I doubt it was Mrs. Schlossberg’s intent, but Caroline Kennedy has admited her lack of qualifications to be senator, Larry Neumeister, Associated Press [1]
Caroline Kennedy told The Associated Press in an interview Friday that she knows she will have to work twice as hard as others if she is picked for the U.S. Senate
The 51-year-old daughter of President John F. Kennedy said she realized she will have to prove herself because of her famous background and her lack of political experience
If the there is anything for which senators are not noted, it actually showing up and working. Then as with the average United States Senator, Mrs. Schlossberg is also noted for not showing up for work. It will be impossible for Mrs. Schloosberg to work twice as hard as other senators,when she barely shows up for work at all, Glenn Thrush, Politico [2]:
During the two years Caroline Kennedy worked as a fundraiser and goodwill ambassador for New York City schools Chancellor Joel Klein, co-workers would frequently drift by her workspace for a glimpse of the department’s most famous $1-a-year employee.
As often as not, they were greeted by an empty chair.
“I’d get it all the time – ‘Why isn’t Caroline at her desk?'” said a person who worked closely with Kennedy, who ran the Department of Education division that oversaw public-private partnerships from 2002 to 2004.
It is certainly fair to associate the Kennedy Clan with hard drinking and partying hard. However actual hard work is an alien concept to a Kennedy. For one, it would require sobriety.
Addendum:
Allah Pundit, Hot Air [3], notes the same problems:
No, sorry, that’s not fair. Remember when she had that job with the NYC Department of Education that she, um, never showed up to [4]?
Allah notes this quote from Mrs. Schlossberg:
“Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth,” she said. “Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility. I’m not saying that I am anything like him, I’m just saying there’s a spirit that I think I’ve grown up with that is something that means a tremendous amount to me.”
Before Mrs. Schlossberg invokes the administration of her father, she ought to take time to actually study it. The best thing that can be said about the Kennedy administration is that the nation somehow survived it. Kennedy gave us the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the military escalation in Vietnam.
Then speaking of Kennedy spirit, hase the Kennedy clans ever had any spirit which did not come in a bottle? We already have one drunk Kennedy in the Senate.