The Audacity of Dope

Caroline Kennedy, like, you know, thinks it would be, you know, fun to be a, um, U.S. Senator. You know?

Talk about a sense of entitlement! What other person with her lack of knowledge and experience would have the gall to undertake a campaign to get herself appointed to fill a prospective vacancy in the U.S. Senate? She has one “qualification” for the office: her last name is, or was, Kennedy.

And a campaign it is, a media campaign. Instead of making an appointment with Gov. Patterson and presenting her case, she hired a political consultant and launched a media campaign to pressure the Governor into appointing her.

Problem is it backfired. Aside from forgetting to vote, even for the office she aspires to, she also forgot that she can barely speak English. In an interview with the New York Post she said “you know” 235 times in the course of a 41 minute interview, breaking up an otherwise constant stream of “ums”.

When asked by a reporter for the NY Daily News if the Bush tax cuts should be repealed, she replied: “Well, you know, that’s something, obviously, that, you know, in principle and in the campaign, you know, I think that, um, the tax cuts, you know, were expiring and needed to be repealed.”

Will the media savage Kennedy like they did the articulate Gov. Sarah Palin? Will Tina Fey avail herself of such easy pickings to extend her fifteen minutes of fame acquired at Palin’s expense? Don’t, um, you know, hold your breath.

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