Years ago, I had a friend who, in the midst of the Little League season, took off for a vacation in Italy. The guy was a decent player but he was no All-Star. So when it came time to choose an All-Star team for the district championships, he was with his parents visiting the kinfolk. He wasn't chosen. Some of us thought -- as we were wont to do -- that he purposefully took off to Italy to avoid the indignity of not being selected.
In retrospect, it's hard to imagine him pleading with his parents to go to Italy at that particular time to avoid a pre-teenage traumatic event.
It's less harder to believe that Caroline Kennedy is bailing out before she goes through the indignity of having someone -- other than her -- selected to complete the term of Hillary Rodham-Clinton. In fact, reporters for The New York Post say as much.
Like the little kid who said that he wasn't going to the birthday party even if he was invited; he's still viewed as, well, someone who is going to miss the fun.
She was a dreadful candidate, you know. More importantly she wasn't going to win Governor Paterson's any votes in 2010, so he thought it was best to jettison her now.
She might want to go to Italy. I hear it's lovely this time of year.
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