Maureen Dowd on Caroline Kennedy:

Ask not, you know, what your country can, like, do for you. Ask what you, um, can, you know, do for your country.

After a lifetime of shying away from the public spotlight, Caroline Kennedy asked herself what she could do for her country.

Her soft-spoken answer — to follow her father and two uncles and serve in the Senate — got her ripped to shreds in the, you know, press.

I know about “you knows.” I use that verbal crutch myself, a bad habit that develops from shyness and reticence about public speaking.

My how quickly the bar is lowered for a member of Camelot. Dowd would have skewered anyone (but most certainly a Republican) as a boob or a moron for similarly disastrous performances. But when it comes to sucking up to the Kennedys, MoDo breezily gives Caroline a pass.