Why Caroline Kennedy's Senate Bid Flamed Out

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lemyaskin of WA 9:49PM September 22, 2009

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Marlene ann soifer of PA 4:07PM February 23, 2009

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWdddddddddddddd!!! Leave the girl alone! Personally speaking I'm glad she pulled out of the race as it's always been 'open season' on the Kennedys in the USA! More to life than corrupt politics. Here's hoping Obama makes a difference!

Hanora Brennan 8:51AM February 23, 2009

The press just gave her a hard time. I am sure they would not have done that to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Add to that the conservative press attitude to the Kennedys. It stinks. But that's how it is. I hope she tries again. She is qualified as anyone. She is a lawyer, an author, and deeply involved in politics.

Carole of NY 12:52PM February 03, 2009

What is experience? So we want another politician? Wow, I thought we wanted change. Here was someone who gives so much and cares so much, isn't that what we want?
Oh, I forgot, political experience...... so what is experience again? is that what W had? what about Mrs. Sonny Bono who took over her dead husband's spot or Arnold Schwartzenager....
I read people complaining about Kennedy not voting 50% of the time, so did they...vote all those times?
I consider myself a regular voter but don't always make it for the smaller elections (I am in the military- overseas and don't seem to get an absentee ballot in time).
So I forgot, what is political experience again? Do we really want it? It seems on one hand we don't trust politicians but on the other we want them.
New York? What do you want? I understand the lady chosen may not be what you are expecting..... Let's wait and see.

Kimberli Goodner 11:52AM February 02, 2009

Im very glad that Caroline Kennedy did not get the job. What experience dose she have other than to use the senate seat as a stepping stone to the white house just Hillary did. We all know that Hillery did not come to NYS because she loves us the same with Kennedy. The bet thing the Gov did was to appoint someone born in NYS and someone who cares about NYS.

Jim Havalack of NY 2:32PM January 28, 2009

If Hilary Clinton could take on New York-so can Caroline Kennedy. Caroline's been in the spotlight all her life. Folks are saying she doesn't talk to the public-in fact she has-not in the level she would be expected if she did run for Senate-but she has been a light in the absence of her father, her mother and her brother. She has endorsed Obama and she is a sincere and genuine persona. Her father was killed, as well as her uncle-and her uncle Ted was involved in an awful accident-all this while in or running for office. It is apparent that everyone does not understand why Caroline changed her mind. People can only speculate...and others have said she has money problems or marriage problems...I think she didn't hide away in her own sanctum she has made many strides in the press and I believe she will continue to do such. Hilary didn't get into the Senate without paying her dues-she was very savvy and had 8 years experience in our current political arena. I think Caroline realized this and may have done some soul searching-and realized she wasn't ready to take this position on. I hope this will not persuade her not to be in politics...people do not remember how we fall-they do watch the way we get back up...Thanks...

of CA 12:23AM January 27, 2009

Time and time again is proven that your family name can only carry you so far but then you are to show your own stuff - Put up or Be Quiet.
It is clear that Carolyn (and her backers) were betting on
the Kennedy name to enter a dead horse on a live race.
In her public interviews she clearly display her lack of
insight into what it takes to be a representative of the
people ( in this case the state of N.Y.)
If she indeed withdrew her name (some writers suspect that she was "pushed") we thank her for that.
She was not prepare to take such responsibility as a state senator. She would have been a rubber-stamp for her Uncle.
The governor made the right choice to fill the vacant senate seat for N.Y.

jrldev of CA 11:08AM January 26, 2009

True -- John had the Bouvier looks and the Kennedy charm, the best features of both sides. For, Caroline, unfortunately, it is the reverse, the worst features of both sides.

Linda of NY 10:03AM January 26, 2009

Maybe it hasn't been stated much for the obvious reasons, but John Jr.s tragic passing seems all the more painful now, 10 years on. He had it....the "it" that former Nixon speechwriter Bill Safire described as all the kinds of traits the Nixon people hated....looks, charm, wit, promise....Caroline's brief senate bid has as much to do with carrying on the Kennedy mantra as it has to do with most likely doing it for John, out of obligation if for no other reason. He was on his way, and it's just awful that he didn't get to live a full life. He'd either already be in the Senate, or he would almost certainly have been jockeying for this position, and he would have had the publics' support - big time. There's really no one left in Carolines' family with that kind of luster to carry the familys' fortunes into this century in the kind of way that would have been necessary, and that John would have delivered. This whole recent episode is sad, not only by some in the media who are all to eager to trash Caroline, and her family in the process, but because it is a reminder of what got lost in July 16, 1999.

Timothy Cummings of TX 9:32PM January 25, 2009