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Memo to Caroline: Act Less Bouvier and More Triborough
Maybe Caroline Kennedy’s bid to become New York’s junior senator would be an easier sell all around if the city hadn’t

just renamed the Triborough Bridge for her Uncle Bobby.
A friend who’s a die-hard Yankees fan recently confessed that she had been raised to resist all thingsShox Legend Trainer Boston, starting with

the Red Sox but extending to Cape Cod, baked beans and, yes, the Kennedy clan. The new Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, named for an

admirable public servant who was nonetheless a carpetbagger, was bad enough. Now the United States Senate seat, too?
You have to look harder every day to find someone who does not have a nit to pick on Ms. Kennedy’s non-campaign — she’s

not qualified, she didn’t vote in numerous primary elections, she’s a tool of the Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-

independent mayor, she throws “you know” around with all the confidence Shox VCof a sullen 17-year-old trying to explain why she

missed curfew.
It’s tempting, if only as an exercise, to scout around for some kind of feminist argument that might explain the

increasingly loud resistance to Ms. Kennedy, who does, after all, offer a high-profile persona, deep financial resources and

a sound intellect. (Also, no small thing these days, she seems unlikely to end up with a high-priced prostitute or a wallet

full of ill-gotten cash.)
A thought experiment: Imagine a happier alternative universe in which Ms. Kennedy’s brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., had not

died in a plane crash, but ran a glossy political magazine for several years, actively raised some children, served on a

bunch of boards and then decided, at age 50 or so, to seek public office. Wouldn’t his late-in-life turn to electoral

politics seem like the natural order of things, a long-awaited but ultimately inevitable Nike Shox Explodinetour of duty that Democrats would

universally embrace?
The hypothetical comparison, of course, goes only so far: John Jr. had not just the name of a celebrity, but the warmth and

charisma of one. By contrast, Ms. Kennedy is said to have a sarcastic charm, but it eludes many in casual encounters. On a

recent visit to the Montgomery County Democratic headquarters, a place so inclined to like her that its members had all but

papered the walls of their conference room with photos of her family, she seemed more flummoxed by their enthusiasm than

capable of turning it into a slam-dunk feel-good experience.
There may be something more specific to the family that is holding Ms. Kennedy back — a vague collective longing for her to

maintain the role that she has held for so long as the dignified, tasteful Kennedy, the one who co-authored classy books

about civil rights but never made much of a fuss about them, who compiled an anthology of Shox Basketball poetry her mother loved and another

about Christmas, acting as a philanthropist and attending the occasional literary lunch. Her appeal on behalf of Barack Obama

during the primaries was effective because she was seen as someone outside the political maelstrom; now that she’s entered

it, she may have disappointed those who wanted, from her, more Jackie than Jack.
But if she is going to enter the fray, she would probably do well to show a little more Kennedy grit, a little less Bouvier

gracious distance. Not everyone is cut out to effuse, but she could start taking some risks to let the public know where she

stands and whereShox 2:40 her thinking starts. (Note to Caroline: Go easy on “as a mother” when asked how you prepared for the job;

can you imagine any male candidate citing fatherhood as résumé fodder for the Senate?)
Many seem to have written off her experience as vice chairwoman of New York’s Fund for Public Schools as glorified P.T.A.-

type activity. But the role may be more substantive than it sounds. The fund is at the heart of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s

efforts to transform the city schools, the engine that makes possible some of his most controversial experiments, like

creating cash incentives for students to score high on standardized tests. Instead of air maxticking off lines of her résumé in the

most general terms, Ms. Kennedy would fare better laying out specifics about her philosophy on education, even if it meant

staking out some thorny positions on those cash incentives and merit pay for teachers.
With Ms. Kennedy’s support, the Bloomberg administration has made a fair playing field a clear goal of its education

overhaul: centralizing admissions and revamping gifted programs, among other things, in hopes of changing a system in which

someone with connections and a big bank account could charm his or her child’s way into a choice public school at the

expense of those who didn’t even know they were supposed to be trying.
MS. KENNEDY’S call to Gov. David A. air maxPaterson last month inviting him to consider her for the seat that is expected to be

vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton was a little bit like one of her exceptionally well-connected neighbors phoning up the

principal of Public School 6 on the Upper East Side midway through the school year because she’d heard a fourth grader was

moving away — might her child possibly find a seat? Understood: They’d have one heck of a school auction that year.
Those without connections may have a hard time swallowing her promises to labor on their behalf, given that her path to the

Senate seems to tread on their one ticket up: meritocracy.
Even some of Robert F. Kennedy’s greatest admirers might miss calling his bridge the Triborough —Cheap Air Jordan it was a name that

described, helpfully, exactly what it was. Not a glamorous name, a utilitarian one. Show us a little more Triborough, a

little less Kennedy, and Caroline might be on a bridge to somewhere.

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