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Report: Father’s death led to Patrick Kennedy’s decision
Boston Herald ^ | 2/12/10 | Laura Crimaldi

Posted on 02/12/2010 8:06:52 AM PST by raccoonradio

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1 posted on 02/12/2010 8:06:52 AM PST by raccoonradio
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Had nothing to do
With his tanking poll numbers...
Oh no! Of course not!


2 posted on 02/12/2010 8:09:04 AM PST by Haiku Guy (Tanking Poll Numbers / From now on will be known as / Approval Poll Change)
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Bullspit! That election in Massachusetts, along with New Jersey and Virginia is what did it.


3 posted on 02/12/2010 8:09:26 AM PST by weezel
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To: raccoonradio

Yep. I’m believing that. Uh-huh.


4 posted on 02/12/2010 8:10:10 AM PST by steelyourfaith (FReepers were opposed to Obama even before it was cool to be against Obama.)
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To: raccoonradio

LOL...typical Kennedy . . no credibility, no morals, no ethics


5 posted on 02/12/2010 8:10:33 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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>>He said, ‘Can you stay at the house with me and just clear your schedule,’ ” Kennedy said. “We had a couple of weeks. I’ll never forget it for the rest of my life.

Ted should have resigned so that The People’s Seat could be filled; instead he stayed till his dying breath. So much for
“family comes first”

Speaking of family, does he have a wife and kids? nope...

>>He has never married and resides in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
(wikipedia)

He also gets in car crashes in both DC (the Ambien incident) and down in R.I. (at one point Howie Carr’s
site had an accident report he had to fill out after
a minor car crash outside a CVS in either Portsmouth or
Middletown RI...you could see PK’s shaky handwriting


6 posted on 02/12/2010 8:10:45 AM PST by raccoonradio
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The Kennedy era is over and it’s tough to handle. Maybe now they should just enjoy life.


7 posted on 02/12/2010 8:10:47 AM PST by RC2
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His father’s DEATH??? or the fact his Father’s Seat went to a REPUBLICAN.. or the Polls show him LOSING his BUTT!!!

Don’t bother attributing Honesty or Integrity to a KENNEDY.. just makes us want to LAUGH HARDER!!


8 posted on 02/12/2010 8:10:55 AM PST by gwilhelm56 (OBAMA ... Orwell's 1984 was a WARNING ... NOT a TEXTBOOK!!!)
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To: raccoonradio

I wish him a long life in the private sector.


9 posted on 02/12/2010 8:11:20 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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“Service is in my future. I know it as fact that service is an essential part to maintaining your sobriety,” he said.

Well, maybe he could start a local chapter of AA. If it already has one, maybe he could start a thrift store to assist with wino rehab.

10 posted on 02/12/2010 8:12:07 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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oh, here it is; luckily nobody was killed unlike in his dad’s case...

>>(wiki)
Rhode Island accident

In an earlier incident, on April 15, 2006, Kennedy was driving a Ford Crown Victoria — registered to the “Friends of Pat Kennedy Inc” — on Turnpike Avenue in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. As Kennedy attempted to turn left into a CVS pharmacy parking lot, his vehicle struck a Nissan Maxima driven by off-duty U.S. Coast Guard Warrant Officer Thomas Guthlein who was attempting to make a right turn into the same parking lot. Portsmouth police did not issue a citation to either driver. One woman who witnessed the accident has expressed her opinion that Kennedy was impaired, but this has never been proven. Kennedy’s handwriting on the police report was messy. Guthlein is quoted in the Daily News (New York City) as saying “I never really got that close to him ... It was just a regular traffic accident”.


11 posted on 02/12/2010 8:12:26 AM PST by raccoonradio
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Yeah Kennedy, do “God’s will” and GTFO of government.

It’s a good day for the country when a Kennedy no longer blights the congress.


12 posted on 02/12/2010 8:12:42 AM PST by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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Patches will now return home to spend more time with his family (except he doesn’t have one.)


13 posted on 02/12/2010 8:13:12 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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To: Vigilanteman

As I mentioned on the Boston Herald’s message board, if his last name were not Kennedy he would have been handling bedpans at some hospital for the past few years.


14 posted on 02/12/2010 8:13:35 AM PST by raccoonradio
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15 posted on 02/12/2010 8:15:11 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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He’s doing God’s will...
Is God a Republican?
He might be this year...

or

“He’s doing God’s will...”
Doesn’t the Left freak out when
Palin says such things?


16 posted on 02/12/2010 8:15:14 AM PST by Haiku Guy (Tanking Poll Numbers / From now on will be known as / Approval Poll Change)
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I suspect a lot of the Kennedy's went into “politics” because it was expected, not desired. Loving your parents and grandparents puts a great many of us in vocations we would not have otherwise chosen.

My true hope for all the Kennedys is now that there is no more pressure to carry on the family business, they will be free to try their wings and achieve their own niche in the world. His dad didn't want the mantle he picked up, but what else could he do? Poll numbers are probably a very good reason to finally say, “Enough.”

No hard feelings, Kiddo. Now go do something that keeps you sober and happy. Stretch and fly.

17 posted on 02/12/2010 8:15:15 AM PST by Constitutions Grandchild
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“Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son”


18 posted on 02/12/2010 8:15:16 AM PST by silverleaf (My Proposed Federal Budget is $29.99)
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To: raccoonradio

Oy vey. Isn’t Patches the pol who shoved a female airline security worker?


19 posted on 02/12/2010 8:16:39 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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>>WPRO-AM

Kennedy was a carpetbagger when he got his House seat. When he ran for the first time he was a guest of former Prov mayor Buddy Cianci who at that time had a show on WHJJ (now he, like Depetro, is on WPRO) and Buddy and his listeners kept trying to trip him up on questions like “where is this
neighborhood?” “how does one get to your campaign office?”
He still won. (source: The Prince of Providence, Mike Stanton, which I borrowed from the library recently)


20 posted on 02/12/2010 8:16:49 AM PST by raccoonradio
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