You know something that irritates me about politics; hypocrisy. When Hillary Clinton ran for the Senate seat of NY everyone went on about how qualified she was. From what? She was First Lady, she's a lawyer, so what? As a lawyer she was involved in scandal, remember Whitewater? And as First Lady she was put in charge of creating a universal health care plan, which never got off the ground (Thank God, and for those of you who wonder why I do not like universal health care – take a trip to England and go to a hospital there. Enough said.) She had no policy making experience, yet she was qualified. Now Caroline Kennedy wants the seat, here is a woman who has spent her life "focusing on philanthropic issues that deal with education, health care, expanding America's interests in the arts, writing books dealing with the right to privacy and the Bill of Rights, showing a passion for civil rights and serving as a national board member of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund." (From Roland Martin's article) But all we hear is how she is not qualified, they don't understand that she knows that we need people who understand what it means to truly serve the public, and realizes that that is what we need right now. Not some senator who's only real goal is to get to the Whitehouse (and anyone who believes Hillary had any other motive is either blind or stupid). From what I have read in the political column's (you ought to try it sometime, you can actually get both sides of an issue if you read multiple sources), the real issue is that the dem's in NY are mad, you see, Caroline didn't support Hillary in her run for the primary, she supported Obama, and they don't like that so now they are bashing her. Because you see, the reality is that she is every bit as qualified, just like anyone over Thirty who has been a citizen for a while, because the only qualifications are this:
"No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of 30 years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen."
In other words:
1) Must be at least Thirty.
2) Been a United States citizen for 9 years.
3) When you are elected you must live in the state you represent.
That's it people, nothing more is required. So put a sock in it, get real, grow up and stop complaining. Maybe with her in office NY will have a Senator that they can be proud of. Now Illinois needs a governor that we won't have to prosecute.
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