Outside of being related to drunks, killers, and bootleggers, what exactly are her qualifications?

Was her uncle's seat as well?

50/50 she drives off the Brooklyn Bride on a date with some dude.

That's pretty much it, really....

A member of a powerful political family rising to office through an appointment instead of an election sounds like a subversion of our democracy.

BUT I LIKE HER!

vudukungfu: Outside of being related to drunks, killers, and bootleggers, what exactly are her qualifications?

THIS

I, for one, welcome our American royal family overlords.

/Bushs, Clintons, Kennedys, oh my!

I would rather talk about Barney Frank complaining Obama is waiting to act as President until he actually is.

KentuckyBob: 50/50 she drives off the Brooklyn Bride on a date with some dude.

way to go, douchenozzle

brainscab: A member of a powerful political family rising to office through an appointment instead of an election sounds like a subversion of our democracy.

BUT I LIKE HER!

FTFY

Jesus .. how many drunk kennedys do we really need in gov't? The only good kennedy is a dead kennedy....

hartzdog: Was her uncle's seat as well?

probably, he was a carpetbagger just like Hillary
/only in NY can you run for office before you even live there ;-)

It'd sure be nice if these familiar names would just disappear.

There's absolutely no reason why a Kennedy should ever be in politics again.

Give someone else a chance.

OKAY COONTS...line up for the job.

vudukungfu: Outside of being related to drunks, killers, and bootleggers, what exactly are her qualifications?

Ask not what your Senator can do for you.

soy_bomb: I, for one, welcome our American royal family overlords.

/Bushs, Clintons, Kennedys, oh my!


One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?

Xerxes99: Jesus .. how many drunk kennedys do we really need in gov't? The only good kennedy is a dead kennedy....

Jello ran for office, does that count?

brainscab: A member of a powerful political family rising to office through an appointment instead of an election sounds like a subversion of our democracy.

BUT I LIKE HER!

Blame the founding fathers...?

soy_bomb: I, for one, welcome our American royal family overlords.

/Bushs, Clintons, Kennedys, oh my!

I don't think the Clintons really count as a political family, it's just Bill and Hillary and I doubt it'll go beyond that. Bushes and Kennedys though...their finger-dipping goes scarily far back.

I would nominate Bobby Rush. Its time we had a black guy in power.

Another Kennedy in office? Oh Lord, I need that like I need a hole in my head.

/Besides that, Dallas was great

image search for "Brooklyn Bride":

The Kennedy Family highlights......
1941 Rosemary Kennedy, who is mentally ill, is institutionalized following a failed lobotomy. She is the eldest Kennedy daughter of Joseph and Rose.

1944 Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., the oldest Kennedy son, dies in a plane crash over the English Channel during World War II. The pilot was 29 at the time of his death.

1948 Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish dies in a plane crash in France at age 28. Her husband, William John Robert Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, died in World War II.

1963 Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the second son of President Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, dies on August 7, two days after he was born almost six weeks premature.

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on Nov. 22 in Dallas. He was 46.

1964 Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the youngest Kennedy child, escapes death in a plane crash that claims an aide, Edward Moss.

1968 Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated on June 5 in Los Angeles. The 42 year old had just won California's Democratic presidential primary election.

1969 Edward M. Kennedy, drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on Massachusetts' Chappaquiddick Island. Mary Jo Kopechne, an aide who was in the car with him, dies in the accident.

1973 Edward M. Kennedy, the senator's son, loses his right leg to cancer.

Joseph P. Kennedy 2d, the son of Robert and Ethel, is the driver in a car accident on Cape Cod that leaves one passenger permanently paralyzed.

1984 David A. Kennedy, son of Robert, dies of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida, hotel. He was 28.

1986 Patrick Kennedy, the teenage son of Sen. Edward Kennedy, undergoes treatment for cocaine addiction.

1991 William Kennedy Smith, the son of Jean Kennedy Smith, is accused of raping a woman at the family's Palm Beach, Florida, vacation home. He is tried and acquitted.

1997 Michael Kennedy, the son of Robert, dies in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. He was 39. Prior to the accident, Michael made headlines for allegedly having a long-term affair with his children's babysitter.

1999 John F. Kennedy, Jr., his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, die when their plane crashes in the waters off Martha's Vineyard, Ma. Kennedy was flying the Piper Saratoga plane that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean.

2002 Michael Skakel, nephew of Ethel Kennedy, was found guilty in June by a Connecticut jury of the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. Skakel was 15 when Moxley, also 15, was found bludgeoned to death outside her Greenwich, Conn., home. Skakel was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in August.

2005 Rosemary Kennedy dies on January 7 in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, at age 86.

2008 Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy is diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor on May 20.

Anyone have an over and under on the next filthy Kennedy to have a run in with fate?

NYRBill: Xerxes99: Jesus .. how many drunk kennedys do we really need in gov't? The only good kennedy is a dead kennedy....

Jello ran for office, does that count?

You, sir, win. Too bad Jello didn't.

Jesus. Political dynasties make me sick.

What with 300,000,000 + people in this country you can't find someone who isn't more qualified than "my family is in politics."

I should be a neurosurgeon because my husband is one?

New York has always had a problem with the whole Democracy thing. It was something of a Tory stronghold during the Revolution, and has since done these stupid "Carpetbagger" type elections.

What's wrong with a special off season election so the People could pick who they think is most worthy? I think Robert K jr. is a more suitable candidate...or better yet, Alan Chartok. Now there's Change I can believe in. Does his living in Berkshires disqualify him?

Give this man as much money as you can, and HE will appoint YOU senator of the once great state of New York.



(Tell him they're one hundred dollar bills, but give him ones...he'll never know difference...tee hee hee.)

Yay aristocracy political dynasties!

Matrix Flavored Wasabi: NYRBill: Xerxes99: Jesus .. how many drunk kennedys do we really need in gov't? The only good kennedy is a dead kennedy....

Jello ran for office, does that count?

You, sir, win. Too bad Jello didn't.

/from wiki.... (feels dirty c/p but what the hell....)

[edit] Mayoral campaign
In the autumn of 1979, Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco as a prank, using the Jell-O ad campaign catchphrase, "There's always room for Jello", as his campaign slogan. Having entered the race before creating a campaign platform, Biafra later wrote his platform on a napkin while attending a Pere Ubu concert. As he campaigned, Biafra wore campaign t-shirts from his opponent Quentin Kopp's previous campaign and at one point vacuumed leaves off the front lawn of another opponent, current U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, to mock her publicity stunt of sweeping streets in downtown San Francisco for a few hours. Supporters committed equally odd actions; two well known signs held by supporters said "If he doesn't win I'll kill myself" and "What if he does win?"

His platform included unconventional points such as forcing businessmen to wear clown suits within city limits, erecting statues of Dan White all over town and allowing the parks department to sell eggs and tomatoes with which people could pelt them, and a citywide ban on cars (although the latter point was not considered abnormal by many voters at the time, as the city was suffering from serious pollution problems).[26] Biafra has expressed irritation that these parts of his platform attained such notoriety, preferring instead to be remembered for serious proposals such as legalizing squatting in vacant, tax-delinquent buildings and requiring police officers to keep their jobs by running for election voted on by the people of the neighborhoods they patrol.[28]

" For those of them who have seen my candidacy as a publicity stunt or a joke, they should keep in mind that it is no more of a joke, and no less of a joke, than anyone else they care to name.[29] "

He finished fourth out of a field of ten, receiving 3.5% of the vote (6,591 votes); the election ended in a runoff that did not involve him (Feinstein was declared the winner). In reaction to his campaign (and that of Sister Boom-Boom, a drag queen who also ran for mayor and handily won the third place spot above Biafra), San Francisco passed a resolution stating that no candidate could run under any name other than their given name.[30]


[edit] Presidential campaign
In 2000, the New York State Green Party drafted Biafra as a candidate for the Green Party presidential nomination, and a few supporters were elected to the party's nominating convention in Denver, Colorado. Despite the fact that his address to the convention was positively received, the party overwhelmingly chose Ralph Nader as the presidential candidate.

Biafra, along with a camera crew (dubbed by Biafra as "The Camcorder Truth Jihad"), later reported for the Independent Media Center at the Republican and Democratic conventions. Biafra detailed these events in his album Become The Media, which has resulted in him being credited with coining the slogan "Don't hate the media, become the media". Indymedia and related alternative media often use this line, or the now more apt "Don't hate the media, be the media."

Caroline will be be just like Hillary. But without the penis.

/penis

Xerxes99: Jesus .. how many drunk kennedys do we really need in gov't? The only good kennedy is a dead kennedy....

michaeld5: Give this man as much money as you can, and HE will appoint YOU senator of the once great state of New York.

(Tell him they're one hundred dollar bills, but give him ones...he'll never know difference...tee hee hee.)

/nice to see the Geico caveman doing well after his haircut and shave....

Xerxes99: Jesus .. how many drunk kennedys do we really need in gov't? The only good kennedy is a dead kennedy....

And THIS

/they got their money selling bad whiskey to good Indians.

Xerxes99: Anyone have an over and under on the next filthy Kennedy to have a run in with fate?

But they're just so charming...and sexy.

This appointment will send Massachusetts into hysterics. Ever since Teddy has had that tumor, every Kennedy loving Masshole is talking about Caroline succeeding to the soon to be vacated seat.

whidbey: Xerxes99: Anyone have an over and under on the next filthy Kennedy to have a run in with fate?

But they're just so charming...and sexy.


/wut?

Where it began, I can't begin to know when.
But then I know it's growing strong.

Viva la tyranny of the fartstained pantsuits!!

DrD'isInfotainment: New York has always had a problem with the whole Democracy thing. It was something of a Tory stronghold during the Revolution, and has since done these stupid "Carpetbagger" type elections.

What's wrong with a special off season election so the People could pick who they think is most worthy? I think Robert K jr. is a more suitable candidate...or better yet, Alan Chartok. Now there's Change I can believe in. Does his living in Berkshires disqualify him?

What's wrong with choosing a high profile person? Just because they weren't born here? Idiotic states in the south or New England might make the dirt on top of whom you made your name an issue, but in the Empire State, we care about your competence and how well you'll represent us. I voted for Hill twice, very happily, and while I didn't want her to be president, I'm very happy to have voted for her to be our senator. And I think she'll do a bang-up job as SecState. "Carpetbagging" infers that we didn't want her. If we didn't want her, we wouldn't have voted for her. I think most New Yorkers are sad to lose her legislative abilities.

JonEdangerousli:
Odd are you could do a similar list with your (or anyone else for that matter) family over a 67 year period. With the exception of the political offices.

In the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

/Can you name one other politcal family dynasty stretching over 60+ years filled so many fark ups and crooks?

Who says American politics isn't an incestuous elitist oligarchy?

Does she have the ass and cankles to fill out the pantsuit?

Xerxes99 Quote 2008-12-05 10:58:36 AM
Jesus .. how many drunk kennedys do we really need in gov't? The only good kennedy is a dead kennedy....



Agrees

Wow. Lots of bullshiat in that article.

1. Caroline Kennedy would NOT have closer ties to the Obama White House than any of her colleagues. I can think of several Senators who would have closer ties namely Dick Durbin.

2. What would Paterson get out of it? It makes far more sense for Paterson to act as a King Maker for someone else rather than to just pad Caroline Kennedy's resume. I am sure Paterson will nominate someone from the legislature.

3. This is nothing more than another "media-Kennedy" circle jerk.

vudukungfu: Outside of being related to drunks, killers, and bootleggers, what exactly are her qualifications?

Those are excellent qualifications for a politician.

Here is the problem, yall are confusing Kennedy men and women... one drives off bridges, boozes and dies tragically, the other devotes their lives to public service and charitable causes.

She is smart, thoughtful and connected. It also keeps NY with 2 very high profile Sen. ANd just in case, it keeps the must have a Kennedy in the Sen to piss off the freepers rule.

She has lived in NY most of her life BTW not MA for those wondering about carpet bagging and such.

Matrix Flavored Wasabi: NYRBill: Xerxes99: Jesus .. how many drunk kennedys do we really need in gov't? The only good kennedy is a dead kennedy....

Jello ran for office, does that count?

You, sir, win. Too bad Jello didn't.

Even if he didn't win, they should have appointed him in as an 'extra'. I mean, after all, there's always room for Jello, right?

Alice Palmer or Bobby Rush.

Wouldn't hurt to have an example of the real deal in the senate.

I was going to go along with the 'no more political families' rant but then I remembered that I had been rooting for Andrew Cuomo.

/a little downy

qualifications . . . let me see them . . . oh you're a Kennedy, please take a senate seat over here.