Harsh Reviews for Caroline Kennedy, You Know?

If using the “you know” tic was a qualification meter, wouldn’t that mean most people of my kind, at least most of the ones on TV, would not pass the political exam? I saw a bit of the interview and thought this was going to be noticed.
I guess it’s okay for athletes to using it as opposed to politicians, or white politicians for that matter? I may disagree with the criticism but if you’re going to rake Caroline Kennedy over the coal for this, please have some guts and explain why this is a problem.

Having just read the transcript of this interview just confirms what I said before. Caroline cannot handle the press. She cannot pick and choose which questions to answer and which ones not to. She has clearly uncomfoprtable anywhere near a reporter which is understandable haveing been taught from day one that they are the enemy and are to be feared. She definately needs to move on.

Warmed over Palin?
What a stupid comment.

Her storied reputation was used to help get Obama elected. What she’ll get in return, rather than the Senate seat she expected, is a loss in reputation.
But.
Obama did get to use her for his own good.

Caroline’s life is filled with great happiness, great wealth, and profound tragedy. I don’t know if I could be as positive a person as she is given the personal family losses she has sustained over the years. However, that doesn’t give her a free pass to the U.S. Senate. The “you know” gaffes in the short excerpt I saw of her interview were painful to watch. What kind of education did she get at Radcliffe and Columbia? Caroline — please let it go, and let others more qualified step in.

CK should join Toastmasters to root out the “you know,” “ahs” & “ums.” I’ve read CK’s books. She doesn’t talk at all like she writes. Obama doesn’t speak like the “Dreams of my Father” because William Ayers wrote it. Compared to “Fugitive Days” same dumb nautical references, NYC East River metaphors, images of boys riding the back of water buffalo, same cooking metaphors, same dumb triple dependent clauses style, same green-eyed blonde girlfriend whose father owns a country estate with a lake in the back yard, where they paddle a small boat. William Ayers speaks just like he writes. If he wants a thinker, Gov. Patterson should appoint William Ayers to the US Senate seat.

So in the other story on ABC, poor little Caroline says she grew up in the 70′s, and everyone did drugs in the 70′s right…what was I thinking, by not doing drugs! Perhaps they should check her now, she seems delusional. Her sense of self entitlement is astounding!!

I tell you, US goverment officials really do need to begin pretending that they are in office to serve the people and not themselves because taking office for the express purpose of serving themselves is showing bright and clear. How could the govenor deny qualified candidates for the likes of Caroline Kennedy? These types of antics are more than I can bare. I’m getting sick and tired of government officials who think that they are untouchable and that they can ram anything down the throat of the American people. If they don’t start working smarter at doing a better job of serving us, we should start working harder to get rid of them and elect people who really care and will work for us as a way of earning their keep. Because as it stands, the current crop of officials are getting paid to do nothing except rip us off. And now they are bringing in Carolinge to join the circus.

The “haves” are now preparing for a coronation of King Obama that will make the August Denver DNC Greek Columns blowout look like a kids birthday party while the rest of the country is being treated to the solemn news that hunger and poverty and the sickness ,crisis in the Middle East, homelessness and crime in the U. S.that accompanies these statistics are at Great Depression levels.
Rather than being like Abe Lincoln, the “new” changes brought by Obama should compare himself to Hoover, the most hated president in history. If not him, then Obama can take his three legged dog and be in a “worst of” category all by himself.

Caroline’s life is filled with great happiness, great wealth, and profound tragedy. I don’t know if I could be as positive a person as she is given the personal family losses she has sustained over the years. However, that doesn’t give her a free pass to the U.S. Senate. The “you know” gaffes in the short excerpt I saw of her interview were painful to watch. What kind of education did she get at Radcliffe and Columbia? Caroline — please let it go, and let others more qualified step in.
Posted by: aviewerofabc | Dec 29, 2008 11:14:49 AM
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The bottom half of your post I can agree with, the top half WAAAAAAAAAHHH, the poor Kennedy curse, brought on by their own evilness, starting with the sins of Joseph. This is a family of murderers, rapists, alcoholics, drug addicts, etc and yet the American people call them “royalty”, says something of the stupidity of the American people. I offer no apologies for my unkind feelings for the Kennedy’s, I was raised to dislike them and everything they stand for, that comes from my grandfathers hatred (yes hatred) of the Kennedy’s.

Anyone that votes for Caroline knowing that she didn’t even participate in many contested elections from 1988 until now – will get what they deserve- a person so disinterested that she couldn’t even bother to participate at the most rudimentary level. If she didn’t vote as a citizen who in their right mind would believe she would or could participate in making the decisions as a Senator?
The last thing we need is another useless Nancy Pelosi like drone.

Okay, we get it. The media doesn’t want Caroline Kennedy.
As usual what they print has nothing to do with how the average person sees the situation.
This is about a Senate seat in New York.
The people want her! We want her because she is not self-serving and has aa willingness and eagerness to work for the best interest of the people.
Many of us don’t care about her name or her ‘verbal tic’. We care about what she can offer the people and the state of New York!

Awww gee Steve I didn’t know you could be a bigot just because I think the Kennedy’s are worthless scum, but I will take that as a compliment. Have you ever bothered to look into this family or do you just believe the Camelot dreams…

If she can weather the New York Daily News and Drudge she has a chance.

New York 2010 and 2012 election ticket – Governor David Patterson, Sen. Charles Schumer and Caroline Kennedy.
New York, Swing State? Atlantic Online – Dec 23, 2008 -
Defending Caroline Kennedy, Michael Kinsley claims that it “is precisely the fear that she would be a formidable candidate, likely to be elected again and again, that is driving Republicans to gin up a phony issue and bully New York Gov. David [Paterson] out of appointing her.”

let me just say that I don’t know CK all that well but I heard she was working for her state at $1 a year at some point. I really don’t think a person would bother getting out of bed in the morning to earn $1 a year if they didn’t care about what they were doing. I do think her interest is genuine and that she would really work hard for the state. Having said that, I do think this entitlement politics is a bit worrying. It sort of ruins my understanding that you should earn what you get and not necessarily get it because it has been yours for the taking all along and you just decided to claim it at this instance.

Politicians both republican and democrat have got us into our current mess. I am glad Caroline Kennedy is not a seasoned politician or is driven by partisan politics. Go Caroline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NH voter= New York transplant who “vacations” in New Hampshire and evades state taxes.

You know???

Young voter, yours is the most intelligent comment I have seen on this board in months.

Caroline and Obama a lot in common.
Neither of them have worked hard for anything they’ve achieved in life and both have a sense of entitlement that they should be placed at the head of the line because both think they are better than anybody else.
The only difference is that people are pointing these things out about Caroline but the same people didn’t hold BO to this same standard when he decided he was qualified to be president.
I don’t believe Caroline is qualified for the U.S. Senate and doesn’t deserve the honor of being appointed. Far more women in New York who have worked hard and built a political foundation deserve the seat. Alternatively, I also didn’t believe BO was qualified to be a U.S. Senator either, much less President, but nobody in the press were being as diligent in pointing out the obvious with him as they are now doing with Caroline.
Sadly, as much as many hate to admit it, Caroline is being held to a higher standard than BO was/is.

MaryJo, I agree with you. We have to give Sarah Palin credit for making it on her own. I do think she shouldn’t have made it but the fact is she still made it and that deserves a whole lot of credit. So we should indeed question why Caroline Kennedy would be appointed for that post. Is it only because of her name? if it is, then its troublesome. If its because of something else that she offers (even if its her name to the 2010 election), then she has a right to be considered. She does have a right to use her name if its something usable; after all, only her actions would have kept her name intact and still valuable today. However, I do think she should wait until 2010 and run for election then so that she can demonstrate to the people of NY her ideas and her commitment. If she is elected, then she would have earned her post because thats how the America democracy has been set up.
Jenny — In the United States of America (the country you live in), elections are the ONLY way that a person can earn their post. Bush earned it and now Obama has earned it. If you don’t agree, take up the issue with the [nearly] 67 million people who hired him for the job. No point in regurgitating the ‘media’ topic once people have voted.

Senator Caroline Kennedy…..
let’s move on
you know.

Jenny,
THANK YOU!
I wish the press and many others had enough perspicacity to recognize your points!

To criticize Caroline Kennedy’s lack of qualifications is not, in itself, sexist or partisan.
Caroline Kennedy is not qualified for the Senate. She has never held or run for any public office. The woman hasn’t even bothered to vote in very many elections. And now she expects to be appointed to the Senate because of her last name. I would criticize a man or a Republican for the same clueless presumption.
I criticized Sarah Palin for being under-qualified for the vice-presidency. I would have criticized a man or a Democrat in the same circumstances.
But I’ll say this in Gov. Palin’s favor: She ran for and held lower public office before joining the GOP ticket — ran on her own record, and did not expect to be appointed because of who her Daddy was.

Jenny: Kennedy is NOT being treated any differently than an equally unqualified man would be treated if he expected to be appointed to the Senate because of his last name.
Obama’s case is entirely different.
Obama served in the Illinois legislature before running for the U.S. Senate. The voters of Illinois had the opportunity to decide if he was qualified. Obama served in the U.S. Senate before running for the presidency. Voters nationwide had the opportunity to decide whether he was sufficiently qualified.
Kennedy has never run for public office before, often doesn’t even vote, and her involvement in public affairs isn’t any greater than that of many other rich matrons. And now she expects to be appointed to the U.S. Senate because she is a Kennedy. Voters don’t get to decide.
When women are criticized, it isn’t always because they are women. Sometimes they simply deserve the criticism. Kennedy’s foolish expectation of being appointed to the Senate is one of those cases.

Ouch…142 times…hee-hee-hee :-)

Caroline Kennedy thinks she would bring federal money to New York based on the fact she supported Obama for president.
Wow, if that’s how Caroline expects Obama to dole out the federal dollars — and our tax money will go only to states where the senators supported him — it says something really awful about what Ms. Kennedy thinks being a president is all about.
Imagine if FDR — during The Great Depression of the 1930s — had doled out federal money and jobs only to the states where the senators had supported him. Holy cow.
That is an alarming and horrifying view of the presidency — and that view alone should DISQUALIFY Caroline from being appointed to the senate.
She needs to take a few minutes (or years) out to re-evaluate the role of an American president.
In the meantime, let one of New York’s current House members have the U.S. senate seat, and then Caroline can COMPETE for the vacated House seat.

So, what finally do We Know 140 times?
And who might be her rival, you know?

Yes, I know Caroline!
You are dreaming!

At one time, I considered myself a “liberal” when it came to social issues, in particular.
However, after what I witnessed in the primary as a DNC delegate when the so-called liberals tried to destroy one of their own to protect The One–King Obama, I washed my hands of accepting any label for myself every again.
Hillary proved herself to be the most qualified, as well as the right person, at the right time, to be president.
Instead, the power elite(predominantly white men) decided that no woman would be allowed to achieve the highest power position in the world. Instead, they “gave” it to the least qualified male, whom they could count on to do as he was told.
After all, much like Caroline is regarding the Senate position, Obama never really wanted to “do” anything as president more than he just wanted to “be” president. God knows he didn’t “do anything as Illinois senator.
It’s hard not to be saddened over what we lost as a country, when the DNC/Soros did everything they could to stop Hillary from being president.
I will never “get over it.”

I remember the night Sarah Palin gave her speech at the republican convention, Rachel Maddow said Palin better clean-up her grammar. I wonder what she thinks of Caroline’s grammar. It’s really funny how it’s no big deal when it’s your party.

Jenny,
Posted: 5:54,
Yes, indeed!

Caroline even has Drudge on the front page saying “You know” for the last 24 hours :-D
Unless Patterson is already committed to Andrew Cuomo, then Caroline is still in the running.
New York is going to need all the help it can get and Caroline has shown that she can You know get the media attention even when this isn’t a campaign. Where Caroline Kennedy stands on the issues that matter to New York compared to a Republican rival like Peter King might be helpful to the voters?
The last impression many voters had of Caroline was when she was campaigning for Obama. She did great.

What is most disturbing thing about the AP article is it has been clean-up. If YOU-TUBE had not put the video up we would never know. Shame on the AP.

The more Caroline Kennedy opens her mouth, the more convinced I am that if we didn’t permit trusts to exist in America the present day Kennedys would all be broke.
There would be a helluva lot of rich bartenders and hookers up and down the East Coast.
And Caroline would be behind the counter at a Madison Avenue boutique, and not a customer.
Any comparisons between Sarah Palin and Caroline Kennedy are totally out of line.
Palin has actually run for office (and won) a bunch of times. She has successfully run both a city and a State government. And she is wholly self-made.
Kennedy on the other hand is a typical member of this generation of her family– great educational resume (although I think we all know how they got into those schools), light on brains (remember her brother took a few times to pass the bar), heavy on press-fed mystique, and carrying a huge load of entitlement.
Someone once called the Royal Family of Britain England’s most famous welfare family. Except that it’s Joe’s bootleg money, and not taxpayer’s funds, the Kennedy’s are our’s.
People are sniping at Gov. Paterson for failing to appoint her quickly, to end these attacks on her. Our Governor-by-hooker is showing himself to be a pretty adept politician. He is simply waiting, letting this incompetent dilettante burn herself out in the press, then he can pick whom he chooses.
Smart Governor.
Typical Kennedy.

During the VP debate, Sarah Palin said “also” 48 times, “again” 23 times, and “too” 14 times.
Caroline’s verbal TICitude beats Sarah’s by a long shot.

Mrs. Sclossberg may not have what it
takes to be the senator from N.Y…..
but she’s so damned beautiful, let’s
just GIVE it to her. At least she wears
a dress….unlike her predecessor, and
as far as we know, is not married to
a skirt-chaser…..as far as we know.
Besides, she earned her fortune the old
way…by being born, NOT from her
husband’s dealings with mid-east potentates and enemies of our country.

Fee Fie Fo Fum….tell me a Kennedy’s
not this dumb!

Where was all the criticism of Hillary Clinton who can’t get through 2 sentences during an interview without saying “you know.” Seriously. Give a listen to any of her primary interviews.
Comparisons to Sarah Palin are absurd because Palin’s biggest problem was that she was stupid. She couldn’t string a coherent sentence together. There is nothing stupid about Caroline. Palin was also extremely devisive. She’s George Bush in a dress.

So, uh Jake, ummm, just, you know, wondering, why you, uh, haven’t, you know, painstakingly transcribed? ummm, exerpts from Caroline’s interviews,like you know, like you did Sarah Palin’s?