Must Be Tough Being Caroline Kennedy

Poor Caroline Kennedy! All of her life she’s gotten anything she wanted and never had to work too hard for it. She has taken on some big projects, like editing a book of her mother’s poetry. Who knew? She has put on dazzling fund raisers for schools in New York City. No doubt, she was down there schlepping tables and putting up stage lights. Over the years she raised over six million dollars for her charity! Forget the fact she could have written a personal check for twice that amount without a change in lifestyle. Where’s the fun in that? When you’re writing a check in the privacy of a Long Island estate or in a 75 million square foot Manhattan apartment, you don’t get to wear a fancy designer gown or get your picture in the New York Times.

So one day Mrs. Schlossberg woke up and thought it would be a great service to America if she volunteered to be a United States Senator. Why not? She was extremely well qualified. Her dad and two uncles had both done it. One of them had served while drinking heavily most, so how hard could it be? She went to law school and had co-written a book about the right to privacy. You know the same murky constitutional right the Roe vs. Wade decision is founded on? Most of all she was a Kennedy and therefore entitled to be elevated to rule by divine right. (more…)