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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (117412)	12/26/2008 8:23:07 AM
From: Mike M2	Respond to of 132070

Thanks, see Arthur Levitt on the financial crisis Message 25278100 ho ho ho . Retailers got some tough love !

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (117412)	12/28/2008 1:21:49 AM
From: Tim McCormick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Wishing you a successful 09. It looks like "The Wrestler" is good. I can't wait till it gets to TX.

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (117412)	12/28/2008 6:09:24 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Caroline Kennedy: Pampered wannabe pol plays the victim card By Howie Carr \| Saturday, December 27, 2008 \| bostonherald.com \| Columnists Photo by AP Forget the Profiles in Courage award. For this interview yesterday Caroline Kennedy deserves the Profiles in Chutzpah Award. See, JFK’s only surviving child wants Hillary Clinton’s seat in the U.S. Senate, although she has absolutely no qualifications for the position other than her last name, which by the way used to be Schlossberg until last summer. Now all these dreadful, sweaty Albany and D.C. parvenus who actually had to run for political office are complaining about Ms. Kennedy’s ever-so-Kennedy-esque attempt to cut in line ahead of them. So Caroline grants - or should I say, grahhhhnts - an interview to the Associated Press, and she has the audacity to play the victim card. To get the Senate seat, she says, “I have to work twice as hard as anybody else.” Huh? You’ve never worked a day in your life, honey. Your pampered-poodle existence makes Uncle Teddy look like a working-class hero. Poor Uncle Teddy is worth a mere $103.6 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Caroline’s gotta be good for at least three times that. “I am an unconventional choice.” No, Caroline, you are about as conventional as it gets. You’re operating under the oldest rule in the book, the golden rule. He (or she) who has the gold, rules. “If I were to be selected,” she says, and that last word is the key one - selected. Not elected, but selected. “I understand that public servants have to be accessible.” Wow. She pledges to be “accessible.” Her income taxes won’t be - that’s one pledge we can be sure she’ll never go back on - but she will be “accessible.” You know just how preposterous this whole idea is by the convoluted paeans to her common touch that are being trotted out by the doddering sycophants of Camelot. Remember Al Hunt, formerly of The Wall Street Journal and CNN, now of Bloomberg, as in Mayor Bloomberg, who is playing Cardinal Richelieu to her dauphin. Knowing quite well on which side his bread is buttered, Hunt wrote that Caroline is indeed One of Us - why, outside her mansion on Park Avenue, she has been known to hail her own cab! Was it raining too, Al? She’ll have to work twice as hard, will she? You know how, when your basement or garage starts overflowing with junk, you have a yard sale? Caroline Kennedy knows what that’s like, only she calls one of her garage sales a “Sotheby’s auction.” In 2005, she made $5.5 million, which was a drop from the 1996 auction where she took in $34.5 million, including $2.5 million for her mom’s engagement ring. And then there’s Mumsy’s cottage on Martha’s Vineyard. She only has 366 acres. On the ocean. But she’d have to work twice as hard. Just like she’s always had to, right? Is it too late for her to buy herself a Pulitzer Prize? Does anyone have Ted Sorenson’s phone number? Article URL: bostonherald.com Related Articles: Caroline Kennedy’s shine obscures other hopefuls /news/national/northeast/view.bg?articleid=1141630 Caroline Kennedy/ David Paterson melodrama