge to contribute. Obama and Biden will expand and improve programs that connect individuals over the age of 55 to quality volunteer opportunities.
* Expand the Peace Corps:
* Obama and Biden will double the Peace Corps to 16,000 by 2011. They will work with the leaders of other countries to build an international network of overseas volunteers so that Americans work side-by-side with volunteers from other countries.
* Show the World the Best Face of America: Obama and Biden will set up an America’s Voice Initiative to send Americans who are fluent speakers of local languages to expand our public diplomacy. They also will extend opportunities for older individuals such as teachers, engineers, and doctors to serve overseas.
Integrate Service into Learning
* Expand Service-Learning in Our Nation’s Schools:
* Obama and Biden will set a goal that all middle and high school students do 50 hours of community service a year. They will develop national guidelines for service- learning and will give schools better tools both to develop programs and to document student experience. Green Job Corps: Obama and Biden will create an energy-focused youth jobs program to provide disadvantaged youth with service opportunities weatherizing buildings and getting practical experience in fast-growing career fields.
* Expand YouthBuild Program:
* Obama and Biden will expand the YouthBuild program, which gives disadvantaged young people the chance to complete their high school education, learn valuable skills and build affordable housing in their communities. They will grow the program so that 50,000 low-income young people a year a chance to learn construction job skills and complete high school.
* Require 100 Hours of Service in College: Obama and Biden will establish a new American Opportunity Tax Credit that is worth $4,000 a year in exchange for 100 hours of public service a year.
* Promote College Serve-Study:
* Obama and Biden will ensure that at least 25 percent of College Work-Study funds are used to support public service opportunities instead of jobs in dining halls and libraries.
Okay, a better version:
World Series – Game 2 – Sweet Caroline – October 25, 2007 (yep, Fenway Park)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PxHqMEcSuQ
Caroline Kennedy’s withdrawal clears the way for Prince Andrew. At least Prince Andrew maladministered a cabinet department and was partially responsible for the mortgage meltdown. This makes him far more qualified than Ms. Kennedy.
chsw
Well that makes 2 bright spots this week – pardon of Ramos and Compean, and now this…
“Done her in,” from “My Fair Lady”–great movie for all us in the lower class, even though Audrey Hepburn was descended from royalty:
Or, as Rush puts it, for those of you who voted for Obama.
As you read through this drivel, imagine how many hours will be spent in “community organizations” like ACORN completing this servitude to Dear Leader.
Seriously, if they are not giving her the job, how can she even withdraw her name? That’s like quitting after you’ve been fired.
Shouldn’t that be “What done her in”?
Spoiled little brats think everything is about them.
That’s almost vomit inducing. I think my human rights have been violated.
I wonder if they use that song at GITMO.
Not to mention that service to one’s community, and within one’s place of worship, school, or civic group has been a mainstay of conservatives for generations…don’t need to “make up” stuff for real folk to do…
20 years from now, the story won’t even include the fact that she wasn’t going to get the job…just that she “withdrew.”
20
yearsminutes from now, the story won’t even include the fact that she wasn’t going to get the job…just that she “withdrew.”FIFY.
LOL, Michelle….
THX.
How long did Her Thighness live in New York? A week before she started running for the Senate?
I was born there, and educated through 8th grade at St. Martin of Tours in Amityville.
For a Senator’s pay, and membership in he Senate gym, I’ll quit my job in the ever cyclical Texas oilfield and return to serve my new constituents in New York.
Somehow, even if he has that computer software for the blind and was browsing MM’s site, I don’t think Patterson would pick a guy who voted for Reagan, Bush, Dole, Bush, and even John McCain, but the offer stands.
I do still get e-mail from Her Thighness, BJ and even Hill’s Mom because I sent an e-mail about Obama fraud at the Texas caucus. BTW, I have stories to tell, but they had a well organized program. I was about the only white guy who didn’t leave when they announced Obama had won the primaries in Texas and Ohio by over 10%. (Don’t ask me how Texas had a primary and a caucus. BTW, I chose the Dem primary because McCain had it locked up before Texas, and it wasn’t just Rush Limbaugh, it was actually choosing the lesser of two evils, which I got to do again in November).
well, it worked for obama.
Neil Diamond must be devastated.
Amityville is not the real New York. That is where families go to kill each other off.
Oh wait. That applies to anything south or east of Westchester.
It’s funny, I was thinking when I read that sentence that apparently what “sits well with the American public” probably doesn’t even matter any more.
But you’re right, it certainly worked for the O.
Does that mean the Amityville Horror is real?
Heck, I was stationed for over six months at NPTU Ballston Spa, and spent many a Thursday night doing Dollar Ice Teas at “Barclays”, a bar that was once a bank and still had a vault.
I am so in touch with the people who work the farms and dairies of upstate.
Until I was sent there, I had no idea that there was country music on the radio in New York. About as many country stations North of Albany as rock stations.
Brings back memories of my 10 mpg and 1 quart per fill-up 7 or 8 cyclinder (it depended on the weather) green on green Chrysler Cordoba with cracked Corinthian leather.
A real family was slaughtered in that house.
What the subsequent family to live there wrote about their experience is probably mostly fiction.
Alison DaFeo, who was murdered by her brother in the famous Amityville horror house, was in my brother’s eight grade class at St. Martins.
That’s right, the DaFeo’s were Catholic.
We lived almost as close to St. Rose of Lima in Massapequa. I think I heard Carlo Gambino was a parishoner there, but I am not sure.
There’s always Massachusetts, and Hillary has no power there.
Plus, those Beacon Hill Bluebloods don’t care about silly little things like financial disclosure or experience.
Why should we trust the NY Post after this?
I was born in Flushing General Hospital in NYC. My parents had lived in Jackson Heights, and were part of the great migration of the pigmentally challenged to the Island.
My Dad still worked in the city (various times both JFK and LGA), and thus paid city, state and Federal income tax.
American fled the hostile business environment of NY for Texas in 1980.
NY. Michigan, California, never seem to figure out why raising corporate tax rates doesn’t seem to raise revenue quite the way they expect.
BTW, depending on what state you live in, it can be considered illegal for a realtor NOT to disclose that a house you are looking to buy is haunted or otherwise the site of a grisly event.
Caroline replacing the DWI Killer when he goes to the Great Amphibious Buick in the Sky is an interesting thought, but I think I heard Teddy wanted his latest wife to inherit his seat.
MtsEdge – Commutation, not pardon. At least they’ll be free… but the lack of a full pardon is disgraceful.
Exactly what I was thinking, in addition to the thought that a good majority on the left would think of the places you mentioned as the LAST place to volunteer….if at all.
*Besides being blind, this Gov. Paterson must be deaf and dumb to boot in ever even considering her; Besides, her uncle has already done more than enough damage to the country, so please, no more Kennedys.
*Contrast Caroline Kennedy with Sarah Palin; Palin has always been in touch with the common folk, something sorely lacking in D.C. at present.
Did anyone tell our new President that the White House is haunted?
Did anyone tell our new President that the White House is haunted?
You’re right. My bad.
I think it’s disgraceful, too, if this conviction stays on their records. But I’ll be glad when they are released from prison.
Yes, only work for the “state” counts these days.
Good to know these things…
You can’t fire me! I QUIT!
Not So Fast…
Closing my tags would have been nice. Sorry about that.
Thus ends the Shining city of Camelot that we all associate with the name Schlossberg.
Leave it to Clinton or a Cuomo to ‘leak’ a phony withdrawal.
After all, Blago let us know what a #@#%
valuable thing a Senate seat is.
She’ll get uncle Ted’s seat if she doesn’t get Hillary’s.
Princess Caroline cries to get Obama to call Paterson to give Caroline her “entitled” seat in the senate.
Umm… yeah, that’s like, you know, awkward.
Caroline, the “Anointed and Entitled”, is simply going to wait till Teddy Bear dies and then go for his seat. In the mean time, look for her to attempt to create some semblance of cred with the un-anointed masses in order to secure her new post as “Princess Caroline, Lady no longer in waiting”.
I really despise these “I’m entitled” descendents of a criminal boot-leggar scum bucket. Other than that, no prob.
He, he.
I’m disappointed. Caroline would have let me eat cake.
Should we wait fifteen minutes to see if she changes her mind?
Thank God that potential disaster has been averted.
Geez, as a former upstate New Yorker, I thought her highness was a terrible choice. It must have been eye-opening for some to find out that with all that Ivy League education her trust fund and Uncle Teddy could buy, poor Caroline didn’t quite have that “stage presence.” I’m sure somewhere, Sarah Palin is laughing her butt off.
It is really time for the Kennedys to take the hint and let the Cuomos take over. That way, we’ll get a lot of miliage out of Mario Cuomo’s assurances that Obummer is, indeed, a moderate!
It’s always a hoot when New Yorkers never learn that Dems aren’t as good at economics as they think. Wasn’t it former governor Cuomo that encouraged foreign business competition in the state of New York and also decided that taxing business some more couldn’t hurt? That thump that my mom heard in the ’80′s was her job leaving and businesses leaving or going out of business.
Yeah, if you think Queen Caroline is terrible at public speaking/interviews, how many of you think she lives on a budget or agonizes over money like many of us do?
As a New Yorker I am very dissapointed. Whoever our Gov.(who inherited his seat) picks is still going to be a hard-core lefty. I would MUCH rather have had Kennedy who was just awful and the public did not like her at all. She woudl have been the Dem’s incumbent pick to continue and would have been easy pickins for a Republican whose party in this state is lacluster at best. The RNC spends no $$ in NY believing it is a waist of resources. BIG MISTAKE. They need to get out the vote, educate and to get some nominees with some recognition.
Now, with Kennedy out, we’ll get some Lib knowone has ever heard of and will be a much easier ticket for the Dem’s when the seat comes up for re-election.
Rooting for Kennedy’s demise was a huge mistake. Should have waited until she was seated, then attack her. She would have easily crumbled. Now that seat will be VERY difficult for the Republicans to recapture.
LOL – Thanks Michelle.
I enjoyed the news almost as much as the temporary diversion to the online time machine via YouTube.
Call me dated, old, even out of sync with the present, but… I miss the music of the 60′s… sigh.
Of course, he can still give the seat to Fran “The Nanny” Dresser. She would be even easier to beat in 2 years than Kennedy would have been.
So, keep your criticism down and root for the NANNY. Once in, we can then tear her apart!
Ed,
Sorry to correct you, but the Not so good ship Kennedy was an Oldsmobile (I think a 1967 Delta). Used to own a 1968 which looks very similar. Wanted to put a sign on the back saying, “Ted Kennedy thinks this car floats”.
I read that Paterson may offer the seat to Andrew Cuomo. That would not be good. He would be tough to beat when he actually runs for the seat as an incumbent. I’m rootin’ for the “Nanny”.
Gov says he will announce by weekend.
Sure. Let’s combat crassness by trying to emulate and outdo the crassness of those we oppose.
Not.
I’ve never understood why I should give a dang who ends up the junior senator from newyork.
Probably one fo the best decisions she’s made.
Maybe Obama told her he’d give her one of his cabinet appointments as a consolation prize
I have another song for her.
Don’t go away mad, just go away!
Aww, I was pulling for the Princess. She could have been sworn in with Franken, making them beauty and the beast.
Time to move on……..
After that drippy Sermon By the Sea she gave about Saint Teddy at the Democratic Convention I had thought she was a shoe in. After all she is a Kennedy.There does seem to be a new generation in New York, perhaps America, that does not know or worship the name. Too bad that new generation still can not feed themselves off the public dole.
Andrew Cuomo? Dynastic expectations #2. I always looked at his father as Jimmy Carter north. Andrew is Attorney General of New York so I imagine he uses campaign funds to visit hookers.
Robert and Patric Kennedy still prowl the land as ravenous wolves but the Chicago gang seems to have stifled them for the moment. Fare thee well, Queen Caroline you are not missed.
Grandpa’s prohibition boos money is running out, just like Caroline’s charisma.
I’m very glad she has bowed out. She did not deserve the seat. However, now some other privileged moonbat will get it!
Exactly. It’s hard to tell if this was Patterson kicking his potential rival in the next governor’s race upstairs, or the Clintons-Cuomos trumping the Obama-Kennedys.
So, how long before she moves to MA so she can take Teddy’s seat?
Someone earlier said “She’ll get Uncle Ted’s seat.” They have meant it in jest, but in the world of family political dynasties, it is really not much of a stretch. The arrogance of it all is what gets me, and it does not matter what party does it. I was living in Alaska when Frank Murkowski chose his daughter to replace him in the senate. For reasons like that I have made it a personal choice to NEVER vote for the children or family of politicians. And as conservative as I am, for that reason, down the road, Jeb Bush will never get the presidency with my vote.
Her “personal reason” must’ve been that she would actually have to “work” in this position…something she obviously hasn’t been used to all her life.
Inheriting all those millions, why work at all?
Az,
If memory serves me, I think it was ken Burns mister PBS will turn any history into lib blather himself who made the all hail the swimmer by the sea vid.
cmon Patterson pick Sharpton do it for the bruthas!!!
Review: Kennedy expresses interest and in taken seriously because of her name and previous civic involvement. Some raise questions about her qualifications and experience. She does some interviews and comes off with a Palinesque inability to discuss issues. Interest in her quickly dissipates.
Summary: the system worked fine. We did not get an unqualified Senator. Democrats did something right.
somebody must have got the files released on her 80s drug bust
totally OT:
but I can’t stand ken burns, when he was doing his baseball story was told by a bud that ken was trying to reach a woman that was hired to a men’s baseball team…. I checked phone book and contacted her took two seconds.
Also he bastardized the reading of the Gburg address this year when he swoooned over obambi that tiresome he is Lincoln myth.
I’ve heard some theories that she backed out because she may be appointed to Teddy’s seat when he gives up his seat.
I’m sure in the next six months she’ll be in Government Service somewhere. Payback for supporting BHO.
Maybe an Ambassadorship to France or Italy.
I’m just glad she won’t be the next NY Senator. Although if Patterson appoints Gillenbrand to the Senate, she may be put in her Congressional Seat.
Cuomo is a threat to Patterson, no matter what happens, for the next Governors’ election.
The Kennedy tradition? Drugs, or alcohol…?
Why does she have a spokesperson? She doesn’t do anything for anyone to speak about.
No offense, but I’m not going to live in your neighborhood…
This doesn’t apply to cars, but I never buy a car that used to belong to anyone named Ted.
We are amused.
HAHAHAHAHA
No, you can’t have a pony
Her grandfather was a philandering rumrunner and market manipulator.
Her father brought “Harlots and Starlets” to the White House, when not bumbling around with an “almost thermonuclear exchange.”
Her uncle is, at best, an accessory to murder and rape, and quite possibly a murderer (depends upon how the charges would go) who had his 30-year marriage annulled by the Church.
She has cousins in jail for murder.
Hey, come to think of it, she really IS from Royal Blood…
And Nazi sympathizer.
Here’s what’s frightening: This woman is the product of the best education money can buy. —All the best schools, every advanced higher-education degree you can think of.
Lots of basket-weaving PhDs coming out of Harvard, I guess.
And don’t forget the cousin who OD’d years ago in Palm Beach, the other cousin who rolled a vehicle and paralyzed a young girl for life, and yet another cousin, Teddy’s son, who is what, a congressman or something and is in and out of rehab. Seems her mother did not want her to associate with the Kennedy clan. No wonder. And yet, why do those people up there keep voting for them? At least NY had some sense. And MD, for not voting for yet ANOTHER cousin. Dang, how many of them ARE there? Scary, isn’t it.
Maybe now, the dynasty will end. And rightfully so.
Teddy may want her to succeed him, but I’ll bet her mother doesn’t. She’s probably rolling over in her grave over this.
Few love the Red Sox as much as I do, but …
“Sweet Caroline” sucks.
Truck Day = February 6th!