{"id":6304,"date":"2008-12-18T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T18:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2009-01-24T09:38:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T14:38:34","slug":"helpful-hints-for-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6304","title":{"rendered":"Helpful hints for Kennedy [Jonn]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drudge<\/a> put up an article from a New York City TV <\/a>station about how tought Upstate NYers are being on poor Caroline. Tough and mean questions like this;<\/p>\n

“What makes you think you can represent upstate?” she was asked.<\/p>\n

“Well as I, first of all this was a great visit and I’ve already learned a lot and I want to come back,” Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

The question came again: What have you learned?<\/p>\n

“It’s a process so I just hope everybody understands this is not a campaign, but I have lived a life committed to public service, wrote a book on the constitution, the importance of independent participation, raised my family committed to education in New York City,” Kennedy said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s the kind of stuff Upstate NYers want to hear – she wrote a book once. She’ll fit right in. In the Syracuse Post Standard<\/a>, Hart Seely gives her some tips that might be better advice than anything she’s had so far;<\/p>\n

1. At the State Fair, devour an entire sausage sandwich with onions and peppers. (Note: Knife and fork not allowed.)<\/p>\n

2. Attend a Buffalo Bills game in sub-zero weather. (Face paint optional.)
\nHarry DiOrio \/ The Post-StandardLast chance, Ms. Kennedy: The Bills are home Dec. 28<\/p>\n

3. Learn to pronounce Throop, Schroeppel, Pulaski, DeRuyter and Cheektowaga.<\/p>\n

4. Lose the winter tan. (4a. Or gain 10 holiday pounds.)<\/p>\n

5. Declare self to be a lifelong fan of the Yankees. (Or Mets, but must also denounce Red Sox.)<\/p>\n

6. Apply for a fishing license. (Note: You do not need an attorney for this.)<\/p>\n

7. Demonstrate an appetite for Buffalo wings, Binghamton spiedies, Utica greens, Croghan baloney, Rochester’s white hots, salt potatoes and Labatt Blue.<\/p>\n

8. Appear in public wearing a bulky orange sweatshirt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are others, but nothing about telling people you’re qualified to be their Senator because you wrote a book about the Constitution.<\/p>\n

And here’s something no one else will tell you, Caroline; Upstate New Yorkers will never approve of you because you’re from the part of the State that strips their wallets every payday without giving anything back. Yeah, everyone will smile at you and shake your hand, but you’re still from New York City and you’ve never, in all of the history of New York State, ever given back to the upstate like you’ve taken away.<\/p>\n

Governor Paterson has a unique opportunity to let half of his state finally get some representation in the Senate by naming someone from Upstate New York to the Senate and what does he do? Names a Kennedy. Well, she’s going to get the appointment because she’s a Kennedy and she’s the easy choice. New Yorkers won’t get change. There’s more to New York State than Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, but not to folks in New York City.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Caroline, since I gave you all of this valuable advice, when you do get to DC, bring a couple of 12-packs of Saranac Adirondack Lager, will ya?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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