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Camelot Fade To Black: Patrick Kennedy Retires
Grand Rants ^
| 2/12/10
| Gerry Ashley
Posted on 02/12/2010 10:25:01 AM PST by BigChiefLtd
...So we are now being told that Patrick Kennedy, the third child of Ted and Joan Kennedy, will not seek re-election to the House of Representatives, representing Rhode Island. It would be easy to take a few parting shots at Patrick. But part of facing reality is giving up on facades, mirages and imagery. By the time Patrick came along, it was more like, Oh, God
not another Kennedy!
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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 111th; camelot; kennedy; kennedyfamily; liberal; politics; ri2010
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Patrick Kennedy's departure from national politics leaves no void. That's the bottom line. He will quietly be replaced and, unlike his uncles, Patrick will fade away. Not so, I fear, with the imagery left behind of Camelot. In fact, it was never any more real than the actors and sets that staged the play. If Patrick Kennedy will be remembered for anything besides his drinking and drug problems,it may well be how he demonstrated that, in the end, there was no Kennedy magic. It was all in our minds.
To: BigChiefLtd
Hey Patches, think Dead Ted left any scotch in the bar?
To: BigChiefLtd
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:27:50 AM PST
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: BigChiefLtd
Well, being out of Congress means that he can both get in more skiing AND go to rehab.
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:28:48 AM PST
by
righttackle44
(Is Obama an Italian or Japanese name?)
To: equalitybeforethelaw
He is too busy sniffing glue.
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:29:30 AM PST
by
boomop1
To: equalitybeforethelaw
Someone has to skipper the sailing vessel! So much wine, so little time!
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:30:36 AM PST
by
kempster
To: BigChiefLtd
Camelot fades to black?
The Kennedy family fades away and Obama is on center stage. This smacks of racism!
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:32:50 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(I was born in America, but now I live in Declinistan.)
To: kempster
Ted had a dog named Splash.
To: BigChiefLtd
This story is about Patrick Kennedy, shouldn’t it be fade to blackout?
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:34:27 AM PST
by
hometoroost
(I am not a crook, I did not have sex with that woman, and I am not an ideologue.)
To: BigChiefLtd
The franchise was losing its effect anyway, but at least we'll finally be spared the media's constant attempts to use the Kennedy image to further damage the nation with their odious liberalism.
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:35:26 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: BigChiefLtd
Well, they still have Caroline...........but they’ll have to wait for the “total brain replacement” technology to be developed.
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:37:33 AM PST
by
EggsAckley
( There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply!)
To: BigChiefLtd
You mean, “fade to the noise of a flushing toilet”, don’t you?
To: BigChiefLtd
Patrick Kennedy says he does not want to run again... he prefers to stagger into the office, same as he always does.
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:47:35 AM PST
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: ClearCase_guy
Irony would be my word...the family that backed candidate Obama had their “Camelot” destroyed by him in less than 1 year...
Old Joe probably wishes from his little plot they had stuck to killing white women...
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:56:48 AM PST
by
MNlurker
To: EggsAckley
Even I was amazed at how brainless Caroline was when she came out of seclusion. Like, wow.
To: BigChiefLtd
It’s about time. This country was not founded on the idea of a dynasty. Be it Kennedy, Bush or any other family. People who love the idea of a Kennedy dynasty/Camelot should move to Europe.
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posted on
02/12/2010 10:59:52 AM PST
by
zlala
To: All
Given the greasy, lecherous nature of the Kennedy’s, shouldn’t we refer to it as “Cameltoe”?
To: BigChiefLtd
"If Patrick Kennedy will be remembered for anything besides his drinking and drug problems,it may well be how he demonstrated that, in the end, there was no Kennedy magic. It was all in our minds." More like in the collective liberal/Democrat Party media mind. Their "reporting" (propaganda) and fawning coverage of the Kennedys was designed to deceive Americans of the true nature of the Kennedy clan.
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posted on
02/12/2010 11:00:26 AM PST
by
StormEye
To: StormEye
I'm from the land of the Kennedy's and have an Aunt who wanted to be buried with old Teddy. I thought it would be a good idea because he's so pickled she would last forever. I asked her if she wanted to end up where Teddy ended up and she said “Hell” no!!!!!!
Patrick is from the land of extreme leftists and seeing him go is the best sign for this Nation and for “free thinking Americans”. Next, Barney's Frank”.
To: equalitybeforethelaw
Sure lots of scotch and a whole lot of Oxycodone from the cancer pain uncle teddy was on.
Wanna bet this spoiled p.o.s. is back in the headlines for less than flattering reasons after he is looking for work?
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posted on
02/12/2010 11:37:50 AM PST
by
Joe Boucher
((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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