Is it possible that Governor Paterson makes his predecessor look good?!
It seems as if Governor Paterson and his minions made a serious mistake when they ham-handedly hinted that Caroline Kennedy was not what she had seemed.***
Updated: 01/25/09 07:17 AM
BEHIND THE HEADLINES
Paterson may feel backlash from angry Democrats
The governor’s handling of the appointment to New York’sU. S. Senate seat has political insiders scratching their heads.
By Tom Precious
BUFFALO NEWS ALBANY BUREAUALBANY — She started out as the genteel daughter of a slain president, an icon of the Democratic Party’s most famous family, a devoted mother and champion of public schools.
But by the time Caroline Kennedy unceremoniously ended her quest to be a U. S. senator from New York, she had come to be portrayed as flighty, snobby, aloof, uninformed on issues and a member of the privileged set out of touch with regular people. She even found herself likened to singer/actress Jennifer Lopez.
For good measure, Gov. David A. Paterson’s advisers piled on a few more salacious tidbits: She has embarrassing skeletons in her closet related to taxes, a nanny and her marriage.
That Paterson would sanction such a frontal assault on Kennedy after she already had ended her quest to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton stunned even the most grizzled political insiders.
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