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Rehabbed Patrick Kennedy 'Feels Good'
FOXNews ^ | 6 June 2006

Posted on 06/05/2006 10:09:15 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Monday he was feeling good after nearly a month in drug rehabilitation and was looking forward to getting back to work.

"I can tell you today, I feel confident about my health, positive about my future, and passionate about my work representing the people of Rhode Island," the Rhode Island Democrat said in a speech at Brown University on the future of mental health care and addiction treatment.

It was his first public appearance since being released Friday from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

The six-term congressman checked into the clinic on May 5, one day after a middle-of-the-night car crash near the U.S. Capitol that he said he could not remember. He also had been treated at the clinic over the Christmas holidays.

Kennedy called the accident "a wake up call" and said he was grateful he did not hurt anyone.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 109th; booze; dontyoubelieveit; drugs; freshenthatuppatches; howconvenient; kennedyalert; kennedys; patchaquiddick; patrickkennedy; rehab; sonoflardass
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Now, if only we could get his father into rehab...
1 posted on 06/05/2006 10:09:17 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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I give him 6 weeks before he has another episode....


2 posted on 06/05/2006 10:10:52 PM PDT by Meadow Muffin
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To: Aussie Dasher

One month of rehab for a repeat offender. Yeah, that'll do it.


3 posted on 06/05/2006 10:11:15 PM PDT by Jean S
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Somehow I can't see Patch doing 90/90 and working any kind of program. Tick, tick, tick.....


4 posted on 06/05/2006 10:14:37 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: Aussie Dasher
The six-term congressman checked into the clinic on May 5, one day after a middle-of-the-night car crash near the U.S. Capitol that he said he could not remember.

How convenient.

5 posted on 06/05/2006 10:14:53 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: JeanS

Now if they can rehab the way the capital police handle law breaking congress persons.


6 posted on 06/05/2006 10:15:31 PM PDT by Brimack34
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To: Aussie Dasher

Uh...Yeah right.....and Monkeys don't throw poo.


7 posted on 06/05/2006 10:15:46 PM PDT by Dallas59
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Anybody know anybody who was successful at rehab in that short of a time?

Just enough time to get out of the headlines and bury it - home free -

and McKinney, same thing.

8 posted on 06/05/2006 10:15:55 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Lincoln: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.")
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How come a Democrat gets to go to rehab and keep his job?

(And have so much sympathetic press?)

If a conservative were that much of a menace to society, he'd be crucified.


9 posted on 06/05/2006 10:16:07 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Aussie Dasher

I smell a relapse.


10 posted on 06/05/2006 10:16:22 PM PDT by MonroeDNA
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"Rehabbed Patrick Kennedy 'Feels Good'"

Well isn't that "special".

So what, who cares about any of the damn Kennedy's.

Pas moi.


11 posted on 06/05/2006 10:16:22 PM PDT by garyhope
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"feeling good"

probably popped some uppers,snorted some lines and downed some Jagear bombs immediatley after rehab.


12 posted on 06/05/2006 10:16:28 PM PDT by X918
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I'd "Feel Good" too, if I dodged a DUI.


13 posted on 06/05/2006 10:16:55 PM PDT by dc27
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I give him 6 weeks before he has another episode....

You mean another public episode.

(By the by, isn't this something like the third time he's been in rehab & at the same place?)

14 posted on 06/05/2006 10:18:01 PM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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Patchaquiddick ping!


16 posted on 06/05/2006 10:20:26 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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Rehabbed Patrick Kennedy 'Feels Good',

"This calls for a drink!"

17 posted on 06/05/2006 10:21:50 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Pray for peace, prepare for war.)
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Rehabbed Patrick Kennedy 'Feels Good'


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I'm out, I'm free...and I feels GOOD! HOOCHIE MAMA!!!
18 posted on 06/05/2006 10:23:42 PM PDT by macamadamia
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He served his time, one month and probably in a luxurious hotel.
Now the media can feel free to forget the story.


19 posted on 06/05/2006 10:25:12 PM PDT by Jean S
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The real question here is, does Patty feel better than James Brown. Oowww!


20 posted on 06/05/2006 10:25:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (DemocRATS! America's Lynch Mob.)
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