Patrick "Patches" Kennedy: ...'I have never worked a [bleeping] day in my life'....

Washington Post via Drudge ^ | Friday, June 7, 2003 | By Lloyd Grove

[nutmeg]

THIS JUST IN...

• As sometimes happens with Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), he let his mouth race ahead of his brain Wednesday night at a gathering of Young Democrats at the Washington nightspot Acropolis. After presidential candidate Howard Dean spoke, Kennedy delivered an impassioned peroration against President Bush's tax cut. We hear that Kennedy told the crowd: "I don't need Bush's tax cut. I have never worked a [bleeping] day in my life." With that he got the audience's attention -- the dropping-jaws kind.

[csvset]

If there is a sound bite of this, I'm sure Rush would like to get a hold of it.

[GRRRRR]

Hey Sailor, BetaIota

GRRRRR

[ItsOurTimeNow]

And yet he keeps winning re-election after re-election. The residents of this state who continue to vote for this fraud need full-frontal labotomies.

I just don't get their "logic" anymore.

He's not in my district, so I can't even NOT vote for him...it's depressing.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

It's in Lloyd Graves column at the Washington Post. That's where Drudge got it. It remains to be seen if the Liberalmedia pick it up, which I sincerely doubt they will.

[metesky]

Everyone is entitled to one mistake.

[metesky]

Too stupid to pass the bar under ordinary circumstances, JFK Jr. finally passed by taking the test alone in an isolated upstate location. Many lawyers flunk the bar once or twice before passing, but none get to test alone with no proctor present.

When Jr. got his pilots license a Cape friend called and gleefully predicted it would only be a matter of time until another one bit the dust.

Bingo!

Tourists and "wash-a-shores" (the Cape name for what Mainers call people from "away") are always surprised by the depth of the loathing for the Kennedys held by the locals who know them best.

For example, Fat Boy carries the Town of Barnstable (Barnstable, W. Barnstable, Hyannis, Hyannisport, Centerville, Marston's Mills, Cotuit; all villages in the Town) when he runs, but he has never carried Barnstable County, which is the entire Cape.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[They] gave him a military funeral at sea with full honors.

Considering the alternative, I'm not that upset. The alternative would have been to have a Dianaesque Mecca for the misbegotten, a collecting point for teddy bears and wilted flowers, a permanent four mile back-up on a two lane road on Martha's Vineyard every summer as very puerile pilgrim and sentimental sap within earshot of Ophra trekked to fill a void in their own lives by creating a fictionalized version of someone elses. And his wife and sister-in-law, too.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"I have never worked a [bleeping] day in my life."

Bump. (For a little honesty in government.)

[MrSpencer]

Although I agree with you on most of your points, I can't put Carter in the same pen as Kennedy and Clinton. Even though Carter was not a very good President, he was and still is a man with very high character.

[joanil]

I did not vote for Kennedy, Carter, or Clinton.
I too was very young when JFK was assasinated.

I did not vote for carter or clinton as a matter of principle. Nor was I old enough to vote for JFK. But JFK gave our nation real hope in a time of dire need with the Cuban Missle crises.........he showed immense fortitude in that dark time and I admire him for that. He also initiated the Moon program. None other has dared even step into his shoes since then. That makes this a very small planet indeed.

But that is not the point. You see, JFK in hindsight may be just a regular guy, but what he did while in term with the Cuban Missle stand down earned me his respect. It is sad to see that he did not observe the first Moon landing that he set our nation's goals upon.

[metesky]

Even though Carter was not a very good President, he was and still is a man with very high character.

Welcome to Free Republic, Mr. Spencer.

Your assertion of Carter's character shows that while you may have woken up by joining FR today, you have been sleeping since 1976.

FreeRepublic search by keyword: Jimmy Carter

The man has plenty of ego, is a socialist pr!ck and has no character whatsoever.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Vote Democrat. It beats working.

[metesky]

Saint Jack caused the Cuban Missle Crisis by his cowardly abandonment of the men at the Bay of Pigs. This gave Fidel the idea that he could roll the guy at will.

If Saint Jack hadn't stood up in Oct.'62, it would have been the end of the Kennedys as a political force.

And like all Kennedy "events" the end was largly for public consumption as it took years for Saint Jack's quid pro quo concerning the Turkish missle sites to become public knowledge.

[PJ-Comix]

Drinking often brings out the honesty in people.

[rabidralph]

I was rather fond of JFK.....

Miss Beardsley, is that you?

[PJ-Comix]

"I have never worked a [bleeping] day in my life!"

Thanx, Patrick, for giving us a sign to Freep you with.

[FITZ]

What Patrick Kennedy just said, was he is a dead beat.

He was just being honest. That's why the Kennedys shouldn't be in political office ----they have no idea about working or paying taxes.

[TontoKowalski]

The Navy has been storing the ashes of veterans awaiting burial at sea. Sometimes they store them for DECADES. But when a Kennedy who never served his country...

The issue of whether Kennedy deserved the funeral he got aside, your statement about the remains of veterans laying around for enormously long periods awaiting burial at sea is simply not true.

The Navy, as a point of honor, does everything it can to see that the remains of it's veterans are treated with dignity and respect. Those veterans who request burial at sea are interred as rapidly as they can. Now, obviously, the ashes have to await an outgoing ship which will be able to do the job, but that doesn't take DECADES.

I'm not sure if the Navy still does burials of intact bodies, or if they only do ashes now.

FWIW, even if he didn't deserve it, I'd much rather JFK Jr. was cremated and buried at sea than to have a Elvis-y or JFK-esque shrine, complete with eternal flame and wailing fat broads in polyester.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

this has a rush limbaugh rant written all over it

[prairiebreeze]

A documentary I watched asserted that Joe was concerned that as Rosemary grew older she would become sexually active and would cause the family embarassment if she became pregnant. The lobotomy procedure was in it's early stages and Joe was convinced by the doctors (according to the documentary) this was a proper way to handle his concerns. Not much was known about it's effects or possible horrific outcomes. Supposedly the way Rosemary turned out afterward wasn't what the family was expecting.


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