The Princess Abdicates

She's leaving pretty much as she entered and as she conducted her "campaign": confusing, vague, muddled, and not telling the most important person first.  Like, um, you know, Governor Paterson.

Read all about it.  Ho hum.

Update on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 05:24PM by bbmoe

OK, somebody's mad now.  My interpretation of this is that Gov. Paterson was about to appoint her, she said sure, then maybe not, I'm still thinking um you know, and then without telling the Governor first, she has her spokesperson make an official announcement after midnight.  If I were the Gubner's peeps, I would be innuendoing about household help issues and other problems just to get back at her for making all of them look incompetent.

Caroline the Clumsy.

Update on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 08:07PM by bbmoe

And on Fox, they are reporting that, in addition to tax issues and household help issues, there are also marital issues that wouldn't stand up to vetting.

Hoooooeeey.  I'm trying to think of any "STUPID" marks Princess C. hasn't hit on her tour across the public stage.  Coming up empty, but it's probably a failure of imagination on my part.  Oh, and Fox blabbed the age of her youngest child (15) and her net worth ($100 million), two factoids that have been conspicuously absent from all other reporting that I've seen/heard.

Inquiring minds....

[Tax probs?  Maybe she uses Turbo Tax.  That's been getting a bad rap lately.]

Things I don't have an opinion about

I needed to do a short post.

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Tammy Bruce is supporting CarKen's bid for Hillary's senate seat.  I don't have much of an opinion on this.  To the extent that the entire senate is being reconfigured, Chicago-style, by the elevation of many members to the cabinet, then back-filling with close relatives/ place holders/ sentimental favorites who walk like Walter Brennan who are appointed by governors, yeah, I think its undemocratic and it makes the World's Greatest Deliberative Body (yawn...) look really even stupider.

I'm just surprised that Michelle didn't get Barack's seat.  Hell, I'm surprised Auntie Mame Kinte in Boston didn't get his seat.

Update on Thursday, December 18, 2008 at 06:45PM by bbmoe

Disclaimer: I'm really a very bad person.

In my heart of hearts, all these years, I have waited for some really unflattering pictures of "icons" to come to light. I never expected that that moment would come for Caroline Kennedy. I have to say, I find all of this terribly amusing. The press have finally decided to get tough...on a middle aged woman who has led a life of bland, unexceptional do-gooderness who has the temerity to trade off her families ties/histories/connections to catapult herself to a senate seat. Until today, all pictures of her reflected her "American Aristocrat" heritage, her Camelotian romance (if only she hadn't married a Schlossberg...), her tragic, uh, tragedy or something. She's been low-key, dignified (we think), and generally, nothing to write home about. Nice clothes, walks like she's used to handling a plough, and has managed to raise three children to more or less maturity without any of them getting into the papers (for that alone, she deserves a medal.)

But, for some reason, the gloves are off as far as the press is concerned. I guess since the election, they've been cleaning out the gadget drawer and found their testicles ("Whoa, lookee here...I wonder if they still fit?") and are taking them out for a test drive on the easy course. "Mrs. Kennedy! Mrs. Kennedy! You haven't told us your qualifications!"

What a joke.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden is dumbing down the office of the vice-presidency so that it synches up more snugly to his own capabilities originalist traditional constitutional view of the office.

I once read a novel by V.S. Naipal about an Indian immigrant's experience coming to Britain as a lackey circa 1970. He couldn't figure out how to use the toidy on the airplane (never, never fly coach from India) and when he got to his employer in London, he was given a closet to live in- a closet, that's c-l-o-s-e-t. And he thought it was great! Today I'm thinking, how clever of V.S. to accurately portray Joe Biden's place in the Obama administration. And what about that foreign policy experience!

Jennifer Rubin sums it up:

And it only adds to the merriment that the accidental New York Governor, who didn’t get his position on his own, is deciding between two dynastic progeny –Andrew Cuomo and Caroline Kennedy. But in fairness to Cuomo, he has run for office and done something in his career. He’s actually qualified. Which used to be important when considering the vice presidency, but isn’t anymore when you’re pondering a real job with actual power.