Unbelievable.
I wouldn’t vote for this woman as president of the local PTA.
“Y’know.” (Watch the video if you have not already done so.)
Really.
I’m sure that she is very nice.
And I am also sure that she is as media-dumb as a stick. Just for starters.
Read on for more.
Media-dumb as a stick.
She simply cannot talk. I mean…really. Three sentences into anything she says and if I was in some sort of conversation with her I would be looking for a graceful exit from the situation. She is a living sleeping pill.
With all her money she doesn’t have the sense to understand that looking like she is so rich that she doesn’t really have to much care about the way she looks is not going to go over really big with the Dumberican public.
Kennedy name or not.
She is fool enough in this interview to repeat several times how she took the subway to the diner…a diner in which she is eating plebian food just like the regular people do. Which if it truly is her regular way of life should need no emphasis, plus the sheer dumblife cholesterol and chemical content of her meal…in other press accounts there are pictures of her sitting in front of a bacon and cheese sandwich and an enormous pile of greasy diner fries…suggests both a relatively a short life expectancy plus given what any truly intelligent person knows about nutrition either a serious shortage of line-level smarts or some sort of emotionally-driven personality disorder.
She also speaks about her various books. Taking into consideration the way she talks…I wonder who really wrote them. Executive experience? I know some “executives”. Up close and distastefully personal. They don’t really have to do much other than posture, most of them. Others do the real work; they have their name on the door.
Same here, I’m thinking. In fact, she may be both so stupid and have grown up so privileged that she doesn’t even know that she is a frontwoman.
It happens.
Bet on it.
You know who she most resembles to me?
A luckier version of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy (both named Edith Bouvier Beale aka “Big and Little Edie”) who were raised as Park Avenue debutantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their dilapidated Long Island summer home, “Grey Gardens.” (Saw the Maysles brothers documentary…Oy vey!!!…missed the movie.)
Now the personality disorder thing might be excused as part of a set of conditions that are necessary for pursuing a career in big time politics in the first place, and I imagine that most of the whole PermaGov eats badly, drinks badly smokes (lots of things) stupidly and takes poisonous Big Brother Pharma products at a rate well above the level of any sort of line-level “intelligence” at least as I would define the idea, but stilll…
Ah kin dream, cain’t I?
In your dreams!!!
Well…in my dreams we have sane, intelligent, well balanced, politically talented people in at least a few places within the PermaGov, and since it is apparently very hard for people like that to get elected given the low level of consciousness of the average media-fried Dumberican it would be fucking great to see one appointed to the task.
See?
I can dream.
Cain’t I?
Yup.
Martin had a dream.
Me too.
Caroline Kennedy?
I don’t think that she is heavy enough to carry that dream.
Too bad.
Her Uncle Bobby was some kind of man.
The fix is in, but it appears to be a little…wobbly. Probably because she hasn’t the talent or intelligence to play her part well enough.
So it goes.
Maybe Andrew Cuomo has all of the intelligence of his father. (And more of the necessary courage, I hope. Mario copped out. I don’t hold it against him…I mean we can only imagine what the opposition threatened. But still…President Mario Cuomo would’ve been a very good thing. Right?)
We shall see.
Soon(er).
(or)
Later…
AG
P.S. For an alternative view…why hell, she may perfectly, exactly fit the real requirements for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
In which case…
HOORAY FOR CAROLINE!!!
After all…it worked for Unca Ted.
Y’know.
The benevolent influences of high birth?
Please.
My great-grandfather was the Mayor of New York while her contemporaneous Kennedy ancestor was still selling booze to stevedores on the docks of Boston.
You could look it up.
Both of them. Thomas F. Gilroy and P. J. Kennedy.
They were both undoubtedly crooks of the first water. It went with the territory those days and I do not blame them, poor Irish street boyos that they both undoubtedly were.
“I saw my opportunities and I took ’em” said the amazing NYC ward boss George Washington Plunkitt in defense of honest graft.
Yup.
Only my ancestor was better at it than was hers.
Where’s my goddamned Senate seat?
AG
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When he was 24 years old Mr. Gilroy entered city politics. He was made sixth clerk in the Croton Aqueduct Board at a salary of $ 1,250 a year, and married a Miss Sheridan in old St. Patricks Church. The couple set up housekeeping at Broome and Mott Streets, which was supposed to be very uptown in those days. They had twelve children …
Mr. Gilroy was one of the most striking looking Mayors this city has ever had, with iron-gray hair, a heavy mustache, a well-knit, erect physique, and ruddy cheeks. He was a great lover of horses and pushed through the plans for the Harlem Speedway, and did much to improve street and paving conditions. But the Luxow investigation of the Police Department occurred in his administration, and the scandals of the “Red Light Districs” broke, and in 1895 he was replaced by the reform and fusion candidate William L. Strong.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."The real “Arthur Gilroy”.
He walked away from all of it.
The politics, the bullshit, the money.
The works.
His money was where his mouth resided.
Bet on it.
He as the most resolutely honest man that I have ever known.
He taught me how to read, how to think, how to fight…the works.
God bless him.
AG
so let me ask you AG..did your girl Hillary run for any political office before her Senate race in New York state…btw, a state she adopted..parachuted herself into because it was a safe Democratic lock?
At least Caroline Kennedy is a resident of New York state…her ex-hubby is the current AG (by Sarah’s standards that qualifies her big time). It seems to me given that many are seated in the Senate, a result of special vacancies, Caroline is smart and more qualified than most who now occupy Senate chairs…..
Oops and ore so than Sarah Palin who was selected to be VP. OMG, I still shudder at the thought.
I’m not for dynasties but let’s stop the bashing of qualified people who bring fresh thinking to the table. There are more worthy issues on which our energies are lacking.
That said, Caroline’s fault lies in her open campaigning for the seat.
Go girl.
Caroline apparently possess none of the talents that are necessary for survival in for public life. And that, idredit, is the problem.
As far as I see.
Hilary?
Well, if Caroline Kennedy had essentially been the lifetime campaign manager for a successfully elected governor and president and one of his most trusted governing advisors, I would credit her with some big-time political smarts. Especially if she evinced even some small amount of line-level public speaking/public appearance talent.
But none of those things describe her.
Is she “smarter” than many Senators?
Dunno.
If she’s so smart, how come she appears to be in the process of blowing the gig?
AG
Caroline apparently possesses none of the talents that are necessary for survival in for public life. And that, idredit, is the problem.
As far as I see.
Hilary Clinton?
Well, if Caroline Kennedy had essentially been the lifetime campaign manager for a successfully elected governor and president and one of his most trusted governing advisors, I would credit her with some big-time political smarts. Especially if she evinced even some small amount of line-level public speaking/public appearance talent.
But none of those things describe her.
Is she “smarter” than many Senators?
Dunno.
If she’s so smart, how come she appears to be in the process of blowing the gig?
AG
AG
you are making.
I know this personally, as well as have studied history enough to know it to be true.
People mistake brilliant articulation for intelligence and having ethics.
The very best of these can become your salesmen, your politicians, your new messiahs. It does not mean they have your best interests, even their own best interests at heart, or even any margin of sanity lying below.
Give me a simple spoken, moral, ethical person who will vote, canvass, fight for the RIGHT any day. over a fucking trained parrot.
Yeah, she speaks commonly. Yeah, she uses, “Y’know” as punctuation…. but how pure is her heart? That is the question, not the fucking goddamned litmus test of verbosity and prose.
She may suck as a speaker, but she is not STUPID, she is not PALINESQUE when it comes to understanding the World.
For fucks sakes, Arthur, that is akin to saying someone who speaks in the dialect of street black America, cannot find middle “C” within a thousand of a milli~tone.
Jargon is not intelligence.
Intelligence is measure by your ability to reason, not regurgitate.
She should be more careful, but the video looks off the cuff. I have heard her be articulate, and NOW, I have heard her talk like a valley girl.
But where her heart, where her intent is my question.
If the ability to speak well was an option for any office, hell I know people, dangerously insane people, who could well win a seat.
It is not all about intent, soul or even intelligence. If it was, my sainted grandmother-in-law would have made a good senator.
So…what happens when she’s elected?
Does she have the chops for the vicious infighting that goes on in the Senate? Within the individual parties perhaps even more importantly than across aisles.
I don’t think that she does, myself.
And then when she comes up for re-election?
In what? Less than 4 years?
She will be a terrible candidate.
She simply doesn’t have the political talent, at least not as it is defined in as it is defined in MediaAmerica,
Good, intelligent woman though she may very well be…and from the way she speaks I am not all that sure about her intelligence level; she sounds pretty run of the mill to me…she’s just not right for the job.
Until proven otherwise, that’s where it stands as far as I am concerned.
So it goes.
Later…
AG