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Wbz December 17, 2008

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Your problem is NOT with Caroline Kennedy…

so let’s subside the ‘marie antoinette’ preciousness, mkay?

In yet another exercise in olympic caliber baby and bathwater tossing, many people are exhibiting Romney sized talents at taking the wrong thing seriously. Once again, in what is a tried and true Republican tactic, a face is attached to a policy and we achat cialis are invited to hate the face and do nothing about the policy. Aren’t we special…? Well, maybe we will be, when we grow up.

Aias

NEWS FLASH: Caroline Kennedy is probably the best we’re going to get out of this process. If you don’t like that then you don’t like the process! I don’t like the process. But dislike and distaste for the process doesn’t mean that saying no to Caroline Kennedy fixes or ameliorates anything. There are some good reasons to get behind Caroline Kennedy and not to be too ruffled: I try to outline them after the jump, both new stuff and stuff I’ve posted elsewhere on this blog.

But what’s really important is that, to actually change things, we hafta stop our tendencies towards terminal petulance and direct our energies where the problems lie. If you don’t like the idea of Senate Appointments then SAY SO! Just don’t pretend that Caroline Kennedy is somehow a bad person. She is not. Don’t pretend that doing anything about this particular appointment is going to change, in any way, the underlying structural flaws in the system. There are plenty of admirable things about Caroline Kennedy and not a lot of dishonorable thing (if any) and heaven knows, after burying a father and an uncle (RFK) who died because they were in politics, she’s not in it for the glory.

Consider this argument: appoints are personal; Should Gov David Patterson seek my advice on who to appoint to fulfill the Senate seat left vacant by Hillary Clinton, I might say ‘Pick ME!’. I know I could do a good job, though I have scarcely more experience than Caroline. If an appointment means anything it’s a validation of the governors ability Compra cialis to handle extraordinary circumstances. And he’s going to appoint someone known to him.

Another argument says that inherently flawed as the system is, it doesn’t, de facto, produce bad results: Ted Kennedy was basically ‘chosen’ for the Senate seat he holds right now. Though he had to go through an election… c’mon. He’s Ted Kennedy and he was basically ‘given’ the seat his brother held. THAT hasn’t turned out too bad, now has it? Much the same can be said for Robert Kennedy in the Senate, tho’ he was AG for his brother in the administration (how’d he get THAT job?). He was a good AG and he was a good Senator.

On the issue of qualifications: Hillary Clinton was scarcely more qualified THEN than Caroline is NOW… She married into it…! By all accounts, she was a superb Senator.

The choice, such as it is, might very well be between Caroline Kennedy and Andrew Cuomo… hm… where’d I hear THAT name before? So saying no to Caroline Kennedy isn’t saying no to the process, which is the real problem. It’s entirely possible that, should Caroline Kennedy decide to actually run for the office, she would be installed in the office FOR THE EXACT SAME REASONS that you decry… name recognition, celebrity status and ‘heredity’… Lord knows that’s how G. Dubya ended up in office… So, again, denying her an appointment is nothing but phyrric in extremis as it will do nothing to ameliorate the underlying structural flaws in the system.

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