Caroline Kennedy wants NY senate seat

Well after President Kennedy they have all been riding his coat tails. If you are a Kennedy you automatically get to be in congress.

Sure she does. she has the most important trait she needs. Kennedy is her last name!

It's embarrassing.

Besides being a lawyer what political expierence does she have? None. All she has is her last name. She has spent her whole life trying to stay out of the limelight and politics. Now all of a sudden she wants in.
But she will get it....she is a Kennedy. They get what they want.

Yep. Two Kennedys get murdered in office so I guess any Kennedy that wants it now can have it. But given that past would you really want it?

Of course she will....look who her father was. He was assinated while in office. There has always been a romantic remembering of him and Jackie, not to mention their children. But how is she herself qualified not who her father was.

My point wasn't WHY the people of New York wanted her but merely THAT they probably wanted her and ultimately it will be their choice for whatever reason they deem fit.

I'm with you, Irish. If she's the one the voters in N.Y. want it doesn't really matter what any of us from other states think at all, does it?
Annie

She is a lawyer with no poltical experience and a lot of clout because of who her dad and uncle were.

Not good enough, I need more from her.

She's written a couple books about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and is quite a Constitutional scholar I've heard. She's raised a lot of money for the N.Y. public school system. She's never been a politician herself but she's lived around politicians her entire life.
Annie

I have nothing against Caroline Kennedy. In fact I feel really bad for her. She has gone through alot in her life, much of it sorrow. Yet she has beared up and gone on with her life. I respect her for that. I honestly do.

On the other hand I am tired of the "royalty" we have here or the dynasty's we have. The Bush's, the Kennedy's, etc.... Families that through the generations always have someone in it in a seat of power. I would like to see more average people go to washington. People like you and me. People who know what it is like to have to live on a tight budget, do without sometimes. The rich may empathize with the poor and middle class but they do not really understand our lives or how what they do effects us.

I do agree with you. Like I said, I guess for me and my generation we've had a kind of fascination with Caroline since she was a little girl so I guess in a way it's like she IS our "princess". I would love to see someone like you or me make it to the U.S. Senate or House but HOW can we do that? That's what $ucks, you have to have name recognition and for that you need money. It's like I've said many times, we'd all love to see non-politicians get these offices for a change but the only time that has a chance at happening is with a wealthy business person or a celebrity. You would think in these days with the internet and everything it would be easier to get a real, true, ordinary American on the ballot and hopefully into D.C. Even right now with the crisis facing the automakers if the UAW got behind a laid-off auto worker the media might even give them some airtime.

In Pennsylvania we have our "dynasties" as well. Former Governor Casey's son is now in the U.S. Senate. Of course, I love him and was SOOOO happy he beat Rick Santorum, who I have no clue how he ever got in! When he ran for the Senate for the first time the main campaign ad against him was a clip of him saying "everyone" should have to work until "at least 70, I'd go higher if I could". He was a whole 37 at the time, never did an ounce of physical work in his life and our state is second only to Florida in our elderly population. Sorry, I got off topic a bit but the point is sometimes voters only options are political royalty or something even worse!
Annie