Caroline Shows No Hesitation in Taking Center Stage Again

Before Ted Kennedy made his way down to Washington and onto his burial at Arlington National Ceremony, he was bid adieu Friday night by New York's most famous living Kennedy, his niece Caroline. After she and her cousin Robert greeted some of the thousands of visitors at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, Caroline spoke before the crowd in a tribute to her Uncle Teddy. She described her moment of reflection the night he died saying, "I looked up and there was this one star hanging low in the sky that was just bigger than all the rest and brighter than all the rest. I know it was Jupiter but it was acting a lot like Teddy." Still unable to shake her botched attempt to fill the Senate seat of Hillary Clinton at the beginning of this year, the News introduced her speech by immediately mentioning that her last time in front of the cameras as "a tentative, tongue-tied U.S. Senate hopeful." Yesterday Caroline played a less vocal but still visible trole during the funeral, serving as one of her uncle's pallbearers at his funeral.

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By Billy Parker in News on August 30, 2009 9:00 AM

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longacre

She's got to go out and shake hands, hand out literature by the subway kiosks and ingratiate herself to the voters.
LOL. Why would she do that when she can have a job handed to her like Uncle Teddy?

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Because she apparently can't have a job handed to her.

Mr Mel

If she wants to hold elective office she's got to be out front and working on the issues. All due respect to her charitable works but it doesn't count. She's got to go out and shake hands, hand out literature by the subway kiosks and ingratiate herself to the voters. I don't know if she has the ability to mix with the electorate and that means all of us.