Atleast a half-dozen elected officials are vying for the post, including uhm, you know, that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and several members of Congress.

It looks like the NYC Deputy Mayor/Cheerleeder is no longer pushing punishing the NY governor with the Caroline Kennedy choice candidacy.

Stick a fork in it, ding,  CK is cooked.  Afterall, she has never done any community organizing!

Bloggers have torn into President John F. Kennedy’s Harvard- and Columbia-educated daughter for such remarks as: “You know, I think, really, um, this is sort of a unique moment, both in our, you know, in our country’s history and in, you know, my own life, and, um, you know, we are facing, you know, unbelievable challenges.”

Besides being distracting, these little locutions can make a speaker seem ill-prepared or unsure of his or her point.

“It becomes a big detriment to the speaker’s credibility,” said Becker, co-founder of The Speech Improvement Company Inc., based in Boston.

Yes it has.

For all those making fun of Kennedy’s “you know” habit, other observers — some in public life themselves — say too much is being made of it.

Oh really?

“Everybody, on some level or another, has some mannerism — whether it’s verbal or physical — that they wish they didn’t have,” said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a Democrat who noted she’s not backing anyone for the potential Senate opening. “That alone shouldn’t be something that becomes the focus of somebody’s skill or ability.

Okey dokey, so what has she done other than writing a few books,  fund raising for the ballet and the weekly hour she put in at the NY public school appointment???

She probably should have started on this long and arduous track long ago.

Practice makes perfect.