I have to give it to MoDo: she goes almost through an entire column without hitting her favorite obsession: Hillary.
That’s maybe because she deals with her favorite subject – elitism – and how us commoners should STFU when one of them magic people deigns to pretend they care about us. Yeah, MoDo so identifies with Caroline, it’s scary. Downright to the speech impediments:
I know about “you knows.” I use that verbal crutch myself, a bad habit that develops from shyness and reticence about public speaking.
See? Case closed. If the Quee of Snark also does it, Caroline is absolved.
But mostly MoDo is incensed: who do the people think they are to object to her highness?
So I found it bizarre that when Caroline offered to use her magic capital — and friendship with Barack Obama — to help take care of New York in this time of economic distress, she was blasted by a howl of “How dare she?”
People are suddenly awfully choosy about who gets to go to the former home of Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Robert Torricelli.
Yeah, MoDo – wou forgot to add Obama, W and other incompetent opportunists you help push through an unaware electorate.
So, this means people should just do as you say – maybe not even go through the formality of elections as we seem to be to idiotic to decide?
We should be all be thankful for the magic
So I found it bizarre that when Caroline offered to use her magic capital — and friendship with Barack Obama — to help take care of New York in this time of economic distress, she was blasted by a howl of “How dare she?”
When I first read the first paragraph about Caroline deciding at 51 to do something for the country I was sure she’ll be blasted. But the punch line refused to come. Whatever Caroline did until the age of 51 is not for us commoners to inquire. Suffice that eventually she decided to rule us.
Besides, she makes a long list of nepotism in the government – why can’t her friend get in there too?
The funniest part is when MoDo criticizes…the media:
The press whines that she doesn’t have a pat answer about why she wants the job. I’ve interviewed a score of men running for president; not one had a good answer for why he wanted it.
So, there. In an outburst of irony, MoDo even managed to even bring up sexism.
Why should her best friend inerview for the job?
Modo personally knows her and vouches for her
I know Caroline Kennedy. She’s smart, cultivated, serious and unpretentious.
- and that should be enough. Got that, plebes?
And thanks to DeniseVB, we got a plebe who does get it – the perfect companion piece to MoDo drivel. Best quote:
The nannies are go now because the girls they also are go off now to Senator school.
reminds me of something Neil Bush said:
“My father was the 41st president and my brother is 43rd; I think that if Pierce finishes high school, he’ll be the 50th president of the United States,” quipped Neil Bush. And should he fail to graduate, perhaps he will become a global businessman, just like dear old Dad.”
Comments Conason:
Young Pierce — bearing the name of his mother’s family and descended indirectly from Franklin Pierce, one of the worst presidents ever — must only hope that an indulgent relative will still be in the White House.
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January 7, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I simply wonder how and why the elites got control of everything. The news, the agenda… we did give up too much of our power due to our not having money… Is it always going to be follow the money?
January 7, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Well, here it is for everyone to read. I can say now, without execpetion, I HATE EVERONE IN THE “MEDIA”. MODO needs to go away, far away, forever.
January 7, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I say the media/press died in 2008. We were left to fend for our selves… So, much for professional journalists, they were all gushing and blushing and getting tingles up their legs.
Some like Chris Mathews said straight out it was their job to get Obama elected?!? So, why aren’t they listed as giving a contribution in excess of the limits?
January 7, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Yes. Maureen is the one obsessed with Hillary. Yes.
January 7, 2009 at 6:56 pm
The U.S. is formally a plutocracy now.
Republic and democracy R.I.P.
We need a 2nd political party in this country!
January 7, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Plutocracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutocracy
Plutocracy is rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth.
“In a plutocracy, the degree of economic inequality is high while the level of social mobility is low. This can apply to a multitude of government systems, as the key elements of plutocracy transcend and often occur concurrently with the features of those systems.”
January 7, 2009 at 7:29 pm
MoDo also seems to forget that all those other incompetents she mentions were at least elected — if Caroline had to actually you know run for office & the people of NY voted for her, so be it. That isn’t the case here — Caroline wants to be appointed simply because she wants it.
January 7, 2009 at 8:16 pm
You’ll love this:
Iowahawk Guest Opinion
by Rosa Ortiz
Chief of Housekeeping Staff
Estate of Caroline Kennedy
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/12/senora-kennedy-is-make-very-good-senator.html
LOL !
January 7, 2009 at 11:01 pm
BMW60,
It’s always going to be follow the money out of your wallet into the government coffers. After that, you’ll never see it again in any form.
DeniseVB,
Her only fan outside of politics…
January 8, 2009 at 7:01 am
DeniseVB
Perfect addition – I’ll include it in the entry – just to piss off M0Do by putting her next to a commoner!
January 8, 2009 at 9:29 am
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January 21, 2009 at 8:27 pm
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