Oh, Caroline Kennedy, running for office because of despite her family's history in the political arena, history that she does not hold since she has spent most of her career working on philanthropic charities and not legislature. "So what in god's name makes Caroline think she can run for Hillary's Senate seat," some people are asking?

Because American politics in the last century have been an incestuous clusterfuck of familiarity, Howard Kurtz answers. Besides the Clintons and the Bush's, of course:

Then there's Chris Dodd (son of Tom), Evan Bayh (son of Birch), Mitt Romney (son of George), Jeb Bush (son of George), Mary Bono (widow of Sonny), Lincoln Chafee (son of John), Nancy Pelosi (daughter of former congressman Thomas D'Alesandro Jr.), Jesse Jackson Jr. (son of Jesse), Andrew Cuomo (son of Mario), Richard Daley (son of Richard), Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan (daughter of Illinois House speaker Michael Madigan), to name but a few. And let's not forget Caroline's Uncle Ted, who won a Senate seat in 1962 with his brother in the White House, and would have been laughed off the field if he had a different last name.

Whoops, it looks like we should be grateful that Barack Obama even made it into office on those Kennedy ties alone, without actually having to prick his finger and become blood brothers with Ted.