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I you want to understand CK read her books

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Caroline's posting of gay marriage rights as the cornerstone of her platform will play big in some parts of Manhattan, but nowhere else in the Empire State. It will also put her at odds with Senator Schumer, with whom she will need to work very closely.
The way forward, even for someone who is campaigning to be appointed, is to show the courage John F. Kennedy would have shown and buck the ridiculous tide of One Size Must Fit All.

The bad experience of making a bad president's son into his bad successor should not be confused with giving the good daughter of a good president public office in New York state.

It's nice to come out with views after the polls and opinions have been tallied. But, where has she been for the past thirty years on issues such as the Russia/US Cold War, Clintongate, welfare, health care, infrastructure, the economy and business. Why was she quiet all those years and now wants a handout. Is she qualified? Yes! Has she earned it?No! No! No! For Christ's sake she didn't even vote until she was 45 years old. She was too lazy and too indifferent. She is a reclusive and a trust fund baby. She thinks entitlement is the way things work. In the real world people work and toil. Instead she lives in a ten million dollar apartment with a $250 million dollar trust fund never saying a word and living a life of the rich and famous. The debate isn't about whether she is qualified. Anyone is qualified to be a Senator (look at the 12% approval rating). But, why her and not Cuomo, or another active Congress person. I would be happier with Charlie Rangel than with Kennedy because at least I know where he stands and what he would do.

In her 40 years living in NYC how many times has she visited Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, Albany? I bet it is less than the times she spent in the Hamptons in the past 3 years. This is a country based on merit and the best qualified and the most energetic. It is not a successor based rule country like North Korean where the father anoints his wacko son and then it happens again again. In todays environment we need a fighter and a doer, not a celebrity that has pedigree and no substance.

Why are we even listening to this?

Caroline is not a viable candidate. She is campaigning to have people suddenly find her serious. Other than Uncle Ted's black book of Kennedy secrets, lies and deceptions, what can she offer the people? I very strongly, in the strongest possible language, disagree with any person who would believe that Ms. Kennedy-Schlossberg should be named as Hillary Clinton's successor. Caroline Kennedy, who for election and consideration purposes has dropped her married name, is not a qualified senate replacement. Suddenly she has a platform, ideas, opinions and like most other politician a spotty voting record. She drop her married name (baggage) at the initiation of her quest. She is from a political family, she has political inside information and for the last twenty years she has been a quiet homemaker, wife and mother. She is not an active politician. Caroline Kennedy, invoke images of her childhood, has years of family experiences, cut to image of Kennedy Family dinners, voice over of carefully worded political statement, as a rolling credit of state department dinners and family events and of course Kennedy tragedies fill the screen and wrench the heart as nostalgia sets in and the baby boomers remember November and those older remember a summer day in July. And yet, none of that makes her a viable candidate.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney is a great choice and shouldn't be overlooked

All this fuss and upset about Caroline Kennedy's qualifications, to me, at least, is a mere side-bar on the fact that her previous work-history has not been connected to some political office. . . . Well, just how long does an "apprenticeship" have to last, anyway?

I've lived in the NorthWest very nearly all my life, usually in cities of less than 75,000 people, so that really does disqualify me as someone with a, shall we say, metropolitan perspective. So, high-end politics is, for me, nothing more than simply various accounts by various journalists I watch on television or read in newspapers.

But my understanding is that Governor Paterson has the legal authority to appoint anyone he wishes to appoint to the Senate seat soon to be vacated by Hillary Clinton. Do you really suppose that he would appoint someone who is NOT qualified?

She has "qualifications" that could only have been obtained through her own unique personal history. And I expect that her mother must have been a rather remarkable teacher.

Donald Gardner Stacy