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12.18.08 @ 6:01AM

CAROLINE FOR PRINCESS OF NY!
Re: Daniel J. Flynn's Birthright Senator:

Has the American Senate had unqualified senators seated in it illustrious past? Certainly it has, but those senators were elected, and when properly elected, the American people got the government they deserved. But New York foisting a Kennedy on the public is simply shafting the entire country.
-- Ira M. Kessel

Hmm...another Kennedy in the Senate? The current Senator Kennedy is the one the Washingtonians like to call the Lion of the Senate. He's the one who swam away from a drowning girl. I call him the Cowardly Lion (with apologies to Frank Baum).

Now Caroline Kennedy has asked to be nominated to the New York Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodman Clinton.

And, it's being whispered in Illinois that Chris Kennedy might be appointed to the seat vacated by Barack Hussein Obama.

Haven't we had enough of the Kennedys? No more Kennedys!

For that matter: No more Bushes!
-- Jack Hughes
Chicago, Illinois

If it wasn't so pathetic, the possible appointment of an airhead like Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg as U.S. senator from New York would be a downright hoot. 

But this is no laughing matter. Such a move would have a deleterious affect on our democracy, and not because of what Schlossberg might or might not do in office. After all, look who she would be replacing. Rather, such an appointment would send yet another a message that are ruled by an insensitive elite that appoints its own to high positions regardless of qualifications or lack thereof.

This can only increase the public's cynicism, which is already gnawing away at our political foundation, and fuel the disconnect that is rapidly separating the American people and its government.

Something as absurd as Princess Caroline in the U.S. Senate might not be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back. But then again, it could be.
-- Peter Skurkiss
Stow, Ohio

I demur. Caroline Kennedy is the perfect senator for New York. Having been represented in the U.S. Senate by the Upchucker Schumer and a woman whose only qualification was that she was once the only female in the White House not currently sleeping with the boy president, I can't think of a person on the planet who would fit in better than Caroline.

From her grandfather, stock swindler Joe, to her father to her two uncles and all her siblings, no one in the family is worth the powder it would take to blow them to perdition. No, I think she's perfect. The people of New York richly deserve her.
-- Keith Kunzler

DEMOCRATS: INNOVATING FAILURE FOR KIDS
Re: RiShawn Biddle's No Democrat Left Behind:

Am I the only one who remembers the Democrats' past "new, innovative and experimental ideas for education?" One of my favorites was the open classroom. That's where you build warehouse space, call it an elementary school, and put 500 hundred small children, bursting with energy, in a single echo-chamber space. No walls, no sound deadening materials, and expect teachers to teach and children to somehow learn over the din.

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