Posted on 09/27/2009 11:41:15 AM PDT by got_moab?
Drawing on his family’s violent past, the Democratic congressman told roughly 75 people gathered at a private health-care forum Saturday morning that opponents of Democrat-backed health-care legislation had gone too far. He cited, as an example, 10,000 signs distributed at a recent Washington protest that read, “Bury ObamaCare with Kennedy.”
Patrick Kennedy is the last member of his storied family to hold federal office. His father, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, died one month ago after battling a brain tumor. His uncles, former President John F. Kennedy and former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated.
“My family’s seen it up close too much with assassinations and violence in political life. It’s a terrible thing when people think that in order to get their point across they have to go to the edge of violent rhetoric and attack people personally,” Kennedy told the nurses, union officials and AARP members finishing their breakfasts at the invitation-only event in the Providence Marriott hotel. “It’s fine for people to debate the issue and attack the issue, but when they go and stoop to the level of the vitriolic rhetoric that we’ve seen this debate turn up, it’s very, I think, dangerous to the fabric of our country.”
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Funny, I don't remember one Kennedy, not even Teddy, speaking out against the movie about Bush being assassinated.
Funny how when the Right has a march, we dont burn cars and break windows, but we get called terrorists, but when the left marches, they do and they are called protesters.
No media bais here, folks.
Yes Carter lied as usual and as usual no media called him on his lie since it made for a much better story,.
“ Mean hateful rightwing calls for obama death” is a much
better attention grabbing story than “ Rightwing is opposed to Obsmacare”
“...dangerous to the fabric of our country.” This from a KENNEDY! Given that Teddy spent 40 years as a danger to the US and to the rights of the American people, this statement has to be as ludicrous as it gets.
My husband knew docs that took care of the Kennedys.....they do not pay their bills.....these people have no room to tell lecture us on health care.....
weren't they killed by, hmmmm, Communist and an Islamist.
they do not pay their bills.
True, not to restaurants nor waiters/waitresses. Nor do they tip at bars. I wonder if they stiffed the hotels.
yep I see that too.
Carter wasn’t the only one. Virtually every talking head the left put on TV in the weeks following the march said exactly the same thing.
Hey, Patches, take 3 ambien and a fifth of Johnny Walker and call me in the morning.
Response: I tend to agree with these left wing hacks. They smell the approaching violence. This hack is not the only lefty afraid of violence. Everyone feels it. A terrible explosion is coming.
And don’t drive around in a Buick with a girl in it.
Do you notice how these indictments never seem to admit the possibility that OBAMA is the one who's "gone too far?" And that the extreme response (if extreme it is) is simply in proportion to the grievance?
Patches is a drug abusing loser. Don’t take advice from losers.
I will say the left has learned the lesson well, repeat a lie enough and it becomes the truth.
I am concerned many of us know the truth but there doesn’t seem to be any accountability about any aspect of obama including media.
I hope the “ Can you hear us now” campaign does some good.
Major Garrett should ask Gibbs on Monday whether the White House agrees with Patrick Kennedy.
Keep Patrick Kennedy away from airport security guards and that will reduce the rate of violence right there.
Apparently, the drug addled Patrick Kennedy has forgotten that JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a communist seeking to immigrate to Cuba in 1963. A Palestinian immigrant - Sirhan Sirhan - murdered Robert Kennedy in 1968. Neither were the left's favorite fantasy: 'right wing extremists'. The only extremists I see are left-wing, like the loons 'protesting' (rampaging) at the G20 meetings in Pittsburgh this week.
Congressman Patrick Kennedy is a drug-addled idiot and his insults toward people who strongly disagree with a vast, nation-changing government takeover of the health industry (via the funds that pay for health care) is disgusting.
The left is trying to use 'violent rhetoric' and 'racism' in a desperate attempt to stifile dissent against Obama's Grand Vision of America as a third-rate, bankrupt nation. It's citizens depending on scare government funds in order to survive. Sorry Kennedy, it ain't happening.
Yes without the Kennedy name and money this one would be asking if you “wanted fried with that?”.
What a bunch of whining ignorant sissies. They’re all peeing in their britches on the premise that if you oppose any of zero’s proposals it is because you are a racist and want to kill him. Unreal. If I ever start sounding that simple I hope somebody does kill me so I don’t embarrass myself further.
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