nypost.com - 12/16/2008
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Last updated: 3:53 am December 16, 2008 Posted: 2:57 am December 16, 2008 Caroline Kennedy has made it official: She wants to be appointed to the US Senate seat that Hillary Clinton presently will vacate. Gov. Paterson would be well-advised to select Kennedy as New York's next junior senator. ...
politico.com - 12/16/2008
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politico.com —
Hillary Clinton has told her supporters not to
impede Caroline Kennedy's path to the U.S. Senate on
her behalf, a person familiar with replacement discussions said. The move clears a major obstacle between Kennedy and the seat. Prominent Clinton ...
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Clinton chides supporters on Kennedy
boston.com - 12/10/2008
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boston.com —
By all accounts, Caroline Kennedy is a fine
person, one revered within her tight circle of friends
and family. But that doesn't qualify her to be a senator.
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Not the best choice for senator
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The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Pick Caroline!!!!
Murdoch paper backs Kennedy for Senate seat. ...
Caroline Kennedy Makes Interest In Hillary’s Senate Seat Official
The Democratic Daily —
Caroline Kennedy has made it official that she’s interested in Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. The NY Post has outlined why Kennedy is a good candidate for the seat:
While she hasn’t been especially involved in New York’s political wars, she’s hardly unaware of the issues.
A city resident since shortly after her father’s assassination, she played a critical role in advancing the reform agenda spearheaded by Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.
In her two years heading the school ...
Terrific: New York Post endorses Caroline for Senate
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... In which a conservative, Murdoch-owned paper peers into New York City’s talent pool and decides we can’t do better than a relic of Camelot. Disgraceful. Gov. Paterson would be well-advised to select Kennedy as New York’s next junior senator… Consider her unusually high profile: As the only surviving child of President John Kennedy, she’d enter the Senate with considerably more political clout than the average freshman… As a member of Barack Obama’s vice presidential selection committee - and a key early endorser of his candidacy - she remains close to the ...
Remainders: Caroline
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama discussed Iraq, length of school year and dog poop with mini-interviewers.
The New Yorker has been talking about Caroline for more than forty years. (Read to the end for Hillary anecdote.)
Picking her might be a bad career choice for Gov. Paterson.
Murdoch's on board.
Noam is still skeptical.
The Daily Beast thinks Blago and the scandal coverage are the spiked eggnog of Republicans.
The Star Tribune makes its own Franken-Coleman recount.
No White House for ...
NYT isn't sold on Caroline; NY Post endorses
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... But the right-leaning New York Post editorial page wasn't so hesitant, endorsing Kennedy yesterday. And the Observer asked today why Murdoch's paper was so quick to support a Kennedy. (When Murdoch owned the Boston Herald, the paper ...
Joe Cutbirth: Vet the Princess Before She's Crowned
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The New York Post continued its dubious coverage of anything significant by dispensing with the pesky act of reporting altogether and getting to the bottom line: an unequivocal editorial endorsement before any semblance of public discussion has taken place. ...
For Or Against Caroline Kennedy For The Senate
TalkLeft —
... The fact that the NYPost endorses Caroline Kennedy for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat is no reason to oppose Kennedy for the Senate. By the same token, the fact that ...
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