OMG, Like, Kennedy for Senate, you know?

and that includes the US Senate!

I thought this snarky comment from the NY Daily News smackdown of Caroline Kennedy’s self-entitled bid for the Senate seat being vacated by Clinton was indicative of the absurdity of this whole cringeworthy circus she is creating:

keenan Dec 29, 2008 6:57:27 AM Report Offensive Post
When I first heard of the housewife becoming bored with her UES digs and coming out of the Ivory Tower to roll out the red carpet for Obama I was like, OMG, she really can do something for our country. Then I’m like…you know, maybe she just might be like, you know, totally ready for this Senate thing to like, for real happen. Then I took another bong hit and thought, wow if she like totally takes this job it would be like, you know she just might be able to take the job away from, like you know the new president and that would like be such a….you know, bummer! How about having a real senator go into office and Caroline can like you know, be his like awesome speech writer to practice until 2010 then she just might graduate from cosmetology school and be like totally prepared to do this job. I don’t know, like what would Oprah do?

Oprah?  That gives me an idea. Now why haven’t they thought of this before?  Kennedy for NY and Oprah for Illinois.  By 2012 we can have a celebrity Senate worthy of our cult-of-personality-driven press.  Now that’s change you can believe in!

H/T to Edgeoforever at Not Your Sweetie

I would also like to point out, that while I find Kennedy’s bid to be Senator both insulting and repugnant to any real liberal, I find it interesting that she is being lambasted by many of the fauxgressives who have sold their souls to their Dark Lord, Vald-Obama.  I mean Obama himself approves of Princess Caroline, so why don’t the obots like her?  This is what sub lord Kos had to say:

When you’re rich and come from a political family, and are heir to American royalty, you can apparently dispense with dealing with pesky voters by simply ringing up the governor…

But running for office is an icky process. It’s hard work

Yeah it is, Markos.  Take your friend Barack, for example.   It’s much easier to be

OMG it's full of stars!!

selected rather than elected, isn’t it?  Just ask the voters of Michigan, Florida, and all the other states that overwhelmingly voted for Hillary in the primaries, but had their votes nullified so that the Democratic leadership could have their very own Mirror of Erised.  Or ask Alice Palmer, or Jack Ryan, or anyone else who posed a real electoral threat to Obama and was pushed out of contention by less than democratic means.

But Kos has another reason to oppose Kennedy which he shares with hypocritical faux-feminist, Jane Hamsher: (who also thinks David “Pimp your Daughter” Shuster is a swell guy, btw):

I’m also with Jane.

Everyone seems to be salivating because Caroline Kennedy called David Patterson and is apparently interested in the Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton.

It’s a truly terrible idea.

Her leadership could have been really helpful when the rest of us were trying to keep the progressive lights on and getting the stuffing beaten out of us by a very well-financed right wing for the past eight years.  But when things were tough, she was nowhere to be found.

Now that the Democrats are in power, she’d like to come in at the top.  We have absolutely no idea if she’s qualified, or whether she can take the heat of being a Kennedy in public life.  She’s certainly shown no appetite for it in the past.  She’ll have a target on her back and if she can’t take it, if she crumbles, she will become a rallying point that the right will easily organize around.

But Jane is right, in this case, the idea is particularly egregious — Caroline has done nothing to help beat back the right-wing machine. But now, she’s supposed to be handed by fiat what others fight their whole lives to attain?

Jane’s observation (in bold) is especially interesting because it is very similar to what many of us were saying about Obama about a year ago. Their response to us?  “You’re all racists!!”  And their claim that she has done nothing to beat back the right wing machine?…I guess they mean like Obama fighting the right wing by capitulating on FISA, or hedging on ending the war in Iraq, or throwing MoveOn under the bus, or retaining Bush’s SOD Gates, or pandering to homophobes like Warren and other Prop 8 supporters, or…well, you get the point, you know, real progressive stuff.  Furthermore, Kennedy has about as much experience as Obama himself had when he ran for the Senate, so why now is the Obamanation all up in arms about Kennedy?

..and our ceilings are made of titanium!

Well, she’s missing one little thing that is required to represent the He-Man Woman Hating Obamabot Nation:  A Penis.  Yes, Caroline, sweetie, even you can not escape the sad fate of those of your gender.  The rabidly misogynistic Obats will not tolerate women in positions of power, no matter how well they pleased their master by tearing down other women.    And while I can’t say that I feel the least bit of sympathy for Caroline, it is important to note that her rejection by the Obamaphiles is in many ways another symptom of their horrific treatment of women.  And women in power who do not stand up to this treatment–including Hillary Clinton–are not only not helping to shatter that glass ceiling, they are helping to reinforce it.