Caroline Kennedy questioned about Adirondacks

The New York Times ran a fairly unflattering story over the weekend on Caroline Kennedy’s bid to serve as the replacement-Senator for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The piece was based on a lengthy interview Kennedy gave — part of a new phase of her statewide PR blitz.

During the conversation, the Times’ panel of interviewers raised the specter of a political career that would necessitate journeys to the distant North Country.

Specifically, they wondered how Ms. Kennedy’s husband would view her travels.

Asked how much of a role her husband, Edwin A. Schlossberg, might take in her political career — on the hustings in Watertown, N.Y., say, or other political way stations in the north country — she hinted that he might be busy elsewhere, given his own career as the head of a prominent design firm. But she said no one could have a more supportive husband.

“The more time I spend with him, the happier I am,” she said.

Ms. Kennedy said she had spent some time in the Catskills and the Adirondacks; when asked her favorite place in the state outside of the city and Long Island, she said, “I like visiting historical sites. I loved visiting the battlefields of Saratoga.”

That’s not exactly a deep intimacy with upstate New York.

The Times portrayed Kennedy as occasionally thin-skinned, a trait she would have to lose if she hopes to hold the prized seat.

“Have you guys ever thought about writing for, like, a woman’s magazine or something?” she asked the reporters. “I thought you were the crack political team.”

Ouch.