Things promoted worse than the idea of Sen. Caroline Kennedy
Yes, the holidays are over and we're all back at work for the next few endless months.
But we have the irreverent headline over at ExtremeMortman now to help us through. That says it all:
Top Ten Marketing Flops Bigger Than Caroline Kennedy
What a grand way to start out a new week!
--Andrew Malcolm
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Photo credits: Ford Motor Co.; Associated Press (wannabe senator Caroline Kennedy)
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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Will the real Sarah Palin please stand-up!
Posted by: steve rodriguez | January 05, 2009 at 05:01 PM
Palin, an excellent Alaska goverrnor, was brought into a campaign run by McCain.
Caroline Kennedy is running her own campaign -- unless she's a pawn of others, which is not a good recommendation for a Senator either.
Posted by: fsteele | January 07, 2009 at 09:12 AM
Caroline Kennedy has nothing to recommend her -- not even a consistent record of voting! -- for the U.S. Senate except her name and money. Unless I missed the memo, the U.S. Senate is not quite the House of Lords in the profligate oligarchy we still erroneously call a democracy.
Posted by: Maria Houser Conzemius | January 07, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Caroline is being promoted by Obambi and Teddy Bare.
If successful she will be groomed for the Presidency.
It's called "test marketing". Take someone with absolutely no redeeming qualities and "sell" it to the gullible American public . . . done all the time as in Obambi and Bare.
Posted by: Lynn | January 07, 2009 at 10:54 AM
How would Caroline Kennedy do as governor of Alaska?
I'm afraid not very well!
Posted by: steve rodriguez | January 07, 2009 at 04:04 PM
If the picture above is the best photo her handlers can find or make, that is another point against her qualifications. It's obviously a posed and retouched photo. But it still shows an expression and wrinkles that speak of long emotional hardship, trauma. Whatever caused that, may have affected her judgment.
Posted by: fsteele | January 07, 2009 at 04:32 PM