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Kennedy pushback
Ben Smith's Blog — ... Sarah Palin's qualifications and readiness to have potentially assumed the presidency if something had happened to John McCain and if, of course, their ticket had won on November 4th and then on the other, say nothing about Caroline Kennedy's dearth of real policy and political experience to assume one of the most powerful offices in the country -- even if a Senator is usually not as consequential as a President. More along those lines from The American Prospect, and elsewhere around the lefty blogosphere. The choice, of course, is David Paterson's alone, ...

An inconvenient woman
Shakesville — Add Kevin Drum, Lindsay Beyerstein, and Steve Clemons to the “almost unanimous blogosphere consensus” (Drum’s words) opposing the latest threat to the Republic: the possible appointment of Caroline Kennedy to the Senate seat being vacated by Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton. From listening to some of the more strident dissenting voices, you’d think we were going to have to fight the British all over again. The reasoning behind the opposition varies somewhat, depending on who’s doing the ...