According to Andy Borowitz, she’s made a phone call now asking to be bestowed the honor. At some future date, she plans on asking for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Many important people support her.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Piece of Mindful 
Why hasn’t Chelsea Clinton made a phone call?
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Via NYT.
If she were applying to be, say, an undersecretary of education in Barack Obama’s new administration, Caroline Kennedy would have to fill out a 63-item confidential questionnaire disclosing potentially embarrassing text messages and diary entries, the immigration status of her household staff, even copies of every résumé she used in the last 10 years.
If she were running for election to the Senate, Ms. Kennedy would have to file a 10-part, publicly available report disclosing her financial assets, credit card debts, mortgages, book deals and the sources of any payments greater than $5,000 in the last three years.
But Ms. Kennedy, who has asked Gov. David A. Paterson to appoint her to succeed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton — and who helped oversee the vetting process for Mr. Obama’s possible running mates — is declining to provide a variety of basic data, including companies she has a stake in and whether she has ever been charged with a crime.
Ms. Kennedy declined on Monday to reply to those and other questions posed by The New York Times about any potential ethical, legal and financial entanglements. Through a spokesman, she said she would not disclose that kind of information unless and until she becomes a senator.
Rules are for the peasants.
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Indeed. There was a time when senators served by appointment only. The 17th (?) amendment changed that, but left in place a legacy – those who left office early were still to be replaced by appointment. We’ve got four states now where senators are going to be appointed (five, if Norm Coleman wins and goes to jail). It’s not a good system.
I don’t see Carolyn Kennedy as an office holder. I don’t see her as a stump politician. I think she’s reaching for what she regards as birthright.
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