{"id":358,"date":"2008-12-17T17:58:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T21:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-12-17T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T22:01:56","slug":"why-caroline-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2008\/12\/17\/why-caroline-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Caroline Kennedy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t have anything against Caroline Kennedy. By all accounts she’s bright, hard-working, a good education-related fundraiser, and knowledgeable about Constitutional law. And if she ran to represent New York in the U.S. Senate, I (a New York City resident) might very well vote for her. <\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I share Ron Kuby’s antipathy towards legacy appointments.<\/a> And like Kuby, I wonder why so few liberals and progressives are speaking out against New York Governor David Paterson’s potential Caroline Kennedy appointment.<\/p>\n

I believe that a U.S. Senate appointment should go to someone who has more demonstrably earned it and whose positions on a wide array of topics important to New Yorkers are better known. And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n

There once was a Kennedy daughter
\nWhose dad was a victim of slaughter.
\nShe sought an appointment —
\nA Senate anointment,
\nAnd few but Ron Kuby, Esq. fought her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t have anything against Caroline Kennedy. By all accounts she’s bright, hard-working, a good education-related fundraiser, and knowledgeable about Constitutional law. And if she ran to represent New York in the U.S. Senate, I (a New York City resident) might very well vote for her. Nonetheless, I share Ron Kuby’s antipathy towards legacy appointments. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,156,154,6,7,259,12],"tags":[287,284,280,281,285,282,283],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caroline-kennedy","category-new-york-politics","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-ron-kuby","category-senate","tag-david-paterson","tag-dynasty-appointments","tag-kennedy","tag-kuby","tag-legacy-appointments","tag-new-york","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}