Caroline Kennedy, you know, might need, you know, a speech coach, um, if she, you know, wants, um, to be a senator.
Um, you know?
Kennedy, who gave a flurry of media interviews on Friday and Saturday, revealed some cringing verbal tics that showed her inexperience as a speaker, experts told the Daily News.
In a 30-minute session with The News on Saturday, Kennedy punctuated her answers with “you know” more than 200 times. “Um” was fairly constant, too.
Transcripts of her interviews with other media outlets showed the same problem. She said “you know” at least 130 times to The New York Times and more than 80 times on New York 1.
When The News asked if President Bush’s tax cuts on the wealthy should be repealed immediately, Kennedy replied:
“Well, you know, that’s something, obviously, that, you know, in principle and in the campaign, you know, I think that, um, the tax cuts, you know, were expiring and needed to be repealed.”
We’d be, you know, making fun of Sarah Palin for, you know, that answer.
Of course, I’d never make fun of Caroline Kennedy. Not in a million years.
This would be worse than if Sarah Palin had gotten to be VP. At least people had a chance to vote for or against the McCain-Palin ticket.
If Kennedy wants to get into politics, let her run for office.
Or at least she ought to go to work for another politician for a while.
How can anyone “run” for this seat? It is, by law, an appointment.
She can’t “run” for this seat. She can “run” for some other office and see whether or not she has any appeal to voters.