[Parley Baer]

Seeing as they had a bootlegger in their family history that makes since.

[dfwgator]

A Kennedy struggling with alcohol? Naaaah, really?

[ClearCase_guy]

Drinking and lying.

Hillary is an honorary Kennedy.

[Pining_4_TX]

Oh, I dunno. Ted’s been sober for over 6 years now.

[LottieDah]

In his next book he will reveal that water is wet.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

And he probably wonders why many people think that the pejorative “drunken Irishman” is redundant.

[School of Rational Thought]

Stop the presses! A Kennedy with a drinking problem.

[soycd]

The trick with distilling alcohol is to distill low and work your way up to the right temp. Eighth grade chemistry. The rest is an art.

[867V309]

Today’s category: The Bleeding Obvious.

[wetgundog]

Pat, don’t forget sexual deviancy.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Wow. Not sure what to make of it. I will watch the 60 Minutes interview.

As much as I loathe the Kennedy family, I will tip my hat to him if the book is part of his recovery process and not a PR campanign to rehab his image.

[MUDDOG]

Robert Kennedy Jr. has a better excuse. He’s a Skakel as well as a Kennedy.

[Arthur McGowan]

Does Patches explain how the family came to be so enthusiastic about butchering babies?

[canuck_conservative]

What about the Kennedy that went into a tree in Aspen a few years back playing a game of “toss football” while skiing downhill?

Pretty sure alcohol was involved in that one.

[livius]

Trying to excuse their immorality.

Alcohol abuse is a symptom of unhappiness. It can later turn into a cause, but if the family was so unhappy that they were all drunks, I think the cause was something else.

[nathanbedford]

Those of us who are old enough to have experienced the haunting black-and-white images on television in those poignant days of November 1963 are well aware of the power of myth.

The Kennedy legacy, from the beginning almost entirely a media created phenomenon, has distorted American politics for more than half a century and it is high time that historians revise the myth. Yes, the facts or many of them have been out for decades but now with this account it has become more politically correct to tell the truth.

The Kennedys and alcoholism is something that ought to be thoroughly explored and the addiction of John F. Kennedy certainly cannot be omitted. Someday the account of the Cuban missile crisis will have to be squared with Kennedy's addiction and the world will learn whether JFK was buzzed with amphetamines at the time. Was it Robert who actually was the pilot in that crisis? The Kennedy alcoholism and Phil addiction means that these questions should be addressed by history.

It is important that myths which create larger than life figures not be tolerated in a free society because that in part is what has given us Barack Obama. Add to these tendencies the "martyrdom" of John F. Kennedy and the myth was irresistible for decades.

We conservatives ought to be mindful that this human temptation to create demigods of political champions occurs on our side of the aisle even if only to a lesser degree.

[gogeo]

The sins of the parents...

I hope his journey to sobriety and health is successful.

[Libloather]

Unscrew, pour, drink. I don’t see the struggle.

[onyx]

I hate to admit this, but I think I want to read Patrick’s book.

YIKES!

[Third Person]

Brave.