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"In a carefully controlled strategy reminiscent of the vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin, aides to Caroline Kennedy interrupted her..."

a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/nyregion/18upstate.html?partner=permalinkamp;exprod=permalink""... and whisked her away when she was asked what her qualifications are to be a United States senator."/abr /br /How to strike at the heart of a Democrat: Invoke span style="font-style: italic;"Palin/span. Nice move, NYT.br /br /Caroline was making an appearance in Syracuse -- had she span style="font-style: italic;"ever/span been there before? -- and she spoke for a mere 30 seconds to say:br /blockquote"As some of you may have heard, I told Governor Paterson I?d be honored to be considered for the position of United States senator. There?s a lot of good people in this community that the governor is considering. He?s laid out a process and I?m proud to be part of that process."/blockquoteI'm waiting to hear what Governor Paterson will do, and I'm span style="font-style: italic;"proud/span to be waiting to hear what it will be. By the way, why isn't it "and I'm humbled to be part of that process"? People are always saying they're span style="font-style: italic;"proud/span of things and span style="font-style: italic;"humbled/span by things. Bizarrely, there doesn't seem to be any difference these days.br /br /Anyway, so the NYT has 2 reporters on the story. Did they both go to Syracuse to hear Caroline speak 30 seconds of nothing?br /blockquoteWhen one reporter asked what she would tell New Yorkers who question whether she has the qualifications for the job, Ms. Kennedy, 51, started to respond. But then an aide stopped her from saying more, and led her to the waiting vehicle.br /br /?Hopefully I can come back and answer all those questions,? she called out as she got into the S.U.V.br /br /It was the first stop in an orchestrated tour of upstate New York. Ms. Kennedy has plans to visit with officials in Rochester and, possibly, Buffalo, a first stab at getting skeptical upstate voters used to the idea of being represented in Washington by yet another down-stater.br /br /The area has already expressed wariness of her, with some officials and newspapers questioning her abilities.br //blockquote"The area" -- I love that. Here's a map in case you need help visualizing "the area" Caroline needs to win over as she ventures off Manhattan Island:br /br /a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.oxfordreference.com/media/images/0000000001.new-york-political.1.jpg"img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px;" src="http://www.oxfordreference.com/media/images/0000000001.new-york-political.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" //abr /br /a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstate_New_York""Upstate New York" is span style="font-style: italic;"everything north of the NYC metropolitan area/span./adiv class="blogger-post-footer"link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cache.blogads.com/373245138/feed.css" / script language="javascript" src="http://cache.blogads.com/373245138/feed.js"/scriptbr/a href=http://www.blogads.comblog advertising/a link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://cache.blogads.com/372740391/feed.css" / script language="javascript" src="http://cache.blogads.com/372740391/feed.js"/scriptbr/a href=http://www.blogads.comblog advertising/a/div

Full post as published by Althouse on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).