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[UPDATE] Open Thread * BREAKING NEWS: Caroline “It’s Mine Because I Want It and I Have That Name” Kennedy And Forget About My Real Last Name …

By Lena Grove aka nasuS on December 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM in Current Affairs, Open Thread

… or my husband, um, what’s his name again?

Huh. The New York Times has the scoop — that Caroline has decided she wants, she really wants, to be a U.S. Senator — and it’s breaking news just announced on TV cable news networks.

[UPDATE: It just hit me. It all fits. Her birthdate is November 27, 1957. She will not even be 60 years old in 2016. She can run for president in what will be her second term as U.S. Senator from New York state. She will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States, and she will become the first female president of the United States.]

The NYT story does NOT even mention her husband’s name, which she took when she married what’s-his-name. Nor is the word “husband” mentioned in the entire NYT story.

And, you know, this is a salute to the new political era in which we live: EXPERIENCE and QUALIFICATIONS are so yesterday.

In this new era, all we need to do is BELIEVE! And it shall be! (Or have that name.) I can’t help but wonder what her mother would have said to her. I tell you what. I think her mother would have told her not to do it. I believe her mother would have found it unseemly. That’s my strong hunch. Because her mother grew up and lived in an era in which experience and qualifications DID matter, and her father had vastly more experience than he was generally given credit for. (Ask Bud White.)

Oh well. He was useful as a sperm donor.

(P.S. Sperm donor’s name is in the Wiki entry: Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg.)

(i’m laughing so hard. This is the height of absurdity.)

WELL, THANK GOD she wasn’t “flashy” about it:

The decision came after a series of deeply personal and political conversations, in which Ms. Kennedy, who friends describe as unflashy but determined, wrestled with whether to give up what has been a lifetime of avoiding the spotlight.

Ms. Kennedy will ask that Gov. David A. Paterson consider her for the appointment. The governor was traveling to Utica today could not immediately be reached for comment.

If appointed, Ms. Kennedy would fill the seat once held by her uncle, the late Robert F. Kennedy.

Ms. Kennedy has been making calls this morning to alert political figures to her interest. …

POOR Governor David Paterson.

First, he is grotesquely mocked in an odious anti-disability SNL skit. Now this.

The man is being given ZERO choice.

That is not right.