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Caroline Kennedy Candidacy Watch | 07/31/2008 1:30 pm

Caroline Kennedy for Vice President? Whispers Around Washington and Around the World

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
AP Photo/Seth Wenig

In this series, wowOwow follows the political news swirling around Caroline Kennedy since her surprise endorsement of Barack Obama and high-profile placement on his VP selection committee. Could Caroline be ready to launch a political career of her own? With The Caroline Kennedy Candidacy Watch, we’ll follow all the latest news. We welcome insider insight and tips; please email carolinewatch@wowowow.com. 

Since starting the Caroline Kennedy Candidacy Watch, we’ve been bombarded with leads and alerts and asides and innuendo. The current buzziest notion currently circulating is the conjecture that Barack Obama will select Kennedy herself to take the Vice Presidential slot on the Democratic ticket. Crazy, right? That’s why we’ve ignored it for two weeks — mostly because our first link to it came from offshore. Way offshore. But since the rumor is gaining mention in the blogosphere, we felt it was our duty to our wowOwow audience to bring it to their attention and let them decide.

About two weeks ago, TimesNOW, an English language Indian news site that is a joint venture between Reuters and The Times Group of India, ran the following report suggesting that Caroline Kennedy would be the Democratic nominee for Vice President.

 

Then, earlier this week, one of the mainstream media’s political blogs, Paul Bedard’s Washington Whispers from US News & World Report, reported the same idea — Kennedy as Obama’s VP pick — calling it a "juicy rumor."

Then, two days ago, one of our favorite Hillary blogs, HillBuzz, had this to say about the matter (also citing Washington Whispers):

"We’ve been saying this for a few weeks now: Caroline Kennedy is the best choice Obama could make in a VP. People who can’t stand Obama will just enjoy marking a ballot for a Kennedy. They love the romance of the president’s daughter becoming VP. It cements the Obama-Kennedy link the Obama campaign has meticulously and shamelessly nurtured thoughout this campaign — and, most importantly of all, it allows the increasingly irrelevant Kennedy family to maintain its position of national prominence when Ted Kennedy leaves the Senate …"

So, the beat goes on … as does wowOwow’s Caroline Kennedy Candidacy Watch. We’re still betting Caroline eventually takes over Uncle Ted’s seat in the Senate, but Caroline for Veep? Makes for fun midsummer cocktail chatter in our opinion, anyway. And remember … wowOwow was the first with the Caroline Kennedy Candidacy Watch.

Read more about: Caroline Kennedy, News, Obama, Politics

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Lorraine Bates
I assumed, since her endorsement, that she would have a place in an Obama presidency (i.e. the cabinet), but after reading several of Ms. Kennedy’s books and essays, I find it hard to believe she’d think that’s what’s best for Obama’s candidacy. They say that the choice for VP has little impact on the voter’s choice for president, but I would fear that voters may feel that coupling a candidate thought to have no experience (which, frankly, I don’t agree with), with a VP with no experience at all (other than as an analyst and strategist), is unwise. Don’t get me wrong - I think she’d make a SUPERB VP, though.
By Lorraine Bates on 07/31/2008 1:19 pm
Frank Peterson
Lorraine, I would think it’s more the idea of succession but after what the voters of this country did by electing Bush for 4 more I wonder if any thought generally other than reaction goes into the process—call me cynical, but… And juicy rumours or no, they’re still rumours and I trust them as much as I trust Karl Rove—never.!
By Frank Peterson on 07/31/2008 1:28 pm
Marjorie C.
This is a joke, right? McCain go take a nap, when you wake up you’ll be POTUS.
By Marjorie C. on 07/31/2008 2:04 pm
Buh- Bye
Agreed Marjorie, (Could the Obama camp already be revising their “no dynasties” in the White House rap, much like they flip flopped on his campaign funding stance once he stole the nomination?)
By Buh- Bye on 07/31/2008 4:12 pm
Marjorie C.
My Alias, Marc Rubin’s words: “He (Obama) flips, he flops he talks out of both sides of his mouth so fast your ears won’t believe a word they’re hearing.” taken from his essay, ‘Obama the Clown’.
By Marjorie C. on 07/31/2008 4:47 pm
DeBúrca obj
I’ll give you flip flops Marjorie: 1) Was against the Bush tax cuts; now is for making them permanent and even bigger. 2) Was against the GI Bill; now is for the GI Bill. 3) Was for immigration reform; now is against immigration reform - and repudiated his own prior position on immigration reform. 4) Opposed the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill - which had his name on it. 5) Was for gay marriage, and then opposed gay marriage. 6) Was for Roe v. Wade, then was against Roe v. Wade; then for it, sort of; then against it, sort of. 7) Was for storing nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain; then was against it. 8) In 2000 was for military action against rogue states; now is against it, EXCEPT for Iran….which he sings about bombing and says it’s good to sell them cigarettes so we can kill them. 9) Negotiating with North Korea; was against it; then for it, especially when Bush did it. 10) Negotiating with Castro’s Cuba - in 2000 was for it, now against it. 11) No negotiating with terrorists except when Colin Powell went to Syria in 2002 and when, in 2006, said we’d eventually have to deal with Hamas. 12) Unilateral military action against terrorists in Pakistan - against it when Obama said it was good; for it when Bush did it in the spring of 2008. 13) Warrantless wiretaps - against them 6 months ago; for them now. 14) Torturing detainees - always against it; since he was tortured he should know. Now, in favor of torturing detainees. 15) Perpetual detention of detainees - bad a few years ago, good now. 16) Iraq - the right course in 2004; stay the course in 2005 and now he was always against the flawed strategy - especially when Rumsfeld was there. 17) Estate tax - for it in 2006; against it now. 18) 2004 - for privatizing Social Security; 2008 against privatizing Social Security. 19) February 2008 promised a balanced budget in 4 years. April 2008 said it will take 8 years. June 2008…..back to 4 years. [And, since he is now for the Bush tax cuts, balancing the budget EVER will be impossible.] 20) In 2008 - first glad to look at oil windfall profits tax; then it’s a bad idea - Jimmy Carter’s bad idea. 21) In 2000 - no new offshore oil drilling; now, just very recently, it’s a great idea. 22) In 2000 - attacked Bush fundraising leaders; in 2006 had some of the same people co-chair his own fundraisers. 23) In 2000 - Jerry Falwell was an “agent of intolerance”; in 2006 McCain delivered the commencement address at Falwell’s Liberty University and in 2008 McCain was big buddies with Rev. Hagee and Pastor Parsley. 24) Opposed and voted against the Martin Luther King holiday; now says he was for it. 25) 1986 - opposed South African divestment to attack apartheid; June 2008, praised it. 26) In 2000 - defended South Carolina’s Confederate flag as a symbol of heritage; in 2002 said it should come down and it was an “act of political cowardice to not take it down.” 27) 2000 - against teaching creationism in schools; 2005 - alternatives to evolution should be taught. AND HE’S ATTACKING OBAMA AS A FLIP-FLOPPER??!!?? Those living in glass houses……
By DeBúrca obj on 07/31/2008 10:14 pm
Alessan O
Wow, you got that 27 points of flip flopping exactly right on Flip Flop McSame, send you comments to the Obama campaign., LOL.
By Alessan O on 07/31/2008 11:31 pm
Susan B
Superb. I’m copying this and hanging onto it for the next time my Republican cousins from Ohio call Obama a flip-flopper. Zing.
By Susan B on 08/03/2008 10:57 pm
DeBúrca obj
Not gonna happen. The idea of Caroline Kennedy being considered is ludicrous.
By DeBúrca obj on 07/31/2008 10:12 pm
Diana T
Hi, Frank. Winery and I have been discussing this on another link. Caroline Kennedy is a behind-the-scenes person, and I just don’t think she has the blind ambition to be VP. I certainly hope not, because we don’t need a novice right now; we need someone with clout to un-do a lot of damage that is going on. And, I do hope you have read Tom Friedman today in the NYTimes, because it’s a gem, and also the lead editorial in regards to the economy. As to Rove, well, I hope that by now the Campaign and the DNC has learned to work around him and soldier on.
By Diana T on 08/20/2008 10:47 am
Frank Peterson
I’m hurting today—wrenched my back so I’ll get to it later.
By Frank Peterson on 08/20/2008 1:32 pm
Elizabeth Bennett
Yikes Frank, get some rest, some ice, maybe have a doc involved. Just get well. Bad backs are no fun.
By Elizabeth Bennett on 08/20/2008 2:45 pm
Frank Peterson
I’ll be ok—ibuprofun, muscle relaxant or two and I’ll be better tomorrow—thank for the concern Elizabeth :-)
By Frank Peterson on 08/20/2008 3:11 pm
Robin Ryan
I think the best spot for Caroline is as the next Supreme Court justice. She has a law degree and has done extensive research and writing on Constitutional law. She’d be great and who in Congress would vote against her? And she’s young enough to sit on the bench a long time Robin Ryan
By Robin Ryan on 08/20/2008 10:24 pm
Diana T
I don’t think this is her time yet. Give her about 6-8 years.
By Diana T on 07/31/2008 1:30 pm