If someone who rarely votes, has never held a real job and whose name was NOT Kennedy wanted the job, we wouldn't even give them a thought.

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this is ridiculous! There are plenty of times when there isn't a candidate running that I would even consider voting for... especially in local elections! So what?

We all have the right to vote... and the right not to!

People are really reaching on this, I'd say!

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First, I want to preface this by stating I would LOVE, love, love to see a woman get the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton.....as a woman I am dismayed only about 12% of Senators are female - and even a lower percentage of women serve in Congress.....but other than being the daughter of an assasinated President, the niece of a Senator a law school graduate and serving on numerous Board of Directors positions WHAT actually QUALIFIES Caroline Kennedy to serve in the Senate?

Granted, at least she is definitely intelligent and cosmopolitan - and not another dim-wit like Sarah Palin - but there are OTHER women far more qualified than Caroline Kennedy to serve in Clinton's vacated New York Senate seat.

It seems the primary way women find their way into higher office as politicians is to be the widow, wife or daughter of a male politican. I live in Northern California and Doris Matsui was elected to Congress in my district based solely on the "sympathy vote" when her husband the late Congressperson Robert Matsui died in office. If Doris Matsui was not his widow - she would have NEVER been able to serve in Congress. Prior to her husband's death Doris Matsui was a homemaker, served on various corporate boards, did some fine charity work and was a VERY highly paid corporate lobbyist looking out for the interest of her corporate clients. None of this qualified her to serve in Congress, yet she sailed into office because she was the widow of a Congressman.

What is wrong with this picture? Even military-police states like Pakistan elected a woman President, Benzanir Bhutto to serve as President/Prime Minister! Many nations such as Ireland, India, England, Turkey, Israel
ALL have elected women Presidents. Why does America get saddled with dim-bulb nitwits like Sarah Palin running for V.P.?

I've got nothing against Caroline Kennedy and would LOVE to see a woman fill the New York Senate seat recently vacated by Hillary Clinton - but WHAT really QUALIFIES Caroline Kennedy to serve in Congress, when she's never even been elected City Councilperson or Mayor of a small town. I read several of the books Caroline Kennedy wrote and genuinely LIKE her has a person - but is she really qualified to zoom up to the top in the Senate - without even once winning an election even at the lowly city/county level.

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Intern @ N.Y. Daily News summers

Intern for her uncle, Ted Kennedy

B.A. Harvard

Worked @ Metropolitan Museum of Art

President of JFK Library Foundation
nonprofit Kennedy Presidential Library/Museum

J.D. Degree Columbia Law School

Established Profile in Courage Awards

Co-wrote "In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action" w/ Ellen Alderman

Took on her mothers role as honorary chairperson @ American Ballet Theatre

Co-wrote "The Right to Privacy"

Created "The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis." Served as editor on 2 anthologies: "Profiles in Courage for Our Time" "A Patriot's Handbook: Songs, Poems and "Speeches Every American Should Know"

2 yrs Chief Executive for Office of Strategic Partnerships N.Y. City Depar of Education Helped raise $65 million in private support for NY City public schools

Wrote "A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children"

Published "A Family Christmas"

Board member: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Vice-chair Fund for Public Schools in New York City, Chief Executive
NY City Dept of Education Office of Strategic Partnerships

Bottom Line: Well bred, privileged woman with classy background of public service and fine arts background/writer - but does serving on various board of directors qualify her to serve in the Senate? This is her entire resume and she's never been elected to public office - not even as City Council or small town Mayor

I'm a rock solid feminist and a woman, but aren't there more QUALIFIED women to take on Hillary Clinton's NY Senate seat? Yes, yes, yes I want a WOMAN - but a QUALIFIED woman!

Like I said - I've got NOTHING at all against Caroline Kennedy and I've always liked her, thought she was impeccably classy, well bred but shouldn't she at least do a term in the State Assembly or State Senatre of New York, serve as Mayor of New York this would help establish her track record to elected office THEN I think she'd make a very good NY Senator

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Look, Caroline! There's the limelight, the hot spotlight of public fame, just ahead!
RUN TO THE LIGHT, CAROLINE! RUN TO THE LIGHT!

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MONEY TALKS AND BULL GETS THE JOB ITS CALLED A POLITICIAN, I LIKE TO CALL IT AND EXPERT USED CAR SALESMAN.

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