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Rep. Kennedy Has Spent Life in Spotlight (AP Love Letter to Patches)
AP via Houston Chronicle ^ | 6 MAY 2006 | Michelle R. Smith

Posted on 05/06/2006 6:12:46 PM PDT by Libertarian444

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rep. Patrick Kennedy was still in college when he took elected office as a state representative. Nearly two decades later, he has spent his entire adult life as a lawmaker.

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In Congress, Kennedy has pushed for greater mental health care coverage, citing his own struggles with depression and addiction.

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A tennis player and avid reader of biographies and autobiographies, Kennedy has a passion for sailing.

"He can go out and be out of the public eye. It's tranquil, and it's something he enjoys," Marcella said.

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"He's a warm, nice, optimistic, kind person. That's what comes across one on one,"

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 109th; ap; kneepads; mediabias; patchaquiddick; patches; patrickkennedy; puffpice; spin
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Patrick Kennedy press release masquerading as an AP story.
1 posted on 05/06/2006 6:12:50 PM PDT by Libertarian444
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To: Libertarian444

What a pantload.


2 posted on 05/06/2006 6:14:40 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: Libertarian444

Raised in a Culture of Intoxication. Not sure if he's depressed about being a Kennedy or over the 2000 and 2004 elections (P.E.S.T).


3 posted on 05/06/2006 6:18:29 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Remember the Alamo!)
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To: Libertarian444
AP via San Francisco Chronicle

Better check that 'San Francisco Chronicle' claim again.

4 posted on 05/06/2006 6:18:44 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Libertarian444

I thought rehab was for alcohol, usually.

Did he change his story from pills to alcohol, and isn't what ever bar served him potentially liable by law?


5 posted on 05/06/2006 6:18:58 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: Libertarian444

Spare us.....


6 posted on 05/06/2006 6:19:38 PM PDT by Radix (Stop domestic violence. Beat abroad.)
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To: Libertarian444

I would like someone to interview Democrat Congressman P. Kennedy's classmates at Providence College in Rhode Island.
My relative graduated with this fellow and said he had major issues while in college that needed to be addressed. Here we are many years later and the same problems have yet to be solved. One Democrat activist in Rhode Island said to me today, Kennedy is toast. He is done. He has had years to resolve these things and we are sick of it. He is done.
I could not believe this Kennedy soldier said it. Wow!


7 posted on 05/06/2006 6:19:47 PM PDT by oldironsides
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To: ItsOurTimeNow; mosquitobite; nutmeg; MassachusettsGOP; GraniteStateConservative; ME Conservative; ..

The filing deadline is June 28. There is plenty of time for a credible Republican (even if he or she is a RINO) to start a candidacy.

This may be a case where voters get tired of giving a politician more chances.


8 posted on 05/06/2006 6:19:50 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Bob Taft for Impeachment)
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To: Libertarian444

Who died? It reads like an obit.


9 posted on 05/06/2006 6:19:56 PM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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Tony Marcella, Kennedy's longtime friend and former chief of staff, painted Kennedy as a workaholic.

LOL. No, that would not be the problem we have here.

10 posted on 05/06/2006 6:20:04 PM PDT by Bahbah (“KERRY LIED!! SCHOLARLY ATTRIBUTION DIED!!!”)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Raised in a Culture of Intoxication

and Privilege.

11 posted on 05/06/2006 6:20:22 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Any guest worker program that does not require application from the home country is Amnesty.)
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To: Libertarian444

What the story really says without emphasizing it too much is that Patches (where did that come from?) is Congressman Moneybags for his district/state as well as for the RAT Party. Re-election guaranteed.


12 posted on 05/06/2006 6:21:11 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Revolting cat!; Admin Moderator

Better check that 'San Francisco Chronicle' claim again.

D'oh!! {{slaps forehead}}. Admin - please change to Houston Chronicle.

13 posted on 05/06/2006 6:22:02 PM PDT by Libertarian444
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To: Libertarian444

Patches is just as big a Phony as his Father & Uncles?

This story is just like the Camelot story that created the false myth of JFK!


14 posted on 05/06/2006 6:22:13 PM PDT by petkus
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To: petkus

They're all a gaggle of ultra lowbrow spalpeens. It's little wonder they appeal to the Liberal "mind."


15 posted on 05/06/2006 6:25:46 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (The MSM is "the propaganda arm of our enemies." - Jack Kelly)
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To: Libertarian444
Kennedy has a passion for sailing. "He can go out and be out of the public eye. It's tranquil, and it's something he enjoys,"

and where he can trash someone else's boats to the tune of what - about $24,000 - and refuse to pay for it.

This is truly a barf piece...

16 posted on 05/06/2006 6:29:04 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." LINCOLN)
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To: Libertarian444

 

A bunch of swell guys...

17 posted on 05/06/2006 6:30:57 PM PDT by Fintan (Somebody has to post stupid & inane comments. May as well be me...)
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To: Libertarian444
So today now the prescription drugs are for stomach flu!!!

Wonder what he was ingesting alla prescription when he had the other wreck less than 3 weeks ago.
18 posted on 05/06/2006 6:33:08 PM PDT by AmeriBrit (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION, IT INCLUDES TERRORIST SLEEPER CELLS!!)
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In Congress, Kennedy has pushed for greater mental health care coverage, citing his own struggles with depression and addiction.

What is his position on drunk driving laws? Is there a male Kennedy spawn that actually has given back 1/2 of what they have taken from America?

19 posted on 05/06/2006 6:35:54 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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Tony Marcella, Kennedy's longtime friend and former chief of staff, painted Kennedy as a workaholic.<<

Yup!..thats about right spin...seeing how he actually said...I haven't worked a F-*king day in my life to the young Dems convention..
20 posted on 05/06/2006 6:37:41 PM PDT by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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