She was in a meeting with Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll today, reportedly touting her experience and listening to ways in which Washington can help the state of New York. As she left, she read her first public statement about the seat, but took no questions from the press, demonstrating the same powerful combination of presumption and friendly dismissiveness that has served Team Obama so well:

"As some of you may have heard, I've told Gov. Paterson that I'd be honored to be considered for the position of United States senator," she said.

"I wanted to come upstate to meet with Mayor Driscoll and others to tell them about my experience and also to learn more about how Washington can help, and there are a lot of good candidates that the governor is considering. He's laid out a process, and I'm proud to be in that process."

Driscoll called her "pleasant and well-read," apparently mistaking the entitled, overreaching Kennedy for an entitled, overreaching Austenian heroine. He also said he couldn't say for sure whether she had any true knowledge of the upstate. All in all, not a terribly auspicious beginning to the princess' quest.