If your state was going into the dumpster and America's financial center was doomed, wouldn't you want as your Senator a good friend of the President? When John Ashcroft lost to the dead man in Missouri, did anyone complain about the appointment of his widow? Did people criticize Murial Humphrey taking over for Hubert? So what is it with the flap over Caroline Kennedy? So she had the good sense not to vote on occasion and she hems and haws in answers. A very private citizen most of her life, we first heard her speak years ago when she endorsed Fritz Hollings as her type of Democrat and then when she came out and endorsed Barack Obama in an eloquent op-ed in the New York Times. Local voters gave her kudos for her efforts to register new voters in Pennsylvania during the primary campaign. Republicans, whose memories now fail them, always said she was the most sensible of the Kennedys. Dynasties? Neither party can complain about them. One is leaving the White House now.
Caroline Kennedy passes the money test for the Senate. She does fail the senility test. Alarm bells should have gone off when Joe Biden bragged that at the age of 66 he was only the 40th oldest Senator. With McCain promising to run again when he's 74 and Akaka at the age of 84, maybe it's time we need younger blood in the world's most exclsuive nursing home.
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