Caroline Kennedy is no longer in the running for Hillary Clinton’s seat in the U.S. Senate. Yesterday, Kennedy told New York Governor David Paterson that “...for personal reasons I am withdrawing my name from consideration for the United States Senate.” And that’s all she’s said about it so far. [ABC News]

John Mayer is going to make an honest woman out of Jennifer Aniston. He’s planning to pop the question on her birthday. [Star]

 

New Yorkers may not be in love with the idea of Caroline Kennedy being their Senator. [Perez Hilton]

Remember the parents that named their child Adolf and got upset when a supermarket didn’t put “Happy Birthday Adolf” on the birthday cake. Well, the kids have been taken away by family services. [MSNBC]

 

Here’s the thing. Caroline Kennedy, currently waging a solid campaign to take Hillary Clinton’s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat, is a lot like Sarah Palin: not such a bad idea when you consider the alternatives. Analysts and anonymous Republican staffers may hold Palin single handedly accountable for the downfall of John McCain’s presidential campaign, but that criticism discounts how much sway she had over the conservative base in November’s election—and how little any other nominee could have changed the results of the 2008 vote. Other rumored candidates for the VP slot—Joe Lieberman, Elizabeth Dole, or Kay Bayley Hutchison—may have earned more polite commentary from the media, but a respectable loss is still a loss.

This week, Barack Obama is expected to announce his running mate. Who will he choose? Many of the rumored contenders are men, but a few women, including Hillary Clinton, are rumored to have been considered. We here at the Frisky would love to see Obama pick a female as his VP. So, we’ve assembled a list of the ladies we think would make for a suitable candidate-mate.