Posted on 06/06/2006 8:16:38 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Fresh from rehab, Rep. Patrick Kennedy said yesterday he wants to be treated like an African-American from Washington if and when he gets charged for crashing his car on Capitol Hill.
Denying that he was drunk and or that he asked the Capitol Police for preferential treatment, Kennedy, a Rhode Island congressman, said he's prepared "in terms of bookings, in terms of mug shots, fingerprints, whatever they might have me do."
"It's what anyone else would have done to them if they were an African-American in Anacostia," Kennedy said in a shaky voice, referring to the mostly minority neighborhood in southeastern Washington.
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Good job on another ping. Saturday night FReeper humor. Priceless!
He is truly a disgusting little man.
:') Thanks.
Did JFK "Steal" the Words for his "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You" quote? Of course he did
My goodness, remember when John Kerry said he wanted to be called "the second black president?"
What's with these Boston Brahmans who act like they suddenly want to join the underclass they have led for all these years? In other times and places, when members of a ruling dynasty said or did strange things, we could usually blame it on inbreeding.
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