“It is wondrous” … “It is sacramental …”
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on December 17, 2008 at 9:10 AM in Current Affairs
Preface: Before you read the following, or listen to the video, please place a gallon bucket or large basin nearby.
Chris “Tingle” Matthews is in awe of the prospect of the anointment appointment of Caroline Kennedy, nee Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, as United States Senator from the State of New York:
“I am as much in the glow of the Kennedys as anyone but I am amazed that she will be appointed rather quickly by Governor Paterson to fill that seat without really having made a public case for that appointment. In other words, with no speeches, no statements, no memorable lines, no quotable quotes. She may be the most successful politician in history because she hasn’t said anything yet. Does that astound you? Maybe we are used to this with the Kennedys? I mean i find it wondrous … maybe i find it sacramental that she is getting this job.”
Roget’s Thesaurus provides additional words for “sacramental”: “Holy rite; rituality; ritual observance; mystery. …” I favor the last word.
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Then there’s what Al Sharpton said about Ms. Kennedy nee Mrs. Kennedy Schlossberg’s experience in education, which appears to be — perhaps — in conflict with Ms. Kennedy’s actual experience in education:
In the video above, Al Sharpton makes some interesting claims about Ms. Kennedy’s experience in the field of education:
Caroline Kennedy has been involved in education in this city.
She has done concrete things.
She has reduced things in the city of New York.
She has brought more tangibles in the state and the city probably than Senator Clinton before she ran. …
Now I know that Ms. Kennedy nee Mrs. Kennedy Schlossberg has retained the services of a public relations firm for the purpose of imbuing her “resume’” with claims made by helpful surrogates on television programs.
And we know, from the video, that Ms. Kennedy contacted Mr. Al Sharpton in order to advise him of her desire to seek the appointment to the soon-to-be available seat in the U.S. Senate.
It is also clear (because that is how such things are done) that in so advising Mr. Sharpton of her interest in the seat, Ms. Kennedy subtly acquired Mr. Sharpton’s aide in helping her achieve her goal.
Now, we all know that Mr. Sharpton is given to misspeaking at times. Surely he did not mean, literally, that Ms. Kennedy really “reduced things in the city of New York.”
And, in all frankness, we do not know what Mr. Sharpton meant.
Nor do we have any idea to what Mr. Sharpton is referring when he claims that she “brought more tangibles …” or what those tangibles might be.
But we do have a record of her accomplishments in education, via her page at Wikipedia:
This is Caroline Kennedy’s entire experience in education. She was a three-day-a-week fundraiser for two years, 2002-2004, and she is on a board of directors that raises money for private funding of public schools.
Education
From 2002 through 2004 Kennedy worked as director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the the New York City Department of Education. The three-day-a week job paid her a salary of $1 and had the goal of raising private money for the New York City public schools.[5] In her capacity, she helped raise more than $65 million for the city’s public schools.[6] [3] She currently serves as one of two vice chairs of the board of directors of The Fund for Public Schools, a public-private partnership founded in 2002 to attract private funding for public schools in New York City. [7]
Other charitable work
Kennedy is an honorary chairman of the American Ballet Theatre.
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