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Kennedy admits to drink problem
BBC ^ | 1/5/06 | BBC

Posted on 01/05/2006 10:25:12 AM PST by minus_273

Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has admitted he "been seaking to cope with a drink problem".

He said he had "struggled" against alcohol but had not had a drink for two months now and is in good health.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: aakennedy; liberaldemocrats; uk; wrongkennedy
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To: minus_273

You have a cruel sense of frivality. heyhey


21 posted on 01/05/2006 10:33:44 AM PST by jazusamo (A Progressive is only a Socialist in a transparent disguise.)
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To: TXBSAFH

HEY!!!!

My family resembles that statement!

(Malden drunks!)


22 posted on 01/05/2006 10:33:57 AM PST by PeterFinn (Anita Bryant was right!)
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To: minus_273

23 posted on 01/05/2006 10:34:01 AM PST by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Gay State Conservative; Flightdeck

They also use "Sport" singular when talking about Sports. In the papers it is the Sport Page, and on the TV news, "Up Next, a round up of the weekend Sport".


24 posted on 01/05/2006 10:35:08 AM PST by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: minus_273
Maybe oneday the swimming senator will admit the same..

Flying pigs alert.

25 posted on 01/05/2006 10:35:18 AM PST by aculeus
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To: TXBSAFH
I married into a Boston Irish family and I can tell you this:the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral is on less drunk.

I'm Boston Irish myself and can attest to the fact that God created whiskey in order to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

And,anyway,I believe that Kennedy is a Scot,not Irish.

26 posted on 01/05/2006 10:35:57 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: Boundless

Yes. I noticed the "seaking" vs "seeking" problem.
Could there be a literacy problem at the BBC or is
this some sort of British spelling convention that
we don't know about?


27 posted on 01/05/2006 10:36:28 AM PST by davisfh
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To: minus_273

not nice. Not nice at all. You really had me going with that headline. I never for a second thought it was big fat Ted, but I though Patrick for sure.


28 posted on 01/05/2006 10:36:30 AM PST by old and tired (Run Swannie, run!)
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To: ferri
Ted doesn't have a drinking problem!

Ted Kennedy quit drinking when the funnel was invented.

29 posted on 01/05/2006 10:36:50 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgences of society's understanding.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Probably a good time for him to enter politics and further torture the American people. Seems a family tradition.


30 posted on 01/05/2006 10:37:20 AM PST by samadams2000 (Remember our Founding Fathers were REAL men- Unlike today's Rinos)
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To: minus_273

OK,so (Charles) Kennedy's a twinkle-toed little Communist who drinks too much.Is anyone surprised?


31 posted on 01/05/2006 10:37:28 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: minus_273

Thanks! I needed the laugh!


32 posted on 01/05/2006 10:37:49 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: minus_273

I hate people who post misleading (but accurate) headlines.


(wink, wink)



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1548942/posts


33 posted on 01/05/2006 10:38:42 AM PST by aculeus
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To: ferri
Ted doesn't have a drinking problem! he is actually quite good at it...lol

I drink,
I get drunk,
I fall down,
No problem!

34 posted on 01/05/2006 10:39:17 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: minus_273

I was all excited for a minute. I thought we were going to have a lot of fun at Teddy's expense. LOL


35 posted on 01/05/2006 10:39:55 AM PST by NRA2BFree (http://www.angelfire.com/nm2/chainreaction/Kitties/LittleFReepers.html)
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To: minus_273
I thought it was 'our cross to bear Kennedy'.

Good rope-a-dope tho. :-)

36 posted on 01/05/2006 10:40:29 AM PST by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: minus_273

The last time Teddy had a problem with booze it was when his stock of Pinch & Pinch was exhausted.


37 posted on 01/05/2006 10:40:37 AM PST by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: StrangerInParadise

Nuts! I just posted that before I scrolled down and saw your post...


38 posted on 01/05/2006 10:40:57 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: billorites

LOL


39 posted on 01/05/2006 10:41:50 AM PST by NRA2BFree (http://www.angelfire.com/nm2/chainreaction/Kitties/LittleFReepers.html)
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To: billorites
I think that might be me!
40 posted on 01/05/2006 10:44:40 AM PST by jdm (jdm74.com/serena-maneesh.mp3)
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