politico.com - 1/25/2009
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Larissa MacFarquhar has a great Caroline Kennedy profile in the New Yorker that really doesn't explain why she dropped out, except to guess at a kind of generalized panic at realizing the job was out of character; which isn't quite how her aides understood it -- they seem to think there was a ...
nypost.com - 1/24/2009
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nypost.com —
Gov. Paterson rapped Caroline Kennedy at a private
event the night before he tapped Kirsten Gillibrand for...
the Senate, telling guests Kennedy had been "nasty" to him and shown "disrespect" with how she bowed out, attendees told The Post. The...
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GOV SAYS CAROLINE TURNED 'NASTY'
nydailynews.com - 1/24/2009
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nydailynews.com —
DAILY NEWS ALBANY BUREAU CHIEF Updated Saturday, January
24th 2009, 5:35 AM ALBANY - She lost him...
at "hello." Gov. Paterson was completely underwhelmed with Caroline Kennedy from their first conversation about Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, a source ...
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Source: Gov. Paterson was underwhelmed with Caroline ...
nydailynews.com - 1/22/2009
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nydailynews.com —
Caroline Kennedy faced tax 'problem' and nanny issue,
says source close to Gov. David Paterson By KENNETH...
LOVETT Daily News Albany Bureau Updated Thursday, January 22nd 2009, 4:54 PM ALBANY - Caroline Kennedy , who stunningly quit her push for ...
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Caroline Kennedy faced tax 'problem' and nanny ...
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All in the family
Balloon Juice —
This, from Larry O’Donnell, says quite a lot about how Villagers like himself view the world (from the New Yorker via Ben Smith):
“Paterson has no comprehension of upstate New York, absolutely none, and has chosen someone better at representing cows than people,” Lawrence O’Donnell says. “What you have is the daughter of a lobbyist, instead of the daughter of a former President or the son of a former governor. This is the hack world producing the hack result that the hacks are happy with.” ...
Who Is The Wackier Kennedy Worshipper? O'Donnell Or Dowd?
TalkLeft —
... (Emphasis supplied.) That was is going to be hard to beat I know (and I did not even get into the paranoid CDS conspiracy theory.) But read what Lawrence O'Donnell had to say: ...
Lawrence O’Donnell: The Best Friend Kirsten Gillibrand’s Ever Had
Firedoglake —
... In the ginned-up tsuris surrounding the appointment of Representative Kirsten Gillibrand to fill out Hillary Clinton's Senate term, this bit of verbal flatuence from Kennedy backer Lawrence O'Donnell (h/t DougJ and Ben Smith) has got to be the funniest thing I've read so far: ...
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