Yet more Caroline wisdom: “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t think I would be the best”

I know what you are saying. You are saying, Yeesh, more Caroline “stuff,” Uppity?

Well, yeah, but the truth is, this woman gives me a boatload of material just by inhaling and exhaling, and not in a good way.  It’s just downright frightening to envision that this empty vessel, armed with nothing but the the last name of a man I worshipped as a kid, could become the US Senator of a dying state that is in dire need of a Thinker, a Do-er and a Worker.

“I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t think I would be the best,” Ms. Kennedy said, sitting in the back room of an Upper East Side diner around the corner from her home.

No kidding.  I didn’t make that up. Caroline Kennedy actually said that. This comment kind of reminds me of something my Mother said that has stayed with me: “Whenever we assess ourselves, we always do really well”.

The New York Times, of all places, can’t even defend her any longer. Her interviews have not been going well.  She’s no Hillary. She doesn’t want to run for office, she wants to be appointed and then move right into the coronation. This whole process bores the hell out of her.

After weeks of criticism that she had not opened up to the public or the press, Ms. Kennedy has embarked on a series of interviews. But in an extensive sit-down discussion Saturday morning with The New York Times, she still seemed less like a candidate than an idea of one: forceful but vague, largely undefined and seemingly determined to remain that way.

It appears as though reporters are seeing in Caroline what the people of Upstate NY saw:

A shell of a woman who has really done nothing to speak of except to be JFK’s daughter. So far, she has called in her father’s marker twice. Once for Barack Obama and now for herself– and it’s not working.

In fact, it is not only not working, but it’s annoying people.  Even her attempts at looking  like she actually has something in common with New Yorkers is the stuff comedy is made of.

She said she had been personally affected by the economic crisis but sidestepped questions about her wealth, declining to say how much money she lived on each year.

Aw, Caroline! Honey, our hearts go out to you,  girl!!!!  You have  been hit hard. We know. We know….. It’s rough when you have to shave a couple of million off your budget.

There’s something else that has been bothering me about Caroline. At first, I was thinking, eh, I’m just being negative because I resent somebody with no resume, who doesn’t know squat about New York or government, trying to shove herself up my nose. But the supporting evidence is mounting up, gang. I don’t think Caroline is particularly bright.

At first, her Deer in the Headlights look put me off. I mean we are talking about a NY Senate seat here, not some Chair of a social organization. She mumbled. She stumbled.  I winced.  I am no longer wincing, nor do I think I am guessing. Caroline is not too bright. Her vocabulary is low-level and her total lack of oral mastery of the English language is downright frightening.  She is still a child on her pony.

I think we sometimes mistakenly assume that with money comes extra brains. It’s not always the case. It’s especially not always the case when money comes with Inheritance.  When it comes to Caroline, don’t take my word for it. Check out this example of Caroline eloquence:

Everybody has tough moments. I’ve lost family members that I love and that I miss everyday and so has many, many other people has dealt with an ill parent the loss of a family member and stuff and that’s a part of life I think I share those experiences with everybody else and if there’s ways I can help other people who are suffering some of the same things I have gone through I would love to do that.

Okay, maybe I’m asking too much here. I kind of like my Senator to at least understand verbal punctuation  and Subject/Verb agreement. I kind of prefer that in a President too, but I can assure you that Barack Obama wouldn’t notice the mistakes in the quote above. Apparently, “Stuff” is the high level vocabulary word of the 21st Century.  It covers a multitude of missing detail I guess. Barack used “stuff” quite a bit himself.

Lack of substance in lieu of “Stuff” is not the only thing that bothers me about Princess Caroline.

At first, I thought, well……..maybe  she’s totally just a bit sarcastic. If she were a guy, the word would be “arrogant,” but as we all know, there is a different set of adjectives used to describe the same characteristics in a man vs. a woman. And since we watched Hillary suffer from the “female” set of descriptors, then Caroline doesn’t deserve any better.

So the word is “sarcastic”. Hey, I can relate to that, right?  But I don’t think her tone is related to sarcasm any longer. I think Caroline is just plain rude. Not only is she rude, but she is increasingly irritated with the thought that she has to answer to anyone, much less to the electorate.   As I said, even the NY Times is having a rough time painting her as an endearing soul any longer, even in the face of her special BFF relationship with their Publisher, “Pinch”  Sultzberger.

But when asked Saturday morning to describe the moment she decided to seek the Senate seat, Ms. Kennedy seemed irritated by the question and said she couldn’t recall.

“Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or something?” she asked the reporters. “I thought you were the crack political team.”

No kidding. Caroline said that.  Now, when you couple Not-Too-Bright with Rude, you get something like this:

“This is the opportunity that’s presenting itself right now, and I’m interested if the governor thinks that I could do a good job and help New York and help him,” Ms. Kennedy said.

If we learn one thing early in life, it’s that the last thing you say to someone can create a lasting impression of you. So, let’s recap what the last thing was that Caroline Kennedy said to the reporters during this interview, as they pressed her with yet more annoying questions:

As things wrapped up, a reporter tried to pose another question, but she interrupted him.

“I think we’re done,” she said.