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by Mark Silva
Caroline Kennedy dismissed as "nonsense'' today a suggestion that she abandoned her bid for appointment to New York's open Senate seat because her family no long recognized a cool, composed mother and wife who had grown angry and intense.
"Absolute nonsense,'' Kennedy said in an appearance on NBC News' Today show. "Anybody who knows my children and knows me knows that is nonsense.''
.Pulling out of contention for the seat of former Sen. Hillary Clinton, the onetime Democratic rival to Barack Obama whom the president named secretary of state, was "the right decision,'' she said. "There are many ways to serve.''
In the new Ted Kennedy: The Dream That Never Dies, author Edward Klein quotes an attorney as saying that Caroline, niece of the longtime senator from Massachusetts and daughter of the slain President John F. Kennedy, gad grown "lout, harsh and grating" in seeking the appointment from New York Gov. David Paterson.
Asked about Paterson's handling of the selection process and ultimate appointment of former Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, Kennedy said today: "I've moved on."
It was her children who "jerked Caroline back to reality," the book's author maintains. "What would her mother (Jackie) think of all this tabloid attention she was getting? ... That's when Caroline called Paterson and told him she was withdrawing her name." He also writes that: "Caroline's decision came as a crushing blow to Ted."
"When you make the right decision,'' she said, dismissing the criticism, "it really doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.''
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
Comments
Does Ted Kennedy's family have to constantly get media attention ?
How gauche!
Posted by: Mary Jo K | May 18, 2009 6:57 PM
Oh well, back to the trust fund
Posted by: Terry | May 18, 2009 7:41 PM
A nice person who wanted to right by this country thrown under the bus.
Posted by: lochnessmonster | May 18, 2009 7:45 PM
Caroline committed lese majeste by supporting Obama.
BillyBob's thugs in NY did a Tonya Harding on her.
Obama is not into revenge, so nothing will be done about it.
Just another reason to be glad Hillary lost.
Posted by: milton friedman | May 18, 2009 11:13 PM
Gee! I am not old enough
to have voted for President
Kennedy...yet, I will never
forget where I was on that
"ageless" day in November
when the world lost an
awesome leader. What
messages of great sorrow
were sent thru-out the
world of this extraordinary
loss to First Lady,
Jacqueline Kennedy; and
for two, most beloved,
children standing beside
their Mom, Caroline and
John. Now, I fast-forward
to decades later and find
such nonsense as Caroline
having to drop-out of the
Senate Race...because
her children insisted upon
such (paraphrased)...to be
incredulous slander. More-
over, why? For myself, if I
ever have the opportunity to
meet Caroline Kennedy, I
would bow down to her with
moistened eyes...for she is
truly the, beginning of, A
Profile in Courage...time and
time ...again. God Bless,
Caroline and her family.
God Bless, Senator
Kennedy, and the love he
has for his most beloved
niece, Caroline. Cape Cod,
MA, May 21, 2009
Posted by: Kathleen Eason | May 21, 2009 1:14 PM
Gee! I am not old enough
to have voted for President
Kennedy...yet, I will never
forget where I was on that
"ageless" day in November
when the world lost an
awesome leader. What
messages of great sorrow
were sent thru-out the
world of this extraordinary
loss to First Lady,
Jacqueline Kennedy; and
for two, most beloved,
children standing beside
their Mom, Caroline and
John. Now, I fast-forward
to decades later and find
such nonsense as Caroline
having to drop-out of the
Senate Race...because
her children insisted upon
such (paraphrased)...to be
incredulous slander. More-
over, why? For myself, if I
ever have the opportunity to
meet Caroline Kennedy, I
would bow down to her with
moistened eyes...for she is
truly the, beginning of, A
Profile in Courage...time and
time ...again. God Bless,
Caroline and her family.
God Bless, Senator
Kennedy, and the love he
has for his most beloved
niece, Caroline. Cape Cod,
MA, May 21, 2009
Posted by: Kathleen Eason | May 21, 2009 1:14 PM
I love that, really truly beautiful words about a wonderfl and couragious family. I wasn't even born when tragedy struck the Kennedy family in 1963, but I feel like I was there. I would have loved to had met JFK and RFK. Truly GOD will blessed Caoline and her family. For they have been stricken with trials and tribulations here on earth but look at all they will have when they get to heaven. We have to make it there, how many of us will?
Posted by: sexy mutha!!! | May 29, 2009 2:05 AM