When the AP gave Tina Fey a sloppy award and kiss last week, it was repeated on the radio every hour on the hour all day.
Tina Fey named Entertainer of the Year by AP
There are no "reporters" anymore. These people are beyond brain dead.
Posted on 12/25/2008 12:46:56 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
We saw what happened when the mighty and powerful captains of Wall Street and the big banks asked for a giant blank check from Congress. What was promised to be a stimulus to our economy turned out to be a money grab in which the banks can't or won't tell us how they are using the money. They aren't making loans; they aren't assisting families or small businesses. They've turned out to be arrogant parasites.
Now we're getting the political equivalent of this with Caroline Kennedy, the lone surviving member of the family of John F. Kennedy. She has the audacity to come down off her lofty perch to essentially stage a public campaign to persuade New York Gov. David Paterson to appoint -- make that anoint -- her to the United States Senate. Sure thing.
Let me give you the real lowdown on why the forever super-private Ms. Kennedy suddenly believes this seat should be hers. She thinks it is indirect payback time.
In my book "Paranoid Nation: The Real Story of The 2008 Fight For The Presidency," I outline specifically why the Kennedy family first thought that they would encourage Barack Obama to run in 2008; not because they thought he could win, but because they thought he would take a good portion of the African-American vote away from Hillary Clinton in early essential primaries such as South Carolina. That would give another of their Northeast U.S. Senate buddies -- la John Kerry in 2004 -- a shot at winning the White House. But neither Sens. Chris Dodd nor Joe Biden, both longtime cronies of Sen. Edward Kennedy, ever could get to first base in the 2008 race. Biden got to settle for the vice presidency.
When Obama won the Iowa caucus, all bets were off. So Caroline and her uncle Ted rushed to openly endorse Obama. The Kennedy saw their best and brightest chance to knock Clinton off, thereby allowing the Kennedys to remain just slightly higher royalty than the Clintons within the national Democratic Party.
Label nave anyone who thinks Bill or Hillary Clinton is overjoyed at the thought of Caroline Kennedy being a senator. Remember that Kennedy served on Obama's vice-presidential selection committee, which never seriously considered Hillary Clinton. But now that Clinton is a top member of the Obama cabinet, she'll be expected to keep quiet and allow the coronation process for Sen. Caroline to continue apace.
In my own considerable hands-on political experience at state and national levels, I would never have dreamed of considering myself worthy to wage an open campaign to have a sitting governor name me to replace a departing U.S. senator.
And like many of you, I have busted my rear end working day and night to provide jobs for employees and to earn an honest day's living. So let me speak for just about everyone I know.
Listen, princess: You have no business in the Senate. Zero. And this has nothing to do with gender. Geraldine Ferraro, who busted her butt to learn the ropes in Congress before Walter Mondale made her the first female nominee for vice president, recently said pretty much the same thing in a kind way.
I have nothing against Caroline Kennedy. She seems bright, and her work on the issue of privacy I greatly admire. But that's it. The fact that her father is a beloved slain president, or that her mother was the essence of grace and beauty as first lady, has nothing to do with Caroline's qualifications, or lack thereof. Sarah Palin, who has been a mayor and governor, is far more qualified for high office than Kennedy, and yet the press scoffed at her.
And let me debunk the myth that Kennedy should be appointed because "she's the only one who can raise the money to run again in two years." Whoever says that doesn't understand the power of incumbency, nor the ability for the Democratic Senatorial Committee to reelect the likes of say, an Andrew Cuomo, who is truly qualified for the post.
We have clearly reached the point at which America's elite, be they political or financial, have decided that what they can't earn should be handed to them.
I say no political bailout for Caroline. Let her do what the rest of us current or former politicians have had to do -- ride a thousand miles, shake countless hands, feel the sting of defeat and only then the joy of victory. By earning it.
By all means appoint Caroline Kennedy to the Senate. Especially because she is unqualified and inexperienced. Anything to weaken the Democrat DNA and discredit the Kennedy dynasty further (if such a thing be possible) is A-OK with me.
Chile let Allende run wild for two years, the backlash was such that the Commies were sent packing for decades and Chile went from the basket case of South America to its most vibrant economy in a heartbeat... with a little friendly advice from Milton Friedman.
In case you find yourself in any disagreement over this stupid Kennedy issue with a left-wing diptard, they will be sure to really bash Bush at some point.
Here is how to really freak out a left-wing Bush peacenik: 60,000 US dead, Could have been millions
Simply compare the war records of President Bush with their beloved election-stealer, JFK:
Bush vs. JFK War Record
President
War
Dead
Result
Bush
Afghanistan
620 U.S.
Taliban gone (hiding & shivering in caves),
terrorist training camps mostly gone.
Iraq
4200 US
Hussein gone, 500 tons of yellowcake removed,
Iraq safer than Chicago for American young men.
JFK
Bay of Pigs
4000 dead
Disaster, embarassment and military/international/diplomatic humiliation.
Vietnam
1 million Asians deadUnmitigated disaster. After 10 years and thousands of US lives, Communists take over. US reputation and prestige destroyed.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Very nearly starts World War III over Cuba.
Missiles quietly moved back later.
Not to mention the fact that Kennedy nepotism got started with RFK being made Attorney General.
The final disgrace in the whole sad Kennedy saga is Ted the swimmer.
Add the cost in dollars too. I am sure that would cause the Dems to shake in their boots too.
Please, please, someone ask Caroline how many houses she has. After all, it was such a HUGE issue when McCain was running!!!!
When the AP gave Tina Fey a sloppy award and kiss last week, it was repeated on the radio every hour on the hour all day.
Tina Fey named Entertainer of the Year by AP
There are no "reporters" anymore. These people are beyond brain dead.
> Please, please, someone ask Caroline how many houses she has. After all, it was such a HUGE issue when McCain was running!!!!
As she is a Kennedy, a better question might be “how many partners has she slept with?”
We have become what we fought against in Britian. A handful of powerful political families who just swapped lordships and wealth with each passing king.
Looking at the lines in her face, another question could be, “How many whiskeys have you drunk?”
One military veteran said to me, “I thought communists were more corrupt than capitalists. I am very disappointed to learn that I was wrong.”
I hope she is handed the seat....and then promptly falls flat on her face.
With this statement, I totally agree. Regardless who Paterson picks, they will be "brain dead" DIMocrats so why not pick the one that has the most to lose and can possibly do the most damage to the party?
I've got aother theory about that. I'm guessing her premature aging is due to lots of prescription drugs.
In a normal, functional republic that would be a sound strategy. We're in a country that is rapidly turning to an aristocratic form of government, with a dysfynctional, biased media. Putting her in the office guarantees that she will be highly "accomplished" and re-elected, because of the two factors above.
..and promptly falls on her face...
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If only it would work that way.
She would have to do something dramatically disastrous, (Such as wearing a Red Sox hat to Steinbrenners Private Box) to catch the (negative) attention of the voters.
With the millions of people in NY, why on earth would ANYONE vote for a Hillary Clinton for senator with absolutely nothing going for her but her last name? She may have done an ‘ok’ job but it was just a springboard for her.
You would think after a while the citizens of NY would wake up and realize they were just being ‘used’.
Since the ‘fools’ won’t vote out the long term idiots, term limits is the ONLY answer but as long as the idiots are writing the rules, they will remain entrenched, at the trough, forever...
All this outrage over Caroline Kennedy seems misplaced to me. NY is going to have a liberal Democrat as its Senator no matter what. Let it be someone who is merely a symbol rather than someone who can actually get stuff done.
I’d pay a reporter just to see the look on her face if they asked her how many houses she has!
And you know Andrew Cuomo is no swell guy but it’s true you can’t say that he’s totally unqualified like Caroline. Besides, Shrillary’s peops in the press are starting to break out of the Kennedy hero worship and talk the unspeakable: qualifications. Oh the irony.
But the bottom line is I can’t get too worked up over a Clinton-Kennedy feud. In fact I’d like to see it heat up some more.
Who will Hillary get to kill Caroline’s dog now that Pellicano has gone to jail?
That’s what I want to know.
I would apply that to 95% of the chrome-plated turds who occupy that club at present.
Therefore I am indifferent if they crown the mutt Caroline to the NY senator critter slot. If it isn't her, it will be a different Leftist. It's NY, after all.
If you look at most the Kennedy women, they don't seem to age too well. Perhaps it's hereditary.
***I’m guessing her premature aging is due to lots of prescription drugs.***
Or could it be plain old heredity..? The Kennedy women don’t age well.
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