Palinesque

-- Caroline Kennedy's recent interview with The New York Times didn't go so well. Even the newspaper noted she was evasive, which is a gentler way of saying she didn't answer the questions put to her.

She also used the verbal pause "you know" 138 times.

In explaining why she would be a good senator, Ted Kennedy's niece replied:

"I can tell you what I think I'd bring to this, which is, you know, I'm not a conventional choice, I haven't followed the traditional path, but I do think I'd bring a kind of a lifetime of experience that is relevant to this job. I think that what we've seen over the last year, and particularly and even up to the last -- is that there's a lot of different ways that people are coming to public life now, and it's not only the traditional path. Even in the New York delegation, you know, some of our great senators -- Hillary Clinton, Pat Moynihan -- came from, you know, other walks of life. We've got Carolyn McCarthy, John Hall, both of them have an unconventional background, so I don't think that that is, uh -- so I think in many ways, you know, we want to have all kinds of different voices, you know, representing us, and I think what I bring to it is, you know, my experience as a mother, as a woman, as a lawyer, you know, I've been an education activist for the last six years here, and, you know, I've written seven books -- two on the Constitution, two on American politics. So obviously, you know, we have different strengths and weaknesses."

Her eloquence resembles Sarah Palin's.

Her treatment by the media, of course, is rather different.