Caroline Kennedy Candidacy Watch | 07/31/2008 1:30 pm
Caroline Kennedy for Vice President? Whispers Around Washington and Around the World

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.























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